Winter Celebrations
This Jewish festival of lights is observed for this number of nights
What is 8?
Since 1907, this New York City tradition involving a descending illuminated orb has marked New Year’s Eve in Times Square.
What is the ball drop?
This evergreen plant with white berries is traditionally hung for people to share a kiss beneath.
What is mistletoe?
This soft‑drink company’s 20th‑century ads helped popularize the modern red‑suited image of Santa Claus.
What is Coca‑Cola?
This NHL outdoor hockey event is traditionally played on New Year’s Day.
What is the Winter Classic?
This celebration, observing the Nguzo Saba and using a kinara, is celebrated from December 26 to January 1.
What is Kwanza?
Under the general rule, this is how often a leap year occurs in the Gregorian calendar.
What is every four years?
This triangular evergreen brought indoors and decorated at Christmas is often called a fir or spruce.
What is the Christmas tree?
These animated white animals have been a recurring character in Coca‑Cola’s winter campaigns since the 1990s.
What are polar bears?
This college football game, played on New Year’s Day and associated with a floral parade, is nicknamed “The Granddaddy of Them All.”
What is the Rose Bowl?
This plant, native to Mexico, became associated with Christmas and is named after a 19th‑century U.S. diplomat.
What is the poinsettia?
This calendar, introduced in 1582 to correct the Julian calendar’s drift, is used by most of the world today.
What is the Gregorian calendar?
This hooked, red‑and‑white striped holiday treat is said to be shaped like a shepherd’s staff.
Who is a candy cane?
This U.S. department store’s Thanksgiving parade doubled as a major seasonal advertising event and features giant balloons and floats.
What is Macy's?
Since 1934 this NFL team has been a perennial host of a Thanksgiving Day game.
Who are the Detroit Lions?
This pre‑Christian Germanic midwinter festival gave its name to many modern holiday traditions and the word “Yuletide.”
What is the Yule?
Years divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they are also divisible by this number.
What is 400?
Also called a crèche, this display depicting the infant Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and animals was popularized by St. Francis of Assisi in the 13th century.
What is a nativity scene?
These small foil‑wrapped chocolates were featured as jingling “bells” in a series of festive commercials and are shaped like teardrops with a flat base.
What are Hershey’s Kisses?
This tabletop backyard tossing game is commonly played at holiday gatherings in the U.S. and involves throwing bean bags into a raised board hole.
What is cornhole?
The central ritual of this holiday is lighting a menorah or hanukkiah.
What is Hanukkah?
This Scottish New Year’s celebration is famous for “first‑footing,” the custom of the first person to enter a home after midnight.
What is Hogmanay?
These ringing instruments are traditionally hung on sleighs and used in carols; they also symbolize joy and the announcement of good news.
What are bells?
This 2014 British supermarket Christmas advert, which dramatized the 1914 WWI Christmas Truce, sparked both praise and debate about commercializing history.
What is Sainsbury’s?
This head‑first sledding sport, similar to luge but with the athlete on their chest, is featured at winter festivals and competitions.
What is skeleton?