Christmas Music
Name this song about Santa Claus's arrival in town. It features lyrics such as "he knows if you've been bad or good" and "he's making a list, and checking it twice".
What is "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"?
Name this movie starring Will Ferrell as Buddy. Buddy travels from the North Pole to reunite with his father, but is comical chaos ensues because of Buddy's belief he is this titular Christmas creature.
What is Elf?
Name this striped, typically peppermint flavored candy sold around Christmas. Originally created by the Germans.
What is a candy cane?
What is popcorn?
Name the Oklahoma university founded on Christmas day, 1890.
What is Oklahoma State University?
This song shares its name with a Three Dog Night song about a bullfrog named Jeremiah. Name this Christmas hymn which has the lyric "heaven and nature sing".
What is "Joy to the World"?
This special first aired on December 19, 1965, featuring the titular character's search for the perfect tree and features characters such as Lucy, Schroeder, and Linus.
What is A Charlie Brown Christmas?
Name the country where the tradition of decorating Christmas trees originated.
What is Germany?
Name the botanical term for many of the species used for Christmas trees that retain their green foliage year-round.
What is evergreen?
Name the war where soldiers held an informal truce during the Christmas of 1914. This war is known for its brutal trench warfare and the introduction of chemical weaponry.
What is the First World War?
Name the gift brought on the sixth day of Christmas in the song "The 12 Days of Christmas".
What is six geese a-laying?
In the movie A Christmas Story, a young boy named Ralphie desperately wants a specific present for Christmas, despite being told "you'll shoot your eye out." Name the gift Ralphie asks for for Christmas.
What is a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun? (Also accept BB gun)
Name the decorative dioramas depicting the birth of Jesus Christ.
What is a nativity scene?
Name the parasitic plant prominent around Christmas time that lovers are supposed to kiss under.
What is mistletoe?
Name the Charles Dickens novel notable for its Christmas setting and miserly protagonist who is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
What is A Christmas Carol?
Name this song known for being the first song played in outer space. It features a sleigh pulled by a single horse.
What is "Jingle Bells"?
Name this television special notable as the first in a series of clay-mation Christmas specials and is based on a Johnny Marks song. This special will celebrate its 60th anniversary on December 6, 2024.
What is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
Name this object common in English Christmas traditions where this object is burned on a hearth.
What is a Yule Log?
Name the tree nut common in the holiday pie regionally known as "Karo-nut pie". This is also the state tree of Texas.
What is pecan?
Name the ballet written by Peter Tchaikovsky that is often associated with Christmas. It features characters such as the Mouse King and the Sugar Plum Fairy.
What is The Nutcracker?
What is "White Christmas"?
Name this movie starring Jimmy Stewart as a downtrodden George Bailey whose guardian angel shows him the good he has done for those around him. The townspeople rally to help when George falls on financial hardship.
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
Name this traditional Christmas breakfast popular in the Ozarks region of Arkansas.
What is chocolate gravy and biscuits?
Douglas firs are one of the most common species used for Christmas trees. Name the state that produces the most Douglas firs.
What is Oregon?
Name the last state to recognize Christmas as an official holiday, which it did in 1907 the same year it achieved statehood.
What is Oklahoma?