Holiday Fun Facts
What is Reginald, Romeo, Roland/Rollo, or Reggy?
What is Finland?
In the Polar Express, Santa gives Hero Boy this gift to remind him of the importance of belief.
What is a bell?
This 1978 storm brought hurricane-force winds and paralyzed the Midwest.
What is the Great Blizzard of 1978?
George Hood, a SLU senior, recorded in his diary that on January 21, 1855, the school declared a winter sports day due to heavy ____.
What is snow?
Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" first hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in this year, 25 years after its release.
What is 2019?
This country is credited with starting the tradition of the Christmas tree and the Advent calendar.
What is Germany?
In Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970), Kris Kringle must sneak past this villainous character who bans them.
Who is Burgermeister Meisterburger?
The January 2009 U.S. ice storm left over 1.3 million people without power across Kentucky and Arkansas, and was declared a federal disaster.
What is the January 2009 Central U.S. Ice Storm?
SLU's campus fountains have occasionally been used for this winter sport when frozen.
What is ice skating?
The tradition of leaving cookies & milk out for Santa is believed to have started in the U.S. during this decade.
What is the 1930s?
The world's largest Christmas market is held in this country.
What is Strasbourg, France?
In Home Alone, the McCallister family travels to ____ (city) for Christmas, accidentally leaving Kevin behind.
What is Paris?
The nickname of the blizzard that hit Washington, D.C. in 2009-2010.
What is "Snowmageddon"?
The earliest (recorded) day in the season that it snowed in St. Louis was _____ 20, 1916.
What is October?
The Rockettes' original name back in 1925.
What are the Missouri Rockets?
In Japan, this fast-food chain is a traditional Christmas Eve dinner.
What is KFC?
In The Grinch (2000), Jim Carrey's Grinch lives on this mountain overlooking Whoville.
What is Mount Crumpit?
The nickname of the 2011 blizzard, which dropped over 20 inches of snow in Chicago, included stranding cars on Lake Shore Drive.
What is the Groundhog Day Blizzard?
The year the Blue Santa first took a campus tour.
What is 2006?
The tradition of mistletoe dates back to this ancient civilization, which believed it had mystical powers.
The year the U.S. recognized Christmas as a federal holiday.
What is 1870?
A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired on this television network in 1965.
What is CBS?
The Great Blizzard of 1888 buried the Northeast with around ___ inches of snow.
What is 50 inches?
The fast-food place that Dr. Graves' family gets over the holidays as part of their tradition.
What is Raising Cane's Chicken?