The Art of Darkness

Trivia Tuesday

December 6th, 2011 by Cobwebs

(No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.)

  1. 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?
  2. 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.
  3. “‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, a creature was stirring” was a tagline for what horror movie?
  4. 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
  5. This actress, who also starred in Beetlejuice, was the voice of Sally in A Nightmare Before Christmas.
  6. During Christmas in this northern country, a horrible ogress named Gryla emerges from her cave to plague (and occasionally eat) naughty children.
  7. In Futurama’s only Christmas episode, what does the 8-foot-tall Santa robot do if he finds you on Christmas Eve?
  8. Instead of Santa Claus, Italian children try to stay on the good side of this broomstick-riding old lady.
  9. In this 1964 movie “classic,” the Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.
  10. 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)

  1. “Night of the Meek.” Legend has it Serling wrote the episode just to see Art Carney play Santa Claus.
  2. Zwarte Piet, or “Black Pete.”
  3. Black Christmas (1974)
  4. A) Scully’s sister. She believes that the child is the daughter of her deceased sister, Melissa.
  5. Catherine O’Hara
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. La Befana, who brings candy to good children and coal to naughty ones.
  9. 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).
  10. Krampus

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3 Responses

  1. xJane Says:

    2!!! You can probably guess which two :-p

  2. Sisifo Says:

    Our version of Santa is so sugar-coated. Where the heck are our stories of Gryla and Krampus? Geez…

  3. WitchArachne Says:

    Powering on with 4. And only because I had a book when I was little about different ways people celebrate Christmas.