XMAS
This 1990 film features a young boy named Kevin who is accidentally left behind when his family goes on vacation at Christmas.
Home Alone
This New Year’s Rocking Eve host also hosted American Idol for 20 years
Ryan Seacrest
101 Dalmations
"Not all those who wander are lost."
J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)
This is the only continent that is also a country.
Australia
This festive drink, often made in the Morrissey’s garage, is made with milk, cream, sugar, eggs, and this ground spice.
Nutmeg
This Mary Shelley novel was released on New Year’s Day in 1818
The Northern Inuit is a medium-to-large dog breed with athletic features and was the ideal candidate for these Game of Thrones companions
Direwolves
"All I was doing was trying to get home from work:
Rosa Parks
This metallic element with chemical symbol of Hg is liquid at room temperature
Mercury
This 2004 holiday movie was the first feature-length film to be entirely created using motion capture technology
The Polar Express
This 2009 film is the highest grossing film on New Year’s Day of all time
Avatar
This dog breed holds the record for the fastest 100-meter dash by a dog
Greyhound
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
This U.S. president was a star football player at Michigan and was never elected to the presidency or vice presidency but ascended to both roles
Gerald Ford
The Christmas market roots stretch back to Duke Albrecht I who authorized 14-day fairs in the month of December in this “city of music”
Vienna
This Scottish poet and lyricist is credited with writing Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns
In Legally Blonde, Bruiser Woods is described by Elle Woods as this zodiac sign / diet combination
Gemini vegetarian
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Abe Lincoln
Known as the father of landscape architecture in the US, this visionary designed the Biltmore Estate, Curtis Arboretum, and Central Park
Frederick Law Olmsted
This US President allegedly banned Christmas trees in the White House
Theodore Roosevelt
This island country formerly known as the Gilbert Islands and is located the Micronesia subregion of Oceania rings in the New Year first. This independent republic in the Pacific Ocean gained Independence from the UK in 1979.
Kiribati
In the 1995 animated feature, Balto - Balto risks his life to deliver medicine to a remote Alaskan town dealing with this deadly epidemic
Diphtheria
"Some say the word will end in fire, some say in ice"
Robert Frost (Fire & Ice)
Season 3 Episode 8 of Spongebob is called "No Weenies Allowed" where Spongebob needs to prove he is tough enough to enter this establishment
The Salty Spitoon