New Years Day
Christmas Around the World
Holidays Around the World
Winter Solstice
Christmas Songs
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The general term for the promises of self-improvement made on New Year's Day.
New Year's Resolution
200
This specific food, often served in a corn husk, is a popular Christmas dish in Mexico and Central America.
Tamales
200
This seven-day African-American and Pan-African celebration begins the day after Christmas.
Kwanzaa
200
This is the day the Winter Solstice occurs
December 21
200
This American singer-songwriter is responsible for the massively popular 1994 hit "All I Want for Christmas Is You."
Mariah Carey
400
The city where the Rose Bowl stadium is located.
Pasadena
400
Because Christmas falls in their summer, people in Australia often spend Christmas Day HERE, much like Americans do on Memorial Day or 4th of July
The beach
400
The primary religious reason why Christmas is not widely celebrated in countries like China and India, where many people practice these two major religions.
Buddhism and Hinduism
400
Compared to the rest of the days of the year, the Winter Solstice is known as THIS
The shortest day of the year
400
This pop singer's 2011 album, Under the Mistletoe, was one of the best-selling Christmas albums of the 21st century.
Justin Bieber
600
This famous document, freeing enslaved people in Confederate states, officially went into effect on January 1, 1863.
Emancipation Proclamation
600
This Central American country holds the Quema del Diablo, or "Burning of the Devil," celebration to purify their homes before Christmas.
Guatemala
600
This traditional Japanese practice for New Year's involves eating THIS long, thin food to symbolize a long life.
Noodles
600
The Earth tilts at approximately THIS VALUE, and is the primary reason for the Earth's seasons and the Solstice
23.5 degrees
600
In "The Twelve Days of Christmas," the gift given on the fifth day.
Five golden rings
800
This country, which celebrates the Ōmisoka holiday, has a tradition of ringing Buddhist temple bells 108 times at midnight to cleanse the previous year's sins.
Japan
800
In Czechia, single women perform this action on Christmas Eve to predict if they will be married in the next year.
Tossing a shoe over their shoulder
800
Las Posadas are THIS many days of parties leading up to Christmas Eve in Mexico
9
800
The month the Winter Solstice occurs in the Southern Hemisphere.
June
800
This carol, which is perhaps the most-recorded song of all time, was composed on Christmas Eve in Austria in 1818.
Silent Night
1000
Eating these specific dark-colored, inexpensive legumes on New Year's Day is a Southern U.S. tradition for good luck and prosperity.
Black eyed peas
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This famous scientist is credited with helping to popularize the Christmas Tree in England when he published a drawing of the royal family around one in the 1840s.
Prince Albert
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In Scandinavia, this celebration on December 13th honors a Christian martyr and involves girls wearing white robes and candle crowns.
St. Lucia Day
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The modern holiday of Christmas, celebrated on December 25th, was strategically placed near the Solstice to help the followers of THIS who typically celebrated Yule.
Paganism
1000
This song, originally performed by Judy Garland in the movie Meet Me in St. Louis, is often included in Christmas music collections.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas