CHRISTMAS ON BROADWAY
HOLIDAY ALBUMS
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS
SANTA'S REINDEER GAMES
WINTER IS COMING
WINTER SPORTS
400

This musical wraps up with "A New Deal For Christmas", featuring FDR, Daddy Warbucks & the gang

Annie

400

Their 1964 "Christmas Album" includes "Little Saint Nick", called a rewiring of their hit "Little Deuce Coupe"

The Beach Boys

400

Dec. 25, this year:
5 months into WWI, German & British troops emerge from their trenches for a game of soccer

1914

400

"Foxy" name for an ill-tempered woman

Vixen

400

The coldest recorded winter temperature in the U.S. was the Jan. 1971 temp of -80 at Prospect Creek Camp in this state

Alaska

400

On New Year's Day, many souls brave icy waters to take part in a swim named for these ursine creatures

Polar Bear

800

A group of homeless people begin the not so merry "Christmas Bells" in this Jonathan Larson musical

Rent

800

This "Duck Dynasty" family's "Duck the Halls" album included "Ragin' Cajun Redneck Christmas"

The Robertsons

800

December 25, 1776:
2,400 U.S. troops cross this river for a surprise attack

the Delaware
800

Profession of Michael Flatley & Martha Graham

Dancer(s)

800

In the Southern Hemisphere, winter begins in this month

June

800

Let's have a race using this craft whose name comes from a Native American word for "sled"

Toboggan

1200

This musical auntie sings, "We need a little Christmas, right this very minute, candles in the window, carols at the spinet"

Mame

1200

In 2012 this a capella group released its first holiday offering, "PTXmas", an EP with 6 classic Christmas songs

Pentatonix

1200

Dec. 25, 1837:
U.S. troops suffer heavy casualties fighting this Florida tribe at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee

Seminole

1200

Kohoutek or Shoemaker-Levy 9

Comet(s)

1200

Following "hot" or the name of a liquor, it's booze, hot water & sugar to take the chill off winter

Toddy

1200

Snowboarders use a U-shaped structure called a half this to perform radical tricks

a half-pipe
1600

In 2018 these mind-blowing magicians with monikers like the Deductionist debuted their "Magic of the Holidays" show

The Illusionists

1600

Rolling Stone calls this "Wall Of Sound" producer's "A Christmas Gift for You" the best Christmas album of all time

Phil Spector

1600

December 25, 1939:
The Battle of Jelja commences in the "Winter War" between these 2 foes

Finland & Russia

1600

We certainly hope this reindeer knows his way better than the same-named "party" of 1846-47

Donner

1600

Hibernation uses a natural form of this serious 11-letter condition that results from a dangerous drop in core body temp.

Hypothermia
1600

Encyclopedia Britannica calls this sport "a game similar to lawn bowls but played on ice"

Curling

2000

Based on the 1954 film, a musical called this composer's "White Christmas" livened up the holidays in 2008 & 2009

(Irving) Berlin
2000

This "Russian" orchestra directed by Paul O'Neill has had numerous Top 10 holiday albums including "The Lost Christmas Eve"

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra

2000

December 25, 1944: The U.S. 101st Airborne repels a German attack on this town at the heart of the "Bulge"

Bastogne

2000

In the '70s Volkswagen rebranded the Passat in North America & named it this

Dasher

2000

Stranded on his farm one winter around 1937, Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Quebec invented this transport

the Snowmobile

2000

Nordic combined events start with a ski jump & end with one of these long alliterative races

a Cross-Country Race
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