- Reaction score
- 34
- Points
- 560
http://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/quiz/quiz.cgi?quiz=arts_comfort_and_joy
(10 questions on the page)
1. Fill in the blanks: “It’s Christmas time in ______, Queens / Mom's cooking chicken and collard greens.” Hip-hop legends Run-DMC described the holiday season in their home neighbourhood with their 1988 song Christmas in ______.
South Ozone Park
Hollis
Rockaway Beach
Kew Garden Hills
Flushing
2. Four of these statements about 1978’s The Star Wars Holiday Special — long since buried, but still cited as one of TV’s worst programs ever — are true. Find the one that’s false.
The plot focused on Chewbacca returning home to his family (father Itchy, wife Malla and son Lumpy) for the Wookiee holiday Life Day.
An animated sequence, known as “The Faithful Wookiee,” features the first appearance of the bounty hunter Boba Fett.
Bea Arthur, who plays a bartender, sings Good Night, But Not Goodbye at the Mos Eisley cantina.
Harvey Korman plays a four-armed chef; his character seems to parody Julia Child.
George Lucas has disavowed the project, saying, “It was the worst part of the whole Star Wars enterprise. Well, until Episode I.”
3. This Canadian comedian played the title role in Ron Howard’s live-action remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Mike Myers
Tom Green
Jim Carrey
Martin Short
Shaun Majumder
(10 questions on the page)
1. Fill in the blanks: “It’s Christmas time in ______, Queens / Mom's cooking chicken and collard greens.” Hip-hop legends Run-DMC described the holiday season in their home neighbourhood with their 1988 song Christmas in ______.
South Ozone Park
Hollis
Rockaway Beach
Kew Garden Hills
Flushing
2. Four of these statements about 1978’s The Star Wars Holiday Special — long since buried, but still cited as one of TV’s worst programs ever — are true. Find the one that’s false.
The plot focused on Chewbacca returning home to his family (father Itchy, wife Malla and son Lumpy) for the Wookiee holiday Life Day.
An animated sequence, known as “The Faithful Wookiee,” features the first appearance of the bounty hunter Boba Fett.
Bea Arthur, who plays a bartender, sings Good Night, But Not Goodbye at the Mos Eisley cantina.
Harvey Korman plays a four-armed chef; his character seems to parody Julia Child.
George Lucas has disavowed the project, saying, “It was the worst part of the whole Star Wars enterprise. Well, until Episode I.”
3. This Canadian comedian played the title role in Ron Howard’s live-action remake of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Mike Myers
Tom Green
Jim Carrey
Martin Short
Shaun Majumder