Trivia Tuesday
(No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.)
- What is the title of the classic Christmas episode of The Twilight Zone in which Art Carney is a drunken department-store Santa who finds a magic bag?
- Sinterklaas, the Dutch equivalent of Santa, comes to town on a boat from his home in Madrid. He’s always accompanied by this dusky sidekick, who will scoop bad children into a bag and take them back to Spain.
- “‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, a creature was stirring” was a tagline for what horror movie?
- In the X-Files episode “Christmas Carol,” who does Scully originally suspect is the mother of Emily Sim?
A) Scully’s sister
B) Scully’s mother
C) Mulder’s ex-girlfriend
D) Mulder’s sister
E) Sasquatch - This actress, who also starred in Beetlejuice, was the voice of Sally in A Nightmare Before Christmas.
- During Christmas in this northern country, a horrible ogress named Gryla emerges from her cave to plague (and occasionally eat) naughty children.
- In Futurama’s only Christmas episode, what does the 8-foot-tall Santa robot do if he finds you on Christmas Eve?
- Instead of Santa Claus, Italian children try to stay on the good side of this broomstick-riding old lady.
- In this 1964 movie “classic,” the Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.
- Around Christmas in Austria this terrifying, hairy, horned monster keeps children in line by stealing their toys, smacking them with a birch rod, or tying them in a sack and throwing them in a river.
(Answers below the fold)
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