Christmas around the world
This is what the Norwegians hide away on Christmas Eve to keep the witches away.
What is a broom?
å gjemme sopelime, or 'hide the broom' - whereby households hide their brooms to stop witches and evil spirits from taking flight on them. This practice is rooted in the belief that these mythical figures emerge on Christmas Eve seeking brooms to ride, and hiding them is a way to ward off mischief and ensure good fortune for the coming year.
This popular Christmas song was the first song to ever place in space.
What is jingle bells?
This is the name of the award The Grinch won in the film.
What is the Cheermeister?
This is the popular soda that inspired Santa’s suit color.
What is coca-cola?
This is what the “nog” in Eggnog stands for.
What is a wooden cup or mug (“noggin”)?
This is the folklore that originated in Austria, about a creature who comes for the naughty children at Christmas.
What is Krampus?
This is how old Brenda Lee was when she recorded “Rockin’ around the Christmas tree”.
What is 13?
Boris Karloff voiced the original TV special of The Grinch, but he’s better known for playing this iconic movie monster.
What is Frankenstein?
This is the diameter of the largest Christmas bauble ornament in the world.
What is 4.68 m / 184in?
The largest gingerbread house was made in this large state.
What is texas?
In 2013, the traditions club in Bryan, Texas build a gingerbread house that was 60 feet long, 4s feet, wide, and 20 feet tall.
While we toss snow at each other during the Christmas season, this is what clothing item Czechia women toss over their shoulder on Christmas Eve.
What is a shoe?
This tradition is said to predict if the person will get married in the coming year depending on which way the shoe is pointing when it lands.
This song is played everywhere at Christmas time but was actually written as a Thanksgiving song in 1857.
What is Jingle Bells?
The lyrics to “Fahoo Foraze” were made to sound like this dead language.
What is Latin?
Since 1947, this is what Norway provides to London every year for Christmas.
What is a Christmas tree?
The city of Oslo, Norway has gifted a Christmas tree yearly to England to show thanks for their support in WW II. It's always a Norwegian spruce.
Instead of a ham or turkey, this is what is served at a Polish Christmas Eve.
What is carp?
This is a popular fast food Christmas meal in Japan.
What is KFC?
This custom began in the 1970s, and now many families pre-order buckets of fried chicken for December 25th. It's been called Kentucky for Christmas.
This song that sounds like it was written in front of an open fire at Christmas time, actually was written in the middle of a summer heat wave.
What is Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire / The Christmas song?
Thurl Ravenscroft, who sings "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch," also voiced this popular cereal mascot.
What is Tony the Tiger?
This is Canada’s postal code for Santa.
What is H0H 0H0?
This plant is a commonly used cake decoration that is actually toxic to eat.
“What is holly?”
This is the country has 13 different types of Santas that are called “Yule Lads”.
What is Iceland?
Iceland celebrates Christmas with the mischievous Yule Lads, thirteen troll-like figures who visit children during the 13 nights leading up to December 25th. Each night, children place shoes by the window, hoping for gifts from the Yule Lads, while those who misbehave receive potatoes.
This song was originally called “Tinkle Bells” until the writer’s wife suggested otherwise.
What is silver bells?
The Grinch was not always green; This is what inspired the color change.
What is a rented car?
The animator Chuck Green had a rental car that could only describe as "sickly green", it was later adopted by Dr. Suess as the color for the Grinch.
This is the northeastern state that holds the Guinness record for the largest snowman built.
What is Maine?
The record was set in 2008 and the snowman was 122ft 1in tall!
Bounceberry is another name for this fall/winter fruit.