Winter Holiday Foods
Riddles
Holiday Movies
Biology
Famous Cats
100
In ‘The Christmas Song’ what was ‘roasting on an open fire’?
Chestnuts
100
What does a dog do that a man wears?
Pants
100
In A Christmas Story, what present does Ralphie want more than anything for Christmas?
A Red Rider BB gun
100
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What is the scientific term for the production of light by living organisms?
Photosynthesis
100
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Jim Davis penned this famous cartoon cat, whose favorite past times are sleeping, eating lasagna, and terrorizing the household dog, Odie. What is the name of this famous cat?
Garfield
200
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Babka, a sweet bread or cake filled with a variety of sweet fillings such as chocolate, is popular with which ethnoreligious group?
Jewish
200
What joins two people but touches only one?
A wedding ring
200
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In Home Alone, what is the nickname of the pair of burglars that tries to break into the McCallisters’ home?
The Wet Bandits
200
What is the most common element in the human body?
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Carbon
Calcium
Oxygen is the most common element in the human body, making up almost 63% of the average human, followed by carbon (19.37%), hydrogen (9.31%), and nitrogen (5.14%).
200
Alice wandered through Wonderland, and in her journey, met many strange creatures. One in particular was a curious cat who could slowly disappear at will, leaving only his smile visible. What was the name of this remarkable cat?
The Cheshire Cat
300
In Japan, which famous fast food restaurant brand is a traditional Christmas treat?
KFC
300
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What is white and smells like blue paint?
White paint
300
In Elf, How did Buddy get to the North Pole as a baby?
He crawled into Santa’s bag of presents
300
Which organ do insects NOT have?
Lungs
Stomach
Heart
Brain
Lungs
Insect respiration is accomplished without lungs. In most cases, air is taken in through openings on the sides of the abdomen and thorax called spiracles and transported directly to tissue cells using tracheal tubes.
300
What’s the name of Sabrina’s cat in the TV series "Sabrina the Teenage Witch"?
Salem
400
In the old days, women in England who wanted to find a husband ate what baked treat at Christmas for good luck?
Gingerbread men
400
What starts with a P and ends with an E but has the most amounts of letters?
The Post Office
400
In How the Grinch Stole Christmas, what’s the name of the Grinch’s dog?
Max
400
What was the first genetically engineered organism?
Sheep
Tobacco
Rat
Corn
Tobacco
In 1983, the first genetically engineered organism, a tobacco plant designed to be resistant to certain herbicides, was grown in Wisconsin.
400
Which breed is Mr. Bigglesworth, Dr. Evil’s feline sidekick, in the "Austin Powers" movies?
Siamese
Exotic Shorthair
Russian Blue
Sphynx
Sphynx
500
In Tudor times, they roasted a bird before putting it back together (including the feathers) and served it to impress guests at a Christmas banquet. Which bird was it?
Peacock
500
I am a ball that can be rolled but I cannot bounce or be thrown. What am I?
Eyeball
500
In Love Actually, what instrument does Sam learn to impress his crush?
The drums
500
Which fruit is a hybrid of the pomelo and mandarin?
Kumquat
Lemon
Lime
Orange
Orange
The orange is not a wild fruit, having arisen in domestication from a cross between a non-pure mandarin orange and a hybrid pomelo that had a substantial mandarin component.
500
This Egyptian cat goddess is often depicted with a human body and cat's head. A defender of the Pharaoh and of the chief deity, Ra, she was given the title, "Eye of Ra." What is the name of this cat goddess?
Isis
Orisis
Horus
Bastet
Bastet
