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This festive drink blends milk, eggs, cream, and spices, and can be enjoyed spiked or hot.
What is eggnog?
This grand Christmas Eve feast features a roasted pig, ham, fruit salad, and sweet treats like bibingka and puto bumbong.
What is Noche Buena?
Children leave this item on their windowsills on Christmas Eve in hopes of receiving treats from the Yule Cat.
What is a shoe?
What midnight tradition sees Brazilians attend "Missa do Galo" (Rooster Mass) followed by a festive family feast?
What is Christmas Eve?
Known as "Nine Nights," these groups of singers travel door-to-door performing traditional Christmas carols in local dialects.
Who are the Nine Nighters?
These brightly colored candy canes said to resemble shepherds' crooks, are traditionally hung on Christmas trees.
What are peppermint candy canes?
In this playful gift-giving tradition, names are drawn and gifts are exchanged anonymously.
What is Monito-Monita?
This fearsome troll woman, the mother of the Yule Lads, is said to feast on naughty children in her cauldron.
Who is Grýla?
From December 16th to 24th, children participate in these festive processions with music, lanterns, and prayers, retelling the Christmas story.
What are Posadas?
Jamaicans enjoy this spicy, marinated Christmas dinner featuring jerked chicken, rice and peas, and sweet potato pudding.
What is Sorrel Soup and Jerk Chicken?
In this cherished Christmas Eve tradition, children leave out milk and cookies for a jolly visitor and his reindeer.
Who is Santa Claus?
Filipinos hold the longest Christmas season in the world, officially starting in September with this month of daily novena masses.
What is Misa de Gallo?
Hidden inside rocks around Iceland, these thirteen mystical stones are said to transform into trolls during the Christmas season.
What are the Yule Stones?
This lively genre of Brazilian music, with instruments like tambourines and drums, fills the air during Christmas celebrations.
What is samba?
This traditional Jamaican fruitcake, packed with rum-soaked fruits and spices, is a beloved Christmas treat.
What is Jamaican Black Cake?
This iconic Christmas item, often a star or angel, symbolizes the Nativity star as the finishing touch to the Christmas tree and is often put on last.
What is a tree topper?
Christmas cheer in the Philippines extends beyond Christmas Day, with merrymaking and gift-giving continuing until this feast day on January 6th.
What is the Feast of the Three Kings?
Hangikjöt, the centerpiece of Þorramatur, is this type of meat, traditionally smoked over birch or juniper wood.
What is lamb?
This iconic Rio de Janeiro landmark is illuminated with thousands of lights during the Christmas season, creating a spectacular visual display.
What is Christ the Redeemer?
This festive dance, originating in West Africa, combines energetic footwork and playful teasing, often featured in Jonkonnu parades.
What is Kumina?
This Pennsylvania Dutch tradition involves hiding a pickled ornament on the Christmas tree for children to find.
What is the Christmas pickle?
This sticky rice cake traditionally steamed in bamboo tubes is a popular Christmas treat.
What is puto bumbong?
Name the four seasons in Icelandic.
Vori, Sumar, Haust, Vetur
Name the three official colors of the Brazilian flag.
Green, yellow, blue
Reggae carols, blending traditional Christmas melodies with island rhythms, bring a unique Jamaican flavor to the holiday season.
What are Reggae Christmas carols?