Holiday Trivia
What is Santa Claus' real name?
What is Saint Nicholas
This character and his loyal dog, Max, live a solitary existence inside a cave on Mount Crumpet
Who is "The Grinch"
This event is the second-largest day for U.S. food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day.
What is the Super Bowl
One of the oldest traditions at this college is the annual civilian vs. cadet snowball fight — an event that draws more than 1,000 students.
At the first big snowfall of every year, "a fire alarm sounds indicating the immediate start of an all campus snowball fight on the Drill Field," according to a Hokies fan
What is Virginia Tech University
This sport once featured women in professional men's leagues. The first was Lizzy Arlington, who played for the Reading Coal Heavers in 1898 and won her team the game. A little over 30 years later, an African-American woman, Jackie Mitchell, once struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. What's more impressive: Mitchell was 17 years old at the time.
What is baseball
What is a special calendar used to count the days of in anticipation of Christmas?
What is an Advent Calendar
This movie's main character was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa's elves.
What is "Elf"
This popular winter sport was invented in the 1960s and started out as snurfing. ...
What is snowboarding
This college is ranked 4th coldest colleges in the United States, and shares a name with a character from the movie, "Frozen"
What is St. Olaf College
These known widely as adorable, intelligent animals have been used largely by the U.S. and Soviet Union during the Vietnam War and the Cold War. Both countries studied the creatures for their sonar capabilities, but also trained them to detect mines, bring equipment to divers, find lost equipment, and guard submarines amongst other nifty tricks.
What are dolphins
What is the "Festival of Lights?"
What is Hanukah
What's the name of the little girl in the movie, "Frosty the Snowman?"
Who is Holly
This sport is the oldest on the Olympic Winter Games program
What is Ice Skating
This college football team started playing in 1879. In 1887, the squad traveled to South Bend, Indiana, to teach Notre Dame athletes the new game, and a match ensued. And they’re doing something right: Both football teams are the first and second winningest programs of all time, respectively.
What is the University of Michigan
This popular "chip," isn't made of thinly-sliced potatoes, but instead dehydrated potato flakes pressed into their signature parabolic shape.
What are Pringles
Which holiday dictates that people decorate their houses with colorful art and cloth, and put fresh fruit on tables to represent idealism?
What is Kwanzaa
Which action movie has a scene where the Christmas festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it?
What is "Die Hard"
This stadium is nicknamed "The Frozen Tundra," and takes the honor of the coldest stadium in the NFL.
What is Lambeau Field
This college is aptly situated for snow enthusiasts, and is minutes away from arguably some of the planet’s best slopes. Seven mountain resorts are within 40 minutes of campus. Also, the state receives hundreds of inches of dry snow a year and has adopted the slogan “the greatest snow on Earth.” This college is also within 30 minutes of Olympic Park where the 2002 Winter Olympics was held.
What is The University of Utah
This mythical creature is the national animal of Scotland
What is a unicorn
What is the seven-lamp (six branches) ancient Hebrew lampstand made of pure gold and used in the portable sanctuary set up by Moses in the wilderness and later in the Temple in Jerusalem?
What is a menorah
In this dark comedy, the crotchety Willie T. Stokes and his partner reunite once a year for a holiday con. Posing as a mall Santa and his elf, they rip off shopping outlets on Christmas Eve.
What is "Bad Santa."
To participate in this sport, one will need a sled, helmet, suit, visor, gloves, finger spikes, booties
What is luge
This college, whose initials are UM, built the first tunnels, so that students would not have to walk outdoors to get from one building on campus to another. These tunnels are sometimes called the “Gopher Way,” date back to the 1920’s and encompass 6 miles of tunnels and skyways. A couple of students even created an online game based on the map of the system.
What is the University of Minnesota
According to many crime scene investigators, this cuddly Australian animal has fingerprints similar to humans
What are koalas