It’s not surprising that practically everybody’s favorite holiday has produced some of our favorite entertainments as well. See if you can identify the fictional characters featured in these stories, movies, TV shows and songs. The answers appear on page 20.
1. What was the name of the blanket-carrying Peanuts character whose idealism and hope were the centerpiece of “A Charlie Brown Christmas”?
2. Who was accidentally left “Home Alone “when his family went to Paris and ended up defending the family residence from robbers?
3. What baby was left in Santa’s bag on Christmas Eve so he was raised at the North Pole with the other elves?
4. What New York cop defeated villain Hans Gruber at the Nakatomi Plaza in the movie “Die Hard”?
5. What Dr. Seuss character decided to ruin Christmas for the cheery citizens of Whoville?
6. What 293-year-old clockmaker tried and tried to gain his angel wings before finally succeeding by helping George Bailey?
7. What old man appeared regularly as Santa at Macy’s, claimed that he really was Santa Claus, and ended up in court?
8. What Christmas animal was made popular in a 1949 recording by Gene Autry that soared to No. 1 on radio charts?
9. What ghostly figure appeared to his business partner Ebeneezer Scrooge because he was doomed to spend eternity walking in chains?
10. What jolly happy soul had both a corn cob pipe and a button nose plus two eyes made out of coal?
11. Who wanted only one thing for Christmas—an air rifle—despite everyone giving him the same warning: “You’ll shoot your eye out”?
