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This 1946 classic features Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, who learns the value of his life with the help of an angel named Clarence.
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
This countdown tradition involves opening one small door or compartment each day from December 1 to Christmas Eve, often revealing chocolate, a picture, or a Bible verse.
What is an Advent calendar?
This rich, creamy holiday beverage evolved from "posset," a medieval British hot milky drink with wine or ale that was popularly used as a remedy for colds and flu.
What is egg nog?
This midwestern state is home to the town of Santa Claus, where thousands of letters to Santa are answered each year by volunteers.
What is Indiana?
This biblical heavenly messenger announced to Mary that she would give birth to Jesus, saying "Hail, thou that art highly favoured."
Who is the Angel Gabriel?
What is the nickname of the burglars in Home Alone?
The Wet Bandits.
This country, in the 16th century, is credited with starting the modern tradition of bringing an evergreen tree indoors and decorating it for Christmas.
What is Germany?
The three gifts brought by the Wise Men to baby Jesus, as mentioned in the Bible.
What are gold, frankincense, and myrrh?
This is the first state to officially recognize Christmas as a public holiday in 1836 (while it was still a republic).
What is Texas?
In the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, this aspiring angel (an AS2 – Angel Second Class) helps George Bailey see what the world would be like without him.
Who is Clarence Odbody?
This is the name of the head Elf in the movie Elf?
What is Ming Ming
In this Scandinavian country, it's a folklore tradition to hide all brooms on Christmas Eve to stop witches and evil spirits from stealing them for midnight flights.
What is Norway?
What is "Happy Birthday?"
This state’s early settlers celebrated their very first Christmas in 1847 by working as usual—gathering sagebrush and even plowing soft ground—before holding a simple meeting around a flagpole.
What is Utah?
In the Bible, this brilliant celestial object guided the Three Wise Men to the newborn Jesus in Bethlehem.
What is the Star of Bethlehem?
In this 1945 comedy, war hero Jefferson Jones compliments a cow's "nice firm rump," but Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) thinks he's talking about her!
What is Christmas in Connecticut?
This horned, half-goat, half-demon figure from Alpine folklore accompanies St. Nicholas on December 5, punishing naughty children with birch switches or carrying them away in his sack.
Who is Krampus?
In Japan, this fast-food chain has become a popular Christmas Eve meal tradition since the 1970s.
What is Kentucky Fried Chicken?
This state created the first christmas tree lot in 1851.
What is New York?
In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, this rattling, chain-clad ghost of Scrooge's former partner appears first to warn him of his fate and the coming of three spirits.
Who is Jacob Marley?
This 1949 romantic comedy stars Robert Mitchum as a laid-back salesman who buys an expensive toy train for a young boy he barely knows, sparking a holiday romance with the boy's widowed mother (Janet Leigh).
What is Holiday Affair?
This 40-day period of preparation in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, also known as St. Philip's Fast, begins the day after the feast of St. Philip and ends on Christmas Eve.
What is the Nativity Fast?
This U.S. president officially declared Christmas a federal holiday in 1870.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This midwestern state hosts the nation's largest singing Christmas tree: a 40-foot structure made of choir members performing holiday concerts annually in Muskegon.
What is Michigan?
This towering, roaring yeti-like monster from the 1964 Rudolph animated special terrorizes misfit toys and reindeer until Yukon Cornelius and friends help reform him.
Who is the Abominable Snowman (or Bumble)?