Christmas Movies
This green character’s heart grew three sizes.
Who is The Grinch?
This warm drink is made with milk, sugar, and eggs.
What is eggnog?
This Jewish holiday is known as the Festival of Lights and lasts eight nights
What is Hanukkah?
She wants “you” for Christmas in a 1994 song that returns to the charts yearly.
Who is Mariah Carey?
In Ukraine, Christmas trees are often decorated with ornaments shaped like this spooky creature for good luck.
What is a spider or spiderweb?
This 1990 Christmas movie features a cameo from Donald Trump in its sequel.
What is Home Alone?
This sweet bread with dried fruits is popular in Italy.
What is panettone?
In this country, families hide all brooms on Christmas Eve to prevent witches from stealing them for midnight rides.
What is Norway?
“Jingle Bells” was originally written not for Christmas, but for this entirely different holiday.
What is Thanksgiving?
Catalonia’s Christmas nativity scenes include a figure called the Caganer, who is unusually doing this.
What is defecating?
This film famously debates whether it is a Christmas movie.
What is Die Hard?
Japan’s most famous Christmas “tradition” involves eating this fast-food meal so popular that people pre-order it weeks in advance.
What is KFC?
In Scandinavia, people celebrate this ancient winter festival honoring the return of the sun, often with candles and feasts
What is Yule?
This composer created The Nutcracker Suite, a holiday classic.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
In Wales, the Mari Lwyd tradition involves a person singing at your door while wearing the skull of this animal.
What is a horse?
Name the horror Christmas movie where the villain is a demonic goat-like beast who punishes misbehaving kids.
What is Krampus?
The Mexican holiday drink ponche is traditionally served warm with this fruit as a key ingredient.
What is guava?
This Buddhist-majority country treats Christmas as a romantic holiday, similar to Valentine’s Day.
What is Japan?
This classic holiday song is banned from some radio stations due to debates about its lyrics.
What is “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”?
In Iceland, children leave shoes out for the Yule Lads. Naughty kids aren’t given coal—they’re given this unpleasant treat.
What is a rotten potato?
This movie's plot revolves around a department store Santa who claims to be the real one and ends up in a courtroom.
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
In the UK, Christmas dinner traditionally includes this poultry.
What is goose?
In this Baltic country, families eat 12 traditional dishes on Christmas Eve, one for each month of the year, and take part in fortune-telling rituals involving shadows and straw.
What is Lithuania?
This band accidentally created one of the most dramatic Christmas songs ever after their instrumental track “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24” blew up in the ’90s.
Who is Trans-Siberian Orchestra?
In this country, families roller-skate to Christmas Eve mass, with roads even closed to cars.
What is Venezuela?