We didn't get to compete in trivia tonight, because we helped write the questions! It was a holiday theme, and the categories were December, Freaky Puppet Shows, Holiday Songs, Toys, Holiday Food, and A Christmas Story.
There are five questions in each category, and theoretically the questions increase in difficulty, so that question 1 in each category is fairly easy and question 5 is extremely difficult. Georg wrote the Freaky Puppet Shows questions (all about Rankin Bass) and I wrote all but one of the Holiday Songs category:
1) Name the movie which premiered the song "White Christmas"
2) The first singer to record "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" was also the song's composer. Who was it?
3) In Adam Sandler's "Hanukkah Song" the fact that this celebrity is one-quarter Jewish is described as "not too shabby"
4) Who recorded "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"
5) In Run D.M.C.'s "Christmas in Hollis," what is Mom cooking for Christmas in Hollis, Queens? One point for one dish, two points for two dishes, three points for all five dishes.
Answers behind the cut ...
1) Holiday Inn
2) Mel Torme
3) Harrison Ford
4) Elmo & Patsy (or Elmo Shropshire)
5) Chicken, collard greens, rice, stuffing, macaroni and cheese
My questions turned out to be too hard. And I thought they were fairly easy! No one got Mel Torme or Elmo & Patsy, and only one team got Holiday Inn. I thought the "Christmas in Hollis" question was the hardest, but that was the question most got right. Next time I'll try to make the questions more accessible.
I got #1 and 2 and might have gotten #4 if I'd tried really, really hard to remember before giving up and going to the answers. Would never have gotten #3 or #5.
I'm so glad you got #1 and #2! I was beginning to think my sense of an easy vs. hard question was hopelessly warped. One team got Holiday Inn but none got Mel Torme. A few guessed Nat King Cole which is a good guess.
Since people rarely play alone, usually in teams of up to four, you want the questions to be too hard for one person to answer them all. But not too hard for four people with overlapping sets of knowledge.