Songs of the Seasons
Holiday Traditions
Holiday Food
Winter Movie Classics
New Year's Eve / Day
100
Finish this the next line in this song: "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer"... (you must sing the answer!)
What is "had a very shiny nose"
100
Hanging ______ over a _______ during the holiday season is a tradition around the world.
What is Mistletoe?
100
A _____ _____is a candy that is traditionally white with red stripes and flavored with peppermint, but is also made in a variety of other flavors and colors.
What is a candy cane.
100
This movie, produced by Frank Capra in 1946, stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his dreams in order to help others, and whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence.
What is "It's A Wonderful Life".
100
You may make one of these to improve your life as the new year begins.
What is a New Year's resolution. Some resolutions may concern diet, exercise, bad habits, and other issues associated with personal wellness. A common view is to use the first day of the year as a clean slate to improve one's life.
200
In the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" the gift that is given on the fifth day of Christmas is... (you must sing the answer!)
What is "Five Golden Rings"
200
This country can be credited with the creation of the Christmas beverage eggnog.
What is East Anglia, England. Eggnog, also known as egg milk punch, is a chilled, sweetened, dairy-based beverage traditionally made with milk and/or cream, sugar, whipped eggs and spirits such as brandy, rum or bourbon. The finished serving is often garnished with a sprinkling of ground cinnamon or nutmeg.
200
_____ ____ is a cake made with chopped candied fruit and/or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and (hopefully) soaked in spirits.
What is Fruit cakes. Fruit cakes are typically served in celebration of weddings and Christmas. The earliest recipe from ancient Rome lists pomegranate seeds, pine nuts, and raisins that were mixed into barley mash.
200
_______ ___ is a 1942 American musical film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. With music by Irving Berlin, the composer wrote twelve songs specifically for the film, the best known being "White Christmas".
What is "Holiday Inn". The film also stars Virginia Dale and Marjorie Reynolds.
200
In the "Big Apple", the "ball drop", occurs at this address, where the ball descends 141 feet in 60 seconds down a specially designed flagpole, beginning at 11:59 p.m. ET, and resting at midnight to signal the start of the new year.
What is One Times Square
300
The words "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" make up the opening line of a classic Christmas song written in 1945 by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé.
What is "The Christmas Song"
300
The Menorah has ______candles that are lit on each of the evenings of Hanukkah.
What is eight? (See video)
300
These delicious goodies are often made using recipes handed down from generation to generation. A plate of these left for Santa on Christmas Eve, along with a glass of milk may improve a child's chance of moving from the "naughty" to the "nice" list!
What are Christmas cookies.
300
A ____ ____ is a 1983 Christmas comedy film in which nine-year-old Ralphie wants only one thing for Christmas: a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and "this thing which tells time". Ralphie's desire is rejected by all giving him the same warning: "You'll shoot your eye out."
What is "A Christmas Story"
300
It is a custom for people to ____ at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. Some hold the superstition that failing to____ someone ensures a year of loneliness. A ____ is about strengthening ties you wish to maintain in the future. If a couple that celebrates together doesn't take the time to ____, it doesn't bode well for the relationship.
What is kiss, kiss,kiss!
400
"I Have a Little Dreidel" is a children's Hanukkah song in which the dreidel is made of...
What is Clay?
400
The colors of Kwanza are:_______, ________ and _______.
What are black (for the people), red(for the noble blood that unites all people of African ancestry) and green (for the rich land of Africa).
400
______ are shallow-fried pancakes made of grated or ground potato, flour and egg, flavored with garlic or onion and seasoning. They may be topped with a variety of condiments, ranging from the savory, such as sour cream to the sweet, such as apple sauce or they may be served ungarnished. [1]
What are Latkes.
400
In this 1945 Christmas film and romantic comedy, Elizabeth Lane (Barbara Stanwyck) is a single food writer living in New York whose articles about her fictitious Connecticut farm and her husband and baby are admired by housewives across the country. Sydney Greenstreet also stars in this Christmas classic.
What is "Christmas in Connecticut".
400
True or false: In the United States, it is believed that black-eyed beans are very lucky.
What is True. A special soul food with rice which is popularly called Hoppin’ John is consumed with black eyed beans.
500
Irving Berlin wrote this song in 1940 and it was first performed on December 25, 1941, on his CBS radio show. In 1942, it was sung on screen in the hit movie "Holiday Inn".
What is "White Christmas" sung by none other than Bing Crosby?
500
We all know the tradition of hanging stockings for gifts. Name the country that uses shoes instead of stockings for the same purpose.
What is The Netherlands
500
The ____ ____ cake is an elaborate creation consisting of a rolled, filled sponge cake, frosted with chocolate buttercream to look like tree bark and festooned with meringue mushrooms, marzipan holly sprigs, spun sugar cobwebs and any other sort of edible decoration.
What is a yule log. To cleanse the air of the year’s events and to usher in the spring, families would burn logs decorated with holly, pinecones or ivy. Wine and salt were also used to anoint the logs. Once burned, the log’s ashes were valuable treasures said to have medicinal benefits and to guard against evil.
500
This Holiday classic is a 1938 American film adaptation of Charles Dickens's 1843 novelette of the same name in which an elderly miser who learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve after visitations by four spirits.
What is "A Christmas Carol" Remember Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley and Tiny Tim, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future?
500
This meal is a German New Year's tradition.
What is Pork and Sauerkraut. Throughout history, the lowly cabbage has played side dish to the pig on New Year's Day, because it's a tasty complement to pork. Any Pennsylvania German worth his or her salt knows pork is served on New Year's Day because it brings good luck. With their snouts, pigs root forward, signifying progress, lore dictates, whereas chickens and turkeys scratch backward."
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