Winter Holidays
A day of merry-making known as Shrove Tuesday, usually in February or March, before a time of solemn reflection for Christians.
What is Mardi Gras?
Where Christmas goose is stuffed with apples, chestnuts, onions and prunes and served alongside red cabbage, dumplings, gravy and sauerkraut.
What Germany?
Having recently presided over a very successful Halloween, Jack Skellington, aka The Pumpkin King, is bored with his job, stumbles upon Christmastown, and decides to make the Yuletide his own.
What is "The Nightmare Before Christmas"?
Written in 1970 by this famous Latin-born singer- songwriter of the pop era, this song is a favorite Christmas tune. The writer also popularized "Light My Fire" by The Doors.
What is "Feliz Navidad"?
The country in which you would be most likely to celebrate the holiday Tet.
What is Vietnam? Tet is the Vietnamese New Year, an opportunity to remember ancestors while celebrating the year to come.
This holiday celebration, based on ancient African harvest festivals, celebrates the ideals of family life and unity, from December 26-January 1.
What is Kwanzaa?
Where fish, roasted lamb or poultry and panettone (a cake with candied fruit, chocolate, raisins and nuts) are seasonal holiday traditions.
What is Italy?
New York City policeman John McClane is visiting his estranged wife and daughters on Christmas Eve at a holiday party the the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business his wife works for.
What is "Die Hard"?
Bing Crosby originally recorded this Christmas favorite to honor soldiers stationed overseas during the holidays.
What is "I'll Be Home for Christmas"?
When pagans celebrate the festival of Yule.
What is Winter Solstice?
Celebrated on the shortest day of the year, this holiday celebrates the return of the sun.
What is Winter Solstice?
When fried doughnuts, fritters and potato pancakes are typically enjoyed.
What is Hanukkah?
This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey, the eternally-in-debt guiding force of a bank in the town of Bedford Falls.
What is "It's a Wonderful Life"?
This holiday song has an uptempo beat with church bells and sleigh bells in the background. Mariah Carey's voice soars as she tells her sweetheart to keep the presents because all she needs is him.
What is "All I Want for Christmas is You"?
Celebrated in France every year on July 14th.
What is Bastille Day?
December 6th is a popular holiday in many European countries. It celebrates a man who gave all his money to the needy and whose life inspired the tradition of Santa Claus and Father Christmas.
What is St. Nicholas Day?
Where La Bouche de Noel, a dessert that represents the Yule Log, is served.
What is France?
In this dark comedy, the crotchety Willis T. Stokes and his partner reunite once a year for a holiday con. Posing as mall Santa and his elf, they rip off shopping outlets on Christmas Eve.
What is "Bad Santa"?
This song was written in 1945 by Bob Wells and Mel Torme, recorded by Nat King Cole, and subtitled "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire".
What is "The Christmas Song"?
The Far East country where residents use lanterns to receive and release the souls of ancestors, celebrating the Buddhist-Confucian holiday of Obon.
What is Japan?
At the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas, this holiday celebrates the day the three Wise Men first saw baby Jesus and brought him gifts.
What is Three Kings Day?
Where 3.6 million families eat Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas Eve.
What is Japan?
Over the course of a Thanksgiving weekend, a prep school student comes of age while caring for a blind, retired army lieutenant, earning Al Pacino his first Academy Award for Best Actor.
What is "Scent of a Woman"?
The chorus is: 12 packs of Bud, 11 wrastlin' tickets, Tin 'a Copenhagen, 9 years probation, 8 table dancers, 7 packs of Redman, 6 cans of Spam, 5 flannel shirts, 4 big mud tires, 3 shotgun shells, 2 huntin' dogs and some parts to a Mustang GT.
What is "Redneck 12 Days of Christmas"?
The season Australians celebrate Christmas.
What is Summer? Many Australian residents celebrates the holiday by soaking up the sun on Bondi Beach.