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This mythical winter sprite is nipping at your nose in “The Christmas Song.”
Who is Jack Frost?
This holiday, observed in the U.K. on the day after Christmas, originated as a way for the rich to give their servants boxes of items to share with their families.
What is Boxing Day?
This catch 1994 Christmas tune is the best-selling Christmas single ever recorded by a female artist, as well as being one of the highest-selling singles in music history.
What is “All I Want for Christmas is You”?
Visions of these holiday treats danced in the heads of the children “nestled, all snug in their beds.”
What are sugarplums?
The Rockettes perform their Christmas spectacular, high kicks and all, in this famous New York theater.
What is Radio City Music Hall?
You can get your Christmas card postmarked not at the North Pole, but at the city called North Pole, located in this, the largest U.S. state.
What is Alaska?
In the “Twelve Days of Christmas”, The singer’s true love gives them five of these shining pieces of jewelry on day five.
What are golden rings?
These barnyard beasts kept time for a humble percussionist in the Christmas carol, “The Little Drummer Boy”.
What are the ox and lamb?
More than 1.5 billion of these travel through the U.S. Postal Service every year.
What are Christmas cards?
A witch drops presents down chimneys in this European country’s Christmas traditions.
What is Italy?
In The Twelve Days of Christmas, lords a-leaping appear in this quantity.
What is ten?
This is the true number of Santa’s reindeer in the Christmas poem T’was the Night Before Christmas.
What is eight? (Rudolph isn’t mentioned.)
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” features a Christmas song composed especially for the show, with lyrics written on the back on an envelope in ten minutes by the show’s producer.
What is “Christmas Time is Here”?
It takes more than eight million lights to decorate this “magic kingdom” for Christmas.
What is Disneyland?
At Christmastime, Santa rings a bell in front of grocery stores and collects money in red kettles for this charitable organization.
What is the Salvation Army?
This Christmas plant, popular for its bright red leaves, is native to Mexico and Central America.
What is a poinsettia?
Children leave this tasty treat for Santa on Christmas Eve.
What are milk and cookies?
This popular reindeer began as a promotional character for Montgomery Ward department stores.
Who is Rudolph?
This type of calendar contains pockets filled with treats, one for each day of December through Christmas Day.
What is an advent calendar?
The tradition of using a decorated tree as a symbol of Christmas began in this European country.
What is Germany?
The wise men brought these three gifts for the baby Jesus, not the most useful items to give a newborn.
What are gold, frankincense, and myrrh?
These two items traditionally appear at the tops of Christmas trees.
What are stars and angels?
It consists of inexpensive foil now, but this glittery decoration started as strips of real silver.
What is tinsel?
Santa keeps these two lists to track which children get presents and which get coal.
What are the Naughty and Nice lists?
This beverage giant was the first company to use Santa Claus in an advertising campaign.
What is Coca-Cola?