Happy Holidays
Hanukkah is an 8-day celebration using this 9-branched candelabrum.
menorah
Dry ice is the solid form of this gas.
Carbon Dioxide (dry ice sublimes at room temperature)
White is worn during Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to this holy location.
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
This game leads The Game Awards 2023 with nine total nominations.
Baldur's Gate 3
Frostbite is commonly measured using this many stages of progression.
Four - in the fourth stage, the skin can become black, mummified, or autoamputated.
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day is observed on December 7. This day in 1941 was when the United States declared war on Japan.
December 8
The name of this dessert comes from the Italian word for "frozen."
gelato
In DC Comics, the White Lantern Corps represents this universal force.
Life (the white light that creates life)
This 1995 film involving a jungle-themed board game has one space-themed spinoff and two modern sequels.
Jumanji
This is the country with the most Winter Olympic medals.
Norway (they also have the most gold medals)
This holiday was created in 1966 during the aftermath of the Watts riots in Los Angeles, CA.
Kwanzaa
This kind of ice is a slurry mixture that forms when ice or snow melts during mixed precipitation and then refreezes.
Slush
In the original Snow White story, the prince orders the evil queen to wear these as punishment for trying to murder the main character.
Red-hot iron slippers (she is made to dance in them until she dies)
According to Statista, this is the best-selling console of all time.
PlayStation 2 (In third place, the Nintendo's Switch is the only current-generation console among the five best-selling consoles of all time)
Earth reaches the point in its orbit where it is closest to the sun during this month.
January
First celebrated in Scandinavia as a Norse festival, this holiday celebrates the sun's re-emergence and the days starting to grow longer.
Yule
This glacier, located in East Antarctica, is the largest glacier on Earth.
Lambert Glacier (about 50 miles wide, over 250 miles long, and about 2,500 m deep)
The White Cliffs of this English town are composed of chalk accented by streaks of black flint which were deposited during the Late Cretaceous.
Dover
This is a traditional Russian card game, with the name coming from the Russian word for fool.
Durak
Described as figure skating on snow, this first appeared as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Ski ballet
Accused of blasphemy and stoned to death, this holiday the day after Christmas celebrates the first martyr of the Christian church.
Saint Stephen's Day or the Feast of Saint Stephen
You can make ice that sinks in water by freezing heavy water, a form of water whose hydrogen atoms are all this isotope.
Deuterium or hydrogen-2 (where the neutron contains one proton and one neutron)
This 1954 American musical film features a popular holiday song with the same name.
This American actress is the only person to have won the BAFTA Games Awards for Performer twice, coincidentally for the same character across different games.
Ashley Johnson (for Ellie in The Last of Us; she guest-starred as Ellie's mother in the TV adaptation)
In the United States, a cold spell is defined as an event where the national average high temperature drops below this temperature.
20 °F (−7 °C)