Family Christmas Movie Quotes: the Quiz

What Christmas movie did this line come from?

"Santa! Oh my god! Santa's coming! I know him! I know him!"

Debuting in 2003, Elf quickly became a Christmas family favorite. In a world of nonbelievers, one of Santa's elves (Will Ferrell)—who discovers he's actually a human—spreads cheer and faith in the Christmas spirit while on a mission to find his biological father in NYC.

What Christmas movie did this line come from?

"What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?"

Based on Dr. Seuss's 1957 book, the movie version of How The Grinch Stole Christmas! hit theaters in 2000 starring Jim Carrey, becoming the second-highest grossing holiday film of all time worldwide.

What Christmas movie did this line come from?

"We're not just doing this for us. We're doing it for the kids. For every kid who ever sat on Santa's lap."

Inspired by the crazy top-selling toys that sell out each year at retailers, Jingle All The Way was met with some criticism for its focus on the commercialism of Christmas. The 1996 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger still did well at the box office, bringing in more than $183 million worldwide.

What Christmas movie did this line come from?

"If you're really Santa Claus, you can get it for me. And if you can't, you're only a nice man with a white beard like my mother says."

An Academy Award-winning Christmas favorite, Miracle on 34th Street gets people wondering if a department store Santa could in fact be the real thing. Miracle originally debuted in 1947 and has since been remade four more times.

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What Christmas movie did this line come from?

"There's children throwing snowballs instead of throwing heads … They're busy building toys and absolutely no one's dead!"

In 1993, Tim Burton produced a holiday movie unlike any other, combining Halloween and Christmas, death and cheer. The first stop-animation movie shot entirely in 3-D, The Nightmare Before Christmas was a huge success despite worries it might be too dark for children.

What Christmas movie did this line come from?

"Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We're all in this together."

Perhaps the first film to take an honest look at family get togethers during the holidays, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation put the "fun" in family dysfunction. Released in 1989, the movie has been touted as a modern-day Christmas classic, inspiring retailers to sell collectibles featured in the film.

What Christmas movie did this line come from?

"Fifteen shillings a week, a wife and five children … And he still talks of a Merry Christmas!"

The film version of A Christmas Carol dates back to 1938, based on Charles Dickens novelette. It was this movie that gave us the nickname "Scrooge" and the phrase "bah humbug" for those with less than ample holiday spirit. A classic Christmas tale about the true meaning of Christmas spirit, this movie has been remade several times.

What Christmas movie did this line come from?

"I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It's not bad at all really. Maybe it just needs a little love."

A Charlie Brown Christmas marked the debut of the Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz on primetime television. Together, Charlie Brown, Snoopy and pals find the meaning of Christmas via a small, seemingly pathetic Christmas tree.

What Christmas movie did these lines come from?

"You believe in Santa Claus right dad?"

and …

"Seeing isn't believing, believing is seeing."

When an average, every day man discovers he's Santa he has to convince others too in The Santa Clause. Gaining weight, growing a beard at rapid pace and other funny discoveries make this family Christmas comedy fun. Two sequels later followed this Christmastime hit.

What Christmas movie did this line come from?

"Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal!"

What happens when parents accidentally leave their child by himself as they scurry off to Paris for Christmas? The highest grossing Christmas movie of all time: Home Alone. This successful movie franchise went on to have four more sequels, none quite as lucrative as the first.

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What Christmas movie did this line come from?

"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"

The ultimate movie about childhood and Christmastime, A Christmas Story has become a classic holiday movie watching tradition in many households. More importantly, it's this film where most of us learned to never stick your tongue to a frozen pole, to be careful when using BB guns and how cruel winter clothing can be to our figures.

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What Christmas movie did this line come from?

"Look Daddy. Teacher says everytime a bell rings, an angel gets his wings."

Considered one of the most inspirational movies of all time, It's A Wonderful Life is a thought-provoking Christmas movie classic. When a distraught George Bailey (James Stewart) intends to commits suicide, his guardian angel Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers) visits him to show him all the lives he's touched—and how different life would have been in their community had he never been born.

What Christmas movie did this line come from?

"There's no Christmas in the Army, captain."

In 1954, White Christmas broke ground not only as a movie that would go on to be a holiday classic but as the first movie produced and released in widescreen versus the standard 35mm film used at the time. The movie would also popularize the songs featured in it including the title song by Irving Berlin, "White Christmas."