Q 01/05

A Christmas Story opened in cinemas the week before which 1983 holiday?

A) Halloween

B) Veterans Day

C) Thanksgiving

D) New Year's Day

Answer · why

C) Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving: it opened on November 18, 1983, and had faded from most cinemas within a few weeks, long before home video and television turned it into...

Q 02/05

Who directed the iconic film 'A Christmas Story'?

A) John Hughes

B) Steven Spielberg

C) Chris Columbus

D) Bob Clark

Answer · why

D) Bob Clark

Bob Clark heard the author tell the flagpole story on his car radio and kept circling the block to hear the end; it took him over a decade, and the bo...

Q 03/05

Several of the stories behind A Christmas Story first appeared in the mid-1960s in which magazine?

A) Playboy

B) The New Yorker

C) Esquire

D) Saturday Evening Post

Answer · why

A) Playboy

Playboy published them: founder Hugh Hefner was a fan, and cartoonist Shel Silverstein had long urged the author to write down the tales he had been i...

Q 04/05

What is the 'major award' that Ralphie's Old Man wins in a newspaper contest?

A) A new car

B) A lifetime supply of soap

C) A bowling trophy

D) A leg lamp

Answer · why

D) A leg lamp

A leg lamp, shaped like a woman's leg in a fishnet stocking: the Old Man calls it 'indescribably beautiful', and Mother's quiet war on it goes down as...

Q 05/05

What is the famous warning Ralphie consistently receives about his desired Christmas gift?

A) "You'll poke your eye out!"

B) "You'll shoot your eye out!"

C) "You'll break your arm!"

D) "You'll lose your mind!"

Answer · why

B) "You'll shoot your eye out!"

'You'll shoot your eye out!' is what his mother says, then his teacher, then a department-store Santa; Ralphie decides his mother must have got to the...