Question: How many ghosts visit Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol? And bonus points if you can name them.
Answer: 4. Jacob Marley, Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

Question: The world's first themed amusement park, Holiday World, originally called Santa Claus Land, is located in what aptly named Indiana town?
Answer: Santa Claus

Question: What is the name of the town that is host to It's a Wonderful Life?
Answer: Bedford Falls

Question: What US Defense Department agency is responsible for tracking Santa each Christmas eve?
Answer: Norad

Question: For a point each, name the US state capitols with more than one word in their name.
Answer: Baton Rouge, LA, Carson City, NV, Des Moines, IA, Jefferson City, MO, Little Rock, AS Saint Paul, MN, Oklahoma City, OK Salt Lake City, UT, and Santa Fe, NM.

Question: What product uses the advertising slogan "I liked it so much, I bought the company!"?
Answer: Remington electric shaver

Question: Blood and Fire is the motto of what international movement, quasi-military in structure, that focuses on evangelical, social and charitable work?
Answer: The Salvation Army

Question: Name the artist and the title: “So I’m lookin’ at rock videos/Knock-kneeded bimbos walkin’ like hoes/You can have them bimbos/I’ll keep my women like Flo Jo/A word to the thick soul sisters, I wanna get with ya/I won’t cuss or hit ya”
Answer: Sir Mix-A-Lot, with Baby Got Back

Question: For a point each, name the characters in a bottle of Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
Answer: Fred Flintstone, Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Betty Rubble, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, Dino, and The Great Gazoo

Question: Hymen is the Greek god of what?
Answer: Marriage

Question: First formulated in 1959 (6 years before being offered on NASA flights) what was the original flavor of Tang?
Answer: Orange

Question: Which nanny did Julie Andrews win an Oscar for playing?
Answer: Mary Poppins

Question: Which character was described as part man, part machine, all cop?
Answer: Robocop

Question: What legendary Universal Studios horror star, the Eighth Wonder of the World, had his home on Skull Island before filmmaker Carl Denham drags his hairy ass back to New York?
Answer: King Kong

Question: What is the name of the owl who told us Give a hoot dont pollute in a series of Public Service Announcements?
Answer: Woodsy

Question: Which herbivore has fingerprints so identical to those of a human that even with an electron microscope, it can be difficult to distinguish them?
Answer: Koala

Question: What anniversary is celebrated with a demisemiseptcentennial?
Answer: 175 years

Question: What are the 6 official documental languages of the UN?
Answer: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish

Question: Which comic book superhero, originally published from 1984 to 1993 and reintroduced in 2005, wears a costume that consists of a giant carrot mask, containing a nuclear powered pogo stick, a white shirt, red pants, and flippers on his feet (in case he has to swim)?
Answer: The Flaming Carrot

Question: The lyrics to what cartoon theme song include the lines: Im one tough Gazookus Which hates all Palookas Wot aint on the up and square. I biffs em and buffs em And always out roughs em But none of em gets nowhere.
Answer: Popeye

Question: Oh my God, they killed Kenny! You bastards! is frequently heard on what tv classic?
Answer: South Park

Question: Name the artist and song title: Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis, Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans, But I never saw the good side of the city, Until I hitched a ride on a river boat queen.
Answer: Proud Mary by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Question: Who is credited with inventing the first mass-produced helicopter?
Answer: Igor Sikorsky

Question: In a 1996 April Fools Day prank, a fast food restaurant chain caused an uproar when they claimed they had acquired what national symbol from the U.S. government?
Answer: The Liberty Bell

Question: Bluto is the arch enemy of what animated character?
Answer: Popeye

Question: Whos the black private dick thats a sex machine to all the chicks?
Answer: Shaft

Question: What was the name of the cliched hunchback assistant to Dr. Victor Frankenstein, tasked with fetching a brain for the good doctors creation?
Answer: Igor

Question: In what 80s arcade game were you armed with a lance and mounted upon an ostrich or a stork?
Answer: Joust

Question: What does a cruciverbalist like doing?
Answer: Crossword puzzles

Question: Which animated character once famously lamented O fate most cruel to be thusly boned! Ask not for whom the bone bones it bones for thee.
Answer: Bender

Question: Polly is a nickname for what popular girls name, spending 46 of the last 100 years as the most popular girls name in America?
Answer: Mary

Question: Minnesotan Walter "Fritz" Mondale, born on Jan 5, 1928, was the vice president for which US President?
Answer: Jimmy Carter

Question: What product is advertised with the slogan: "The best a man can get"?
Answer: Gillette

Question: January 4, 2010 saw the official opening of the worlds tallest building, at 2717 feet (828 meters). In what country is it built?
Answer: Dubai, U.A.E.

Question: January 8, 1824 saw the passing of one Eli Whitney, Jr, an American inventor best known for what?
Answer: The cotton gin or interchangeable rifle parts

Question: What is the preferred food type of a frugivore?
Answer: Fruit

Question: What word, meaning vanity, derives from the Greek god who perished while pining away at his reflection in a pool of water?
Answer: Narcissism

Question: Name the artist and title: “And if I haver yeah I know I’m gonna be I’m gonna be the man who’s havering to you”
Answer: The Proclaimers, I'm Gonna Be

Question: The counterpart to Tokoyo Rose, what was the common name given to Mildred Gillars, the American born radio personality who broadcast propaganda for the Germans during WWII?
Answer: Axis Sally

Question: In the nursery rhyme “The Farmer in the Dell,” what does the child take?
Answer: A Nurse

Question: For a point each, name the 8 countries that border France.
Answer: Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Spain and Andorra

Question: According to the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee, the group that determines the elegibility of subjects to be commemorated on a stamp, how long must a person be dead before they can be honored on a stamp (and then only the anniversary of their
Answer: 10

Question: Executed in 2005, Nobel Peace Prize nominee Stanley “Tookie” Williams co-founded what L.    A. gang?
Answer: Crips

Question: What is the weight, in lbs, of a US gallon of water?
Answer: 8 lbs

Question: The week of January 2 through the 9th saw 5 different states join the Union over the years. For a point each, name them.
Answer: Georgia, Alaska, Connecticut, New Mexico, Utah

Question: Jan 4, 1966 saw a military coup take place in the African country Upper Volta. By what name do we know the country now?
Answer: Burkina Faso

Question: What college football bowl is known as The Grandaddy of them all, having been continuously played since 1916?
Answer: The Rose Bowl

Question: Who is the current Speaker of the House?
Answer: John Boehner

Question: Name the movie and actor/character of this 1986 film that featured the quote: “Thats not a knife. Now THAT’s a knife!”
Answer: Crocodile Dundee/Michael Crocodile Dundee

Question: Newspaper editor Britt Reid, along with his sidekick Kato and their well appointed car Black Beauty, dons a mask and fights crime under what name?
Answer: The Green Hornet

Question: What is the most abundant metallic element in Earths crust?
Answer: Aluminum

Question: What part of your body is inflamed if you have encephalitis?
Answer: Brain