Well here it is - my quiz to end the year and my 91st blog article - have go and send any answers to me at tvincent481@gmail.comats to see how you did. If not just have a go and drift down memory lane - hopefully not as challenging as last year. I've worked hard to strike the perfect balance between challenge and cheer this year.

But be careful along the way there will be a few faithful versus traitor questions to work out

Christmas Films

1. In The Nightmare Before Christmas, what is the name of the town where Jack Skellington lives?

  1. Which actor plays the dual roles of the narrator, the conductor, and Santa Claus in the film The Polar Express?
  2. Which actress, famous for playing a princess, stars as the cynical journalist Kate in the 2006 film The Holiday?
  3. What type of transportation does Kevin McCallister's family take to Paris in Home Alone?
  4. In the film Elf, what is the first rule of the Code of the Elves?

Christmas Adverts (all this year - have you seen them I wonder)

What are these slogans or descriptive texts advertising ?

a) "I'm Keira - I'm Keira - I mean I'm Phil"?

b) Three elderly women decide to sledge down a large ski slope?

c) In which some crazy dancing goes on to a 1992 hit called Rhythm is a Dancer by Snap?

d) Where a big wedding is celebrated after a very long (10 year engagement)?

e) What is being advertised in the picture below

Christmas Songs

What's the song and the artist(s) from the clues...

  1. Song 1: Release 2007 by an artist won the UK version of The X Factor in 2006 with a lyrical line "I don't need expensive things... I just need one thing..."?
  2. Song 2: Lyric asking Winston Churchill, to come and look at me?
  3. How many miles is "very far" for Chrissie Hynde?
  4. Pa rum pum pum pum might be a song by Ziggy and Bingy?
  5. "We found some hoof prints on her forehead......She'd been drinkin' too much egg nog..." - Name the song?

Christmas History

1.Which historical figure is widely credited with bringing the tradition of the Christmas Tree into mainstream British tradition ?

  • A) Prince Albert
  • B) King George III
  • C) Charles Dickens
  • D) Oliver Cromwell
  1. Question: During the 1640s, the Puritan-led Parliament, under Oliver Cromwell, officially banned Christmas celebrations, declaring them unlawful. If a citizen chose to secretly hold a festive feast and attend a hidden Christmas service, were they acting as a Faithful subject to the State's new law, or a Traitor to the new order by upholding the banned traditions?
  2. In Common - three of these people have a thing they achieved in common - who is a traitor?
  1. Can you solve these Christmas dingbats of Films
  1. All these pictorial represent songs by artists who have had no.1 hits but which is the traitor ?

Film Stills

Name the films

Number 1

Number 2
Number 3
Number 4
Are you a traitor or a faithful - Name all 8 Christmas films

Final Traitor or Faithful Questions - Play True or False!

  1. True or False: The classic song "White Christmas," made famous by Bing Crosby, first appeared in the film Miracle on 34th Street.
  2. True or False: Judy Garland first introduced the song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" in the 1944 musical film Meet Me in St. Louis, with lyrics that went ""Have yourself a merry little Christmas, it may be your last. Next year we may all be living in the past." but were the lyrics she sang changed to make it a better Christmas song that we know today?
  3. True or False: Home Alone director Chris Columbus confirmed that the bearded man arguing with Kate McCallister at the Scranton airport is an uncredited cameo by Elvis Presley.
  4. True or False: When Scott Calvin first tries to call the North Pole, the phone number he dials is 1-800-SANTA.
  5. True or False: Keira Knightley (who plays Juliet) was the oldest member of the main cast at the time of filming Love Actually.

That is it for 2025 - all that is left is to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Very very Happy New Year.

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