Christmas Traditions
The birthplace of Jesus, according to the bible (the city).
What is Bethlehem?
In the 2019 movie Klaus, what is the profession of the main character, Jesper?
Postman
The phase of sleep when we are most likely to be dreaming.
What is REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep?
The two words that follow Silent Night in the song Silent Night
Holy night
The Jewish holiday that coincides with Christmas.
What is Hanukkah?
The types of trees typically used as Christmas trees
Evergreen conifer (fir, spruce, or pine).
In the movie Home Alone, where is the McAllister family going to spend Christmas for vacation when Kevin gets left behind?
Paris, France
The name of the psychological defense mechanism for when you attribute your own thoughts, feelings, and motives that you perceive as unacceptable or problematic to another person.
What is Projection?
In Santa Claus is Coming to Town, the singer tells children, “You better not cry” and “You better not _____.”
Shout
What is Saturday?
Three of Santa's reindeer have names that begin with the letter "D". Who are they?
Dancer, Dasher, and Donner
The Grinch lives on top of what mountain?
Mount Crumpit
The five types of boundaries we discussed in Healthy Relationships and Setting Boundaries included physical, emotional, financial, intellectual and ___________?
Situational boundaries (100 bonus points if you can also explain what a situational boundary is).
_____ got ran over by a reindeer
Grandma
The horned figure who, according to Central/Eastern Alpine folklore, assists Santa on Christmas by scaring the kids who misbehaved that year.
Who is Krampus?
What is Coca-Cola?
In the movie Elf, what was the first rule in the Code of Elves?
Treat every day like Christmas.
The region of the brain that is hijacked by addiction.
What is the prefrontal cortex? (Also acceptable: frontal lobe, frontal cortex, forebrain)
Jingle Bells was not originally a Christmas song. What holiday was it originally written for?
The fast food restaurant brand whose food is very popular with the Japanese on Christmas day, due to a very effective marketing campaign.
What is KFC?
For their aid following the Halifax Explosion of 1917, Nova Scotia sends a Christmas tree to what U.S. city every year?
Boston.
In the movie A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is visited by 4 ghosts: The Ghost of Christmas Past, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Future, and ______ _______
The ghost of Jacob Marley (his former business partner)
The attachment style that someone with a positive concept of the self and a positive concept of others would have, according to Attachment Theory.
What is Secure Attachment?
You really are a heel/ You’re as cuddly as a cactus.”
Who are they referring to in these song lyrics?
Mr. Grinch
The Norse God most closely associated with Yuletide, the pre-Christian festival observed by the Germanic people.
Who is Odin?