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Winter Holidays
Winter Sports
100

This chilly thing consists of six sides and currently has 35 cataloged types of variations to its structure.  

What is a snowflake

100

This word describes the directional rotation of clock hands

What is Clockwise
100

Though Frank Sinatra’s, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, became a Christmas classic, he was not the first to sing this. Who first recorded this song?

Who is "Judy Garland"

100

This day in December is the most observed holiday globally, for both religious and cultural celebrations.

Christmas

100

Nicknamed “the fastest game on earth”, this winter sport allows physical contact, or body checking, between players.

What is Ice Hockey

200

This leafy-green member of the cabbage family thrives in cold temperatures- tolerating frost and even snow!

What is Kale
200

The main vegetable that sauerkraut is made from.

What is Cabbage

200

This song is the most published Christmas hymn of all time.

What is "Joy to the World"

200

This holiday is a celebration of seasons changing and is also known as the pagan holiday, Yule.

What is Winter Solstice
200

Of the current Winter Olympic sports, what is the only indoor sport that does not require ice skates?

What is Curling
300

The creation of this frozen friend is a global phenomenon that dates back to the middle ages, but became very popular in the United States after the prohibition era ended due their depiction in print ads for alcohol brands.

What is Snowman
300

An informal word for taxi driver

Cabbie

300

In the song, “A Holly Jolly Christmas”, the singer encourages the audience to pour one out and have a cup of what?

What is a cup of cheer

300

From December 26th through January 1st, this holiday was first created and celebrated in 1966 by professor Maulana Karenga and is now mainly observed by those in the U.S. with ties to African culture.

What is Kwanzaa

300

Which sport combines both cross-country skiing and rifle shooting?

What is Biathlon

400

Common to alpine and coastal polar regions in the spring and summer months, “watermelon snow”, also called pink snow or blood snow, has a characteristic red or pink hue that varies greatly in intensity. Some of the earliest records of this snow describe the melted liquid as resembling “a port wine”. Today, we know one thing to cause this coloration in snow.

What is Green Algae?

400

Diamonds, the birthstone of April, are composed of one element.

What is Carbon

400

Now a common pop song to hear around the holiday season, this Christmas hit was released in 1984 originally, but did not rank in any charts until 2017.

What is "Last Christmas" by Wham!

400

The timing of this winter holiday varies from year to year and is sometimes called the “Festival of Rededication”.

What is Hanukkah

400

This is another name for cross-country racing in skiing.

What is Nordic

500

The third law of thermodynamics states that the entropy, or disorder, of a perfect crystal at a temperature of zero kelvin is equal to zero. Meaning, that the movement of the particles making up a crystalline structure entirely stops if the structure is placed at the lowest limit of the thermodynamic temperature scale. This temperature, of zero kelvin, is more commonly known as what?

What is Absolute Zero?

500

One folklore story describes a choirmaster in Germany who wished to quiet down loud children in his church on Christmas eve, so he asked a local candy marker for these curved sugar sticks.

What are Candy Canes

500

This song is traditionally associated with Christmas, but originally was written to celebrate Thanksgiving.

What is "Jingle Bells"
500

Falling on December 13th every year, this holiday honors its namesake and is celebrated primarily in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. In Scandinavia, this same holiday is celebrated, but is used to mark the beginning of their Christmas season.

What is St. Lucia Day

500

The first ever Winter Olympics were held in Chamonix, France, in the French Alps and featured six winter sports, across nine different disciplines. About 250 athletes from 16 countries competed across ten days, from January 25th to February 5th, in what year? 

When is 1924

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