Christmas
"Silent Night"
(733 times since 1978)
The people who celebrates Hanukkah
Who are Jewish people?
The people who celebrate Kwanzaa
Who are African Americans?
Is Christmas a national public holiday?
No
What is Norway?
(since 1947 in gratitude for England's support during WWII)
What is "Jingle Bells?"
The miracle of Hanukkah
What is the candles' miraculous ability to burn for 8 days even though they only had enough oil for 1 night?
Decade when Kwanzaa was created
What are the 1960s?
Typical things to do on Christmas
The country where Santa Claus has his own postal code
What is Canada?
The names of the reindeer
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen
What is traditionally nothing, but some gelt (gold coins) to play Dreidel games?
The 3 colors of Kwanzaa
What are red (struggle), green (land and hope for the future), black (people of African descent)?
If Christian (1-30%), families
If not-Christian, couples
The country who started the milk giving tradition
What is the Netherlands/Holland?
The average amount of ER visits related to Christmas decorating...
What are 15,000 visits?
3 popular traditional foods
What are...
1. latkes
2. applesauce
3. soufganyiot (donuts)
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The language Kwanzaa comes from
hint: "matunda ya kwanza"
What is Swahili?
The traditional Christmas dinner in Japan
KFC chicken
(multiple month-long waiting list!)
When the first Christmas tree was put up
!!Daily Double!!
The person who put up the first tree
mid-1800's
Prince Albert of Germany
The average amount of packages sent between Thanksgiving and New Years by the US Postal Service alone
910M packages
15B pieces of mail (letters)
The tallest menorah's height and location
Where is Washington D.C., USA?
What is 30 ft (10 m) tall?
The reason for the creation of Kwanzaa
The Watts Rebellion
- 21 y.o. Marquette was pulled over for drunk driving, placed under arrest, resisted
- mother came down and was accidentally pushed by the crowd
- police struck Marquette in the face with a baton
- crowd reported police brutality through roughing him up and kicking a pregnant lady; started throwing things and yelling at police; mother and brothers are arrested
- crowd grew, started throwing rocks at police who tried to make the crowds disperse
- triggered a 6-day, 120kmˆ2 battle zone
- 35 dead, 1K injured, 3.5K arrested, $40M in damages
In Korea, two meanings of New Years
2. Their birthdays (everyone turns 1 year older)
The person who sent the first official Christmas card
Who is Queen Victoria?