Advent
Bookclub Reading
Christmas Movies
Christmas Music
Christmas Traditions
100

The liturgical colors of Advent

What is “purple/violet and pink/rose?”

100

The bookclub reading assignment

What is “Luke 2:1-20?”

100

The movie with the famous quote “SANTAAAAAAA” 

What is “Elf?”

100

A song about a living snowman

What is “Frosty the Snowman?”

100

A circular item with 4 or 5 candles

What is an “advent wreath?”

200

The meaning behind the purple and pink advent colors

What is “penance” and “joy?”

200

The town Joseph and Mary traveled to

What is “Bethlehem?”

200

A Dr. Seuss classic written in 1957 and films made in 1966 and 2000 about a grumpy outcast who while trying to ruin Christmas, learns what Christmas is really all about

What is “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas?”

200

The chorus to Jingle Bells

What is 

“Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh, what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh” 

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200

A fun activity that involves going door to door and spreading Christmas cheer

What is “Christmas caroling?”

300

The third Sunday of Advent

What is “Gaudete Sunday?”

300

The town Joseph and Mary traveled from

What is “Nazareth of Galilee?”

300

A debatable Christmas movie about an NYPD detective, John McClane

What is “Die Hard?”

300

The most streamed Christmas song

What is “All I Want for Christmas is You” by Mariah Carey?

300

An Old Testament lineage of Jesus that families can follow to prepare for the birth of Christ

What is “Jesse’s Tree”?

400

The two meanings behind the season of Advent

What is “preparation of the birth of Christ” and preparation of the return of Christ?”

Or: What are the “two comings of Christ?”

400

What Mary did at the end of this reading

What is “Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart?”

400

The full name of the protagonist in Home Alone & Home Alone 2.

What is Kevin McCallister?

400

Singer and songwriter of “Christmas Tree Farm

Who is Taylor Swift (anyway, ew)?

400

One of the oldest Christmas traditions beginning as early as AD 1223 that many parishes and/or families do

What is “Reenacting the nativity scene?”

500

The Latin word in which the word “advent” is derived from.

What is “Adventus?”

500

A part of the Mass that comes from this passage

What is the “Gloria?”

500

A classic Christmas episode with themes of the corruption of the true spirit of Christmas and battling depression

What is “A Charlie Brown Christmas?”

500

On the twelfth day of Christmas
my true love sent to me

What is 

“12 Drummers Drumming

11 Pipers Piping
10 Lords a Leaping
9 Ladies Dancing
8 Maids a Milking
7 Swans a Swimming
6 Geese a Laying
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree”

500

IThe first Christmas gifts

What is “gold, frankincense and myrrh?”

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