An Advent quiz to
help you find out!
It's Advent, and as
long as Movie Churches has been around (about a year now), we’ve been writing
about Christmas films in December. This year is no exception. Sadly, we can’t
write about some of our favorite Christmas films because they don’t have
churches. John McClane doesn’t stop in the airport chapel on the way to
Nakatomi Plaza, and the Whos down in Whoville sing in the great, snowy outdoors
rather than in the First Community Bible Church of Whoville. Buddy doesn’t
accompany his newly found family to midnight Mass at St. Patricks'.
But churches and
spiritual references do come up in Christmas films, as you well know. Or do
you? Let’s see how well you do with the Movie Churches quiz before we start
posting Christmas Movie Churches tomorrow.
1. In Home Alone,
Kevin meets his neighbor in church. The old man shares a name with which
character from A Christmas Carol?
A) Cratchit, B) Scrooge, C) Marley, D)
Fezziwig
2. Which Christmas
movie character “wept and prayed” on V-E Day and V-J Day? A) George Bailey, B)
Buddy the Elf, C) Martin Riggs, D) Scott Calvin
3. In While You Were Sleeping, Lucy (Sandra Bullock) goes with her newly adopted family to what kind
of church service? A) Catholic, B) Presbyterian, C) Quaker, D) Baptist
4. In The Bishop’sWife, Dudley the Angel indulges in which recreational activity? A) Bowling, B)
Building Snow Men, C) Skiing, D) Skating
5. In the musical
Scrooge, the church choir is singing A) Joy to the World, B) A Christmas Carol,
C) Come All Ye Faithful, D) Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
6. In The Preacher’s Wife, the actor who plays the preacher (Courtney B. Vance) appeared on a number of
episodes of ER. The actor who played the angel (Denzel Washington) was a
regular on which other TV hospital drama? A) St. Elsewhere, B) Medical Center,
C) Chicago Hope, D) Doogie Howser MD
7. In the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas, Linus recites the Christmas story from A) Matthew, B)
Mark, C) Luke, D) John
8. The Bells of St.Mary’s is a sequel to what film? A) Holiday Inn, B) White Christmas, C) I Heard
the Bells on Christmas Day, D) Going My Way
9. Joyeux Noel takes
place during which war? A) The Civil War, B) World War I, C) World War II, D)
The Vietnam War
10. In the movie
Holiday Inn, Jim (Bing Crosby) goes to church on which holiday? A) Christmas,
B) Pentecost, C) Good Friday, D) Easter
Answers – 1-C, 2-A,
3-A, 4-D, 5-B, 6-A, 7-C, 8-D, 9-B, 10-D
Score (give
yourself one point for each correct answer)
0 you’re
an unredeemed Scrooge
1 – 2 you’re an unredeemed Grinch
3 – 4 you’re a Doris Walker (from Miracle on 34th Street)
5 – 6 you’re a redeemed Grinch (whose heart “grew three sizes that
day”.)
7 – 8 you’re a Buddy the Elf
9 – 10 you’re a redeemed Ebenezer Scrooge (“And it was always said of him, that he
knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.”)
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