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100

Oh, no. I'm just smiling. Smiling is my favorite.

Elf

100

This, this is Christ the King, whom shepherds guard and angels sing.

What Child is This

100

The Cavalcade of Lights Festival features the lighting of the tree for this city, Canada's largest.

Toronto

100

In 1969, this country's communist government abolished the paid Christmas holiday, claiming workers were needed for the sugarcane harvest.

Cuba

100

The wise men found their way to the young Jesus by following this heavenly object.

A star

200

Hee-haw.

It's a Wonderful Life

200

By now in New York City, there's snow on the ground.

Christmas in Dixie

200

Miso de Gallo, or Rooster's this, is attended by the faithful in many Spanish-speaking countries at midnight on Christmas Eve.

Mass

200

Since 1999, this Los Angeles-based team has played every year on Christmas Day.

Los Angeles Lakers

200

Joseph and Mary had traveled to Bethlehem for this.

Tax-collection or census-taking

300

5 o'clock, solve world hunger, tell no one.

The Grinch

300

Where the treetops glisten, and children listen.

White Christmas

300

Though most Uzbeks are members of this faith, tree decoration during the Christmas season is widely popular.

Islam

300

This group of English Protestants banned Christmas in England in 1647 and in New England in 1659.

Puritans

300

Not a fan of the young Jesus, this Roman client king plotted to have him killed.

Herod the Great

400

That's a lot of lights, Dad.

Christmas Vacation

400

Oh, the Christmas chimes are ringing in the tower, jingle bells can be heard all around.

Christmas in My Hometown

400

Beginning in the 1970s, KFC found a major yuletide following in this Asian country.

Japan

400

Spontaneous truces were struck on Christmas day during this war, having to be agreed to across No Man's Land.

WWI

400

Following a visit by an angel, Joseph took Mary and Jesus to this country for their safety.

Egypt

500

Ho, ho, ho. Well, Donner, where's the new member of the family? After all, if he's going to be on my team someday, he'd better get to know me.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

500

How do you measure its worth, just by the pleasure it brings here on Earth?

Silver and Gold

500

Some countries and groups celebrate Christmas on January 6th in accordance with this predecessor to the Gregorian calendar.

Julian calendar

500

This Dickens novel, published in 1843, helped reinvent Christmas as a family-oriented time of charity, away from its more raucous celebration in the past.

A Christmas Carol

500

The angel who visited Joseph named Mary's child as Jesus and this, meaning "God with us."

Emmanuel

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