My Favourite Things Trivia Quiz

Answer:

"My Favourite Things" was written by Rogers and Hammerstein for the 1959 musical "The Sound of Music" that was first performed on Broadway. Julie Andrews played Maria in the movie of the same name that was released in 1965. In the movie, she was hired as a governess by Captain Von Trapp to look after his children.

Near the beginning of the movie, there is a loud thunderstorm that frightens the children. To calm their fears, Maria sings the song about how she copes when she is frightened by dog bites and bee stings, or when she is just feeling sad: she thinks of her favourite things to keep her mind off of those unpleasant things.

Although the song was associated with a thunderstorm and not with Christmas in the movie, it has become associated with the holiday over the years. Some other artists have recorded the song on their Christmas albums, perhaps due to some of the things in the song that are usually associated with Christmas like sleigh bells, snowflakes, silver-white winters, and brown paper packages tied up with strings.