Christmas Movies
This 90's family comedy film follows the story of 8-year-old Kevin McCallister as he defends his home from two burglars after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their vacation.
What is Home Alone?
This popular Mariah Carey hit single is played in places all around the world each year during Christmas and is the best-selling Christmas single by a female artist.
What is All I Want For Christmas Is You?
Originating as a Western Christian feast day honoring a certain saint, this holiday is now recognized as a celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world.
What is Valentine's Day?
This European alcoholic beverage, which comes from the Slavic word roughly meaning "little water", is a colorless liquid composed primarily of water and ethanol. According to Euromonitor, Russians are easily the biggest consumers of this.
What is Vodka?
This is the season wherein trees and other plants grow the most. It is also the season with the longest daylight hours.
Technically a Christmas movie, this 2015 comedy-horror film follows a dysfunctional family as they struggle to survive being terrorized by a half-goat, half-demon monster who punishes those who have lost the Christmas spirit.
What is Krampus?
This popular classic Christmas song by Bobby Helms has received frequent airplay in the radio during every Christmas season since its release. Despite claiming to be rock, it contains quite some jolly lyrics such as "What a bright time, it's the right time to rock the night away."
What is Jingle Bell Rock?
Also known as the "Spring Festival", this oriental holiday celebrates a new beginning marking the end of winter and the beginning of the spring season. Popular activities in this holiday include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes.
What is the Chinese/Lunar New Year?
This is a clear, colorless distilled alcoholic beverage of Korean origin and is the no.1-selling liquor by volume. It is traditionally made from rice but modern producers often replace it with other starches such as wheat, sweet potatoes, and tapioca.
What is Soju?
This is the state in which animals conserve energy to survive bad weather conditions or lack of food which typically involves a drop in body temperature and slowed metabolism. Animals usually do this during winter.
What is hibernation?
This 2004 computer-animated film tells the story of a young boy who, on Christmas Eve, sees a mysterious train bound for the North Pole stop outside his window and is invited aboard by its conductor. The boy joins several other children as they embark on a journey to visit Santa Claus as he prepares for Christmas.
What is The Polar Express?
This rockabilly Christmas classic recorded by Brenda Lee is about enjoying the holiday festivities while dancing around a certain Christmas ornament.
What is Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree?
This holiday is a Jewish festival which commemorates the re-dedication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after a successful revolt ended the colonization of Judea and Samaria. It is also known as the "Festival of Lights" and generally coincides with the Christmas season.
What is Hannukah?
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This is an alcoholic mixed drink, which is either a combination of spirits, or one or more spirits mixed with other ingredients such as fruit juice, flavored syrup, or cream.
While an equinox is when day and night are approximately the same length, this is when days are the longest or shortest and so is responsible for the seasons of summer and winter.
What is a solstice?
This 2003 Christmas comedy film features Will Ferrel as Buddy, a human who was adopted and raised by Santa's elves, and centers around his journey to find his biological father while spreading Christmas cheer in the process.
What is Elf?
This Christmas song popularized by Bing Crosby has him dreaming about a bright and merry holiday complete with glistening snow on the tree-tops.
What is White Christmas?
Annually held in Munich, Germany, this 16- to 18-day folk festival began as a wedding celebration between the crown prince of Bavaria and the princess of Germany. It is known the world's largest beer festival and traveling funfair.
What is Oktoberfest?
In the United States, this was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.
What is The Prohibition?
These are what you call plants whose foliage remains green and functional through more than one growing season. It is also often used to describe something or someone as being timeless.
What is evergreen?
This 2009 computer-animated film adaptation of the Charles Dicken's story of the same name follows Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old businessman, as he is instilled with the spirit of Christmas by the literal Spirits of Christmas.
What is A Christmas Carol?
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This popular Christmas carol was adapted to English from the original Ukrainian composition and tells a story of a swallow flying into a household to sing of wealth that will come with the following spring. Its lyrics joyfully herald the coming of the holiday season.
This holiday is a festival of lights and one of the major festivals celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs. It symbolizes the spiritual "victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance".
What is Diwali?
This notorious American brand-name spirit is known for producing one of the strongest and most concentrated alcoholic beverages in the world, with the highest having 95% alcohol by volume.
What is Everclear?
The summer solstice is the time of the year when the day is longest. Speaking of longest days, this phenomenon refers to the consecutive 24-hour periods of sunlight experienced in places near the Earth's poles.
This is also the title of a 2018 romantic drama film about a teenage girl who is "allergic" to sunlight.What is midnight sun?