Q 01/05

What flavour is a traditional striped candy cane?

A) Cinnamon

B) Peppermint

C) Cherry

D) Strawberry

Answer · why

B) Peppermint

Peppermint is the classic flavour; the name 'candy cane' first turns up in a magazine story of 1866, and a popular legend says the sticks were first h...

Q 02/05

What is the name of the boy accidentally left behind in Home Alone?

A) Kevin McCallister

B) Charlie Wilson

C) Buzz Anderson

D) Danny Barnes

Answer · why

A) Kevin McCallister

Macaulay Culkin plays the eight-year-old who defends the family house on his own.

Q 03/05

Who wrote How the Grinch Stole Christmas!?

A) Maurice Sendak

B) Shel Silverstein

C) Dr. Seuss

D) Roald Dahl

Answer · why

C) Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss was Theodor Geisel, who said the Grinch was himself: he caught a very Grinchish face in the mirror the morning after Christmas 1956 and had ...

Q 04/05

Which city does the McCallister family fly to at the start of Home Alone?

A) Rome

B) Dublin

C) Madrid

D) Paris

Answer · why

D) Paris

Paris was the plan, but a power cut overnight reset the alarm clocks, the family overslept, and in the scramble for the airport nobody noticed Kevin w...

Q 05/05

What is the town where the Whos live called?

A) Whoville

B) Whotown

C) Whoburg

D) Whovale

Answer · why

A) Whoville

Whoville first appeared in Horton Hears a Who!, three years before the Grinch story: there the whole town sits on a speck of dust, and an elephant has...