Santa Claus
1. Which of the following best summarizes the plot of the late 19th century film Santa Claus, one of the first motion pictures to feature St. Nick?
Santa brings new tractors to the workers on a collective farm
Santa expounds on the virtues of the locomotive
Santa angrily demands that Charles Darwin account for his existence
Santa fills stockings and disappears up a chimney
2. What series detective sets out to track down a thieving Santa impostor in the 1914 film, The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus?
Sherlock Holmes
Octavius, Amateur Detective
Jacques Clouseau
Phillip Marlowe
3. In the 1947 film, A Miracle on 34th Street, how does Kris Kringle originally land his job as the Macy's Santa Claus?
Mr. Macy's driver accidentally nudges him with his Rolls
he is hired while complaining that a parade Santa is intoxicated
It is never explained, and no one at the store can remember hiring him
He answers an ad in the Sunday Times
4. In the 1966 animated special, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, how many sizes too small is the Grinch's heart? How many does it subsequently grow? How much of a surplus does that leave him?
two, three, one
one, three, two
five, ten, five
five, ten, five
5. What actor plays the terrifying mall Santa in the 1983 film A Christmas Story?
Dom DeLuise
Robbie Coltrane
Andre the Giant
Jeff Gillen
6. Exactly how did Earnest save Christmas (1988)?
by returning the magic sack Santa left in his cab
by convincing cynical children to believe on his TV show
by finding a magic apple to cure Santa's arthritis
by restoring Santa's spirits with "the power of laughter"
7. Who attempts to kill Santa in the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas?
the Bogeyman
the Oogie Boogie Man
the Humphrey Bogeyman
the Humphrey Bogeyman
8. Who is the title character in the 1996 film Santa Claws?
a cat from outer space who takes over for an ailing Santa
a deranged stalker who dresses like Santa because of a childhood trauma
Freddy Krueger (it was a Friday the 13th Christmas special)
a cynical starlet with long fingernails who finds the true meaning of Christmas
9. What happens to Whoopi Goldberg's character Lucy in the 2001 special Call Me Claus?
she accidentally runs over one of Santa's reindeer and (nearly) ruins Christmas
she is contacted by the ghost of Santa Claus, who wants to avenge his murder
she gets a job working the bar of a starship that's headed to Santa's home planet (at the "north pole of the galaxy")
she is selected to be the next Santa Claus
10. What irreverent 2003 Christmas film was panned as "the evil twin of A Miracle on 34th Street?"
The Santa Clause 3 : The Escape Clause
Bad Santa
Santana Claus
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