Engineering Examples
Eric Yuan is a former Cisco engineer and executive that left the telecom giant to found what speedy meeting company in 2011?
What is Zoom?
This is a snowman's favorite breakfast.
What are Frosted Flakes?
This famous American brand started using Santa Claus in their holiday marketing in the 1920s.
What is Coca-Cola?
This fast food chain has its most profitable day (on Christmas) in this country.
What is Japan>
This iconic christmas movie is based off of Philip Van Doren Stern's book The Greatest Gift.
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
This canal connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean, and still needs to be dug out from time to time.
What is the Suez Canal?
This reindeer has to work two days a year instead of one.
Who is Cupid?
St. Nicolas was canonized by the Catholic church in 1446 and is the patron saint of the following (4 answers).
What are children, sailors, wolves, and pawnbrokers?
In this country, Christmas will be celebrated on January 7th, 2024.
What is Russia?
This Disney film can be watched for two holidays instead of one.
What is Nightmare Before Christmas?
Before there were pipes, water traveled via architectural arches to villages.
What are aqueducts?
In this object, Christmas comes before Thanksgiving.
What is a dictionary?
Along with the marketed Santa Claus. St. Nick was a real person that was born around this year.
What is 270 AD
This pagan holiday is one of the inspirations for early christians to begin celebrating christians.
What is Yule?
Published in 1843, this classic novel sold out in five days and has it's claim to fame for many Hollywood icons.
What is A Christmas Carol?
This "material of a thousand uses" was popular from the 1920s to 1940s. Even with the scientific name "polyoxybenzyl methylene glycol anhydride"
What is Bakelite?
Similar us, snowmen use this to store their money.
What is a Snowbank?
These two countries refer to Santa Claus as "Pere Noel".
What are France and Belgium?
Instead of being nice and being visited by Santa, be naughty and you will be visited by this creature according to european traditions.
What is Krampus?
Instead of saying grace, Aunt Bethany recited this piece of prose in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
What is The Pledge of Allegiance?
Patents for engineering marvels persist, especially for renewable energy. This renewable energy device received its first patent as early as 1888.
What is the solar panel?
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For this reason, Christmas trees are bad at knitting.
What is 'because they drop their needles'
During this year, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) began tracking Santa on Christmas Eve?
What is 1955?
In Wales, if Mari Lwyd gains entry to your house it is said you will have good luck for a year according to this Welsh tradition (Mari Lwyd will also steal any spirits you have in your cabinet).
What is Wassailing?
After spending copious amounts of time and effort, Ralphie realizes his favorite radio show is just an ad campaign for this product.
What is Ovaltine?