Christmas Traditions
Songs and Movies
Christmas Around the World
College Bowl Season
Final Jeopardy
200
An Advent wreath features 4 candles of these colors (must have correct colors AND amounts).
What are 3 purple and 1 pink?
200
On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, these bathing fowl.
What are seven swans a-swimming?
200
This late night Christmas Eve celebration was started by Pope Sixtus III at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggoire in Rome and has spread all over the world.
What is midnight mass?
200
This was the first college football bowl game held in 1902. It featured the best team from the east and west to draw attention to the Tournament of Roses.
What is the Rose Bowl?
400
Catholic priests wear vestments of this color during Christmas.
What is white?
400
The Who's of Whoville enjoyed a feast of this main course on Christmas.
What is roast beast?
400
Legend has it that a Mexican girl had nothing to offer the baby Jesus but a bunch of weeds, which turned into these red flowers shaped like the star of Bethlehem.
What are poinsettas?
400
Bowl games are named after the "bowl" shape of this famous bowl game site.
What is Rose Bowl Stadium?
600
Recreating the birth of Christ, these are commonly used as decorations during Christmas.
What is a nativity?
600
This 1988 movie, starring Bruce Willis, sparks hot debate about if it is a Christmas movie.
What is Die Hard?
600
In Colombia, people celebrate this feast day on December 7th by lighting many white candles and paper lanterns on la Noche de las Velitas.
What is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception?
600
This year bowl games are spread out between December 15th and January 7th but, until the 1950's, all were played on this date.
What is New Year's Day (January 1st)?
800
During the Great Depression, many children received this fruit in their stockings on Christmas.
What are oranges?
800
10 year-old singer Gayla Peevey sang this 1953 song about a 9,000 pound Christmas wish.
What is "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"?
800
Christians of this country in Africa celebrate Chirstmas on January 7th, believing that the 3 wise men did not make it to Bethlehem until then.
What is Ethiopia?
800
This singer, known as the King of Rock and Roll, performed at halftime of the 1956 Cotton Bowl for a crowd of over 25,000 people.
Who is Elvis Presley?
1000
The church's Christmas season starts on this day.
Bonus: How long is the Christmas season?
What is Christmas?
Bonus: 12 days
1000
In Home Alone, Kevin has this many siblings.
What is four (Jeff, Buzz, Megan, and Linnie)?
1000
In this country, people gather in plazas to burn effigies of the devil to cleanse their homes of evils and misfortunes suffered through the year at La Quema del Diablo.
What is Guatemala?
1000
This bowl game, played in Memphis, Tennessee, is dedicated to veterans who fought in both World Wars and the Korean War.
What is the Liberty Bowl?
1000
This North Pole resident is know as Weihnachtsmann in Germany.
Who is Santa Claus?