Winter
Which C.S. Lewis book features the famous quote "Winter is coming"?
"The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe"
Can you eat a mistletoe?
No, it is EXTREMELY poisonous.
In Home Alone, Kevin McCallister is left behind when his family goes on a holiday trip to this city.
Answer: What is Paris?
What is the most important custom associated with Hanukkah?
The lighting of the menorah, a candelabra with eight branches plus a holder for the shammash (“servant”) candle that is used to light the other eight candles.
Lunar New Year (sometime's called Chinese New Year) falls between these two months
What are January and February
What is the shortest day of the year (December 21)?
The Winter Solstice
In what country did eggnog originate?
England
What Saint is Santa named after?
Saint Nicolas - chosen because of his reputation as a kind and generous man who helped the poor.
What beverage company has been using Santa Claus and or a Polar Bear in its advertising since 1931?
Coca-Cola
Each year, Atlanta celebrates New Year’s Eve by dropping this fruit instead of a ball, honoring the state nickname.
Answer: What is a peach?
This Dr. Seuss character, voiced by Jim Carrey in a 2000 film adaptation, tried to ruin Christmas for Whoville.
Answer: Who is the Grinch?
What fruit is traditionally placed inside Christmas stockings?
Orange
The actor that played Ralphie in a Christmas story was also in what other popular Christmas movie?
Elf! - Ming Ming the toy making supervisor is Santa's workshop.
This is the famous Christmas Ballet that includes a mouse king.
The Nutcracker
In this country it is typical to eat 12 grapes as the clock tower chimes 12 times at midnight on New Year's Eve
What is Spain
The first year the United States implemented Daylight Savings in the winter
1918
This potato-based dish is typical during Hanukkah celebrations
What are latkes?
What is the first song played in space?
Jingle Bells (December 16, 1965)
What is the name of Santa's evil twin, a half goat/half man creature that chases naughty children through the streets of Austria during a festival named for him?
Krampus
In this country it is believed to be good luck to wear round shapes (polka-dots) and eat round fruits for NYE
What is The Philippines
What does the word winter mean in old Germanic?
Time of water
What Hispanic food is a holiday tradition to make?
Tamales
Donner and Blitzen were originally named Dunder and Blitzen which is German for what?
Thunder and Lightning
How old was Brenda Lee when she recorded "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" in 1958?
13
On this continent it is very common for people to walk or run with an empty suitcase around the block to bring good luck and manifest travel in the new year
What is South America
(can also accept Latin America because it is true of Central America)