Q 01/05

Which 1942 musical film, built around Irving Berlin songs, features Bing Crosby singing the best-selling single of all time?

A) Blue Skies

B) Holiday Inn

C) Going My Way

D) Road to Morocco

Answer · why

B) Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn is set at an inn that opens only on holidays, so Irving Berlin had to write a song for each one; its Christmas number, 'White Christmas', ...

Q 02/05

Which entertainer narrated the 1969 animated TV special 'Frosty the Snowman'?

A) Fred Astaire

B) Jimmy Durante

C) Burl Ives

D) Danny Kaye

Answer · why

B) Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Durante narrated the Rankin/Bass special in his final film role, almost two decades after he had released his own record of the song in 1950, th...

Q 03/05

Which retailer's 1939 promotional story introduced the most famous reindeer of all?

A) Montgomery Ward

B) Sears, Roebuck

C) Marshall Field's

D) F. W. Woolworth

Answer · why

A) Montgomery Ward

Montgomery Ward had been buying coloring books to give away each Christmas and asked copywriter Robert L. May for a story of its own to save money; ab...

Q 04/05

In 'Santa Baby', which luxury gift does the singer ask Santa for first?

A) A yacht

B) A convertible

C) A sable

D) A platinum mine

Answer · why

C) A sable

A sable, a costly fur, opens the list; the requests then climb to a convertible, a yacht and the deed to a platinum mine in a lyric that Joan Javits, ...

Q 05/05

Which husband-and-wife act had the original 1979 recording of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"?

A) Elmo and Patsy

B) Captain & Tennille

C) Les Paul and Mary Ford

D) Sonny and Cher

Answer · why

A) Elmo and Patsy

Elmo and Patsy, veterinarian Elmo Shropshire and his then-wife Patsy Trigg, pressed the single themselves in 1979 and sold it at their shows until a S...