Christmas/Other Holidays
This is the name of the candle holder used at Hanukkah.
What is a Menorah?
This is the most popular Christmas beverage.
What is Eggnog? Fun Fact: Also called Milk Punch
Santa Claus is the shortened version of this real person.
Who is Saint Nicholas?
In the Christmas song Winter Wonderland, the singers call the snowman this name.
Who is Parson Brown?
This real life department store is the setting for Miracle on 34th Street.
What is Macy's
This is Spanish for Merry Christmas.
What is Feliz Navidad?
This popular Christmas candy has been around since 1847, when a German immigrant used them to decorate the tree.
What are Candy Canes?
This is how you say Christmas Tree in German.
What is Tannenbaum?
In the song Jingle Bells, this is the number of horses pulling the sleigh.
What is one?
This actor played George Baily in It's a Wonderful Life.
Who is Jimmy Stewart?
Australia, the UK, Canada and other countries celebrate this holiday after Christmas.
What is Boxing Day?
This Christmas word is an old French word, meaning "of or born on Christmas."
What is Noel? (the old French word is Nael)
This is the modern-day nation where St. Nicholas was born.
What is Turkey?
This is the best selling Christmas song, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
What is White Christmas by Bing Crosby?
This actor portrayed Santa Claus in The Santa Claus movies.
Who is Tim Allen?
This is the number of days in the Kwanza celebration.
What is seven?
This is where the first gingerbread houses were built.
What is Germany, in the 16th century.
This is how many US households put up a Christmas tree. (this is millions: 75, 96, 84, 92)
What is 96 million?
This Christmas carol was first played on the the guitar because mice had eaten the organ bellows.
What is Silent Night?
This Christmas classic Home Alone, was filmed here outside this major city.
What is Winnetka, IL outside Chicago. (most of the movie was filmed on a set built in a gym and swimming pool at New Trier Township High School nearby).
This is Hawaiian for Merry Christmas.
What is Mele Kalikimaka?
Thomas Edison, Edward H. Johnson, and Albert Sadacca invented this Christmas decoration.
What are Christmas Lights (1880 - Edison made first strand of electric lights, 1882 - Johnson wired colored bulbs and round them around his tree, and in 1917 Sadacca sold the first strand to the public).
This folklore from Austria and other countries has a horned figure that punishes naughty children at Christmastime.
Who is Krampus?
This is the total number of gifts in The Twelve Days of Christmas, song.
What are 364.
This actor played Scrooge in the movie, The Muppet Christmas Carol.
Who is Michael Caine?