Merry Christmas, from The Temptations
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100

This Christmas was covered by Chris Brown in 2007. This soulful tenor was the original songwriter-performer of the classic holiday song.

Who is Donny Hathaway?

100

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart. But the very next day, you gave it away...

...This year, to save me from tears, I'll give it to someone special.

100

This is the town that the Grinch stole Christmas from.

What is Whoville?

100

To be very happy & to wed.

What is merry/marry?

100

In Friday After Next, a robber disguised as Santa Claus steals this from Craig and Day-Day's apartment.

What is rent money?

What are Christmas presents?

100

This is the opening song of Nas' debut album, Illmatic.

What is New York State of Mind?

100

This internet meme had children and adults yelling these two number.

What is 6,7?

100

Category: International Christmas Traditions

200

Daily Double: Eartha Kitt wanted a convertible in this color, in her iconic Christmas song, Santa Baby.


What is light blue?

200

You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear. Voices singing, let's be jolly...

...Deck the halls with boughs of holly.

200

Originally premiering in 1892, this ballet includes the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” and is traditionally performed during the Christmas season.

What is The Nutcracker?

200

A winter vehicle & to serve a look!

What is sleigh/slay?

200

After she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to take a European vacation in this holiday film.

What is Last Holiday?

200

Ice-T plays an undercover detective trying to take down a NYC drug kingpin in this cult-classic crime movie.

What is New Jack City?

200

This collectible plush toy, created by Hong Kong illustrator Kasing Lung, became the it-girl accessory of 2025.

What is a Labubu?

200

In Japan, families famously eat fried chicken from this fast-food chain on Christmas Day.

What is KFC?

300

Legendary Motown group, The Temptations, recorded the holiday favorite Give Love on Christmas Day in 1980, which is a cover of the original 1970 song recorded by this act.

Who are The Jackson 5?

300

It's Christmastime in Hollis, Queens...

...Mom cooking chicken & collard greens

300

Before wearing a red suit, Santa was commonly depicted wearing this color in earlier illustrations of the 19th century.

What is green?
300

What Jesus is the prince of & a portion of an object or material.

What is peace/piece?

300

The Christmas classic chronicles a heavenly emissary who is supposed to help a reverend through crisis, but is distracted by the cleric's lovely wife.

What is The Preacher's Wife?

300

This brand is a Target-exclusive clothing line featuring women's apparel and accessories.

What is A New Day?

300

Daily Double: This Kendrick Lamar chart-topping hit begins with a sample of Luther Vandross' If This World Were Mine.


What is Luther?

400

In James Brown's Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto, Brown instructs Santa to leave a toy for Johnny and leave a doll for her.

Who is Mary?

400

Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe... Help to make the season bright...

...Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow will find it hard to sleep tonight

400

Daily Double: This novella is about Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man who hates Christmas and is visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve.


What is A Christmas Carol?

400

A place of worship & to change or modify.

What is altar/alter?

400

The film This Christmas stars Columbus Short as Claude and Las Alonzo as Malcolm. These two actors are also featured in another black cinema classic released the same year.

What is Stomp The Yard?

400

This expression is equivalent to the phrase "in the blink of an eye" to describe a very short time.

What is a New York minute?

400

Sinners, a Ryan Coogler directed Jim-Crow horror and 2025 box-office hit, stars Michael B. Jordan as twins. What are the character names?

Who are Smoke & Stack?

500

In Otis Reddings' Merry Christmas Baby, he said that Santa came down the chimney at what time?

What is half-past three, y'all?

500

I'd give anything to see a little Christmas tree. And to hear, hear the laughter...

...Of children playing in the snow. To kiss my baby, under the mistletoe.

500

In the Christmas classic, Home Alone, Harry, one-half of the Wet Bandits, pretends to be this to scout houses for burglary.

What is a police officer?
500

Your mind, will, and emotions & the underside of a show.

What is soul/sole?

500

In the 2016 film, Almost Christmas, the Meyer's family's eldest son is running for Congress and is faced with a decision to demolish this building that was dear to his late mother.

What is a homeless shelter?

500

An idiom meaning to reform one’s actions by starting fresh.

What is turn over a new leaf?

500

This county-style restaurant faced viral backlash for modernizing it's logo. Even y'all's president tweeted that the logo should be reverted to its original. 

What is Cracker Barrel?

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