Holiday Drinks
This non-alcoholic beverage combines milk, sugar, and chocolate, and can be served with marshmallows for a festive twist.
What is Hot Chocolate?
Celebrated with lights, gifts, and family gatherings, this eight-day Jewish holiday usually falls in late November or December.
What is Hanukkah?
This famous countdown tradition was first held in Times Square in 1907.
What is the New Year’s Eve ball drop?
In this 1990 film, Kevin McCallister is accidentally left alone at home and must defend his house from burglars.
What is Home Alone?
This wrinkly, brain-shaped nut is rich in omega-3 fatty acids and is commonly used in baking, salads, and pesto.
What is a walnut?
This creamy holiday drink, often spiked with rum or brandy, is traditionally made with eggs, milk, sugar, and spices like nutmeg.
What is Eggnog?
Also known as the Festival of Lights, this Indian holiday includes decorating homes, lighting oil lamps, and enjoying sweets.
What is Diwali?
This state in USA drops a giant peach-shaped ball in its New Year’s Eve celebration
What is Georgia?
This 2003 movie stars Will Ferrell as a human raised by elves who travels to New York to find his real father.
What is Elf?
This nut, often used in Italian desserts like biscotti, has a distinctive brown skin that can be blanched off. It is also the main ingredient in the spread Nutella.
What is a hazelnut?
This autumn and winter-spiced beverage is often served warm, with cloves, cinnamon, and citrus in wine.
What is Mulled wine?
In late December, this African-American holiday celebrates culture, family, and community, and features a kinara with seven candles.
What is Kwanzaa?
This beloved Scottish poem and song, famously penned by Robert Burns, about remembering old friends and times gone by is traditionally sung at New Year's Eve to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new.
What is Auld Lang Syne?
A young boy boards a magical train bound for the North Pole in this 2004 animated adventure.
What is The Polar Express?
This tropical “nut” is technically a drupe, grows on palm trees, and provides both milk and oil used in cooking and beauty products.
What is a coconut?
This classic winter cocktail mixes whiskey, honey, hot water, and lemon to soothe the cold away.
What is Hot Toddy?
This winter solstice festival in Scandinavia honors the rebirth of the sun, often with candles, feasts, and traditional songs.
What is Yule?
In Spain, people eat twelve of these—one at each stroke of midnight—for luck in the new year.
What are grapes?
James Stewart plays George Bailey in this 1946 classic, where he learns the impact of his life with the help of an angel.
What is It’s a Wonderful Life?
Native to Queensland, Australia, and first commercially produced on a wide scale in Hawaii, this round, ivory-colored nut is prized for its rich, buttery flavor and is a popular ingredient in cookies and chocolate confections.
What are macadamia nuts?
Popular in Mexico during the holidays, this warm, thick drink is made with corn dough, chocolate, milk, and spices.
What is atole (or champurrado)?
On January 1st, people in Japan celebrate this holiday with visits to shrines, special foods, and new year’s decorations.
What is Oshogatsu?
This country's New Year's Eve tradition involves partygoers "jumping into the new year" by leaping from chairs at midnight to invite good luck in January.
A department store Santa claims to be the real Kris Kringle in this 1947 fantasy film.
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
These nuts grow inside a spiny husk on trees native to the genus Castanea. You’ll find this nut “roasting on an open fire” and are commonly used in Chinese desserts and stir-fries.
What is a chestnut?