THE PUZZLE CORNER: DECEMBER 12, 2020

😎FUN FACT

While it debuted during A Charlie Brown Christmas, ♫Linus and Lucy♫ (aka The Peanuts Theme) is actually a Jazz number and not a seasonal tune.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

Thanks to Public Broadcasting, A Charlie Brown Christmas WILL AIR on December 13—check local listings for time and channel—to maintain its consecutive presentation streak since debuting in 1965. What THREE other holiday specials have aired EVERY YEAR since their premieres?

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇

What did A Charlie Brown Christmas do that no animated feature did before?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the December 5, 2020 Puzzle Corner.

REBUS

Time to decorate the tree, but something familiar is represented in the image on the left. Do you know what it is?

NOEL, because there is no L among the decorations.😉

AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS

Under what name did what is now Nickelodeon debut under?

Pinwheel, on December 1, 1977.

THE PUZZLE CORNER: DECEMBER 8, 2018

😎FUN FACT
The original Miracle On 34th Street was actually released in JUNE 1947, and not during the Christmas holiday season!

FAMOUS FIRSTS: THE CHRISTMAS🎄 QUIZ

All you have to do is tell us which came first in each group below. Ready?
01. TV Specials: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer or A Charlie Brown Christmas?
02. Literary Works: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens or A Visit From Saint Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore?
03. Songs: White Christmas or Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas?
04. TV Specials: How The Grinch Stole Christmas or Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol?
05. Literary Works: Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer by Robert L. May?
06. The song Sleigh Ride: As an instrumental or with lyrics?
07. Movies: Home Alone 1 or A Christmas Story?
08. Songs: The Chipmunk Song/Please Christmas Don’t Be Late or I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas?

We’ll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the December 1, 2018 Puzzle Corner.

REBUS
It’s time to decorate our tree, but is something missing from the image on the left?
If so, what?
There is no L, for Noel.

AKA, ALSO KNOWN AS
When it debuted as part of the soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965, what Vince Guaraldi composition became more commonly known as “The Peanuts Theme”?
♫Linus and Lucy♫