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"Jingle Bells" was originally written to celebrate this other festive holiday full of food.
What is Thanksgiving?
This Christmas classic was originally a box office flop when it was released in 1946.
What is "Its a Wonderful Life"?
People are more likely to buy gifts for these furry friends rather than their human ones.
What are dogs?
Christmas Day 1862, during the American Civil War, saw a competition in Hilton Head, South Carolina between two teams made up of soldiers from New York regiments. They played this sport, with its Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
What is baseball?
This staple of Christmas that the presents go under is actually edible.
What is a Christmas Tree?
Bing Crosby's version of this song is the highest-selling single of all time.
What is "White Christmas"?
This famous movie with an iconic house actually had all its scenes filmed in a high school gym.
What is "Home Alone"?
People in this part of the country, with cities like Chicago and Indianapolis, give the most gifts per year.
What is the midwest?
The Suppression of Unlawful Games Act of 1541 banned all sports in England on Christmas Day except this one which involves shooting arrows at a target.
What is archery?
A German choirmaster commissioned this shepherd’s hook shaped candy in 1670 to hush up the children in the church’s crèche scene.
What are Candy Canes?
The person who wrote "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer", “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” and "Holly Jolly Christmas" was this religion.
What is Jewish?
The child star, Peter Billingsly, from this movie had a cameo as an adult as an elf in the movie "Elf".
What is "A Christmas Story"?
This gift, including games like Mario Kart, is officially the most popular to buy for Christmas 2022.
What is a Nintendo Switch?
On Christmas 2004, these two famous Lakers teammates faced off against each other in a game.
Who are Kobe and Shaq?
In Japan, many people have their Christmas meal at this American fast food chain known for their chicken.
What is KFC?
Thurl Ravenscroft, the singing voice of the Grinch was also the voice for this frosted cereal.
What are Frosted Flakes?
The creator of this movie considered Reginald and Rollo as possible names for the main character before eventually picking the name.
What is "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"?
This popular camera company introduced the folding pocket camera in 1898 and it quickly became the most popular Christmas gift that year.
What is Kodak?
The game between these teams on Christmas Day, 1971 ended up being the longest game ever in history, going to five overtimes. (hint both teams are in the AFC).
Who are the Chiefs and Dolphins?
This English King known for his wives started the tradition of eating turkey on Christmas.
Who was Henry VIII?
This song by Benjamin Hanby was the first to mention Santa Claus
What is "Up on the Housetop"?
This short movie killed the aluminum tree business by having the main character refuse to buy a fake tree for his christmas play.
What is "A Charlie Brown Christmas"?
The average holiday budget is around this much money.
What is 700-800$?
1924 a game played on Christmas Day resulted in a 20-7 win for the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans over the Missouri Tigers. This city gave its name to the Christmas Bowl played that year.
What is Los Angeles?
Santa is estimated to eat this many cookies on Christmas.
What is one billion?