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This 2005 Amazon innovation revolutionized shipping for frequent customers.
What is Amazon Prime?
This planet is known as the "Red Planet".
What is Mars?
This frozen precipitation falls as flakes.
What is snow?
This jolly character is said to deliver presents on Christmas Eve.
Who is Santa Claus? (Accept: Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle)
This "King of Pop" released the best-selling album "Thriller".
Who is Michael Jackson?
Amazon's first product category expansion beyond books was into this area in 1998.
What is music? (CDs and music)
This element has the chemical symbol "Au".
What is Gold?
This winter sport involves sliding down a hill on a board.
What is snowboarding?
This plant with red and green leaves is a popular Christmas decoration.
What is a poinsettia?
This instrument, often associated with Hawaii, is a small guitar-like instrument with four strings.
What is a ukulele?
This Amazon subsidiary, acquired in 2014, is a leading game streaming platform.
What is Twitch?
This country is home to the Great Barrier Reef.
What is Australia?
This phenomenon causes days to be shorter during winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?
In the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," how many lords are a-leaping?
What is ten?
This classical composer, deaf in his later years, wrote "Ode to Joy".
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
Amazon's first profitable year was this year, six years after its founding.
What is 2001?
This composer wrote the "Moonlight Sonata".
Who is Beethoven?
This layer of snow that breaks away from a mountain slope is called an avalanche in English, but what is it called in French?
What is une avalanche?
This Christmas ballet features a young girl's journey to the Land of Sweets.
What is The Nutcracker?
This music genre, originating in Jamaica, features offbeat rhythms and socially conscious lyrics.
What is reggae?
This Amazon service, launched in 2006, provides on-demand cloud computing platforms.
What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
This Nobel Prize-winning activist is known as the "Malala of Syria"
Who is Muzoon Almellehan?
This winter weather phenomenon occurs when supercooled water droplets freeze instantly on surfaces.
What is freezing rain?
This Christmas tradition of burning a large log originates from Nordic countries.
What is the Yule log?
This electronic music production technique involves taking a small segment of a sound recording and repeating it as a continuous loop.
What is sampling?
This controversial Amazon patent, granted in 2017, described floating warehouses for drone deliveries.
What is the Airborne Fulfillment Center?
This philosophical concept, coined by Friedrich Nietzsche, refers to the eternal recurrence of all things.
What is eternal return?
This rare optical phenomenon in winter creates the appearance of light pillars in the sky.
What are sun pillars (or light pillars)?
This 1843 novella by Charles Dickens helped popularize the phrase "Merry Christmas".
What is A Christmas Carol?
This ancient Greek mode, also known as the "natural minor scale," is often associated with sad or introspective music.
What is the Aeolian mode?
Before settling on "Amazon," Jeff Bezos considered this name for his company, inspired by Earth's largest river.
What is Relentless? (Relentless.com still redirects to Amazon.com)
This mathematical constant, approximately equal to 1.618, is known as the golden ratio.
What is phi?
This winter survival technique involves digging a specific type of snow shelter.
What is a quinzhee? (Snow Cave)
This country celebrates "Little Christmas" on January 6th, also known as "Women's Christmas" or "Nollaig na mBan" in its native language.
What is Ireland?
This complex musical composition technique, popular in the Baroque era, involves two or more voices singing or playing the same melody at different times.
What is a canon?