Winter Sports
This winter sport utilizes cleaning supplies as an implement in this sport.
What is curling?
The flag ship for Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492, this vessel ran aground and sank on the north coast of Hispaniola.
What is the Santa Maria?
Santa's little helper makes his appearance every year in family homes, playing hide and seek, pulling pranks, making sure kids are good.
What is Elf on the Shelf?
This dedicated husband and father is trying to pull together a merry Christmas in spite of the antics of his brother Eddie visiting, receiving a gift to the Jelly of the Month club from his boss, and Uncle Lewis being blown up by sewer gas.
Who is Clark Griswold?
This aromatic spice is often sprinkled on top of eggnog.
What is nutmeg?
In addition to skiing, the biathlon challenges contestants in this skillset.
What is marksmanship?
In 1776, George Washington crosses this river into New Jersey, surprising and defeating 1,400 Hessians.
What is the Delaware River?
This holiday decoration depicts the witnesses at the birth of Jesus.
What is the Nativity Scene?
This scary character tries to bring Christmas to his own holiday world by trying to become Santa Claus, causing chaos for his world and the other.
Who is Jack Skellington?
This charitable organization has volunteers outside of stores ringing bells and collecting money for charity.
What is the Salvation Army?
Held each year in early March in Alaska, this famous race features dog sleds.
What is the Iditarod?
This famous drummer for the band that led the British Invasion received his first drum set at age 17.
Who is Ringo Starr?
This Mexican plant associated with Christmas, known by the Aztecs as cuetlaxochitl, is named after an American statesman and the first US ambassador to Mexico.
What is a poinsettia?
This penny pinching Christmas character has a first name that is Hebrew, meaning "stone of help".
Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?
The number of times the name "Santa Claus" appears in the Christmas poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas".
What is zero?
This popular, casual sport utilizes large platforms on the feet to distribute weight to ease trekking across the snow.
What is snow shoeing?
This Romanian dictator and his wife were executed by firing squad on this day in 1989.
Who is Nicolae Ceausescu?
What is coal?
This Christmas movie character is likely to shoot his eye out with a Red Rider BB gun.
Who is Ralphie?
The name of the US Armed Services that tracks Santa's voyage around the world on Christmas Eve.
What is NORAD?
This speedy winter sport features individuals lying face down and going head first down a frozen track.
What is skeleton?
Formally resigning as the President on this day in 1991, he is the last leader over the USSR.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This famous New York City landmark features a colossal Christmas tree and an ice skating rink.
What is Rockefeller Center?
This New York City police detective must save his wife and her coworkers from a band of terrorists who are attempting to steal a huge sum of money from a vault in the Nakatomi Corporation building.
Who is John McClane?
In "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" the carolers threaten to stay until they receive this proper English dish.
What is figgy pudding?