Office Christmas Party Trivia

D Will Ferrell. Jon Favreau directed it, and James Caan plays Buddy's father, Walter Hobbs.

C Jack Skellington. Jack is the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, and he gets bored enough to try running Christmas instead.

C Macaulay Culkin. Culkin was 10 when the movie came out, and it made him the most famous kid actor in the country almost overnight.

C His tongue. Schwartz skips straight to a triple dog dare, and the fire department has to come get Flick loose.

C Both sets of parents are divorced. Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn had planned to skip it all and fly to Fiji, until the airport got fogged in.

B Macy's. He is hired as the Macy's Santa, then starts sending shoppers to other stores when Macy's does not have the toy they want.

D The Wet Bandits. Harry and Marv flood every house they rob. In the sequel they rebrand as the Sticky Bandits.

B Boris Karloff. Karloff was best known as Frankenstein's monster. You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch was sung by Thurl Ravenscroft, the voice of Tony the Tiger.

D Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It premiered in St. Petersburg in 1892. It wasn't a hit at first, but American ballet companies turned it into a December tradition.

B The Beach Boys. Brian Wilson wrote it with Mike Love, and it's basically a hot rod song with a sleigh instead of a car.

B Mistletoe. It was the lead single from his album Under the Mistletoe, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

C José Feliciano. Feliciano, born in Puerto Rico, wrote it himself. The bilingual lyrics were meant to reach English-speaking radio too.

C Elvis Presley. Ernest Tubb had the first hit with it in 1950, but Elvis's version on Elvis' Christmas Album is the one everyone knows.

B The Carpenters. Richard Carpenter wrote the melody in the 1960s to lyrics by his college choir director, Frank Pooler.

C The Music Man. Meredith Willson wrote both. The Music Man opened on Broadway in 1957.

B Italy. Lou Monte recorded it in 1960. The idea is that reindeer can't handle Italy's hills, so Santa switches to a donkey.

A A Hershey's Kiss. Freda Smith of Gibsonburg, Ohio, entered them in the 1957 Pillsbury Bake-Off as Black-Eyed Susans. Pillsbury renamed them.

D Ribbon candy. Candy makers once shaped the waves by hand around their thumbs. Machines took over in the 1940s.

C Bring a big batch of one cookie and leave with a mix. The usual rule is a dozen or so per guest, plus extra for sampling. Store-bought cookies are frowned on.

A Fresh cranberries. Use a needle and heavy thread, and let the popcorn sit out a day first so it doesn't crumble.

A Molasses. Dark molasses makes a darker, stronger gingerbread. Some recipes use honey or golden syrup instead.

D An eight-pointed star. Slice it crosswise, stack the slices with the points offset and dust with powdered sugar, and it looks like a little snowy tree.

A Divinity. Old-school Southern cooks will tell you not to bother making divinity when it's raining.

B A nutty shortbread ball in powdered sugar. Roll them in powdered sugar while still warm, then again once they cool, so the coating sticks.

C The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Santa has closed out the parade since the first one in 1924. His arrival unofficially kicks off the Christmas season.

C Père Noël. French children traditionally set out their shoes by the fireplace for him.

A Father Christmas. Father Christmas was originally a separate English figure who stood for feasting and good cheer. He and the American Santa Claus merged in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

C About 7 to 10 years. Growers shear the trees every summer to get that cone shape. A wild tree would look a lot scragglier.

C Christmas night. His troops crossed in sleet and snow and surprised the Hessian garrison at Trenton the next morning, December 26.

B The Monday after Thanksgiving. The term came from the National Retail Federation's online division in 2005, based on people shopping from their office computers after the holiday weekend.

D Babbo Natale. Babbo means daddy, so it's roughly Daddy Christmas.

D Farolitos or luminarias. Which word you use is a local argument. Santa Fe tends to say farolitos, and Albuquerque says luminarias.

A Donald Duck. The Disney special, called Kalle Anka in Sweden after Donald's Swedish name, has aired on Christmas Eve since 1960, with mostly the same clips every year.

A Summer. Summer, so a lot of families head for the beach or fire up the grill. Bondi Beach in Sydney gets packed on Christmas Day.

B By steamboat. The story says he sails in from Spain, and his arrival is broadcast live on Dutch TV in mid-November.

D Cold seafood like shrimp and oysters. Seafood markets in Sydney and Melbourne get packed in the days before Christmas. Australians call shrimp prawns.

C Weihnachtsmärkte. Many are also called Christkindlmarkt. Dresden's Striezelmarkt was first recorded in 1434.

C St. Lucia. A girl in a white gown and a crown of candles leads a procession of singers, usually with saffron buns and coffee.

A A romantic night for couples. Christmas isn't a public holiday there. New Year's is the big family holiday, and Christmas Eve plays out a lot like Valentine's Day.

D KFC. A 1970s ad campaign pitched a bucket of chicken as the Christmas meal, and now families reserve their orders weeks ahead.