Christmas Hymns/Carols
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Animation Classics
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Strange holiday songs
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This popular carol uses the tune “Greensleeves”.
What is What Child is This?
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American comedian, actress, and singer. Her groundbreaking comedy-variety show, which originally aired on CBS, was one of the first to be hosted by a woman.
Who is Carol Burnett?
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Popular uses of this cookie include houses and “men”.
What is gingerbread?
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Celebrated on December 31.
What is New Years Eve?
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The main character goes on a deep journey to discover the true meaning of Christmas.
What is A Charlie Brown Christmas?
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These are found on the tree referenced to on the first day of Christmas.
What is a pear?
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This song is a “sequel” to this oddball Christmas song.
What is Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer?
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This carol stars Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar.
What is We Three Kings?
Written after the War of 1812 when the Anglican Communion decided to establish a seminary in America. It was founded in New York City on land donated by Clement Clark Moore (author of “The Night Before Christmas”. We Three Kings was composed as music for a Chrismas pageant at that Seminary in 1857.
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She was known for her roles in Broadway and film musicals, and for her comically exaggerated performances, gravelly voice, and animated features.
Who is Carol Channing?
200
These are also sometimes called cut out cookies.
What are sugar cookies?
200
Also known as the Festival of Lights—an important Jewish festival which runs for eight days. The religious holiday is a celebration of Judaism and commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem.
What is Hanukkah?
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Dr. Seuss Christmas classic, in which the main character is brought to life by Looney Tunes legend Chuck Jones. It also features narration by horror icon Boris Karloff.
What is How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
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Most common color is red but other variants include white and pink.
What is a poinsettia?
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Jing-a-di-jing hee haw hee haw
The Italian Christmas Donkey
Lalalalalalalalala. lalalalalaladidooda
What is Dominick the Christmas Donkey?
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This carol is called “Les Anges dans nos Campagnes” in French.
What is Angels We Have Heard on High?
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She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as Simka Gravas, the wife of Latka, winning two Emmy Awards for her work. Here she appears as a Ghost in Scrooged.
Who is Carol Kane?
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These cookies traditionally use chow mein noodles as a main ingredient.
What are haystacks?
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Kwanzaa was borrowed the word kwanza from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, adding the seventh letter, an extra a, to make the word long enough to accommodate one letter for each of the seven children present at an early celebration. This is the meaning of kwanza in Swahili.
What is “first”?
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A Snowman comes to life thanks to a magical hat. The film, narrated by Jimmy Durante, is based on the Christmas song that every kid knows the words to by heart.
What is Frosty the Snowman?
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Tradition says you should give a kiss…
What is mistletoe?
300
...so I Wrote, wrote a song for all those nice little Jewish kids who don't get to hear any Chanukah songs. Here we go
Put on your yarmulke
Here comes Chanukah
So much funukkah
To celebrate Chanukah
Chanukah is the festival of lights
Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights
What is the Chanukah Song?
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The only popular Christmas carol with music written by Handel.
What is Joy to the World?
Isaac Watts was both a nusician and a theologian. He felt hampered by the fact that the Church, at worship sang settings of the Psalms. So Watts “invented” the English hymn genre. He used this carol to convince Parliament to allow this type of music in Church.
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The object of the humor in this popular Christmas found on sweaters and T-shirts:
Who is Karl Marx?
400
These cookies require use of a cookie “press”.
What is a spritz cookie?
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A feast day in the Christian calendar celebrating a martyr who is seen as a figure of light in the darkest part of the year. It’s an especially important day in Scandinavia, where the day is marked by atmospheric processions and concerts, featuring singers clad in white and wearing headdresses featuring actual flickering candles.
What is Santa Lucia or Saint Lucy’s Day?
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Christmas cheer meets the macabre in this stop-motion animated musical from the gothic mind of Tim Burton.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
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Most Christmas trees are this type of tree. It’s cones are also common in Christmas decorations.
What is pine?
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Gifts I'm preparing for some Christmas sharing
But I pause because
Hanging my stocking I can hear a knocking
Is that you, Santa Claus?
Sure is dark out, ain't the slightest spark out
'Pon my clackin' jaw
Who's there, who is it stopping for a visit?
Is that you, Santa Claus?
What is Zat You Santa Claus?
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This African American/Negro spiritual wss turned into a Christmas Carol after being written down and published in "New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers".
What is Go Tell it on the Mountain?
John Wesley Work, Jr., an African American man from Nashville, TN was the son of a choirmaster that dedicated himself to the preservation of Negro spirituals from the Old South. GTIOTM was written down around 1871,but never published until early 20th century.
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American singer-songwriter and musician who has been active since 1958. The most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Her holiday album is titled “A Holiday Carole”.
Who is Carole King?
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A “boozy” cookie that comes as a sphere.
What is a rumball?
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An ancient Pagan celebration associated with midwinter. Many modern traditions like carolling and festive chocolate logs (which used to be an actual log, not a chocolate cake) stem from the ancient 12-day festival.
What is Yule?
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Tom Hanks is at the center, starring in a touching film based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg. The movie follows a young boy who, doubting Santa's existence, goes on a magical train ride to find out more about the North Pole.
What is the Polar Express?
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The English variety has become the Christmas staple with its forest green leaves and bright red berries.
What is holly?
500
I want a ________ for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
I don't want a doll, no dinky Tinkertoy
I want a _________ to play with and enjoy
What is I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas?
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Dr. Phillips Brooks wrote this carol while visiting the Holy Land in 1965. In the US, it is sung to "St. Louis" and in the UK "Forest Green".
What is O Little Town of Bethlehem?
Dr. Brooks was in Bethelhem, attending a 5 hours Christmas Eve service. Out ot either boredom or inspiration, he wrote this carol during the service and brought it back to Boston to be published.
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He was invited to give the Christmas lectures at Britain’s Royal Institute in 1977-78 and delivered a series of 6 lectures on space and the cosmos (The Planets).
Who is Carl Sagan?
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Croatian pastry that are a Mississippi Coast tradition. They are small, fried donuts that are filled with fruit and covered in a powdered sugar glaze
What is a pusharata?
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Three of the principles celebrated during Kwanzaa.
What is: Each day of Kwanzaa is tied to one of the holiday's seven principles: unity (umoja), self-determination (kujichagulia), collective responsibility (ujima), cooperative economics (ujamaa), purpose (nia), creativity (kuumba), and faith (imani)
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Features Heat Miser and Cold Miser.
What is A Year Without a Santa Claus?
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What is Christmas cactus?
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The news had come out in the First World War
The bloody Red Baron was flying once more
The Allied command ignored all of its men
And called on _______ to do it again
What is Snoopy's Christmas?