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Advent Alphabet
Christmas Quotes
Carol of "The Bells"
Christmas Around the World
Christmas Characters
100
My name starts with the letter "K" and am a wicked man who wanted to kill another little guy who would take my place. I live in Jerusalem and I tricked some wise men too.
Who is King Herod?
100
This green "monster" learned a very important lesson at Christmastime in Whoville: “Christmas doesn't come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more....”
Who is the Grinch?
100
This poem, concerning silver bells, was written by whom? Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
100
In this country "down under", Christmas has almost never been white.
What is Australia?
100
He was a jolly, happy soul with a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal.
Who is Frosty the Snow Man?
200
I start with the letter "O" and am used a decorations for Christmas trees.
What is an Ornament?
200
This young lady, with a snippy tounge, let poor Charlie Brown know what was happening to Chrismas: "Look, Charlie, let's face it. We all know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It's run by a big eastern syndicate, you know."
Who is Lucy?
200
This song was originally titled "Twinkle Bell" but was later changed to its current name. It was also performed in "The Lemon Drop Kid" by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell.
What is Silver Bells?
200
In this European country, the children receive gifts on the feast of the Epiphany. Children leave their shoes on the windowsills and fill them with straw, carrots, and barley or the horses of the Wise Men. Their favorite is Balthazar who rides a donkey and is the one believed to leave the gifts.
What is Spain?
200
He was made fun of by all of the other reindeer because of the color of his schnoz.
Who is Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer?
300
I start with the letter "N". I am another word for Christmas in French. I also come from a French phrase that means "good news".
What is "Noel"?
300
This comedian, who starred in "The Lemon Drop Kid", had a very keen serious side concerning Christmas: “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
Who is Bob Hope?
300
Please act and say what Inspector Clouseau does and says in the hunchback scene of "The Pink Panther Strikes Again"
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300
In this Asian island country, there is a god or priest known as Hoteiosho, who closely resembles our Santa Claus. He is always pictured as a kind old man carrying a huge pack. He is thought to have eyes in the back of his head.
What is Japan?
300
This poor little girl was tormented by a nasty grump, but she taught him a lesson about what Christmas was all about... and his little dog, Max, too.
Who is Cindy Loo Who?
400
We start with the letter "C" and are lit on a wreath to represent that Jesus is the light of the world.
What are candles?
400
This founding father, who was rather fond of turkeys, said this about Christmas: "How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
This Ukrainian song was used at one time as a nationalist song when the Ukraine split from the Soviet Union. It is a song that when song sounds like it's title.
What is "Carol of the Bells?"
400
In this Middle Eastern country (the supposed place where the Magi came from), on Christmas Eve, a bonfire of thorn bushes is lit and everyone sings. If the thorns burn to ashes, good luck will be granted for the coming year. When the fire dies, each person jumps over the ashes three times and makes a wish.
What is Iraq?
400
He was visited by three ghosts who taught him to learn to love others, especially around Christmas!
Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?
500
My name starts with the letter "F". I was the one who invented the manger scene to help people remember God's gift of his son.
Who is Francis of Assisi?
500
This lovely cowgirl, who may have been in cahoots with "Trigger" said: “Christmas, my child, is love in action."
Who is Dale Evans?
500
Famous American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" wrote the lyrics of this Christmas carol after his first and second wife had both died. The message is meant to bring hope of God's love to lowly mankind.
What is "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"?
500
In this Northern European country, in some rural areas a villager is chosen to be the Mari llwyd. This person travels around the town draped in white and carrying a horse's skull on a long pole. Anyone given the "bite" by the horse's jaws must pay a fine.
What is Wales?
500
I am a bird that gets sung a lot and people become paranoid about their fruit trees that they think I am in.
What is the partridge in a pear tree?