Holiday Names around the World
This is how you say "Merry Christmas" in Spanish
a) Feliz Merridad
b) Feliz Navidad
c) Feliz Magridad
d) Feliz Nalidad
What is Feliz Navidad?
The name of the Grinch's dog
a) Max
b) Spot
c) Crunch
d) Fluffy
Who is Max?
This is what Santa gives you if you are on the naughty list:
a) A sports car
b) An empty wrapped present
c) An OFI
d) A lump of coal
What is a lump of coal?
Oh Hannukah, Oh Hannukah, Come light the ________
a) Flora
b) Fedora
c) Menorah
d) Pandora
What is the Menorah?
Santa Claus is a modern character based off of this religious figure:
a) Saint Newman
b) Saint Noland
c) Saint Nikolai
d) Saint Nicholas
Who is Saint Nicholas?
This Yiddish word means "spinning top"
a) Dreidel
b) Beyblade
c) Dravel
d) Ladle
What is a Dreidel?
This actor played six different roles in the movie "The Polar Express"
a) Tim Allen
b) Tom Hanks
c) Tom Holland
d) Tom Cruise
Who is Tom Hanks?
This fairy tale inspired the gingerbread house Christmas tradition.
a) Goldilocks and the Three Bears
b) The Gingerbread Man
c) Little Red Riding Hood
d) Hansel and Gretel
What is Hansel and Gretel?
This is the snowman referred to in the song "Winter Wonderland"
a) Frosty the Snowman
b) Icicle Ian
c) Parson Brown
d) Jolly Twinkle
Who is Parson Brown?
Tinsel was once made out of real _____
a) tin foil
b) space dust
c) silver
d) soup tins
What is silver?
This holiday is known as the "Festival of the Lights"
a) St. Lucia Day
b) Hanukkah
c) Christmas
d) Winter Solstice
What is Hanukkah?
In The Nightmare Before Christmas this is what Jack Skellington calls Santa
a) Scrooge Claus
b) Santa Canta
c) Sandy Claws
d) Fraudy Claus
Who is Sandy Claws?
This popular Holiday beverage is also called "milk punch"
a) Hot Chocolate
b) Eggnog
c) Bailey's
d) Gingerbread Latte
What is Eggnog?
In a classic holiday song, this person got run over by a reindeer on the way home from our house Christmas Eve
a) Grandma
b) Grandpa
c) Momma
d) Auntie
Who is Grandma?
This is the continent Kwanzaa was created in:
a) North America
b) Europe
c) Africa
d) Asia
What is North America?
This is Santa Claus' name in Italy
a) Babbo Natale
b) Ded Moroz
c) Pere Noel
d) Kanakaloka
Who is Babbo Natale?
This is the highest-grossing Christmas movie
a) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
b) The Grinch
c) Home Alone
d) Elf
What is Home Alone?
This is how many nights you light the candles on a Menorah for Hannukah
a) 7 nights
b) 9 nights
c) 8 nights
d) 6 nights
What is 8 nights?
This person wrote "Christmas doesn't come in a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more"
a) Santa Claus
b) Roald Dahl
c) Robert Munsch
d) Dr. Seuss
Who is Dr. Seuss?
The term "Xmas" was coined due to...
a) Christmas being too long of a word
b) The Greek Letter X being the first letter in the Greek word for Christ
c) Expanding the Christmas tradition beyond the Christian faith
d) it having more commercial-appeal
What is "The Greek Letter X being the first letter in the Greek word for Christ"?
Kwanzaa is derived from the Swahili phrase "matunda ya kwanza" which means...
a) "unity in celebration"
b) "the first fruits"
c) "time together"
d) "faithful in hard times"
What is "the first fruits"?
In Elf, these are the four main elf food groups:
a) Marshmallows, Candy Canes, Syrup, and Candy
b) Candy, Chocolate, Candy Canes, and Eggnog
c) Candy Canes, Gingerbread, Cookies, and Syrup
d) Candy, Candy Corn, Candy Canes, and Syrup
What is "Candy, Candy Corn, Candy Canes, and Syrup"?
This is what German children to instead of putting cookies and milk out for Santa
a) Leave out shoes to be filled with candy
b) Put out carrots for the reindeers
c) Leave a present under the tree for Santa
d) Write a thank you note to Santa for the gifts
What is "Leave out shoes to be filled with candy"?
This was the first song played in space in 1965
a) Jingle Bells
b) A Holly Jolly Christmas
c) Baby it's Cold Outside
d) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
What is Jingle Bells?
This monarch is credited with making the modern day gingerbread cookie.
a) Henry VIII
b) Queen Elizabeth I
c) Queen Victoria
d) Anne Boleyn
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?