Christmas 1
Q: In the “Twelve Days of Christmas”, The singer’s true love gives them five of these shining pieces of jewelry on day five.
A: What are golden rings?
Q: This is the true number of Santa’s reindeer in the Christmas poem T’was the Night Before Christmas.
A: What is eight? (Rudolph isn’t mentioned.)
Q: Children leave this tasty treat for Santa on Christmas Eve.
A: What are milk and cookies?
Q: These two items traditionally appear at the tops of Christmas trees.
A: What are stars and angels?
Q: Will Ferrell played the oversized North Pole adoptee who sets off to find his father in this 2003 Christmas classic.
A: What is “Elf”?
Q: This popular reindeer began as a promotional character for Montgomery Ward department stores.
A: Who is Rudolph?
Q: Visions of these holiday treats danced in the heads of the children “nestled, all snug in their beds.”
A: What are sugarplums?
Q: More than 1.5 billion of these travel through the U.S. Postal Service every year
A: What are Christmas cards?
Q: It takes more than eight million lights to decorate this “magic kingdom” for Christmas.
A: What is Disneyland?
Q: In the 1983 holiday favorite “A Christmas Story,” Ralphie’s father wins a lamp shaped like this body part as a runner-up prize from a newspaper contest.
A: What is a woman’s leg?
Q: It consists of inexpensive foil now, but this glittery decoration started as strips of real silver.
A: What is tinsel?
Q: Santa keeps these two lists to track which children get presents and which get coal.
A: What are the Naughty and Nice lists?
Q: In “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” this character recites the Bible passage detailing the angel appearing to shepherds in the fields.
A: Who is Linus?
Q: The number of lights on the Griswold house in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”
A: What is 25,000?
Q: This 2004 animated Christmas feature was an adaptation of an illustrated storybook by Chris Van Allsburg, the same author who created “Jumanji.”
A: What is “The Polar Express”?
Q: This instrumental Christmastime theme from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite was also used in early versions of the video game Tetris.
A: What is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy?
Q: A witch drops presents down chimneys in this European country’s Christmas traditions.
A: What is Italy?
Q: At Christmastime, Santa rings a bell in front of grocery stores and collects money in red kettles for this charitable organization.
A: What is the Salvation Army?
Q: The total number of ghosts that visit Ebenezer Scrooge in the Dickens novel, “A Christmas Carol” is this.
A: What is four? (Bob Marley, Christmas Past, Christmas Present, Christmas Future)
Q: In 1994’s “The Santa Clause,” Tim Allen’s character takes over as Santa after this accident kills the original Santa Clause.
A: What is falling off a roof?
Q: The tradition of using a decorated tree as a symbol of Christmas began in this European country.
A: What is Germany?
Q: Instead of receiving cash as a holiday bonus in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, Clark Griswold receives this sweet yet disappointing surprise.
A: What is a subscription to the Jelly of the Month club?
Q: This beverage giant was the first company to use Santa Claus in an advertising campaign.
A: What is Coca-Cola?
Q: The name “Santa Claus” appears in the Christmas poem “T’was the Night Before Christmas” this number of times.
A: What is zero?
Q: The role of Ebenezer Scrooch in 1992’s “A Muppet Christmas Carol” featured this two-time Academy Award-winning British actor.
A: Who is Michael Caine?