Animals
This type of deer can jump up to 25 feet in the air!
What are reindeer or caribou?
What popular winter drink is also known as "milk punch"?
What is eggnog?
Huskies are essential for what winter sport?
This continent has the coldest recorded temperature in history of -128.6 degrees Fahrenheit
What is Antarctica?
Germans and Eastern Europeans celebrate this demonic figure the night before Christmas, to avoid seeing him.
What is the Krampus?
Krampusnacht celebrates (and wards away) the demonic figure the night before, and reminds children to be good, or else the Krampus may kidnap them!
What spice is commonly used in gingerbread cookies?
What is cinnamon?
This winter sport dates back to almost 8000 BCE, beginning in Russia, and involves gliding down a mountain
What is skiing?
How many sides does a snowflake have?
What is 6?
This holiday celebrated the return of the Sun King, and the shortest day of the year.
What is Yule?
Yule was a celebration of survival and hope throughout the winter. Many of our current celebrations, including burning Yule Logs, tree lighting, holly berries, and even mistletoe originate from Yule celebrations that usher in health, hope , and light in the spring.
This animal is called a pup as a baby
What is a seal?
What nut is often roasted and enjoyed during the holiday season?
What are chestnuts?
What year did ice hockey begin in North America? Will accept which decade if the team doesn't know the exact year
What is 1875?
This astrological phenomenon marks the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere
What is the winter solstice?
This fruit is sometimes hung in doorways on Christmas, and smashed on New Year's, in reference to the Greek myth about the Queen of the Underworld
What is a pomegranate?
Queen Persephone (pronounced "Pur-sef-o-nee") was trapped in the Underworld after she ate the cursed fruit from her husband's pomegranate tree. Because she ate 6 seeds, she had to stay in the Underworld for 6 months, which lead to crops and flowers wilting and dying (aka, winter time). Believers and followers of the myth sometimes smash a pomegranate over the doorway on the New Year to pray for her return again, and the end of the cold Winter.
This animal can reduce their core body temperature to below freezing during hibernation periods
What is the Arctic Squirrel
In the movie "Elf", what is referred to as the 4 main food groups?
What are candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup?
This Olympic winter sport is played on ice and involves a broom
What is curling?
What percentage of Earth's surface is covered by snow either permanently or temporarily? Will accept a 5% range
What is 23% or 20-25%?
Welsh carolers dress as this animal during Yule.
What is a Horse?
Carolers sometimes go as the Mari Lwyd (pronounced "Mary Lwid"), which includes a horse skull on a stick and a white sheet to hide the identity of the person. The Mari Lywd would travel from house to house, demanding the those answering the door either battle them in song, or give them some of their food for Yule.
Where do polar bears get the water they need?
What is seal blubber?
This winter drink dates back to 500 BCE and was originally created by the Mayans and Aztecs and was once thought to have restorative properties
What is hot chocolate?
Where were the first Winter Olympics held in 1924?
What are the French Alps in France?
How many inches of snow does Massachusetts get a year on average?
What is 50 inches?
This animal (made of straw) is built in Sweden every year to celebrate Yule and the winter holidays.
What is A Goat?
The Gävle goat, in celebration of Yule, is built out of straw every year. However, due to the flammable nature of straw, almost every year the goat has been (accidentally or on purpose) burnt down! Nowadays, it becomes a tradition to see if the Swedish law enforcement and government can keep citizens from burning the goat to the ground.
(the 2023 Gävle goat is still standing!)