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Christmas Characters - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 87 times
- The average score is 9 of 22
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The green creature who tried to steal Christmas in the 1957 Dr. Seuss book, a 1966 animated TV special, and a 2000 film starring Jim Carrey. | The Grinch | 92%
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| A snowman created in a popular Christmas song released in 1950, and further popularized in a 1969 animated TV special. | Frosty | 86%
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| Miserly curmudgeon and protagonist of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. | Ebenezer Scrooge | 85%
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| This reindeer was not mentioned in Clement Clarke Moore’s “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” (1823), but came to life in a 1939 story by Robert L. May, and was immortalized in a song written by Johnny Marks in 1949 and an animated TV special in 1964. | Rudolph | 61%
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| In Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, deceased former business partner who now wanders the Earth encumbered by heavy chains and money boxes forged during a lifetime of greed and selfishness. | Jacob Marley | 58%
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| This Christian Bishop of Myra (d. cir. 343 CE) is alleged to have had a penchant for secret gift-giving and is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, unmarried people, and students in various cities and countries around Europe. | St. Nicholas | 58%
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| Raised at the North Pole as an elf, he learns he is human upon reaching adulthood. | Buddy | 54%
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| The star of the show, as far as secular Christmas celebrations go in the US. | Santa Claus | 51%
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| The abused, underpaid clerk in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. | Bob Cratchit | 50%
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| This horned creature of Alpine folklore visits children with Saint Nicholas on the night of 5 December and punishes the wicked ones with birch rods. | Krampus | 49%
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| Accidentally left Home Alone when his family leaves to spend Christmas in Paris, this 8-year-old boy foils a pair of burglars instead. | Kevin McAllister | 43%
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| A figure in British folklore from the 17th century, he became more closely associated with gift-bringing (especially to children) in the Victorian era, and is today nearly synonymous with Santa Claus. | Father Christmas | 40%
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| Chicago area suburbanite who survives redneck in-laws, an electrocuted cat, and an incinerated Christmas tree in his quest to provide the best ever Christmas for his family in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. | Clark Griswold | 29%
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| Also known as the Magi and the Three Wise Men, they — not Santa — are the holiday gift bringers in a number of countries. | Three Kings | 28%
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| The little boy consumed with getting a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle for Christmas in the 1983 film A Christmas Story. | Ralphie | 26%
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| The man who was saved from a Christmas Eve suicide by his guardian angel in the 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life. | George Bailey | 24%
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| One of Santa’s personas, derived from the German tradition of the Christkindl (Christ child) who brings holiday gifts in western Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and elsewhere. | Kris Kringle | 24%
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| This cynical little girl came to believe a department store Santa was the real one in the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street. | Susan Walker | 22%
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| Kindly witch who delivers gifts to children in Italy on Epiphany Eve. | La Befana | 7%
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| A disheveled companion of St. Nicholas who is the sole gift bringer in parts of German-speaking Europe, in Pennsylvania Dutch communities and in German-Brazilian communities. | Belsnickel | 6%
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| Norwegian postal employee who, with reclusive woodsman Klaus, inadvertently puts an end to the war between two clans in the 2019 animated film Klaus. | Jesper | 6%
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| The companion of Saint Nicholas who visits Swiss children and punishes ill-behaved ones with his birch broom. | Schmutzli | 6%
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