WINTER
FOOD & DRINK
HOLIDAYS
GLOBAL NEW YEAR'S TRADITIONS
HOLIDAY FUN FACTS
100

Trucks put down this on the ground to melt ice and stop it from freezing.

What is salt?

100

This Christmas beverage is also known as milk punch.

What is eggnog?

100

This holiday celebration leads to 1.5 tons of confetti filling the streets of Times Square.

What is New Years Eve?

100

Lunar New Year, sometimes called Chinese New Year, falls between these two months.

What is January and February?

100

This beverage company has been using Santa Claus and/or a polar bear in its advertising since 1931.

What is Coca-Cola?

200

It snows at this temperature.

What is 32F

200

Name two spices used to make gingerbread cookies.

What is ginger, cinnamon, cloves and/or nutmeg?

200

Name a religious/cultural holiday that is celebrated towards the middle or end of December.

What is Kwanza, Hanukkah, Christmas, Diwali and New Years Eve?

200

In this county people often wear white and jump into the ocean to celebrate New Years Eve.

-Brazil, Guatemala, Haiti, Japan

What is Brazil?

200

On average, one inch of rain is equivalent to this many inches of snow.

What is 10 inches?

300

This is the highest number of inches of snow ever recorded in New York.

49 inches in 1900

300

This potato-based dish is typical during Hanukkah celebrations.

What is latkes?

300

The number of US federal holidays celebrated each year.

What is 11? (New Years Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, 4th of July, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.  

300

On this continent it is very common for people to walk or run with any empty suitcase around the block to being good luck and manifest travel in the new year.

What is South America?

300

A “muffler” refers to this type of clothing accessory.

What is a scarf?

400

This country was the host of the first Olympic Winter Games.

What is Chamonix, France?

400

A traditional Hispanic food made during the holidays.

What is a tamale?

400

This African winter celebration is culturally based, rather than religiously based.

What is Kwanza?

400

In this county it is believed to be good luck to wear round shapes (polka-dots) and eat round food on NYE.

- Columbia, Egypt, Thailand, The Philippians

What is the Philippians?

400

UPS delivers this many packages during the holiday season.

What is 28,000,000?

500

The United States implemented Daylight Savings in the winter of this year.

What is 1918?

500

In this country it is typical to eat 12 grapes as the clock tower chimes 12 times at midnight on New Years Eve.

-Italy, Mozambique, Russia or Spain

What is Spain?

500

This is the shortest day of the year.

What is December 21st (winter solstice)?

500

Name what the triangles on the Times Square ball are made from.

What is Waterford Crystal? 

500

This county has the most federal holidays.

What is turkey?

There are 16 federal holidays in Turkey every year, but Argentina's employees are entitled to 15 paid public holidays and every year the government adds a few more holidays known as "bridge holidays" which means that a holiday last two days.

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