Holly
Candles
Carols and Traditions from Jon
Inflated
Mid Dec
Hollier
Cookies
100
Buddy Holly’s backing band shared its name with a chirping insect.
Who are the Crickets?
100
Many Christians light three purple candles and one pink candle as part of this four-week season leading to Christmas.
What is Advent?
100
A familiar Christmas carol most familiarly set to the ancient tune of “Greensleeves”.
What is What Child is This?
tradition says that this tune was composed by King Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn, but this is unlikely. We do know that his daughter, Eliabeth I, danced to the tune and that Shakespeare referred to it twice in his play The Merry Wives of Windsor.
100
One of the most common inflatables features this red-suited holiday icon waving from a rooftop or chimney.
Who is Santa Claus?
100
This word for someone who held a job before the current person.
What is preDECessor?
100
In its most traditional meaning, holly is a plant known spiky evergreen leaves and these spherical objects.
What are red berries?
100
In its most delicious meaning, a cookie is a type of sweet baked treat. Name your favorite cookie!
What is _________!!!
Chocolate-chipless Chocolate chipper
SNICKERDOODLE
200
The bespectacled rock-and-roll pioneer recorded was from this twangy US state.
What is Texas?
(Lubbock)
200
This nine-branched candelabrum is lit during Hanukkah, adding one light each night.
What is a menorah (or hanukkiah)?
200
Written by Philips Brooks (a Philadelphia pastor) after a grueling trip to the Holy Land, it has become a real favorite among those who praise the place of Jesus’ birth.
What is O' Little Town of Bethlehem?
200
Inflatables shaped like frosty figures often wear scarves and hats.
What are snowmen?
200
This vehicle attachment that carries a passenger.
What is a siDECar?
200
This 1957 rock-and-roll singer shares a last name with the plant.
Who is Buddy Holly?
200
This is a phrase describing someone with toughness and resilience.
What is a “tough cookie”?
300
Buddy Holly wrote this song for Jerry Allison's (the bands drummer) fiancée, whose name appears in the title and became one of his most famous tracks.
What is “Peggy Sue”?
300
Lighting candles to celebrate the return of the sun is a common practice during this pagan celebration on the darkest day of the year.
What is the Winter Solstice?
300
In this country celebrants observe Christmas Day by paying a visit to the Kentucky Fried Chicken.
What is Japan?
300
Some inflatables feature this classic character whose heart grew “three sizes” on Christmas Day.
Who is the Grinch?
300
On a ship, usually an upper deck of a ship that is exposed to the most daylight.
What is a sunDECk?
300
Despite the name, these plants are unrelated to holly and belong to this plant family Malvaceae?
What is a hollyhock?
300
The Cookie Monster from this long-running children’s TV show is known for devouring cookies whole.
What is Sesame Street?
400
On February 3, 1959, Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, and this young singer of La Bamba died in a plane crash known as “The Day the Music Died”?
Who is Ritchie Valens?
400
This candleholder used during Kwanzaa displays seven candles—three red, three green, and one black.
What is a kinara?
400
Written and composed by a priest (on his guitar) in 1818 on Christmas Eve because the parish organ was damaged.
What is Silent Night?
When the organ repairman later heard the story and the carol, he published it and circulated it around Europe. It was brought to America by German immigrants and first published in America in 1863.
400
This inflatable includes Mary, Joseph, and Jesus in a manger.
What is a nativity?
400
This means to adorn or cover with decorations.
What is beDECk?
400
Holly is also the name of the heroine of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
Who is Holly Golightly?
400
Calling someone this indicates they are quite clever.
What is a smart cookie?
500
This is Don McLean’s 1971 song that references Buddy Holly’s death by calling it “the day the music died.”
What is “American Pie”?
500
The helper candle used to light all the others during Hanukkah goes by this name.
What is the shamash?
500
In this country, people hide their brooms on Christmas Eve to keep witches from stealing them.
What is Norway?
500
This reindeer with visited the Island of Misfit Toys.
Who is Rudolph?
500
The skills learned from experience in a job/career, often used to refer to the skills spies use to avoid being detected.
What is traDECraft?
500
This Neil Diamond song includes these lyrics:
"Call the sun in the dead of the night
And the sun's gonna rise in the sky
Touch a man who can't walk upright
And that lame man, he's gonna fly"
What is Holly Holy?
500
On the internet, a “cookie” is a small piece of data stored by this type of program or application to remember your preferences.
What is a web browser?
600
This Buddy Holly song, later covered by countless artists, includes the lyric, “My love is bigger than a Cadillac.”
What is “Not Fade Away”?
600
During Winter Solstice rituals, candles are often paired with this symbol of the year’s turning—an evergreen wheel or circle.
What is a Yule wreath (or Yule wheel)?
600
In this country, Las Posadas is celebrated by re-enacting Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter on Christmas Eve.
What is Mexico?
600
Inflatables must be anchored or tethered with these devices to avoid becoming airborne in these seasonal gusts.
What is a stake?
600
This is a device or program that compresses data to enable faster transmission and decompresses received data.
What is a coDEC?
600
She became famous on nostalgic 1970s greeting cards from American Greetings cards.
Who is Holly Hobbie?
600
Ramon F. Adams’s Western Words lists “cookie” as one of the names for this revered job on cattle drives.
In addition to his/her main job, his duties included "stakeholder on bets, arbiter on arguments, doctor and veterinarian, banker, barber and father-confessor. Most important, he had to make coffee so strong that it would float a horseshoe."
What is a range cook?
(cook in Spanish is cocinero, so he was sometimes called that or “coosie”)