christmas Trivia Quiz # 13

In “Look Who’s Barking,” Piper was learning to control her exploding power, so she hung out in the basement a lot.

"Rudolph" began as a children's coloring book created by Robert L. May, a copywriter for Montgomery Ward Dept. Stores. May was asked to come up with the book as a promotional holiday giveaway to Montgomery Ward customers. The book became amazingly popular and, by 1946, about 6 million copies had been distributed. May's boss had been somewhat concerned about Rudolph's red nose, fearing associations with alcoholism, but he was won over when he saw the drawings. In 1948, May's brother-in-law Johnny Marks, a composer, set the story to music and sent demos to various artists, including Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby, and Perry Como, none of whom was interested. As an afterthought, he presented it to country singer Gene Autry, who was looking for some new songs to record. Autry wasn't impressed by the song and said that he felt Santa already had more than enough reindeer, but his wife read the lyrics and found them very touching. She persuaded him to record the song which, of course, became a hit. Besides "Rudolph", Marks also wrote a fine setting of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day", based on the Longfellow poem "Christmas Bells". An animated feature which appeared on television in the 1960s was also tremendously popular and is today considered a classic; it features the breakaway favorite "Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas", sung by Burl Ives. TRIVIA FACT: Mays considered the names Rollo and Reginald for his reindeer hero before settling on Rudolph.

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" – 1963, "I Feel Fine" – 1964, "Day Tripper" – 1965, "Hello Goodbye" – 1967.

Pierce Brosnan's third time out as Bond manifested itself as this 1999 movie involving oil tycoons and, of course, a plot to take over the world. A classic line from this film, said by Bond to Ms. Jones: "I thought Christmas only comes once a year."

When Nora called Luther from the grocery, she told him the only thing that she could find when smoked trout.

"It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas". There's a tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well...

Laura gets very angry when she sees children lined up to tell Scott what they want for Christmas and pulls Charlie away from his game. Neil tells Scott to call him to talk about his problems.

The verbal volleyball between Peter O'Toole, as the scheming Henry II, and Kate is unmatched. Excellent! This was Kate's third Oscar win, which she had to share with Barbra Streisand for "Funny Girl" - the only time in Academy Award history actresses had to share an award. The only other acting tie was at the 1931-1932 awards for Wallace Beery in "The Champ" and Fredric March in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".

Josh wrote a note inside that moved Donna to tears.