Advance Holidays
This holiday drink originated in medieval Britain and involved passing a communal bowl.
What is wassail?
This tradition involves leaving food out for Santa's reindeer.
What is leaving carrots or reindeer snacks.
This 1996 film starring Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, and Loretta Devine follows the Henderson family during Christmas, mixing music, romance, and Black Southern church culture.
What is The Preacher's wife?
Often baked with molasses and warm spices, these cookies are shaped like people and decorated with icing.
What are gingerbread cookies?
This clause prevents the insured from profiting from a loss by requiring reimbursement if another party pays.
What is subrogation?
This culture celebrates New Year with a tradition called Hogmanay.
What is Scottish culture?
In Iceland, this giant feline is said to eat anyone who doesn't receive new clothes before Christmas.
What is the Yule Cat?
In this 1990 classic a 8-year-old protects his house from Wet Bandits after his family accidentally leaves him behind for Christmas.
What is home alone?
This dense fruit cake from Germany, traditionally dusted with powdered sugar, is known for its marzipan center.
What is stollen?
This year State Farm moved its headquarters to its current city.
What is 1974?
This holiday is celebrated on the night of December 5th in parts of Europe, this horned figure accompanies St. Nicholas and punishes misbehaving children.
Who is Krampus?
Children in the Netherlands leave these by the door on December 5th for Sinterklass to fill with treats.
What are shoes?
In this 1966 Dr. Seuss classic, a green creature realizes ""Christmas doesn't come from a store."
What is How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
This holiday side dish, made from cubed bread, vegetables, and herbs, is sometimes cooked inside a turkey.
What is stuffing (or dressing)?
This engineering-related term refers to a roof structure bending or dipping due to load or improper support, commonly evaluated in snow or wind claims.
What is sagging (or structural deflection)?
Often seen during Christmas, this plant became popular in the U.S after being brought from Mexico in the 1820s by diplomat Joel Poinsett.
What is the poinsettia?
At midnight in Spain, people eat one of these for each month of the upcoming years to bring good luck.
What are grapes?
This 2003 classic follows a human raised by elves who travels to New York City to find his real father.
What is Elf?
This candy was originally shaped to resemble a shepherd's staff.
What is a candy cane?
This coverage, often under Coverage A, pays for the increased cost to repair or rebuild due to enforcement of modern building codes after a covered loss.
What is Ordinance and Law?
This mythical figure- describe as wearing a wreath of holly and carrying a blazing torch- appears to be Ebenezer Scrooge as the second spirit in " A Christmas Carol."
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Past?
In the Philippines, Christmas season brings a massive competition featuring enormous, ornate, glowing versions of these decorations.
What are lanterns?
In this 1946 classic, George Bailey sees what life would've been like if he had never been born.
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
This traditional Christmas dessert from U.K. is steamed, filled with dried fruit, and famously set on fire before serving.
What is plum pudding?
This document, required from mitigation venders, outline moistures readings, extraction logs, equipment usage, and drying goals.
What is a dry log?