Christmas Traditions
What color are mistletoe berries?
What is white
The number of nights Hanukkah is celebrated.
What is 8?
The Christmas movie where a boy desperately wants a Red Ryder BB gun.
What is A Christmas Story?
The number of candles on a menorah including the shamash.
What is 9?
Christmas trees were originally decorated with candles.
What is Fact - candles were used before electric lights became available.
The decoration that was originally made from strands of real silver?
What is Tinsel
The city where the Hanukkah miracle is believed to have taken place.
Where is Jerusalem
The holiday movie in which a man accidently kills Santa and must take his place.
What is "The Santa Claus".
The number of ghosts that visit Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?
What is 4?
Hanukkah is mentioned in the Torah.
What is Fiction- Hanukkah occurred after the Torah was written.
The Christmas song that was originally written for Thanksgiving.
What is "Jingle Bells"
The small gifts or money often given to children during Hanukkah.
What is gelt?
What comedian released "The Hanukkah Song", listing famous Jewish Celebrities.
Who is Adam Sandler?
The number of reindeer Santa originally had before Rudolph was added.
What is 8?
The modern image of Santa Claus wearing a red suit date back to the 1800s.
What is Fact - illustrations from the late 19th century helped establish the red suit.
The beverage company that helped popularize the modern image of Santa Claus.
What is Coca-Cola?
The jelly-filled doughnut traditionally eaten during Hanukkah.
What is sufganiyah?
The television series that aired one of the first prime-time episodes centered around Hanukkah in the 1990s.
What is Friends?
The number of years Home Alone held the title of highest-grossing live-action Christmas film.
What is 27?
Hanukkah is the most religious holiday in Judaism.
What is Fiction - holidays like Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah are more significant religiously.
The country that started the Christmas tree tradition.
What is Germany?
The meaning of the word "Hanukkah".
What is dedication?
The actor who played Clark Griswold in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation".
Who is Chevy Chase?
The number of gifts total given in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas".
What is 364
The tradition of exchanging gifts at Christmas comes directly from the Bible.
What is Fiction - while the Bible mentions gifts given to Jesus, modern Christmas gift-giving developed later from a mix of European traditions and cultural customs.