Q 01/05

The 2007 film This Christmas is named after a 1970 song by which soul singer?

A) Marvin Gaye

B) Al Green

C) Curtis Mayfield

D) Donny Hathaway

Answer · why

D) Donny Hathaway

Donny Hathaway. He and his collaborators set out in 1970 to write a Christmas song that would become a standard, and it grew familiar enough to lend a...

Q 02/05

In a 2007 holiday film, which singer plays 'Baby' Whitfield, the youngest sibling with a secret singing talent?

A) Usher

B) Ne-Yo

C) Bobby Valentino

D) Chris Brown

Answer · why

D) Chris Brown

Chris Brown plays Michael 'Baby' Whitfield, the youngest sibling, who has been hiding a singing ambition his mother discourages because their musician...

Q 03/05

Who wrote and directed The Best Man Holiday, the 2013 sequel to The Best Man?

A) Tyler Perry

B) Spike Lee

C) Malcolm D. Lee

D) Gina Prince-Bythewood

Answer · why

C) Malcolm D. Lee

Malcolm D. Lee. His cousin Spike Lee produced the 1999 original, and the $17 million sequel took about $30 million in its first weekend, running Thor:...

Q 04/05

In The Best Man Holiday, the four friends lip-sync a dance routine to which New Edition ballad?

A) If It Isn't Love

B) Mr. Telephone Man

C) Can You Stand the Rain

D) You're Not My Kind of Girl

Answer · why

C) Can You Stand the Rain

Can You Stand the Rain. The men mime the 1988 hit at a pyjama party, and the fun goes some way to patching up the old quarrel between Lance and Harper...

Q 05/05

Which actor plays widowed patriarch Walter Meyers in the 2016 family comedy Almost Christmas?

A) Danny Glover

B) Samuel L. Jackson

C) Laurence Fishburne

D) Morgan Freeman

Answer · why

A) Danny Glover

Danny Glover. His widower gathers four grown children for their first Christmas since his wife died and asks only that they get through five days unde...

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