Here are the answers to our quiz from 13th December 2024 – how did you do?
1. What is the title of the theme song from 1982’s The Snowman?
“Walking In The Air”
2. Who plays TV network president Frank Cross in Scrooged?
Bill Murray
3. “You’ll shoot your eye out!” Which movie features this repeated quote?
A Christmas Story
4. Which Rocky sequel ends with an unsanctioned boxing match on Christmas Day?
Rocky IV
5. Patch, B.Z., and Towzer are all characters in which movie?
Santa Claus: The Movie
6. Which Christmas-set action movie was released earliest: Die Hard or Lethal Weapon?
Lethal Weapon, by one year
7. Which Disney character plays Ebenezer Scrooge in Mickey’s Christmas Carol?
Scrooge McDuck
8. Complete the title of the 1983 POW drama starring David Bowie: Merry Christmas, Mr… what?
… Lawrence
9. What is the name of Billy Peltzer’s pet dog in Gremlins?
Barney
10. Which comedy sequel stars Johnny Galecki and Juliette Lewis as the third pair of actors to play the same two siblings?
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
11. Who does The Great Gonzo play in The Muppet Christmas Carol?
Charles Dickens
12. Batman Returns opens with which villain being abandoned as a baby at Christmas: Catwoman or The Penguin?
The Penguin
13. What is the full title of the 2011 short sequel to The Gruffalo?
The Gruffalo’s Child
14. Who plays the treble roles of Stacy, Margaret, and Fiona, three identical royals in Netflix’s The Princess Switch trilogy?
Vanessa Hudgens
15. What title connects a 1974 horror film, a 2006 remake, and a 2019 reboot?
They’re all called Black Christmas
16. In which city is the second Home Alone movie set?
New York, as in Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
17. Who directed Marvel’s Iron Man 3?
Shane Black
18. Which 2017 Christmas comedy sequel reunites Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn?
A Bad Moms Christmas
19. A Christmas Gift From Bob is the sequel to which 2016 British comedy-drama?
A Street Cat Named Bob
20. Edmund Gwenn won an Oscar for playing Kris Kringle in Miracle On 34th Street – which other Oscar winner plays him in the 1994 remake?
Richard Attenborough
21. Which of last year’s Best Picture Oscar nominees revolves around a New England boarding school during the Christmas break?
The Holdovers
22. Which British actor voices the Grinch in the 2018 Illumination animated film The Grinch?
Benedict Cumberbatch
23. In which 2006 film does Kate Winslet swap houses with Cameron Diaz for Christmas?
The Holiday
24. Now streaming! Which Oscar winner plays Santa Claus in the 2024 action-adventure Red One?
JK Simmons
25. What is the name of James Stewart’s character in It’s A Wonderful Life?
George Bailey
26. Buddy Hobbs is the title character of which Christmas comedy?
Elf
27. Also streaming! Which 2024 Netflix romcom sees Lacey Chabert bring a hunky snowman to life?
Hot Frosty (no, really)
28. In which 1944 musical does Judy Garland sing “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”?
Meet Me In St Louis
29. Who plays Lloyd Christmas in the Dumb & Dumber movies: Jim Carrey or Jeff Daniels?
Jim Carrey (Jeff Daniels plays Harry Dunne)
30. And finally, what is the full title of the second feature-length Wallace & Gromit film, premiering this Christmas Day on BBC One?
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
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