Love Holiday Music? Take Our Quiz to See How You Rate

Love Holiday Music? Take Our Quiz to See How You Rate


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It’s time to trim the tree, deck the halls and wrap the gifts while rockin’ to a classic holiday playlist. Test your knowledge of the season’s staple songs with our merry little quiz, and


see if you can jingle your way to a high score.

Question 1 of 10


What’s the best-selling Christmas song of all time?

“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” “White Christmas” “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” “All I Want for Christmas


Is You”


According to Guinness World Records, Bing Crosby’s 1942 recording of “White Christmas” has sold an estimated 50 million copies and is not only the best-selling Christmas song of all time but


the best-selling single of all time. Crosby reportedly also holds the second-best-selling Christmas spot for his 1935 version of “Silent Night,” which sold more than 30 million copies.


Question 2 of 10


Which classic movie featured the debut of “White Christmas”?

“Holiday Inn” “White Christmas”  “Christmas in Connecticut” “It’s a Wonderful Life”


Bing Crosby first performed the song in 1941 on the radio show “The Kraft Music Hall,” then sang the tune, which won an Academy Award for best song, in Irving Berlin's 1942 classic movie


“Holiday Inn.”

Question 3 of 10


Which artist or group has released the most Christmas albums?


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Mannheim Steamroller has released at least 17 original Christmas albums. According to the band’s website, they are also the only group to perform more than once at the National Christmas


Tree Lighting Ceremony in Washington, D.C., playing at the event for three different White House administrations.

Question 4 of 10


Thurl Ravenscroft sang “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” in the 1966 animated TV classic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” What non-holiday fictional character did Ravenscroft famously


voice?

Darth Vader Tony the Tiger Fred Flintstone Kool-Aid Man


Ravenscroft voiced the Frosted Flakes mascot, declaring, “They’re grrrrreeeat!” for five decades, and he also voiced the pig in “Mary Poppins,” Monstro the whale in “Pinocchio” and Captain


the horse in “101 Dalmatians.” He sang in “Looney Tunes” cartoons and for various Disney theme park attractions, and his likeness and voice are immortalized as one of the singing busts in


the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.

Question 5 of 10


Which holiday standard, once deemed one of the 100 best songs of all time by “Time” magazine, was criticized after the rise of the #MeToo movement?

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” “I’ve Got My


Love to Keep Me Warm” “All I Want for Christmas Is You” “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”


“Time” reported in 2019, “In the #MeToo era, a song about a man pressuring a woman to stay with him isn’t seen as so cheery by some.”


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