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In the 1983 holiday favorite “A Christmas Story,” Ralphie’s father wins a lamp shaped like this body part as a runner-up prize from a newspaper contest.
What is a woman’s leg?
This type of calendar contains pockets filled with treats, one for each day of December through Christmas Day.
What is an advent calendar?
This Christmas song asks Santa to hurry down the chimney
What is Santa Baby?
When the Grinch discovers the true meaning of Christmas, his heart grows this number of sizes.
What is three
In Germany, this frightening anti-Santa Claus with goat’s hooves and horns punishes children who misbehave instead of bringing them gifts.
Who is Krampus?
The tradition of hanging this prickly green plant with red berries comes from ancient pagan winter solstice celebrations.
What is Holly?
In A Christmas Story, Ralphie's mom says this when he asks for a BB gun?
What is "you'll shoot your eye out"?
The wise men brought these three gifts for the baby Jesus
What are gold, frankincense, and myrrh?
In “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” Grandma had been drinking too much of this festive holiday beverage.
What is Eggnog?
This is the true number of Santa’s reindeer in the Christmas poem T’was the Night Before Christmas.
What is eight? (Rudolph isn’t mentioned.)
This dark fairy tale about a brother, a sister, and a witch they meet in the woods, was the inspiration for gingerbread houses.
What is Hansel and Gretel?
The tradition of using a decorated tree as a symbol of Christmas began in this European country.
What is Germany?
This piece of clothing brought Frosty the Snowman to life.
What is his old silk hat?
In “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” this character recites the Bible passage detailing the angel appearing to shepherds in the fields.
Who is Linus?
This familiar sleighing song was the first Earth tune played in outer space.
What is “Jingle Bells”?
The approximate number of Christmas cards that travel through the U.S. Postal Service every year.
What is 1.5 billion?
During the holidays, this famous New York City landmark features a colossal Christmas tree and a popular ice-skating rink.
What is Rockefeller Center?
A witch drops presents down chimneys in this European country’s Christmas traditions.
What is Italy?
This real-life department store served as the setting for the Christmas film “Miracle on 34th Street”.
What is Macy's
The angel who appeared to Mary to announce Jesus' birth
Who is the Angel Gabriel?
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" was first released this year.
What is 1994?
In The Twelve Days of Christmas, lords a-leaping appear in this quantity.
What is 10
Visions of these holiday treats danced in the heads of the children “nestled, all snug in their beds.”
What are sugarplums?
Popping tubes used in the U.K. to hold gifts and small treats go by this explosive name.
What are Christmas crackers?
These are the four major food groups for elves in the Christmas film “Elf”.
What are candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup?
What is Bethlehem and Palestine?
This song ends with the lyric "And may all your Christmases be white."
What is "White Christmas"?
It takes this many years for a pine tree to grow to an acceptable Christmas tree height.
What is 15
The number of lights on the Griswold house in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”
What is 25,000?
This popular dessert, shaped like a log, comes from France and is a holiday staple.
What is the Bûche de Noël or Yule Log?