Tag: A Christmas Story

What Holiday Film Featured a Kidnapping?: Christmas Movie Quiz

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Because nothing says Christmas as much as a quiz, here is another Christmas quiz to go with our previous quiz on music from classic Christmas films and TV specials. Here, see how many questions you can answer out of the following nine questions about Christmas in the movies. Answers appear at the end.

1. Let's start with an easy one to warm up. In A Christmas Story, what did Ralphie want for Christmas?





2. Karolyn Grimes played Zuzu Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946). In what other Christmas movie classic did she also appear?





3. Which of the following actors has not played Ebeneezer Scrooge in a film version of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol?





4. In Scrooged (1988), Bill Murray plays an Ebenezer Scrooge character but his name is Frank Cross. What was Frank's job?





5. Which classic Christmas movie centers around mental illness issues?





6. What Christmas movie features the line, "I'm sorry. This is our family's first kidnapping"?





7. Which Christmas film featured a star who in real life was strongly encouraged to take the part to repair his image after being arrested for marijuana possession?





8. Which one of the following 1980s action films is set during Christmas?





9. Which holiday film featured two characters with the same names as two famous Sesame Street muppets?







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