Holiday History
Holiday Numbers
Holiday Names
Holiday People
Holiday Mix
100
Christmas was first celebrated by pagans as a response to what natural event.
What is the winter solstice?
100
The number of days in Kwanzaa.
What is 7 days.
100
The name of the candle holder used during the celebration of Hanukkah.
What is the Menorah?
100
The name of the religious group who banned Christmas in America in the 17th century.
What are the Puritans?
100
It means to violate the sacredness of by destructive actions.
What is desecrate?
200
The religion that was outlawed by the Syrians in 175 BC.
What is Judaism?
200
The number of nights in Hanukkah.
What is 8 nights.
200
The name of the candle holder used in Kwanzaa celebrations in the United States.
What is the Kinara?
200
The people who ruled the Jewish Holy Land in 175 BC that desecrated the Holy Temple.
Who are the Syrians?
200
What "Hanukkah" means in Hebrew.
What is dedication?
300
The culture that Kwanzaa was introduced to preserve.
What is the African culture?
300
The century that Christmas was banned.
What is the 17th Century?
300
Another name for Hanukkah.
What is the festival of lights?
300
The first celebrators of the winter solstice.
Who are pagans?
300
What "Kwanzaa" means in Swahili.
What is "first fruits?"
400
How the Maccabees took back the Jewish temple from the Syrians.
What is rebelled or fought?
400
The year that Kwanzaa was introduced.
What is 1966?
400
The name of the time of year where the sun is at its lowest point on the horizon.
What is the winter solstice?
400
The small group of Jewish rebels who fought against the Syrians.
Who are the Maccabees?
400
Kwanzaa is not a religious holiday but this type that includes music and dancing.
What is a social holiday?
500
Candles on the Kinara symbolize one fo the these Kwanzaa principles.
What is (unity, creativity, self-determination, cooperative economics, creativity, collective work, purpose, or faith)?
500
Kwanzaa was created in 1966 which makes it how old?
What is 46 years?
500
The symbols of Kwanzaa such as unity, self-determination, creativity, cooperative economics, collective work, purpose and faith.
What are the principles of Kwanzaa?
500
The founder of Kwanzaa.
Who is Korenga?
500
The present day celebration of Christmas is not a rowdy celebration in the streets, but more of this type.
What is a family celebration?
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