Here are the answers to yesterday’s holiday trivia! I hope everybody has a safe and happy holiday season.
1. Who wrote the popular holiday song White Christmas?
a -Bing Crosby
b -Irving Berlin
c -Cole Porter
d -George and Ira Gershwin
2. Which actor won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor by playing Santa Claus in “Miracle on 34th Street”?
a -Jackie Gleason
b -Art Carney
c -John Payne
d -Edmund Gwenn
3. Who narrates the Christmas special “Frosty the Snowman” that first aired in 1969?
a -Jimmy Durante
b -Fred Astaire
c -Jack Webb
d -Dick Van Dyke
4. In what movie did Judy Garland sing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”?
a -The Harvey Girls
b -A Star is Born
c -Meet Me in St. Louis
d -For Me and My Gal
5. Which of Santa’s reindeer was the subject of a 1989 movie starring Sam Elliott and Cloris Leachman?
a -Rudolph
b -Comet
c -Blitzen
d -Prancer
6. In the TV Christmas special “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” what profession does Hermey the elf wish to pursue?
a -Lawyer
b -Writer
c -Dentist
d -Cheesemaker
7. What was the name of Ralphie’s little brother in “A Christmas Story”?
a -Ronnie
b -Randy
c -Rudy
d -Ricky
8. What Christmas carol in “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is introduced with the “Peanuts” characters singing the syllables “Loo loo loo, loo loo loo loo loo?”
a -O Holy Night
b -It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
c -O Come, All Ye Faithful
d -Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
9. What saint is subject of a Christmas carol about a king who gave alms to a poor peasant on the day after Christmas?
a -St. Nicholas
b -St. Cyril
c -St. Wenceslas
d -St. Clare of Assisi
10. What Christmas plant was named after the first U.S. ambassador to Mexico?
a -Holly
b -Mistletoe
c -Frasier fir
d -Poinsettia
