The First Movies
The title of the 1898 short film often cited as one of the earliest films to depict Santa Claus?
What is Santa Claus?
In this country, eating KFC has become a popular Christmas dinner tradition.
What is Japan?
This word describes filling a Christmas tree with lights and ornaments.
What is decorating?
In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Clark Griswold expects a cash bonus but receives this instead.
What is a Jelly of the Month Club membership?
This common Christmas spice comes from the dried inner bark of a tree and is often added to holiday potpourri.
What is cinnamon?
Released in 1938, this film starring Reginald Owen was an early sound-era adaptation of Dickens's famous Christmas tale.
What is A Christmas Carol?
In Mexico, this celebration reenacts Mary and Joseph's search for shelter before Jesus's birth.
What is Las Posadas?
This activity involves singing Christmas songs from house to house.
What is caroling?
This traditional Christmas gift is often a small and food-shaped, hidden in the tree for someone to find.
What is a pickle?
These dried flower buds are a fragrant spice often added to Christmas potpourri and pomanders.
What are cloves?
This 1946 Frank Capra film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man shown what life would have been like without him.
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
In this country, children traditionally leave their shoes out for Sinterklaas to fill with treats and gifts in early December.
What is the Netherlands?
This word describes the act of giving presents to others during the holidays.
What is gifting?
In the Netherlands, children may receive chocolate letters representing this part of their name as a traditional holiday gift.
What is their first initial?
Dried slices of this citrus fruit add color and a fresh scent to homemade Christmas potpourri.
What are oranges?
Released in 1947, this film starring Edmund Gwenn features a man claiming to be Santa Claus whose identity is questioned in court.
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
This Scandinavian country is famous for the Gävle Goat, a giant straw Christmas decoration.
Sweden
This word describes the act of covering presents in paper, often with ribbons and bows.
What is wrapping?
In Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas, what does Mickey sell in order to buy necklace for Minnie?
What is his harmonica?
This fragrant evergreen is often added to Christmas potpourri for its woodsy scent, along with pine and cedar.
What is fir?
This 1983 Christmas movie features a boy who desperately wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas.
What is A Christmas Story?
In Icelandic folklore, these 13 mischievous figures visit children on the nights leading up to Christmas.
Who are the Yule Lads?
A sometimes arduous task to clear snow from walkways and roads.
What is shoveling?
In the movie Elf, Buddy gives his father Walter an unexpected Christmas gift by helping him rediscover this important thing in his life.
What is Christmas spirit?
This dried spice, made from the star-shaped fruit of an evergreen tree, adds a licorice-like scent to Christmas potpourri.
What is star anise?