"Nightmare Before Christmas" Lyrics Quiz Part 1

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1. Danny Elfman sings all of the songs that Jack sings. The introduction song is "This Is Halloween". Fill in the blank with the correct answer: SHADOW: "Boys and girls of every age. Wouldn't you like to see something ________?" SIAMESE SHADOW: "Come with us and you will see, this, our town of Halloween." PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS: "This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Pumpkins scream in the dead of night."

Answer: strange

GHOSTS: "This is Halloween, everybody make a scene. Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright. It's our town, everybody scream, in this town of Halloween." CREATURE UNDER BED: "I am the one hiding under your bed, teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red." MAN UNDER THE STAIRS: "I am the one hiding under your stairs, fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair." CORPSE CHORUS: "This is Halloween, this is Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!" Danny Elfman was the lead singer of the group Oingo Boingo.

2. Fill in the blank with the correct answer: VAMPIRES: "In this town we call home, everyone hail to the _______________." MAYOR: "In this town, don't we love it now? Everybody's waiting for the next surprise."

Answer: pumpkin song

CORPSE CHORUS: "Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can. Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll scream." HARLEQUIN DEMON, WEREWOLF, AND MELTING MAN: "Scream! This is Halloween, red 'n' black, slimy green." WEREWOLF: "Aren't you scared?" WITCHES: "Well, that's just fine, say it once, say it twice, take the chance and roll the dice. Ride with the moon in the dead of night." HANGING TREE: "Everybody scream! Everybody scream!" HANGED MEN: "In our town of Halloween." The cat from Tim Burton's first film, "Vincent" (1982), is present in the beginning of the film.

3. Choose the correct answer that fills in the blank: CLOWN: "I am the clown with the tear-away face, here in a flash and gone without a trace." SECOND GHOUL: "I am the 'who' when you call, 'Who's there?' I am the wind blowing through your hair." OOGIE BOOGIE SHADOW: "I am the shadow ______________________, filling your dreams to the brim with fright." CORPSE CHORUS: "This is Halloween, this is Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!"

Answer: on the moon at night

CHILD CORPSE TRIO: "Tender lumplings everywhere, life's no fun without a good scare." PARENT CORPSES: "That's our job, but we're not mean, in our town of Halloween." CORPSE CHORUS: "In this town." MAYOR: "Don't we love it now?" MAYOR WITH CORPSE CHORUS: "Everyone's waiting for the next surprise." The lyrics "Tender lumplings everywhere" refers to "Tender Lumplings", a song done by composer Danny Elfman when he was with "Oingo Boingo".

4. Glenn Shadix is the voice of the Mayor of Halloween Town. Fill in the blank with the correct answer: CORPSE CHORUS: "Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back, and scream like a banshee make you jump out of your skin. This is Halloween, everybody scream! Won't ya please make way for a very special guy. Our man _______ is king of the pumpkin patch. Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now."

Answer: Jack

EVERYONE: "This is Halloween, this is Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!" CORPSE CHILD TRIO: "In this town we call home, everyone hail to the pumpkin song." EVERYONE: "La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween!" This movie was the first full-length stop-motion animated film ever made; it started as a poem that Tim Burton wrote while working as an animator at Disney in the early 1980's.

Information from the "behind the screams" section of this movie can be found at the Disney web site: (http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/nightmare/behind.html).

5. The next song in the movie is "Jack's Lament", sung by Danny Elfman. Fill in the blank with the correct answer: "There are few who'd deny, at what I do I am the best, for my talents are renowned _______________. When it comes to surprises in the moonlit night."

Answer: far and wide

"I excel without ever even trying, with the slightest little effort of my ghostlike charms. I have seen grown men give out a shriek. With the wave of my hand, and a well-placed moan, I have swept the very bravest off their feet." Jack makes his first appearance in "Beetlejuice" on top of Beetlejuice's (Michael Keaton) carousel hat towards the end when Beetlejuice rises out of the floor, after summoned by Lydia (Winona Ryder).

This information taken from www.imdb.com's trivia section of this movie.

6. Chris Sarandon was the voice of Jack talking, while Danny Elfman was Jack's singing voice. Fill in the blank with the correct answer: "Yet year after year, it's the same routine, and I grow so weary of the sound of screams. And I, Jack, the _________________, have grown so tired of the same old thing."

Answer: Pumpkin King

"Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones an emptiness began to grow. There's something out there, far from my home, a longing that I've never known." There were more than 400 separate interchangeable heads made for Jack, each of which was handcrafted with a different facial expression. This information is also from Disney's web site.

7. Fill in the blank with the correct answer: "I'm the master of fright, and a demon of light and I'll scare you right out of your pants. To a guy in ___________, I'm Mister Unlucky and I'm known throughout England and France."

Answer: Kentucky

"And since I am dead, I can take off my head, to recite Shakespearean quotations. No animal nor man can scream like I can with the fury of my recitations." According to www.imdb.com's trivia section: In the original Tim Burton poem on which the movie is based, no characters appear besides Jack, Zero, and Santa.

8. Choose the correct answer that fills in the blank: "But who here would ever understand that the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin would tire of his __________, if they only understood he'd give it all up if he only could."

Answer: crown

"Oh, there's an empty place in my bones that calls out for something unknown. The fame and praise come year after year does nothing for these empty tears." Sally, who was listening, says "Jack, I know how you feel." Catherine O'Hara is the voice behind Sally. Catherine played Kate McAllister in "Home Alone" (1990).

9. The first words of this movie come from the narrator, who says, "'Twas a long time ago, longer now than it seems, in a place that perhaps you've seen in your dreams. For the story that you are about to be told, took place in the holiday worlds of old. Now, you've probably wondered where holidays come from. If you haven't, I'd say it's time you begun." Jack finds this place while wandering lost through the woods and enters the Christmas tree. The next song is sung when Jack enters Christmas Town, and it's called "What's This?". Fill in the blank with the correct answer: "What's this? What's this? There's color everywhere. What's this? There's _______________ in the air."

Answer: white things

"What's this? I can't believe my eyes. I must be dreaming. Wake up, Jack, this isn't fair. What's this? What's this? What's this? There's something very wrong. What's this? There's people singing songs." Danny Elfman, as said before, was the lead singer for the group "Oingo Boingo".

This group is best known for the title song "Weird Science", from the movie of the same name. Elfman's filmography is very extensive and begins with "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" in 1985 and continues into the future with his work on the music for "The Amazing Spider-Man" (also known as "Spider-Man II"), set to be ready in the year 2004.

10. Choose the correct answer that fills in the blank: "What's this? The streets are lined with little creatures laughing, everybody seems so happy, have I possibly gone _________?"

Answer: daffy

"There's children throwing snowballs instead of throwing heads. They're busy building toys and absolutely no one's dead." According to the Disney web site: the smallest working puppet in "Nightmare Before Christmas" is a doll from the real world Jack visits -- and the whole doll is only an inch long.

11. "There's _________ on every window, oh, I can't believe my eyes, and in my bones I feel the warmth that's coming from inside."

Answer: frost

"Oh, look, what's this? They're hanging mistletoe, they kiss, why that looks so unique, inspired. They're gathering around to hear a story, roasting chestnuts on a fire. What's this?" At the height of production, the animators produced only 70 seconds of finished film per week. This information is from the Disney web site.

12. "What's this? In here they've got a little tree, how queer, and who would ever think. And why? They're covering it with tiny little things. They've got electric lights on strings and there's a smile on everyone. So, now, correct me if I'm wrong this looks like fun. This looks like fun. Oh, could it be ___________________? What's this?"

Answer: I got my wish

"Oh my, what now? The children are asleep, but look, there's nothing underneath. No ghouls, no witches here to scream and scare them or ensnare them, only little cozy things. Secure inside their dreamland What's this?" There are "goofs" in every movie, moments were a continuity is broken. Something is in a hand in one scene and the next scene it's gone, for example.

In this movie there were a few; here's one of them: When Jack shows Lock, Shock, and Barrel the Christmas tree cookie the frosting side of the cookie is facing toward them, but from a different angle the frosting side of the cookie is facing away from them.

13. "The monsters are all missing and the nightmares can't be found. And in their place there seems to be good feeling all around. Instead of screams, I swear I can hear music in the air. The smell of _________________ are absolutely everywhere."

Answer: cakes and pies

"The sights, the sounds, they're everywhere and all around. I've never felt so good before. This empty place inside of me is filling up
I simply cannot get enough. I want it, oh, I want it. Oh, I want it for my own. I've got to know. I've got to know What is this place that I have found? What is this? Christmas Town, hmm..." Another goof: When the missiles are being shot at Jack, the two men on the far left, at the very back, disappear when the cannon shoots.

14. The Mayor gets in the truck and begins to call all of Halloween Town to the "Town Meeting", which is the next song. Fill in the blank with the correct answer: JACK: "There are objects so peculiar they were not to be believed. All around, things to _______________ my brain, it's a world unlike anything I've ever seen. And as hard as I try I can't seem to describe like a most improbable dream."

Answer: tantalize

JACK: "But you must believe when I tell you this, it's as real as my skull and it does exist. Here, let me show you. This is a thing called a present, the whole thing starts with a box." One more goof: As Jack ponders the holiday doors, the Easter door appears to the right of the Thanksgiving door. Later, as he approaches the Christmas door, it is now to the right of the Thanksgiving door, and the turkey is facing the other way (the first shot was probably flipped).

15. Choose the correct answer that fills in the blank: DEVIL: "A box? Is it ________?" WEREWOLF: "Are there locks?" HARLEQUIN DEMON: "Is it filled with a pox?" DEVIL, WEREWOLF, HARLEQUIN DEMON: "A pox. How delightful, a pox."

Answer: steel

JACK: "If you please, just a box with bright-colored paper and the whole thing's topped with a bow." WITCHES: "A bow? But why? How ugly. What's in it? What's in it?" JACK: "That's the point of the thing, not to know." And the last goof that is listed at www.imdb.com's goofs section (web address: http://us.imdb.com/Goofs?0107688) is: After Jack has given Dr. Finklestein his Christmas assignment, there is a handprint on the right side of the Mayor's face before Jack berates him and makes the mark.

16. Fill in the blank with the correct answer: CLOWN: "It's a bat. Will it bend?" CREATURE UNDER THE STAIRS: "It's a ______, will it break?" UNDERSEA GAL: "Perhaps it's the head that I found in the lake."

Answer: rat

JACK: "Listen now, you don't understand, that's not the point of Christmas land. Now, pay attention. We pick up an oversized sock and hang it like this on the wall." MR. HYDE: "Oh, yes! Does it still have a foot?" MEDIUM MR. HYDE: "Let me see, let me look." SMALL MR. HYDE: "Is it rotted and covered with gook?" Chris Sarandon does the talking voice of Jack Skellington.

In 1975 Chris Sarandon played the character of Leon in the movie "Dog Day Afternoon".

17. Fill in the blank with the correct answer: JACK: "Um, let me explain, there's no foot inside, but there's _________ or sometimes it's filled with small toys." MUMMY AND WINGED DEMON: "Small toys." WINGED DEMON: "Do they bite?" MUMMY: "Do they snap?" WINGED DEMON: "Or explode in a sack?" CORPSE KID: "Or perhaps they just spring out and scare girls and boys." MAYOR: "What a splendid idea, this Christmas sounds fun, I fully endorse it. Let's try it at once."

Answer: candy

JACK: "Everyone, please now, not so fast, there's something here that you don't quite grasp. Well, I may as well give them what they want and the best, I must confess, I have saved for the last. For the ruler of this Christmas land is a fearsome king with a deep mighty voice, least that's what I've come to understand. And I've also heard it told that he's something to behold, like a lobster, huge and red.

When he sets out to slay with his rain gear on, carting bulging sacks with his big great arms, that is, so I've heard it said. And on a dark, cold night under full moonlight he flies into a fog like a vulture in the sky. And they call him Sandy Claws, well, at least they're excited, but they don't understand that special kind of feeling in Christmas land. Oh, well..."

18. Jack is doing his laboratory experiments to discover the secret of Christmas when the next song, "Jack's Obsession", is sung. Fill in the blank with the correct answer: CITIZENS OF HALLOWEEN: "Something's up with Jack. Something's up with Jack. Don't know if we're ever going _____________________. He's all alone up there locked away inside. Never says a word, hope he hasn't died. Something's up with Jack. Something's up with Jack."

Answer: to get him back

JACK: "Christmas time is buzzing in my skull. Will it let me be? I cannot tell. There's so many things I cannot grasp. When I think I've got it, and then at last through my bony fingers it does slip. Like a snowflake in a fiery grip. Something here I'm not quite getting, though I try, I keep forgetting. Like a memory long since past. Here in an instant, gone in a flash. What does it mean? What does it mean?"

19. Fill in the blank with the correct answer: "In these little bric-a-brac, a secret's waiting to be cracked. These _______________ confuse me so. Confound it all, I love it though."

Answer: dolls and toys

"Simple objects, nothing more, but something's hidden through a door. Though I do not have the key, something's there I cannot see. What does it mean? What does it mean? What does it mean? Hmm..."

20. "I've read these Christmas books so many times. I know the stories and I know the rhymes. I know the ____________________ all by heart. My skull's so full, it's tearing me apart. As often as I've read them, something's wrong. So hard to put my bony finger on..."

Answer: Christmas carols

"...or perhaps it's really not as deep as I've been led to think. Am I trying much too hard? Of course! I've been too close to see. The answer's right in front of me, right in front of me."

21. Choose the correct answer that fills in the blank: "It's simple really, very clear. Like music drifting in the air, invisible, but ________________."

Answer: everywhere

"Just because I cannot see it, doesn't mean I can't believe it."

22. "You know, I think this Christmas thing, it's not as ________ as it seems."

Answer: tricky

"And why should they have all the fun? It should belong to anyone."

23. "Not anyone, in fact, but me, why, I could make a ________________."

Answer: Christmas tree

"And there's no reason I can find, I couldn't handle Christmas time."

24. "I bet I could improve it too and that's ___________ what I'll do."

Answer: exactly

"Hee, hee, hee!"

25. And at the very end of this song he screams an exclamation of joy, "____________! This year, Christmas will be ours!"

Answer: Eureka

One last trivia note for this quiz: To create Halloween Town's interestingly twisted look, the design artists often sketched their designs with their non-drawing hands. Hope you enjoyed taking this quiz as much as I did in making it! Be sure to take the second part of the "Nightmare Before Christmas" Lyrics quiz series! And check out my other quizzes as well! Thank you once again for taking the quiz!

Source: Author kirkyt1

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