January Holidays
January observances
Theatre to Theater
Literature is for the Birds
Ice Cream
100
Burnt offerings in mid-January are part of "Sending off the Kitchen God Day" for the 1.4 billion folks in this country.
What is China?
100
Jan 4 is the national day to toss this type of dense Christmas goodie made with dried raisins, nuts, and other stuff.
What is fruitcake?
100
Terrence Mann played Javert in the 1987 Broadway opening of this show, made into a film in 2012.
What is Les Miserable?
100
This book that won a Pulitzer in 1961 depicts racial injustice in a small Southern town.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
100
French for "in the fashion," it's the way to get ice cream with your dessert.
What is a la mode?
200
January 3 is admission day in this state that celebrates being #49.
What is Alaska?
200
Call your friends, January 20 is national awareness day for these Antarctic birds.
What are penguins?
200
Phyllida Lloyd directed the 2001 Broadway opening of this show & ABBA-cadabra! got to helm the 2008 film, too.
What is Mamma Mia!
200
In this author's "Lonesome Dove", a motley assortment of heroes, outlaws and more live and die in the title Texas town.
Who is (Larry) McMurtry?
200
This company's name was crafted to "convey an aura of ... old-world traditions and craftsmanship."
What is Haagen-Dazs?
300
January 20 is Philately Day! Also, it's this big day, thanks to the 20th amendment.
What is Inauguration Day?
300
January 17 doesn't come soon enough, as it's the designated day to ditch these annual promises made 2 1/2 weeks before.
What are New Year's resolutions?
300
On Broadway in 1975 Billy Flynn was played by Jerry Orbach, but this show got into Gere on the silver screen in 2002.
What is Chicago?
300
A young woman's passion for a priest drives much of this epic saga of 3 generations of Australian sheep farmers.
What is The Thorn Birds?
300
The ice cream cone was popularized at the 1904 World's Fair in this U.S. city.
What is St. Louis?
400
We bet you know that on Jan 27, Monte Carlo honors St. Devota, the patron saint of this principality.
What is Monaco?
400
Mmmmm, January 23 is a chance to show off your baking skills as it's the day for this; shoofly, anyone?
What is pie?
400
John Lloyd Young made his Broadway debut in 2005 as Frankie Valli in this show and got the movie gig in 2014.
What is Jersey Boys?
400
The title bird is actually an anarchist in Tom Robbins' "Still Life with" this.
What is Woodpecker?
400
A 1921 ad for this product called it "a chocolate covered, tin foil wrapped ice cream bar."
What is an Eskimo Pie?
500
December 26 to Jan 1, since 1966:
What is Kwanzaa?
500
On January 28 all of us can celebrate the day for this humming noisemaker invented in the 1840's.
What is a kazoo?
500
A rough night at George and Martha's, this 1962 Broadway drama went 2 dimensional in '66.
What is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
500
In this novel, a Tulane law student discovers facts that people will kill for and if she doesn't get help, she might be next.
What is The Pelican Brief?
500
In 1923 Harry Burt patented these ice cream bars on a stick; bringing a pail of them for patent officials to sample was smart.
What is a Good Humor Bar?
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