Winter Holidays
A Jewish holiday also known as the Festival of Lights
What is Hanukkah?
The Inuit home that is completely made of snow
What is an igloo?
The socks that are hung on the chimney Christmas Eve
What are stockings?
The month that holds the longest and darkest night of the year
What is December?
What someone may get in their stocking if they misbehave
What is coal?
The African holiday that finds its history in ancient harvest festivals
What is Kwanzaa?
A kind of precipitation that is often recreated with paper and used to decorate for the holidays
What is snow/snowflakes?
The wooden top that is often used for gambling during a Jewish holiday
What is a Dreidel?
The color that skin turns when severe frostbite kicks in
What is black?
The type of calendar that has sweets or presents hidden inside in the days leading up to Christmas
What is an advent calendar?
The final holiday of the year that's informal theme song is "Olde Lang Syne"
What is New Year's?
Ice that falls from the sky, the largest on record being between the size of a baseball and a soccer ball
What is hail?
The ceremonial piece used in Hanukkah that holds 9 candles
What is a menora?
The beings that have been said to be let loose during the Winter Solstice (much like Halloween)
What are spirits?
3 of the 4 things Frosty the Snowman had/was wearing
What is a hat/corncob pipe/button/coal?
A Biblically inspired holiday, it comes at the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas
What is Epiphany, or Three Kings' Day?
The temperature that water freezes at (within 6 degrees)
What is 32˚?
(26˚ to 38˚ is acceptable)
What the French expect Christmas morning to appear in their shoes and socks
What is fruit?
The Russian witch who was known to eat children and lived in a house with chicken legs
Who is Baba Yaga?
Name three gifts from the Twelve Days of Christmas after "5 golden rings"
(Numbers 6 - 12)
What are 12 Drummers Drumming / 11 Pipers Piping/ 10 Lords a Leaping/9 Ladies Dancing/8 Maids a Milking/7 Swans a Swimming/6 Geese a'Laying?
The longest night of the year, ceremonies used to be held on this day to bring back the sun
What is the Winter Solstice?
The thickness ice must be in order to safely walk on it
(Within 1 inch)
Hint: Less than 10 inches
What is 4 inches?
(3-5 inches acceptable)
Where some children put their letters to Santa rather than a mailbox
What is the fireplace?
The name of Santa's devil companion in European folk-lore, responsible for kidnapping incredibly naughty children and putting them in his bag
Who is Krampus?
Rudolph's girlfriend in the 1964 film who wore a polka-dot red bow
Who is Clarice?