Miscellaneous
Theology/ NOT THEOLOGY
White House, Food, and Scotland
Lights, Foreign Christmas
Visa Cards, Ugly Sweaters, Shopping
100
In Germany, Poland, and Ukraine, finding a spider or a spider’s web on a Christmas tree is believed to be ___________.
a) a sign of impending doom
b) a sign of good luck
c) a sign that Santa will not come this year
A sign of good luck!
According to one legend, a spider wove a blanket for Baby Jesus on the night he was born.
100
In what city was Jesus born?
Bethlehem
100
In what year were Christmas trees banned due to environmental concerns in the White House?
a) 1901
b) 2005
c) 1958
d) 1896
a) 1901
100
A christmas wreath is ______.
a) a symbol of life
b) a symbol of good luck
c) a symbol of Jesus
c)
The holly represents his crown of thorns and the red berries the blood he shed.
100
How many Visa cards are used every minute during the Christmas season?
a) 20
b) 3.5 thousand
c) 5-6 thousand
d) 10 thousand
c) 5-6 thousand
200
How many Christmas cards are sent in the United States every year?
a) 250,000
b) 100 billion
c) 100 million
d) 3 billion
d) 3 billion
200
__ LEGO sets are sold every second during the Christmas season.
a) 5
b) 165
c) 28
c) 28
200
An old name for "Christmas" is _____.
a) Midwinter
b) Christ-day
c) Christo
a) Midwinter
200
Every year, Christmas decorating sends about __ thousand people to the ER.
a) 2
b) 12
c) 15
d) 30
c) 15
200
_____ weeks before Christmas is one of the most popular times for couples to break up.
a) 1
b) 0 (Christmas day)
c) 2
2 weeks!
300
If you gave all the gifts listed in the Twelve Days of Christmas, it would equal ____ gifts.
a) 234
b) 12
c) 364
c)
364!
300
In Iceland, there are ________ instead of Santa.
a) fairies
b) 13 Santas
c) an old lady
d) b and c
e) a and b
D! An old lady and 13 Santas!
Christmas in Iceland is a colorful fusion of religion, fairy tales and folklore. Instead of one Santa, the kids are visited by 13 Yule Lads that either reward children for good behavior or punish them if they were naughty. The holiday period begins 13 days before Christmas and each day one of the 13 Yule Lads comes to houses and fills the shoes that kids leave under the Christmas tree either with sweets and small gifts or rotting potatoes, depending on how that particular child has behaved on the preceding day. The mother of Yule Lads, half-troll, half-beast, horrifying old woman Grýla, kidnaps naughty kids and boils them in her cauldron.
300
In Home Alone, Daniel Stern (who plays Marv) wasn’t very happy about having to film a scene with a ______ on his face, but he agreed to do it on the condition they’d do just one take.
a) hot stove
b) tarantula
c) poison ivy
b) tarantula
His scream had to be dubbed in later because if he’d screamed for real it would have scared the tarantula.
300
Clement Moore's original poem called Donner and Blitzen _____ and ______.
a) Dunker and Blixem
b) Duner and Blutsum
c) Duner and Blixem
c)
They were named Duner and Blixem for the German words 'thunder' and 'lightning'.
300
The word "mistletoe" comes from the Anglo-Saxon word "misteltan" which means _______.
a) kissing shrub
b) little dung-twig
c) Jesus tree
b) little dung-twig
Because the plant spreads through bird droppings!
400
When was tinsel invented?
a) 1610
b) 1545
c) 1823
d) 1839
a) 1610
400
True or False: The Bible says that Jesus was born on December 25
False
400
December 25 – January 5 is referred to as what?
a) The Great Days
b) Christmastide
c) Twelve Holy Days
d) The Days of Christ
b) Christmastide
or
c) Twelve Holy Days
both work!
400
In the Netherlands, Sinterklaas (the Dutch Santa Claus) takes off from _____ on Christmas Eve.
a) The North Pole
b) A secret city underneath the ground
c) Spain
Spain!
And that’s not the only weird thing about the Dutch Christmas. Sinterklaas has his little helpers, but they are not adorable hard-working elves: they are boys and girls whose faces are painted black that can steal misbehaving children and bring them to back Spain which is, according to the Dutch, a severe punishment.
400
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500
The Christmas carol "Jingle Bells" was written for which holiday?
a) Easter
b) Christmas
c) Thanksgiving
d) None of the above
“Jingle Bells” was written for Thanksgiving, not Christmas. The song was written in 1857 by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title “One Horse Open Sleigh”. It was supposed to be played in the composer’s Sunday school class during Thanksgiving as a way to commemorate the famed Medford sleigh races. “Jingle Bells” was also the first song to be broadcast from space.
500
What gifts did the wise men bring for Jesus?
Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh
500
The first artificial Christmas tree was made of ____.
a) Tinsel
b) Dyed goose feathers
c) Leaves dipped in green paint
Dyed goose feathers!
500
What is the most amount of simultaneously lit lights on a Christmas tree?
a) 5,006
b) 194,672
c) 1 million
d) 45,453
b) 194,672
500
In White Christmas, Rosemary Clooney, who plays Betty is George Clooney's _____.
a) sister
b) wife
c) aunt
d) none of the above -or- they aren't related
c) aunt
Well, it really should be "aunt and nephew, aunt and nephew". :)