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Seems not - huh!
I do love a good Xmas quiz!
I do love a good Xmas quiz!
The Liverpool Echo quiz has these questions:
1. What was the name of the boy in the TV film The Snowman?
2. In "Coronation Street", where was Rosie Webster born on Christmas Eve 1990?
3. Christmas Crackers was the first Christmas edition of which popular UK comedy series?
4. In which childrenâs series does the appearance of Father Christmas herald the beginning of the end for the White Witch?
5. What is the name of the creepy neighbour who lives next door to Kevin McCallister in Home Alone?
6. Who played the part of Captain Mainwaringâs estranged brother Barry in the Dadâs Army Christmas episode of 1975?
7. What present did Harry Potter receive from Hagrid in his first Christmas at Hogwarts?
8. Who played Scrooge in The Muppets Christmas Carol?
9. What drink advert launched the slogan 'The Right One' in 1970?
10. Which British monarch was the first to broadcast their Christmas message on television?
11. Which famous comedy double-act partner made the first ever UK mobile phone call, New Year's Day, 1985?
12. Who was forced to consume three Christmas lunches in 1996?
13. Who punched the Chief Commissioning Editor of the BBC with a partridge on a Christmas Special and got exiled to Radio Norwich?
14. Which popular Eastender's character died on Christmas Day in 2006?
15. Who is the narrator in the 2000 film The Grinch Who Stole Christmas?
16. Who dueted with Bing Crosby on the song Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy, performed for Bingâs last ever Christmas Special, Merrie Olde Christmas in 1977?
17. Who made his debut as Doctor Who in The Christmas Invasion, shown on Christmas Day 2005?
18. Who squared up to Ricky Gervais in a celebrity boxing match over Christmas in 2002?
19. Jacob Marley, Scroogeâs former business partner, is âplayedâ by what Disney character in Mickeyâs Christmas Carol?
20. Which Christmas song is the best-selling single of all time?
The answers can be seen by higlighting the invisible text to the right of each number:
1. James
2. In the back of a taxi cab.
3. Only Fools and Horses
4. Chronicles of Narnia
5. Old Man Marley
6. Arthur Lowe (he played his own brother)
7. A rough cut wooden flute.
8. Michael Caine.
9. Martini
10. Queen Elizabeth II.
11. Ernie Wise
12. The Vicar of Dibley
13. Alan Partridge
14. Pauline Fowler.
15. Anthony Hopkins
16. David Bowie
17. David Tennant
18. Grant Bovey
19. Goofy
20. White Christmas
Please don't quote this post in any posting as the invisible text would be visible in the reply.
1. Peter
2. In the Kabin
3. Only Fools and Horses
4. The Chronicles of Narnia
5. Bill
6. Sir John Gielgud
7. An owl
8. Michael Caine
9. It's Martini
10. QEII
11. Morecombe and Wise
12. Geraldine, the Vicar of Dibley
13. Alan Partridge
14. Ethel
15. James Earl Jones
16. David Bowie
17. David Tennant
18. Eddie Izzard
19. Donald Duck
20. White Christmas
90% guesses. Will check answers later.
1. James
2.In the back of Ivys husbands Taxi on Rosamund Street.
3.??
4.The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
5.Marlowe (?)
6.?
7.A flute
8.?
9.Martini
10.Queen Elizabeth second
11.Ernie Wise
12.Vicar of Dibley
13.Alan Partdridge
14.Pauline Fowler
15.Bill Cosby(?)
16.David Bowie
17.David Tenant
18. - Bovey (Anthea Turners ex)
19.?
20.White Christmas
Harder than I thought.
How well do you know your Christmas Films - are these quotes from Its a Wonderful Life or Die Hard? I got 8/10 - chuffed !
http://www.theguardian.com/fil...derful-life-die-hard
How well do you know your Christmas Films - are these quotes from Its a Wonderful Life or Die Hard? I got 8/10 - chuffed !
http://www.theguardian.com/fil...derful-life-die-hard
10/10 but only because I knew which were definitely Die Hard