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)
- “Night of the Meek.” Legend has it Serling wrote the episode just to see Art Carney play Santa Claus.
- Zwarte Piet, or “Black Pete.”
- Black Christmas (1974)
- A) Scully’s sister. She believes that the child is the daughter of her deceased sister, Melissa.
- Catherine O’Hara
- Iceland. Fun fact: During the 18th century, Gryla’s mythology became so terrifying that a public decree banned her use as a threat to keep children in line.
- He rips your head off and stuffs you full of toys. The robot, voiced by John Goodman, has a malfunction in his program that makes him think everybody is naughty.
- La Befana, who brings candy to good children and coal to naughty ones.
- Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Incidentally, this movie also features Pia Zadora as Girmar, one of the Martian children (she started doing bad movies early).
- Krampus
Posted in Trivia | 3 Comments »
December 6th, 2011 at 11:01 pm
2!!! You can probably guess which two :-p
December 7th, 2011 at 12:36 am
Our version of Santa is so sugar-coated. Where the heck are our stories of Gryla and Krampus? Geez…
December 7th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Powering on with 4. And only because I had a book when I was little about different ways people celebrate Christmas.