Features a competency hearing for Santa Claus.
What is Miracle on 34th St.?
A German tradition, it was first brought to North America by Hessian soldiers in Quebec during the American Revolution.
What is the Christmas Tree?
Obi on a kimono.
What is a SASH?
Santa's reindeer are also known as these, mostly in North America.
What are caribou?
Founded on Christmas Eve, 1741, its famous foundry made steel for the Golden Gate Bridge.
Where is Bethlehem, PA?
The Castanzas on Seinfeld created this anti-Christmas holiday - for the rest of us.
What is Festivus?
Tom Hanks voiced 6 parts in this movie, including the conductor and Santa Claus.
What is the Polar Express?
Kwanzaa was created to celebrate Black culture after the 1966 race riots in this Los Angeles neighborhood.
What is Watts?
San Francisco's cable car system is a famous example.
What is a TRAM?

According to the carol, these two animals kept time with The Little Drummer Boy.
What are the Ox and Lamb?
Two of the 8 places in the world named North Pole are in this Southern Hemisphere country.
What is Australia? (NSW and WA)
Friends introduced this Christmas persona when Ross couldn't find a Santa outfit.
What is the Christmas Armadillo?
The first in the 5 movies series of John McClane classics.
What is Die Hard?
Hannukah celebrates the retaking of the Jerusalem temple by these rebels around 165 BCE.
Who are the Maccabbees?
A fissure in the earth, the Marianas trench is the deepest.
What is a CHASM?
Gayla Peevy only wants this for Christmas, no crocodiles or rhinocereses.
What is a hippopatamus?
Billing itself as the "Biggest Little City in the World", it's name means reindeer in Spanish.
What is Reno, NV?

In a Christmas episode of this show, Stewie and Brian head to the North Pole to teach Santa a lesson after being disappointed by a mall Santa.
What is Family Guy?

He released two Christmas albums, and 2 Hallmark movies feature his Memphis estate, but never made a Christmas movie.
Who is Elvis Presley?
Dong Zhi in China celebrates the return of the sun with dances and boat races celebrating this mythical creature.
What is a dragon? The celebration also involves eating dumplings, which Kanoe and Holly and I di this morning. Dim Sum good!
The Pacific connects to the Salish Sea via this passage.
What is the STRAIT of Juan de Fuca?

This is the name given to the donkey Mary rode to Bethlehem.
What is Nestor? The Bible has no mention of a donkey.
Its the spelling of the largest coral atoll on earth, sited by Cook on Christmas Eve 1777.
What is KIRITIMATI?
In this show, Stan kills a mountain lion to save innocent woodland creatures, and inadvertantly helps them release the anti-Christ.
What is South Park?

This child actor directed the live version of How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
Who is Ron Howard?
The International Research Stations here celebrate Midwinter day with icy swims and gift giving on the longest day of the year.
Where is Antarctica?
The Robert C. Seamans (Kanoe boat) has two in a brigantine rig.
What is a MAST?

The camels ridden by wisemen were most likely these two humped variety.
What are bactrians?
Natal, founded on Christmas Day 1599, is the capitol of Rio Grande do Norte in this South American country.
What is Brasil?
Despite being castaway for three seasons, only one Christmas episode was made. Santa shows up but they don't get rescued.
What is Gilligan's Island?
