Diwali
Diwali is considered the festival of xxxx.
What is the festival of lights.
The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving came before or after the origins of American Thanksgiving?
What is before. (43 years before!!)
Hanukkah lasts this many days.
What are 8 days?
This popular drink is only available around Christmas.
What is Egg Nog?
The proper name for the shortest day of the year.
What is the Winter Solstice?
Diwali is a festival that lasts this many days.
What is five days.
These two football teams play on Thanksgiving Day every year.
Who are the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys?
The first candle is placed at this place on the Hanukkiyah/menorah.
What is the far right?
Elvis Presley sings about this kind of Christmas.
What is a Blue Christmas?
A dangerous condition when skin, especially hands and feet, gets so cold it could be damaged.
What is frostbite?
Not surprising, this name for the 4th day of Diwali literally means "Mountain of Food."
What is Annakoot?
This tribe of Native Americans were invited to the first American Thanksgiving feast.
What are the Wampanoag?
What happens, if during a game of dreidel you spin and land on hey?
You win half of the pot.
This pop/soda company was the first to use Santa Claus in an advertisement.
What is Coca-Cola?
Sport popular in Canada and Scotland where players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target.
What is Curling?
This is the kind of fragrant oil traditionally burned in Diwali lamps.
What is mustard oil?
This is the name of the skin that hangs from a turkey's neck.
What is the wattle?
Hanukkah celebrates the victories over this Seleucid king from the second century BCE.
Who is Antiochus IV Epiphanes?
The gingerbread house came from this country.
What is Germany?
This is world's snowiest country (most snowfall per year).
What is Japan?
On Dhanteras, the first day of Diwali, traditionally wives not just buy gold and silver jewelry, but these more useful items as well.
What are kitchen utensils?
This nearby State produces the most turkeys each year.
What is Minnesota?
This is the name of the helper candle, used to light the other candles.
What is Shamash?
The capital of Christmas Island.
What is The Settlement, or Flying Fish Cove?
Some animals do this in the winter to conserve resources when food is scarce.
What is hibernate?