HOLIDAY TRADITIONS
This German word is the origin of the modern Christmas market tradition.
What is Weihnachtsmarkt?
This holiday rom-com features cue cards, multiple storylines, and a very awkward wedding.
What is Love Actually?
This dessert is traditionally soaked in alcohol and improves with age.
What is fruitcake?
This Mariah Carey song officially signals the start of holiday season.
What is All I Want for Christmas Is You?
This Jewish festival is known as the Festival of Lights.
What is Hanukkah?
The modern image of Santa Claus was popularized in the 19th century largely through advertising by this company.
What is Coca-Cola?
This Christmas movie was released in July and initially marketed as a summer blockbuster.
What is Die Hard?
This spirit is most commonly mixed with eggnog.
What is rum?
This song involves chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
What is The Christmas Song?
Kwanzaa is based on principles drawn from this cultural heritage.
What is African heritage?
In Victorian England, this activity was considered flirtatious and slightly scandalous during the holidays.
What is exchanging Christmas cards?
In Home Alone, the family is traveling to this European city when they forget Kevin.
What is Paris?
This fortified wine, often served with rich desserts, is made by adding a neutral spirit to stop fermentation and preserve natural sugars — common examples include Port and this Spanish counterpart.
What is Sherry?
This band famously sang Last Christmas.
Who is Wham!?
This Hindu festival celebrates light over darkness and good over evil.
What is Diwali?
This Catholic tradition marks the four Sundays leading up to Christmas.
What is Advent?
This actor played George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life.
Who is James Stewart?
A holiday custard dessert that’s steamed or baked in a water bath, often flavored with citrus and alcohol, whose name literally means “cooked cream” in Portuguese and is famously caramelized on top when served.
What is pastel de nata, or crème brûlée?
This holiday song was banned by the BBC for being “too morbid.”
What is Fairytale of New York?
This Islamic celebration marks the end of Ramadan.
What is Eid al-Fitr?
This plant associated with Christmas was once banned in churches due to its pagan symbolism.
What is mistletoe?
This holiday film is adapted from a novel by Jean Shepherd.
What is A Christmas Story?
This kitchen activity usually starts festive and ends stressful.
What is hosting holiday dinner?
This songwriter composed Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
Who is Hugh Martin?
This winter solstice celebration predates Christianity in many European cultures.
What is Yule?