Winter Olympics
This sport featured at the Winter Olympics combines two seemingly unrelated activities. Cross country skiing and rifle shooting.
What is biathlon?
Every year on February 2, cities across North America celebrate Groundhog’s Day by having a groundhog predict whether there will be an early spring or six more weeks of winter based on if it sees its shadow. The groundhog deciding Calgary’s fate is just north of the city and goes by this name.
Who is Balzac Billy
These personal promises for self-improvement are famously made as the clock strikes midnight on December 31st and are often abandoned by February.
What are New Year’s resolutions?
This crystalline form of ice falls from the sky, and no two are exactly alike.
What are snowflakes?
According to the famous poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, Santa’s sleigh is pulled by this many reindeer.
What is eight?
On February 28 at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics the Canadian men’s hockey team beat the US 3-2 in overtime to claim gold thanks to Sidney Crosby’s “Golden Goal” that was assisted by this Hockey Hall of Famer and longtime Calgary Flames captain.
Who is Jarome Iginla?
Giving red envelopes to ward off evil spirits and bring prosperity is a key custom of this major holiday, which ends with the Lantern Festival.
What is Chinese New Year?
The famous New Year’s Eve ball drop is streamed live around the world from this location in New York City, which contrary to what its name may suggest, is actually shaped like a bowtie.
What is Time Square?
This sport involves sliding down snowy slopes on two long boards strapped to your feet.
What is skiing?
This reindeer is known for his glowing red nose and was first introduced in a 1939 booklet by Montgomery Ward.
Who is Rudolph?
Former Dinos Track and Field star Dawn Richarson Wilson will be competing for the Canadian women’s bobsleigh team at the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympic Games. If one would like to watch Dawn in person, they would have to travel to this European city.
What is Milan, Italy?
During the eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah you may see children playing with these spinning top-like toys.
What are dreidels?
In Spain and several other Latin American countries, it is tradition to eat twelve of these as the clock strikes midnight, on for each chime.
What are grapes?
The world’s largest ice hotel, built entirely of snow and ice, is located in this Scandinavian country.
What is Sweden?
In the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, these two reindeer names were originally written as “Dunder” and “Blixem.”
Who are Donner and Blitzen?
The 1988 Olympics in Calgary were one to remember, so much so that two “based on a true story” movies were based on it. The first being Eddie the Eagle which follows the first Brit to compete in the Olympic ski jump. The second is this movie which depicts the Jamaican bobsleigh team’s road to the Olympics.
What is Cool Runnings?
This precursor to Christmas, celebrated on December 6th, involves leaving shoes out in front of the fireplace overnight to be filled with treats.
What is St. Nicholas Day?
From the Rat to the Pig, the Chinese zodiac, which assigns an animal to each year in a repeating cycle, contains this many different animals.
What is twelve?
This frosty character comes to life when children place a magic hat on his head.
Who is Frosty the Snowman?
Donner and Blitzen’s names come from the German words for these two weather phenomena.
What are thunder and lightning?
Less than 1 year after suffering a devastating accident while snowboarding in the back country that placed him in a medically induced coma, this Canadian snowboarder returned to slopes for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, claiming a bronze medal in the men’s slopestyle.
Who is Mark McMorris?
Held in Quebec City since 1955, this festival takes place in late January or early to mid-February and has a snowman like a mascot with his own ice palace.
What is the Carnaval de Quebec?
The tradition of making New Year's resolutions is thought to have begun with these ancient people, who made promises to their gods at the start of each year.
Who were the Babylonians?
The Aurora Borealis, often seen in winter skies, is more commonly known by this name.
What are the Northern Lights?
In the song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, the other reindeer wouldn’t let Rudolph join in these.
What are reindeer games?