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This Christmas classic is about a boy who is left behind by his family for a Christmas vacation.
What is Home Alone
This December holiday name comes from the Old English phrase meaning “Christ’s Mass.”
What is Christmas?
This carol famously begins with the words, “Hark! how all the welkin rings,” in its original 1739 version.
What is “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”?
This color—symbolizing hope and expectation—is used for most Advent candles and vestments.
What is purple (violet)?
This festive candy is striped and was originally created to look like a Shepards hook.
What is Candy Cane?
This film features a boy who desperately wants an official Red Ryder BB gun.
What is A Christmas Story?
This figure brought gifts in parts of Europe long before Santa—often depicted riding a donkey.
Who is Saint Nicholas?
This song features the line “Sleep in heavenly peace.”
What is “Silent Night”?
Which angel appeared to Mary and is central to Advent’s message of preparation.
Who is the Angel Gabriel?
This chocolate-filled day tracker is filled with treats that are opened one day at a time in December.
What is an advent calendar?
This 2004 animated film features Tom Hanks performing multiple voices, including the conductor.
What is The Polar Express?
This December 26 holiday is celebrated in the U.K. and Canada and historically involved giving to the poor.
What is Boxing Day?
This carol invites listeners to “repeat the sounding joy.”
What is “Joy to the World”?
This liturgical season immediately follows Advent and begins with the celebration of the Nativity of the Lord.
What is the Christmas season?
These crunchy cookies are often shaped like little people.
What are gingerbread cookies?
This 1946 film features the town of Bedford Falls and the angel Clarence.
What is It’s a Wonderful Life?
This German word refers to the festive Christmas markets that originated in the late Middle Ages.
What is “Weihnachtsmarkt”?
This traditional carol references a “figgy pudding,” which demands to be brought “right here.”
What is “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”?
The rose-colored candle on the Advent wreath is lit on this Sunday, a day that emphasizes joy.
What is Gaudete Sunday?
This warm drink is often enjoyed at holiday parties and tastes like dessert in a mug.
What is cider or hot chocolate?
This 1983 comedy’s disastrous Christmas dinner leads the family to a Chinese restaurant instead.
What is National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation?
This tradition of burning a massive log originated to symbolize the return of longer days during winter.
What is the Yule log?
Finish the lyric “On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me…”
What is “…twelve drummers drumming”?
Beginning on December 17, the Church prays special antiphons before the Magnificat, each starting with “O” and pointing to a title of Christ.
What are the O Antiphons?
This holiday dessert from Britain is steamed, aged for weeks, and traditionally set aflame with brandy before serving.
What is Christmas pudding?