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100

What is the main ingredient in marzipan, a sweet confection often shaped into Christmas fruits and decorations?

What are almonds?

100

Peter Billingsley, who played Ralphie in "A Christmas Story," makes an uncredited cameo appearance in Santa's workshop in what classic Christmas film?

What is Elf?

100

In the Christmas carol “Deck The Halls," the halls will be decked with boughs of what?

What is holly?

100

Usually standing at nearly 20 feet tall, the Blue Room Christmas Tree is the official Christmas tree of which residence?

What is the White House?

100

What was Frosty the Snowman's nose made of?

What is a button?

200

This spice, often used in Christmas cookies and mulled wine, comes from the dried flower buds of an evergreen tree.

What are cloves?

200

The Old Man in "A Christmas Story" overestimated the value of a lamp shaped like a showgirl's leg because it came in a box labeled with what totally not Italian, cautionary F-word?

What is fragile?

200

José Feliciano has recorded dozens and dozens of big hits, however, his most enduring track gets re-popularized every year and sports what two-word title?

What is Feliz Navedad?

200

What Tchaikovsky ballet premiered in St. Petersburg in December 1892, however wasn’t considered a Christmas tradition until 1954?

What is the Nutcracker?

200

The festive holiday phrase “‘tis the season” comes from the lyrics of what Christmas carol where you’d find 52 “fa la, la, la, las,” give or take a couple?

What is "Deck the Halls"?

300

Which English king is credited with making turkey a Christmas dish?

Who is King Henry VIII?

300

In The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, this character gives the Pevensie children gifts and helps signal that the White Witch’s eternal winter is coming to an end.

Who is Father Christmas?

300

On the very aptly titled "Merry Christmas" album, Bing Crosby is backed up by a group of singing sisters.

Who are the Andrews Sisters?

300

What color are mistletoe berries?

What is white?

300

How many ghosts visit Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?

What is four?

400

In the classic poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," what treat is left out for Santa?

What are sugar plums?

400

What chocolaty drink powder was featured in the decoded message from Little Orphan Annie in the 1983 film, "A Christmas Story?"

What is Ovaltine?

400

Which carol does Scrooge chase a boy away for singing at his keyhole?

What is "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"?

400

Which U.S. state was the first to make Christmas a legal holiday, in 1836?

What is Alabama?

400

In many ways, you can think of Christmas itself as a tradition. As an annual winter holiday, it can trace its roots back to what planetish-named celebration the Romans started celebrating around 300 BCE?

What is Saturnalia?

500

According to tradition, finding this tiny object baked inside a Christmas pudding is said to bring good luck.

What is a coin?

500

What is the first rule in the Code of Elves in Elf?

What is "Treat every day like Christmas."

500

Which Christmas song became the first song ever broadcast from space when astronauts aboard Gemini 6 performed it in December 1965?

What is Jingle Bells?

500

What "cold-blooded" American author wrote the short story "A Christmas Memory" about making fruitcakes from scratch in Alabama?

Who is Truman Capote?

500

In A Charlie Brown Christmas, what does Lucy say she wants for Christmas?

What is real estate?

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