Winter
Christmas
Culture
Geography
Art
100
n winter, roads are often treated with this mineral, also known as sodium chloride, to melt ice.
What is salt?
100
The modern image of Santa in a red suit was strongly reinforced by 1930s advertising campaigns from this global soft drink company.
What is Coca-Cola?
100
This Swedish-based streaming platform, launched in 2008, changed how people listen to music and offers both free and premium subscriptions.
What is Spotify?
100
This landlocked European country has four official languages—German, French, Italian, and Romansh—and is known for its Alps and banking system.
What is Switzerland?
100
This Spanish artist’s “Blue Period” and “Rose Period” came before he helped invent Cubism with works like Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.
Who is Pablo Picasso? 
200
This word describes a natural display of lights in the sky, sometimes seen in Estonia in winter, also called the Northern Lights.
What is the aurora borealis?
200
Many historians say that this country helped popularize decorated Christmas trees before the tradition spread across Europe.
What is Germany?
200
This streaming-era series by the Duffer Brothers, set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, mixes 1980s nostalgia with monsters from the “Upside Down.”
What is Stranger Things?
200
This mountain range forms a natural border between France and Spain and contains the small principality of Andorra.
What are the Pyrenees?
200
This art movement, whose name means “rebirth,” began in Italy around the 14th century and emphasized realism, perspective, and classical ideas.
What is the Renaissance?
300
This Scandinavian concept, literally meaning “cosiness,” describes the warm, relaxed atmosphere people seek indoors during long, dark winters.
What is hygge?
300
In Sweden, this December festival honors a Christian martyr and is celebrated with candle crowns, saffron buns, and processions led by a girl dressed in white.
What is Saint Lucia’s Day?
300
This British band, whose album A Rush of Blood to the Head includes the song “Clocks,” has headlined major festivals like Glastonbury multiple times.
Who is Coldplay?
300
This narrow strait separates Great Britain from continental Europe and is only about 34 kilometers wide at its narrowest point between Dover and Calais.
What is the English Channel (or the Strait of Dover)?
300
Whose painting?
Who is Claude Monet?
400
Around 21 December in the Northern Hemisphere, this astronomical event gives Estonia its shortest day and longest night.
What is the winter solstice?
400
This classic Christmas story by Charles Dickens features the characters Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim.
What is “A Christmas Carol”?
400
Set largely in London at Christmas time, this 2003 British film interweaves multiple love stories and features Hugh Grant as the prime minister.
What is Love Actually?
400
This Asian capital, formerly called Edo, is part of the world’s largest metropolitan area and lies on Honshu island.
What is Tokyo?
400
This period in 17th-century European art, with dramatic lighting and strong emotions, is represented by painters like Caravaggio and Rembrandt.
What is the Baroque?
500
This icy sport, popular at the Winter Olympics, has athletes racing down a frozen track on a small sled, face down.
What is skeleton?
500
This Austrian and Central European folkloric creature, often depicted with horns and chains, punishes misbehaving children as a dark counterpart to Saint Nicholas.
Who is Krampus?
500
This genre-blending South Korean film by Bong Joon-ho became the first non-English-language movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2020.
What is Parasite?
500
This cold, treeless biome found in northern Russia, Canada, and parts of Scandinavia lies just south of the Arctic ice and is underlain by permafrost.
What is a tundra?
500
This American artist turned everyday objects like soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles into icons of Pop Art.
Who is Andy Warhol? 