Traditions
These two items traditionally appear at the tops of Christmas trees.
What are stars and angels?
This catchy 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”?
These classic Christmas sweets begin as striped loaves before a machine pulls and twists it into thin, hook-shaped treats.
What are candy canes?
When the Grinch discovers the true meaning of Christmas, his heart grows this number of sizes.
What is three?
One in three men wait until this day to do their Christmas shopping.
What is Christmas Eve?
Popping tubes used in the U.K. to hold gifts and small treats go by this explosive name.
What are Christmas crackers?
This ex-Beatle wrote and recorded “Wonderful Christmastime” in 1980 for his second solo album.
Who is Paul McCartney?
Visions of these holiday treats danced in the heads of the children “nestled, all snug in their beds.”
What are sugarplums?
In the 1983 holiday favorite “A Christmas Story,” Ralphie’s father wins a lamp shaped like this body part as a runner-up prize from a newspaper contest.
What is a woman’s leg?
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.)
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?
These barnyard animals kept time for a humble percussionist in the Christmas carol, “The Little Drummer Boy”.
What are the ox and lamb?
Rather than dining on turkey, the Whos in Whoville in Dr. Seuss’s Christmas classic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” enjoy this descriptively named main dish.
What is roast beast?
In the classic stop-motion animation Christmas special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” Hermie the Elf would rather be this as an occupation.
What is a dentist?
In The Twelve Days of Christmas, there are *this many* "lords a-leaping".
What is ten?
The tradition of using a decorated tree as a symbol of Christmas began in this European country.
What is Germany?
"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”?
Which company has used Santa Claus in its Christmas marketing since 1931?
What is Coca-Cola?
This real-life department store served as the setting for the Christmas film “Miracle on 34th Street”.
What is Macy’s?
More than 1.5 billion of these travel through the U.S. Postal Service every year.
What are Christmas cards?
This tradition, now associated with Christmas, began in Ancient Greece as a blessing of fertility in wedding ceremonies.
What is kissing under the mistletoe?
With more than 50 million copies sold, this classic Christmas tune holds the Guinness World Record for the all-time best-selling single.
What is White Christmas?
In Japan, this American fast food restaurant brand is a traditional Christmas treat.
What is KFC?
The number of lights on the Griswold house in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”
What is 25,000?
It takes this many years for a pine tree to grow to an acceptable Christmas tree height.
What is 15?