Christmas Movies
This popular Christmas comedy is well known for its home disaster sequences -- especially a squirrel loose in the house, electrocution the family cat, and attempting to carve a turkey that is "a little dry".
What is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation?
This object acted as a guide for the Magi as they traveled to find the Messiah.
What is A Star?
This is the treat of choice for any children who would like to leave something sweet for Santa on Christmas Eve.
What are (Christmas) Cookies
Perhaps the most popular of secular traditions is based on a Turkish clergyman who devoted his life to helping the poor and has been immortalized in this fanciful character.
Who is Santa Claus?
This song describes its main character as having "a brain full of spiders" and "garlic in his soul".
What is You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch?
An 8-year old shrewdly fends for himself against two dim-witted burglars in this comedy that remains the highest grossing Christmas film of all time.
What is Home Alone?
The only of the four gospels not to include any mention of Christ's birth.
What is The Gospel of Mark?
This festive treat was invented by a German choirmaster to give the idle children in his care something to do but was also designed to teach spiritual truths with its unique shape, colors, and taste.
What is a Candy Cane?
Often attached by small metal hooks, these decorations are most often seen hanging on Christmas trees.
What are Ornaments?
According to Elvis Presley, what color Christmas might you have without the one you love?
What is a Blue Christmas?
This contemporary Christmas classic follows one of Santa's over-sized helpers on an unlikely journey to find his biological father and help him reclaim the Christmas spirit.
What is Elf?
This was the sign the shepherds were to look for that would help them identify the Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
What is a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger?
This creamy Christmas treat is made by beating together sugar, cream, nutmeg, egg yolks... and sometimes even rum!
What is Eggnog
Grab your sweetheart and stand under this if you want to share a Christmas kiss!
What is Mistletoe?
The famous red-nosed reindeer, Rudolph, was bullied by his fellow animals by not being allowed to participate in what event?
What are Reindeer Games?
This Christmas classic features the famous line "every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings".
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
This prophecy-fulfilling town was where Joseph, Mary, and Jesus settled upon returning from Egypt.
What is Nazareth?
Modernly considered more of a joke than an actual treat, this traditional dessert usually contains candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices.
What is a Fruitcake?
This Lutheran-originated tradition continues today as families open a small portion of it every day of December until Christmas Day, usually finding a Bible verse or a small piece of candy inside to enjoy.
What is an Advent Calendar?
To say the name of this Christmas hit, you'd need to know how to say Merry Christmas in Spanish.
What is Feliz Navidad?
This Christmas television classic is best known for its jazz-styled music, its depressing main character, and its unapologetic reading from Luke 2:8-14.
What is A Charlie Brown Christmas?
The number of days after Jesus was born that he was officially given his name.
What is 8 Days
It is debatable how much of this salty treat the kids are eating and how much is going where it is meant to... on the tree!
What is Popcorn
These edible dwellings rose in popularity due to the Brother's Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel".
What are Gingerbread Houses?
This Christmas song tells the story of its jolly main character who "the children say could laugh and play just the same as you and me".
What is Frosty the Snowman?
This nostalgic family film follows its young protagonist and his obsession with receiving a particular Christmas gift with which he would inevitably "shoot his eye out".
What is A Christmas Story?
Taking all four gospel records into account, this is the number of specific animals mentioned that were present at Christ's birth.
What is 0 (none)?
This foreign Christmas dessert, mentioned in a famous Christmas Carol, is comprised of mutton fat, eggs, brown sugar, breadcrumbs, and spices and is often soaked with brandy in order to ignite it before serving.
What is Figgy Pudding?
This Christmas tradition began with a book written in 2004 about a household spy whose job it is to report a child's good (or bad) behavior to Santa Claus.
What is Elf on the Shelf?
This 1959 hit song recorded by an unusual trio features its main soloist repeatedly and comically requesting "a hula hoop" for Christmas.
What is The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)?