Q 01/05

In the 1947 film, who plays Kris Kringle?

A) Charles Coburn

B) Edmund Gwenn

C) Monty Woolley

D) Barry Fitzgerald

Answer · why

B) Edmund Gwenn

The London-born actor won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the role, and later appeared in Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry.

Q 02/05

How does Kris end up in the red suit at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

A) He wins a contest

B) He is a Macy's employee

C) The hired man is drunk

D) Susan recommends him

Answer · why

C) The hired man is drunk

Event director Doris Walker recruits him on the spot, and he does so well that Macy's hires him for the store on 34th Street.

Q 03/05

Kris shocks his employers by sending a shopper to which rival store to find a fire engine?

A) Bloomingdale's

B) Gimbels

C) Saks

D) Wanamaker's

Answer · why

B) Gimbels

The rival stood a block away on Herald Square, and their feud gave America the phrase 'Does Macy's tell Gimbels?'

Q 04/05

Which actress plays Doris Walker, the Macy's events director and Susan's mother?

A) Gene Tierney

B) Loretta Young

C) Maureen O'Hara

D) Teresa Wright

Answer · why

C) Maureen O'Hara

She had just moved back to post-war Ireland and was reluctant to return; she later received an honorary Oscar in 2014.

Q 05/05

The young Susan Walker is played by which future star of Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story?

A) Margaret O'Brien

B) Natalie Wood

C) Elizabeth Taylor

D) Peggy Ann Garner

Answer · why

B) Natalie Wood

Born Natalia Zakharenko in San Francisco, she was eight during filming and went on to three Oscar nominations.