Holiday Traditions
By The Numbers
Holiday Songs
Potpourri
100
This is the most popular type of cookie left out for Santa.

What is chocolate chip?

100

The Pet Rock debuted this year.

What is 1970?

100

Grandma was run over by this animal.

What is a reindeer?

100

This 1946 Christmas movie has appeared on television the most number of times.

What is It's a Wonderful Life?

200

On the Friday night during Hanukkah this food is added to the Hanukkah meal.

What is challah?

200

The year Kwanzaa was first celebrated.

What is 1966?

200

This person wrote the music for Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas.

Who is Danny Elfman?

200

This was the very first balloon character in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

What is Felix the Cat?

300

This seven-branched candelabra is used during Kwanzaa.

What is a Kinara?

300

In Steven Spielberg's movie, An American Tail, the story begins on this night of Hanukkah.

What is the first night?

300

"I have a little Dreidel, I made it out of" this material.

What is clay?

300

The first U.S. president to recognize Hanukkah in the White House.

Who is Jimmy Carter?

400

Celebrated over 5 days, this holiday is know as The Festival of Lights.

What is Diwali?

400

The festival of Diwali starts this many days before the new moon comes up.

What is 2?

400

This song from the 1942 movie, Holiday Inn, was the number one Christmas song until 1997.

What is White Christmas?

400

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice always occurs around one of these two dates.

What is December 21 or December 22?

500

As the clock chimes midnight to ring in the New Year, this Spanish tradition involves eating twelve of this fruit.

What are grapes?

500

The 2020 Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center, NY, is this many feet.

What is 75'?

500

The name of this tune sung by Kermit the Frog on Christmas Eve in The Muppet Christmas Carol.

What is One More Sleep ‘Til Christmas?

500

This city claims to be the birthplace of the ugly sweater party after hosting an Ugly Christmas Sweater event in 2002.

What is Vancouver?