Q 01/05

In Rankin/Bass's 1979 Christmas in July film, which star teams up with Rudolph to save a circus?

A) Sam the Snowman

B) Frosty the Snowman

C) Nestor the Donkey

D) The Little Drummer Boy

Answer · why

B) Frosty the Snowman

Frosty the Snowman: besides saving the circus, the pair must defeat the evil wizard King Winterbolt.

Q 02/05

Which part of the world has the most practical reason for a July Christmas, since it is midwinter there?

A) The Arctic Circle

B) The Southern Hemisphere

C) The equator

D) The Northern Hemisphere

Answer · why

B) The Southern Hemisphere

Australia, New Zealand and South Africa hold Midwinter Christmas events with a cold-weather feel, then celebrate the real thing in the summer heat on ...

Q 03/05

Which opera based on a Goethe work has children rehearsing a Christmas carol in July?

A) Manon

B) Werther

C) Mignon

D) Faust

Answer · why

B) Werther

Werther: a character teases that singing Christmas in July rushes the season, a line often cited as the origin of the phrase.

Q 04/05

The first Christmas in July celebration, in 1933, was at Keystone Camp, a girls' camp in which state?

A) Michigan

B) Vermont

C) North Carolina

D) Colorado

Answer · why

C) North Carolina

Co-founder Fannie Holt dreamed it up for the campers at Brevard; a Camp Fire Girls camp in New York's Ramapo Mountains was doing the same by 1935.

Q 05/05

Which writer-director made the 1940 comedy Christmas in July?

A) Ernst Lubitsch

B) Frank Capra

C) Billy Wilder

D) Preston Sturges

Answer · why

D) Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges: after moving to Paramount, he talked the studio into buying his script for just $6,000.