christmas Trivia Quiz # 41

Not quite. If you add up the 12 x 1 partridges, 11 x 2 turtle doves, 10 x 3 French hens and so on you end up with a total of 364 gifts. Just one short.

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is based on a French song about the 12 months of the year. Nobody is quite sure why the old French word for partridge, that is "pertris", is rendered in the English version as the similar sounding "pear tree".

Vera-Ellen played the part of Judy. She didn't sing any of her songs. Rosemary Clooney, playing the part of Betty, sang both parts of the "Sisters" song. Trudy Stevens sang all the other songs for Vera-Ellen.

This was from the twelfth season episode "Homer vs. Dignity", in which Mr. Burns hired Homer to play pranks on people to earn extra cash. Homer started to feel bad and donated his ill-gotten money to buy presents for needy children and the owner of the department store hired him to play Santa in the parade. He was rehearsing with Bart and after Bart told him the next line was "Christmas", Homer said "What? Let me see that!"

He became Fuehrer following the death of Hitler and was relieved of the position because of the Allied victory. The incorrect answers were all made up names.

The Misses Mamie and Emily Baldwin supplement their income by selling "the recipe," a suspect corn liquor they brew in their home, which was previously adored my their late father, the judge.

Santa Claus is located in southern Indiana about 80 miles west of Louisville, Kentucky. In 2000, it had a population of about 2000.

Born in 1906, Hermione Badderley (Mrs. Cratchit) started her career in films in 1927. She played the surly housekeeper, Mrs. Nell Naugatuck, on "Maude" on CBS from 1974 to 1977. Hermione Badderley also appeared in "Mary Poppins" (1964). She died in 1986. It was her sister, Angela Badderley, who played the cook, Mrs. Bridges, on "Upstairs Downstairs".

This is scene where they are preparing presents for the children for Christmas. The character in question is the red and black one, with a head that seems to be unattached at the jaw. He is making a hat from a rat. Jack has given them all toys to improve. They practically mutilate the toys, creating monsters (such as a doll vampire, and a killer duck, etc.) that end up scaring the kids.

The song was "Happy Christmas (War is Over)", written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.