Music
Puerto Rican singer José Feliciano's upbeat song has easy-to-remember lyrics in both Spanish and English, making it the best bi-lingual Christmas song
What is Feliz Navidad
This musical features Jim Henson's Muppets playing Charles Dickens's characters.
What is A Muppet Christmas Carol
A recipe for this food is found in Amelia Simmons 1796 cookbook, probably the first ever created cookbook published completely in America. In the book it is referred to as a pudding. Its rustic orange color and sweet, earthy taste makes it a favorite for fall celebrations.
This legendary character originating in Eastern Christian culture who is said to bring gifts on Christmas Eve of toys and candy to well-behaved children, and either coal or nothing if otherwise.
Who is Santa Claus?
Is it a Christmas movie? Is it a Halloween movie? Tim Burton blends both holidays together in a way that's both spooky and heartwarming at the same time.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas
This rock and roll Christmas song recorded by Chuck Berry is about our favorite red-nosed reindeer. This one will get people to get up and dance...or run
What is Run, Rudolph, Run
In this timeless cartoon, Charles Schultz characters seek out the true meaning of Christmas with the help of and one tiny (yet strong) Christmas tree.
What is A Charlie Brown Christmas?
These small cakes of grated potatoes fried in olive oil are a vital culinary part of any Hanukkah celebration.
The eight-day festival of Hanukkah commemorates the Miracle of Oil -- honoring a flame that miraculously burned for eight days. To celebrate, Jews all over the world eat foods fried in olive oil.
What are Latkes?
Also known as the Festival of Lights, this holiday is observed for eight nights and days. The festival is observed by lighting the candles of a candelabrum with nine branches, commonly called a menorah.
What is Hanukkah?
A harmonica version of it was actually the first song ever played in outer space, according to the Smithsonian.
What is Jingle Bells
This song was written by Robert Alexander Anderson, a version of which was released on Decca in 1950 featuring Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters. It is also known as the Hawaiin Christmas Song.
What is Mele Kalikimaka?
Frank Capra's iconic film isn't just one of the best Christmas movies of all time — it's one of the best movies ever made, period. This film was nominated for six Academy Awards and ranks #11 on the American Film Institute's original list of the 100 Greatest American Films of All Time.
What is It’s a Wonderful Life?
This rich beverage contains eggs, sugar, milk and some sort of alcohol.
It evolved from a hot British drink known as "posset," consisting of eggs, milk and ale or wine.
What is Egg Nog?
This festival was created by Maulana Karenga, and is based on African harvest festival traditions from various parts of Africa, including West and Southeast Africa. Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966.
What is Kwanzaa?
Families typically served this meat to celebrate the winter solstice. Later, in Victorian times, it became synonymous with Christmas. For many generations of Eastern European Jews, it was also a favorite during the Hanukkah holiday.
What is Roast Goose?
This jazzy holiday song by Frank Sinatra is about that cold winter weather we all have a love-hate relationship with.
Please don't let it!
What is Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
This action flick about an office Christmas party taken over by terrorists stars Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman. Yippee-ki-yay!
What is Die Hard
This is a crackerlike, unleavened bread that Jews eat during Passover instead of regular bread. It's made with dough that never had a chance to rise.
As the story goes, the tradition comes from a time when Jews were slaves in Egypt. When they followed God out into the desert, they only had time to bring simple dough that didn't have time to rise.
What is Matzah?
Originating in Germany and associated with Saint Boniface, traditional decorations were "roses made of colored paper, apples, wafers, tinsel, and sweetmeats"
What is a Christmas Tree?
Though its author is disputed, with this poem has been attributed to both Clement Clarke Moore and Henry Livingston Jr. over the years, it was definitely first published on Dec. 23, 1823 in the Troy Sentinel newspaper in upstate New York.
What is Twas the Night Before Christmas?
It is also referred to as "A Visit From St. Nicholas" or "The Night Before Christmas."
Judy Garland originally recorded this soft Christmas song for the musical Meet Me in St. Louis, which is about four daughters coming of age while getting ready to move to New York.
What is Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
This funny flick follows a couple, played by Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, who anger their neighbors by making plans to skip Christmas in favor of taking a Caribbean cruise instead.
It is based on the book Skipping Christmas.
What is Christmas with the Kranks
Dorcas Reilly invented this recipe in 1955, while working in the home economics department at the Campbell Soup Company. Her inspiration came from two things Americans almost always had in their kitchens during the '50s -- mushroom soup and...
What is Green Bean Casserole?
Part of the Italian-American Christmas Eve celebration, it is a grand meal on Christmas Eve - is a vigil or fasting day and the observance of abstinence from meat until the feast of Christmas Day itself.
What is the Feast if Seven Fishes?
This was the first U.S. President to put up an official White House Christmas tree.
Who was Franklin Pierce?