Festive Feastings
Bûche de Noël is a traditional cake served near Christmas that resembles firewood. What's it more commonly called?
Yule Log Cake
What is the name of the Grinch's pet dog?
Max
The 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special and the 2020 LEGO Star Wars Holiday special are both centered around what fictional holiday?
Life Day
This one's a freebie. What is the WORST Christmas song?
[answers will vary]
[but the correct answer is actually All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth, followed closely by I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas]
Father Christmas showed up in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and presented Peter, Susan, and Lucy with two gifts each. What was one of each of theirs?
Peter: a sword (Rhindon) / a shield
Susan: bow and arrows / a magical horn
Lucy: a magic healing cordial / a small dagger
Not including alcohol it can be spiked with, list at least three of the five ingredients present in a traditional eggnogg
Eggs, milk, cream, vanilla, nutmeg
Which of the following HASN'T voiced the Grinch?
A) Benedict Cumberbatch
B) Boris Karloff
C) Mike Myers
D) Trick question, they all have
C) Mike Myers
In A Charlie Brown Christmas, what carol do the Peanuts hum and eventually sing at the end of the show?
Hark The Herald Angels Sing
You guys love math, right? How many birds were gifted in "The Twelve Days of Christmas"?
*assuming we don't repeat the gifts for each verse of the song, which would give us an overwhelming 364 gifts total
23 birds
Explain what the crab rave has to do with Christmas
Christmas Island is an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, known for its late-fall migration of red crabs
Please explain to me what the hell a sugar plum actually is.
(And no, it's not a fairy or princess)
A seed, nut, or scrap of spice coated with a layer of hard sugar, like the crunchy outer case of an M&M
How many Grinch movies are there? For double the amount of points, what are their respective titles?
Three:
Unlike the Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie featured the additional characters the Sprites of the Northern Lights. What color schemes were each of the four sprites?
Yellow/orange, red/pink, blue, and purple
Oops the Grinch snuck into this column as well! What are three worst to best describe him?
Stink, stank, stunk
Ever since a successful ad campaign in the 1970s, it became a widely popular tradition for people in Japan to get their Christmas dinners at which chain restaurant?
KFC
Gingerbread tied with a ribbon was popular at fairs and when exchanged signified a token of love. The first gingerbread man, however, is credited to this political figure, who presented them to visiting dignitaries baked and decorated in their own likeness
Queen Elizabeth I
"You're a Mean One Mister Grinch" is sung by the man who voiced Tony the Tiger, implying a bitter breakup between the two fiction characters. What is the name of the singer?
Thurl Ravenscroft
In Mickey's Christmas Carol, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future were portrayed by which Disney characters?
Jiminy Cricket, Willie the Giant, and Pete
In the song "Winter Wonderland", who do we pretend our snowman is in addition to a circus clown?
Parson Brown
The Gälve Goat a famous Yule Goat in Sweden. Since first installed in 1966, what's the longest stretch of years the goat has gone without succumbing to flames?
A) One year
B) Three years
C) Five years
C) Five years
The Gälve Goat has survived every year since 2017. Before then it didn't make it more than two years in a row
You might be insane if you tried to make your own candy canes - but suppose you are, and have to learn to use a candy thermometer. At what temperature is the melting point of sugar?
*Both teams will have a chance to answer this. The closest answer receives the points
366.8 degrees F
What is the name of the mountain the Grinch lives atop, overlooking the village of Whoville?
Mt. Crumpit
In How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming, the residents of New Berk prepare for this fictional holiday instead of Christmas.
Snoggletog
Which popular Christmas song was actually written for Thanksgiving?
Jingle Bells
Santa was initially based off the Christian Saint Nicholas, who held titles such as Defender of Orthodoxy, Nicholas the Wonderworker, Nicholas of Bari, and the _____ of Myra (referring to his station)
Bishop