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The 2 items children like to leave for Santa Claus.
What is milk and cookies?
Name the 2 most popular Christmas drinks.
What is eggnog and hot chocolate?
The movie with a young boy, trying to escape robbers.
What is Home Alone?
The movie maintained its number one spot for a full 12 weeks and remained in the top 10 until June of the following year. It became the highest grossing film of 1990 and earned a Guinness World Record as the highest-grossing live-action comedy ever domestically. It held on to that title for 27 years, until the Chinese blockbuster Never Say Die knocked it out of the top spot in 2017.
Merry Christmas in Spanish.
What is Feliz Navidad?
The vehicle mentioned in the song "Jingle Bells".
What is a one-horse open sleigh?
Jingle Bells was originally written as a Thanksgiving song.
The two other most popular names for Santa Claus.
What is Kris Kringle and Saint Nick?
It is believed that the first Santa Claus was Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas was a monk and therefore did not marry. The Santa Claus that we know lives in the North Pole. According to some North American sources, his original name was Kris Kringle before he changed his name to Santa Claus.
What people traditionally put on top of a Christmas tree.
What is an angel?
Angels appeared in the sky over Bethlehem to announce and celebrate Jesus's birth.
Animated film about a train that carries kids to the North Pole.
What is Polar Express?
Tom Hanks voiced and/or provided performance capture for seven characters: the protagonist Hero Boy, his father, the train conductor, a hobo, the Ebenezer Scrooge marionette puppet, Santa Claus and the narrator.
Who is Cupid?
The place where mommy kissed Santa Claus.
Where is underneath the mistletoe?
Bonus: who was mommy really kissing?
Scrooge's first name, in Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol".
Who is Ebenezer?
Scrooge most fears the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, both because of its appearance and what it shows him.
Name the Christmas themed ballet.
What is the Nutcracker?
The original story was not a children’s tale at all, but rather a glimpse into the darker side of humanity – how a nightmare can bring to light your greatest fears.
Miracle on 34th Street centers on this department store.
What is Macy's?
What is an angel?
Because angels appeared high in the sky on the first Christmas, people began placing angels high on the top of their trees as a way to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
In "The Twelve Days of Christmas", there are how many drummers drumming?
What is 12?
According to Catholic tradition, The twelve drummers symbolized the twelve points of belief in The Apostles' Creed.
This is added to a Christmas gift to make it even more fancy.
What is a bow?
A ribbon is tied around a gift to represent how people should all be tied together in bonds of unity and goodwill during the holiday season.
A gift exchange with a group of people where the givers are anonymous.
What is a White Elephant or Secret Santa?
The term white elephant has been used since at least the 1800s to refer to a less-than-desirable gift. According to legend, the tradition of white elephant gifts began long ago when the King of Siam—now Thailand—gave an actual white elephant to anyone he disliked. The white elephant was also a respected symbol in Thai and Buddhist cultures, so you couldn’t get away with regifting it or putting it to work.
Ralphie’s little brother’s name in the movie A Christmas Story.
Who is Randy?
In 2004, Brian Jones bought the Cleveland, Ohio, house used for exterior shots of the Parkers’ home and recreated the look of the home’s interiors to turn it into a full-on replica of what it looks like in the movie. Jones also bought the house directly across the street from the Christmas Story home and converted that into a museum devoted to the movie, featuring props, memorabilia and souvenir merchandise while also serving as the base of operations for tours and overnight stays.
Candy canes originated in this country.
Where is Germany?
Whose eyes are all aglow in "The Christmas Song"?
Who are tiny tots?
"Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow will find it hard to sleep tonight."
The names of Santa Claus' 9 reindeers.
Who are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and, of course, Rudolph.
This iconic dance troupe was first known as the Missouri Rockets.
Who are the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes?
Their name was officially changed in 1934. From performing at movie openings to entertaining troops to making TV appearances, they’re perhaps best-known for their annual Christmas Spectacular.
The Christmas movie Tim Allen stars in.
What is Santa Claus?
Name all of Santa Claus' 8 reindeers.
Who are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph.
What does the singer of "A Holly Jolly Christmas" have a cup of?
What is cheer?
Have a holly jolly Christmas
It's the best time of the year
I don't know if there'll be snow
But have a cup of cheer