Christmas Confections
These snappy cookies derive their name from an ingredient that is eclipsed by the predominant flavor of clove, cinnamon, and cardamom.
What is a Ginger Snap?
This “Home Improvement” actor accidentally becomes Santa in 1994’s “The Santa Clause.”
Who is Tim Allen?
Which of Santa’s nine reindeer is canonically the youngest?
Who is Rudolph?
This natural light display can be observed in the sky near the North Pole.
What is the aurora borealis [or northern lights]?
This plant, used for holiday decorations in the 19th Century, was also associated with a kissing tradition that arose during the period.
What is mistletoe?
This popular French holiday dessert resembles a log and is often made of chocolate sponge cake and buttercream.
What is a Bûche de Noël [or Yule Log]?
This 1947 film features a department store Santa who claims to be the real Santa Claus, leading to a court case to prove his identity.
What is "Miracle on 34th Street"?
This reindeer shares a name with the term for a female fox.
Who is Vixen?
The North Pole is located at this latitude.
What is 90 degrees North?
This decorative item, introduced by German immigrants, became popular in America by the mid-1850s.
What is the Christmas Tree [or “Tannenbaum]?
What liquor does fruit cake traditionally require?
What is brandy [also accept bourbon]?
Saint Nicholas, who inspired Santa Claus, was born within the borders of this modern-day nation.
What is Türkiye?
This bushy-bearded character helps Rudolf in the 1964 Rankin/Bass Christmas Special.
Who is Yukon Cornelius?
This explorer claimed to have reached the North Pole by airship in 1926, becoming the first confirmed person to do so.
Who is Roald Amundsen?
During the Great Depression, families often made homemade ornaments from items like this foil paper saved from this common daily vice.
What is cigarette foil?
This quintessential Christmas cookie has existed in Europe since the time of the Crusades, but it was not until Queen Victoria and Prince Albert included it with other German Christmas traditions that it became associated with the Holiday season.
What is the Gingerbread cookie?
This Government agency has been tracking Santa’s movements since 1997.
What is the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)?
During the winter, many reindeer subsist off this symbiotic partnership between fungi and algae.
What is lichen?
This nation placed a titanium flag in the North Pole in 2007.
What is Russia?
This famous Puritan minister said, that “Jesus Christ was dishonored more in the twelve days of Christmas than in the entire preceding twelve months.”
Who is Cotton Mather?
This German Christmas “nut” cookie was invented by Johann Fleischmann, a confectioner from Offenback am Main in 1753.
What is the Peppernut cookie?
This 1902 book by L. Frank Baum (and adapted by the Rankin/Bass company in 1985) established much of the modern mythology surrounding Santa Claus.
What is The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus?
This species of reindeer shares its name with a Norwegian Archipelago. These reindeer are among the smallest with the largest males weighing less than 200 pounds.
What is the Svalbard reindeer?
This cartoonist first depicted Santa Claus as an Arctic resident in the 1860s.
Who is Thomas Nast?
This activity, performed on Twelfth Night, involved singing and banging pots in orchards to ward off bad spirits.
What is wassailling?