Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Santa keeps these two lists to track which children get presents and which get coal.
What are the Naughty and Nice lists?
This type of countdown contains pockets filled with treats, one for each day of December through Christmas Day.
What is an advent calendar?
The Rockettes perform their Christmas spectacular, high kicks and all, in this famous New York theater.
What is Radio City Music Hall?
In Mexico, children break open these hanging papier mache sculptures to release the gifts inside.
What are pinatas?
In a famous story, adapted into a popular Christmas ballet, a young girl receives this as her Christmas gift.
What is a nutcracker?
This magical household figure moves from room to room, helping Santa by making sure children are being good.
What is the Elf on a Shelf?
On the levees lining the Mississippi River, you'll find these wooden pyramids lit on Christmas Eve to light the way for Papa Noël (the Cajun Santa Claus).
What are bonfires?
During the holidays, this famous New York City landmark features a colossal Christmas tree and a popular ice-skating rink.
What is Rockefeller Center?
This holiday, observed in the U.K. on the day after Christmas, originated as a way for the rich to give their servants boxes of items to share with their families.
What is Boxing Day?
In Dr. Seuss's famous tale, this grumpy green character tries to stop Christmas from coming.
Who is the Grinch?
The English also refer to Santa Claus by this proper-sounding name.
What is Father Christmas?
These candlelit paper lanterns are a Christmas tradition in Mexico and in the Southwestern U.S.
What are luminarias?
This real-life department store served as the setting for the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street.
What is Macy’s?
The tradition of using a decorated tree as a symbol of Christmas began in this European country.
What is Germany?
This is the true number of Santa’s reindeer in the Christmas poem T’was the Night Before Christmas.
What is eight?
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?
The "Festival of Lights," often overlapping with Advent, is celebrated with the nightly lighting of the menorah in this Jewish holiday.
What is Hanukkah?
What is Habitat for Humanity?
This tradition, now associated with Christmas, began in Ancient Greece as a blessing of fertility in wedding ceremonies.
What is kissing under the mistletoe?
This dark fairy tale about a brother, a sister, and a witch they meet in the woods, was the inspiration for gingerbread houses.
What is Hansel and Gretel?
This beverage giant was the first company to use Santa Claus in an advertising campaign.
What is Coca-Cola?
The four candles on an Advent Wreath represent these qualities.
What is Hope, Peace, Joy & Love?
In Home Alone 2, Kevin stays at this real New York hotel that still offers a "Kevin package" during the holidays.
What is the Plaza Hotel?
A witch drops presents down chimneys in this European country’s Christmas traditions.
What is Italy?
This is the family name of Tiny Tim and his father Bob in Dicken’s A Christmas Carol.
What is Cratchit?