1 What links Die Hard, Gremlins, Trading Placesand Home Alone?
2 Breakfast at Tiffany'sand The Pianosuggest which evergreen plant?
3 Which seasonal movie features an angel named Clarence Odbody?
4 Which popular Christmas movie ends with lachrymose arrivals at Heathrow Airport to the strains of God Only Knows?
5 Name that Santa (pictured above).
6 Who has been played by Gary Oldman, Mickey Mouse and Kermit the Frog?
7 Which US Christmas staple (virtually unknown here) revolves around the search for something called an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model BB rifle?
8 How might the director of The Third Man, Mrs Clark Gable and Monty Python's leading woman inspire you to song?
9 What partially rubicund creature is suggested by The Sheik, Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circleand (twice over) a 1977 biopic by Ken Russell?
10 Why might Uzak, Topkapiand Yolmake us think of a Christmas tradition?
Answers:
1. They are all set at Christmas
2. Holly (Holly Golightly, Holly Hunter)
3.
It's a Wonderful Life
4.
Love, Actually
5. Richard Attenborough (in
Miracle on 34th Street)
6. Bob Cratchit in various versions of
A Christmas Carol
7.
A Christmas Story
8. They are all Carols (Carol Reed, Carol Lombard, Carol Cleveland)
9. Rudolf (starred Rudolph Valentino, directed by Alan Rudolph, Rudolph Nureyev in Russell's
Valentino)
10. They are all set in Turkey
