Christmas Pop Culture Quiz

Let's see if you know more Christmas pop culture than the CCM staff! The answers are at the end of the article.

We'll start off with some multiple choice....


1) Who is Rudolph's father?

A) Blitzen

B) Donner

C) Comet

D) An unknown, non-sleigh reindeer



2) What city is Frosty the Snowman from?

A) Dearborn, Michigan

B) Nashua, New Hampshire

C) Covington, Kentucky

D) White Plains, New York


3) What music does Schroeder select for the Christmas play?

A) Beethoven

B) The Ronettes

C) Chopin

D) Mariah Carey


4) The South Park Christmas Special features Santa's backup reindeer. Which of these was one of them?

A) Maury

B) Montel

C) Arsenio

D) Regis


5) Converting to Judaism got this baseball player into an Adam Sandler song..

A) David Ortiz

B) Ty Cobb

C) Rod Carew

D) Henry Aaron


6) Which of these Christmas movie stars isn't a smoker?

A) John McClane

B) Santa

C) The Drummer Boy

D) Frosty


7) What reason did David Bowie give when asked why he did a Bing Crosby Christmas Special?

A) "I always wanted to do a Christmas special."

B) "This cocaine didn't just pay for itself, kids."

C) "My mother likes him."

D) "Mick Jagger and I flipped a coin, the winner sang with Peter Tosh, the loser got Bing."



8)  Young Santa. What color was his hair?

A) Red

B) Blonde

C) Brown

D) White


9) The guy who sang the Grinch song was also the voice of this cereal pitchman:

A) Tony the Tiger

B) Toucan Sam

C) Cap'n Crunch

D) Count Chocula


10) What is Dominik's purpose?

A) Reindeer can't handle the hills of Italy

B) A "Mister Corleone" implied that Santa may want to work some Italians into his retinue.

C) Dominik speaks Italian.

D) Donkeys can haul more weight than reindeer.

Next, we give you the scene, you tell us what food or drink was served.

11) Scrooge sends one of these to the Cratchitt family.

12) Grandma has a bit too much of this before getting run over by a reindeer.

13) The Grinch gets the honor of carving this meat at the Who family Christmas dinner.

14) Instead of milk and cookies, Cheech and Chong recommend leaving these out for Santa.

15) Rocky Balboa feeds knuckle sandwiches to this villain on Christmas Day.

16) Ronnie Spector eats this before caroling.

17) The singer(s) in Christmas Wrapping has to run back out to the store because she forgot this holiday side dish.

18) Yukon Cornelius is looking for a mine that produces what treat?

19) Sugar Plums actually don't have any of this in them.

20) Saint Nicholas is from this food-named country.

We'll give you the scenario, you tie it to the Christmas version.

21) Much like Hannibal Lecter, this Christmas icon has some social difficulties, favors a female named Clarice and fights a B named villain.

22) Much like Donald Trump, this orange-tinged tyrant threatens to shut things down at Christmas and argues with an elderly woman.

23) Much like Woody from Cheers, this kid lacks the money for a present, so he gives the gift of music.

We give brief summaries of Christmas songs/shows, you try to guess what show or song we are describing.

24) A fighter pilot has a dogfight with a Nazi ancestor, but they give it a rest on Christmas and share a drink or two.

25) A Christian saint retires abruptly, a reindeer ends up in jail down South and Mother Nature has to solve the problem.

26) Santa knows where the Naughty girls live, and he should probably go to Eartha Kitt's house.

27) When this man wants loving, he doesn't take Snow for an answer. Ironically, snowflakes hate this song.

We supply the quote, you tell us who said it...

28) "Look, Charlie, let's face it... We all know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It's run by a big Eastern syndicate, you know."

29) "Bumbles bounce!"

30) "Happy birthday!"

31) "We're gonna have the hap hap happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap danced with Danny f***ing Kaye!"

32) "Whatever I touch/turns to snow in my clutch/I'm too much!"

33) "God bless us everyone!"

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ANSWERS

Give yourself 3 points for each correct answer. Add one point if you were Nice. Add two if you were Naughty.

1) Donner is Rudolph's father, although the show had a stork deliver Rudolph. The scene was cut to fit more commercials into the show.

2) White Plains, NY... Armonk, NY bitterly contests this, and has a Frosty festival every year.

3) Fur Elise, by Beethoven

4) The backup reindeer are Steven, Chantel, Fluffy, Horace, Skippy, Rainbow, Patches and Montel.

5) Hall of Famer Rod Carew

6) The Drummer Boy is a non smoker.

7) Bowie's mom was a huge Bing Crosby fan.

8) Santa is a ginger in Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Mrs. Claus also had red hair in her youth.

9) Thurl Ravencroft, which sounds like a name Dr. Seuss made up, is both the Grinch singer and Tony the Tiger.

10) Dominik can handle Italy's hills better than reindeer can.

11) Scrooge sends them a turkey, they were having a goose before.

12) Grandma was into the egg nog. Grandpa favors beer.

13) Roast beef, the first slice goes to the reindeer dog.

14) Beer and reefer.

15) Rocky fought Ivan Drago in Moscow, on Christmas Day, just like Jesus wanted.

16) Pumpkin pie

17) She forgot cranberries, just like the guy she ran into.

18) Peppermint. That's why he licks his pickaxe, he can taste it. In a deleted scene, he finds a peppermint mine.

19) Sugar Plums are rock candy, and have nothing to do with plums beyond their shape.

20) Turkey

21) Rudolph

22) Heat Miser

23) The Little Drummer Boy

24) Snoopy's Christmas, aka Christmas Bells

25) The Year Without A Santa Claus

26) Santa Baby

27) Baby, It's Cold Outside

28) Lucy Van Pelt

29) Yukon Cornelius

30) Frosty, not talking to Jesus.

31) Clark Griswald

32) The Cold Miser

33) Tiny Tim

91-101... You can tell Santa what to do.

81-90... You most likely finish your Christmas shopping in August.

71-80... You'll sit in the lap of an elderly man at a mall.

61-70... You'd better watch out.

0-60... Coal