It’s Charles Dickens Month here at the V11llains Quiz. We’re starting off with the only villainous Dickens character who’s also the main character: Ebenezer Scrooge.
Christmas, back in Dickens’ day, was a time for spooky stories, not heartwarming ones. Dickens’s surprise success with a spooky story (and a happy ending, as his miserable miser became warm and generous), helped define what we think of as Christmas. (Even though we don’t eat nearly as many fatted gooses.) If it wasn’t for him, we might cozy up on Dec. 24 to a yearly viewing of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
A Christmas Carol is one of the most retold stories of all time, right up there will man-vs-nature, pregnant-woman-stuck-in-elevator, and “the motel only has one bed left.” Name a TV show, and they’ve done a Scrooge episode. Name a British actor over 50, and he’s played Scrooge. There are five separate operas, and one Epic Rap Battle of History.
Scrooge is redeemed over one night; for anyone who’s done badly on these quizzes in the past, let’s see if you can get some redemption. How well do you know Ebenezer Scrooge?
How many ghosts visit Scrooge in one night?
Scrooge and Marley’s office is on Cornhill Street: both then and now it’s the home to what type of London businesses?
Since it was such a short book – 30,000 words, about 100 pages, too long for a short story but too short for a novel – A Christmas Carol is considered what sort of story?
What two-word phrase was popularized by the Victorian story as a holiday greeting?
A cartoon episode of what sci-fi film franchise has the characters go back in time and accidentally trap Scrooge’s three ghosts?
1988’s Scrooged saw Bill Murray’s Frank Cross go through the Scrooge hauntings while putting on a cheesy TV show version of A Christmas Carol. Instead of London, what city does Scrooged take place in?
In 1993’s A Muppet Christmas Carol, this lead actor played Scrooge, while most all of his costars were Muppets.
This Star Trek thespian toured through the 1990s with a one man show of A Christmas Carol.
In 2009, Robert Zemeckis used digital technology to turn Jim Carrey into a skeletal ragdoll Scrooge: what previous Christmas film did Zemeckis make with the same mocap technology?
For three generations Huey, Dewey, and Louie have been pestering “Unca Scrooge!” What’s the rich Duck Tales star’s last name?
There are thousands of adaptions of A Christmas Carol, but only one video game series. It’s bootleg, but which side-scrolling character must fight off the ghosts of Christmas as level bosses?
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How many ghosts visit Scrooge in one night?
FOUR: MARLEY,* AND THE GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
(*FIVE IF IT’S MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL WITH MARLEY AND MARLEY)
Scrooge and Marley’s office is on Cornhill Street: both then and now it’s the home to what type of London businesses?
BANKING
Since it was such a short book – 30,000 words, about 100 pages, too long for a short story but too short for a novel – A Christmas Carol is considered what sort of story?
A NOVELLA
What two-word phrase was popularized by the Victorian story as a holiday greeting?
“MERRY CHRISTMAS”
A cartoon episode of what sci-fi film franchise has the characters go back in time and accidentally trap Scrooge’s three ghosts?
THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS1988’s Scrooged saw Bill Murray’s Frank Cross go through the Scrooge hauntings while putting on a cheesy TV show version of A Christmas Carol. Instead of London, what city does Scrooged take place in?
NEW YORK CITY
In 1993’s A Muppet Christmas Carol, this lead actor played Scrooge, while most all of his costars were Muppets.
MICHAEL CAINE
This Star Trek thespian toured through the 1990s with a one man show of A Christmas Carol.
PATRICK STEWART
In 2009, Robert Zemeckis used digital technology to turn Jim Carrey into a skeletal ragdoll Scrooge: what previous Christmas film did Zemeckis make with the same mocap technology?
THE POLAR EXPRESS
For three generations Huey, Dewey, and Louie have been pestering “Unca Scrooge!” What’s the rich Duck Tales star’s last name?
McDUCK
There are thousands of adaptions of A Christmas Carol, but only one video game series. It’s bootleg, but which side-scrolling character must fight off the ghosts of Christmas as level bosses?
MEGA MAN