Christmas Traditions
At Christmastime, Santa rings a bell in front of grocery stores and collects money in red kettles for this charitable organization.
What is the Salvation Army?
This 1994 Christmas tune is the best-selling Christmas single ever recorded by a female artist, as well as being one of the highest-selling singles in music history.
What is "All I want for Christmas is You"?
This "Home Alone" character fends off a pair of robbers by building slapstick traps in his house.
Who is Kevin McAlister?
This giggling red monster was the hit of the holidays as the best-selling Christmas toy of 1996.
What is Tickle Me Elmo?
What is "Mele kalikimaka"?
Consumers buy an estimated two million of these sugary Christmas loaves each year, even though they are universally hated.
What is fruitcake?
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" features a Christmas song composed especially for the show, with lyrics written on the back of an envelope in ten minutes by the show's producer.
What is "Christmastime is Here"?
In this cinematic holiday heart-warmer, George Bailey receives a visit from an angel who helps him realize the importance of his own existence.
What is "It's a Wonderful Life?"
One of the best selling toys of all time, this colorful logic puzzle made its way into lots of people's stockings in the eighties and several decades following.
What is a rubix cube?
In Germany, this frightening anti-Santa Claus with goat's hooves and horns punishes children who misbehave instead of bringing them gifts.
Who/What is Krampus?
In one oddball tradition, an ornament shaped like what food item is hidden on the Christmas tree?
What is the Christmas pickle?
"I'm dreaming of white Christmas" with every one of these.
What is "Christmas card I write"?
This 2004 animated Christmas feature was an adaptation of an illustrated storybook by Chris Van Allsburg, the same author who created "Jumanji."
What is "The Polar Express?"
What is Uno?
What word for the Christmas season derives from an ancient Germanic pagan holiday?
What is Yule/Yuletide?
This traditional Christmas beverage, made with brandy, fruit juices, and spices, is also the subject of an English folk song.
What is wassail?
In his original 1943 recording of "I'll Be Home for Christmas," Bing Crosby crooned, "Christmas Eve will find me..." here.
What is "where the love light gleams"?
The role of Ebenezer Scrooge in 1992's "A Muppet Christmas Carol" featured this two-time Academy Award-winning British actor.
Who is Michael Caine?
This kitchen device was the most popular gift of the 2022 Christmas season.
What is the air fryer?
This instrumental Christmastime theme from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite was also used in early versions of the video game Tetris.
What is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy?
This tradition, now associated with Christmas, began in Ancient Greece as a blessing of fertility.
What is kissing under the mistletoe?
It may sound like a composition from the middle ages, but this classic Christmas hymn appeared in 1843 and made its debut in 1847.
What is "O Holy Night"?
Sarah Jessica Parker's character spills this breakfast dish all over herself in the 2005 holiday romantic comedy "The Family Stone."
What is strata?
This animatronic cassette-playing bear toy was what every kid wanted for Christmas in the mid 80s.
The first artificial Christmas tree was made in the 19th century using the feathers of this bird.
What is a goose?