Christmas
The number of reindeer in the story Twas The Night Before Christmas
8
The number of days in Hannukah
8
The largest one of these is in Houston, Texas
Medical Center, Livestock show and Rodeo, or 5-sided building
The colors were supposed to red and white but the uniform company made a mistake and sent this university maroon instead.
Texas A&M
Houston was founded by these two brothers
John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen
According to the song, this was the gift true love give to me on the eighth day of Christmas
Maids a Milking
This Yiddish word means spinning top
Dreidel
Not only was Houston the first word said from the surface of the moon, but the international space station has this Houston area code
281
Before the first football game in New Orleans in 1893, a couple of men were sent to buy “quite a lot of ribbon for colors,” but no one knew what the colors were. It happened that the store was stocking ribbon for the coming Carnival season but the green had not yet come in.
LSU (Purple and Gold)
Houston-area ranchers developed a new breed of cattle, the American Brahman, Ranchers had no opportunities to show their cattle and raise awareness of the breed. So in 1932 the established what is now know as this
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
In the movie Elf, this is the first rule of the Code of Elves
Treat every day like Christmas
The number of days in Kwanzaa
7
The number of museums in Houston's Museum District
19
Texas Tech (Red and Black)
The Astrodome, the 8th wonder of the world, was the world's first domed sports stadium and also the first to install artificial turf. But the first home run hit in the stadium was by this famous Yankee on April 9, 1965
Mickey Mantle
This is the highest grossing Christmas movie of all time
Home Alone
This made up holiday became popular after an episode of Seinfeld
Festivus
The movie that was based on director Wes Anderson's time as a student in Houston's St. John's School
Rushmore
The university's namesake made his fortune selling textiles to both the Union and Confererate Armies during the civil war
Rice University (Blue and Grey)
This was one of the Houston's original wards that was famous for agriculture and farming
First
This country started the tradition of putting up a Christmas Tree
Germany
This famed christmas song that was actually about Thanksgiving
Jingle Bells
Houston's famed roadside attraction Mount Rush Hour displays the busts of these four historical men
George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Sam Houston, and Stephen F. Auston
In 1897, while on a train to Bryan for a debate tournament, a member of the student committee which had previously been selected to choose appropriate colors for the University looked out the window at the wild spring dandelions and remarked that these colors made a "lovely combination."
Baylor (Yellow and Green)
This building was the capital building of the Republic of Texas before the capital was moved to Austin
The Rice Hotel