Like I wasn’t going to leave you without a little bonus Christmas trivia. Here’s 10 questions (not used this week at quizzo, btw) to share with the fam this holiday season.
- Whose secret decoder pin does Ralphie send away for in Christmas Story?
- Who was George’s friend who made millions in plastics in It’s a Wonderful Life?
- In Venezuela it is Ponche Crema. In Mexico it is called Rompope. What do we call it?
- In what ocean will you find Christmas island?
- This man, known as the Singing Cowboy, had huge hits with the songs Here Comes Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
- This is the common name for a group of hemi-parasitic plants in the order Santalales.
- While in prison for embezzlement in 1898, he published his first short story, Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking.
- What’s the name of the Grinch’s dog?
- How do you say “Merry Christmas” in Hawaiian?
- A Montgomery Ward employee named Robert May came up with what beloved (but in my opinion kind of lame) Christmas story in 1939, as part of an advertising campaign for the store?
- Little Orphan Annie’s
- Sam Wainwright
- egg nog
- Indian
- Gene Autrey
- mistletoe
- O. Henry
- Max
- Mele Kalikimaka
- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. (I hate this story by the way. “Remember, kids, you’re lame unless somebody cool likes you, in which case you are awesome.”)