Q 01/05

In which year did Mariah Carey's 1994 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' finally reach No. 1 on the Hot 100?

A) 2004

B) 2009

C) 2014

D) 2019

Answer · why

D) 2019

That 25-year climb set the record for the longest trip to No. 1. She co-wrote it with Walter Afanasieff, and the Associated Press put its royalties at...

Q 02/05

In which year did Wham!'s 'Last Christmas' finally reach No. 1 in the UK?

A) 1985

B) 2004

C) 2021

D) 2017

Answer · why

C) 2021

It got there on 1 January 2021, the longest wait for a UK No. 1 ever. George Michael wrote it, and the duo gave the royalties to the same Ethiopian fa...

Q 03/05

Whamageddon players try to avoid hearing the original 'Last Christmas' in December. On which date does it end?

A) 25 December

B) 31 December

C) 24 December

D) 6 January

Answer · why

C) 24 December

Remixes and covers do not count. One of the earliest documented references is a German video-game forum in 2009, and losers announce it with #Whamaged...

Q 04/05

In Home Alone (1990), the McCallisters leave Kevin behind while flying to which city?

A) London

B) Miami

C) New York

D) Paris

Answer · why

D) Paris

Chris Columbus directed from a John Hughes script. Kevin's burglars call themselves the Wet Bandits, and the gangster film he blasts at them, Angels w...

Q 05/05

In Elf (2003), Buddy travels to New York to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs, played by which actor?

A) James Caan

B) Bob Newhart

C) Ed Asner

D) Peter Falk

Answer · why

A) James Caan

Buddy got to the North Pole as a baby by crawling into Santa's sack at an orphanage. Bob Newhart plays his adoptive elf father and Ed Asner plays Sant...