Holidays Around the World
The most important traditional Chinese holiday. It falls on different dates each year in either January or February.
What is Chinese New Year?
True or False: Turkey is the most popular meat for Christmas meals.
False. According to Google Trends data, ham is most popular for Christmas
The poinsettia is native to this country
What is Mexico?
For eight days either in November or December, special candles are lit in a menorah. This holiday celebrates the miracle in which one day's worth of oil burned for eight days.
What is Hanukkah?
True or False: 'Ra's as-Sana al-Hijria,' that signals the start of a new year in the Islamic calendar, is held on the same date each year.
False - It's a movable holiday
The word "Kwanzaa" comes from which language?
Swahili
The custom of putting up a Christmas tree is native to this country.
Germany
Where would you enjoy a Braai for Christmas lunch?
South Africa
What are the lucky colors of the Tet celebration?
Red and Yellow
This company was the first to use Santa Claus in advertising
What is Coco-Cola?
Where would you finish your Christmas meal with the following: Christmas cake or some of the following sweets: Sugar candy, Steamed pear, Walnuts wrapped in persimmons, cakes with sweet red bean paste
South Korea
This Jamaican Christmas treat can be made with or without icing
Rum cake
Known as the Festival of Lights, this is a five day celebration of the triumph of light over dark.
What is Diwali?
In which country is KFC a popular Christmas meal?
Japan
In this Central American country, you might find yourself kicking off the holiday season by burning the devil on December 7th while sweeping your house
What is Guatemala?
In the UK, Canada, Australia & New Zealand, December 26th was once a day to give gifts to the poor, servants, or lower social classes.
What is Boxing Day?
Eid al-Adha is the second and the larger of the two main holidays celebrated in Islam (the other being Eid al-Fitr). What does it honour?
It honours the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ismail as an act of obedience.
In this country, the special Christmas Eve meal is called 'reveillon' and has a 'bûche de Noël' (a chocolate cake in the shape of a log) for dessert.
Vietnam
This country is the largest exporter of Christmas trees and is also known to be the happiest country in the world
What is Denmark?
What is the name of the famous Christmas Market in Brussels?
Winter Wonders
It is one of the world’s greenest places, and it has a Tree Planting Day, usually held on the first Sunday of November,
Singapore
This tangy, spicy drink is common in Jamaica at Christmas time.
Sorrel
The real St. Nicholas was born in what is now this modern-day country
What is Turkey?
What does Ông già Noel mean?
Santa