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100

 In “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”, the carolers threaten to stay put until they receive this proper English dish.

What is "figgy pudding"?
100

Edible houses with candy decorations are made from this traditional baked substance.

What is "Gingerbread"?

100

This familiar sleighing song was the first Earth tune played in outer space.

What is "Jingle Bells"?

100

The site of a yearly Thanksgiving parade where Santa ends the parade

New York City

100

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?

200

This is the family name of Tiny Tim and his father Bob in Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol.”

What is Cratchit?

200

This type of calendar contains pockets filled with treats, one for each day of December through Christmas Day.

What are advent calendars?
200

In The Twelve Days of Christmas, lords a-leaping appear in this quantity.

What is ten?

200

More than 1.5 billion of these travel through the U.S. Postal Service every year.

What are Christmas cards?

200

Will Ferrell played the oversized North Pole adoptee who sets off to find his father in this 2003 Christmas classic.

What is "Elf"?

300

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?

300

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?

300

In “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” Grandma had been drinking too much of this festive holiday beverage.

What is eggnog?

300

It is Hawaii’s way to say, “Merry Christmas to you.”

What is “Mele kalikimaka”?

300

This 2004 animated Christmas feature was an adaptation of an illustrated storybook by Chris Van Allsburg, the same author who created “Jumanji.”

What is "The Polar Express"?
400

In Germany, this frightening anti-Santa Claus with goat’s hooves and horns punishes children who misbehave instead of bringing them gifts.

Who is Krampus?

400

One in three men wait until this day to do their Christmas shopping.

What is Christmas Eve?

400

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"?

400

The tradition of using a decorated tree as a symbol of Christmas began in this European country.

What is Germany?

400

There is an ongoing debate online about whether this action flick starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman is actually a Christmas film.

What is "Die Hard"?

500

This tradition, now associated with Christmas, began in Ancient Greece as a blessing of fertility in wedding ceremonies.

What is kissing under the mistletoe?

500

This giggling red monster was the hit of the holidays as the best-selling Christmas toy of 1996.

What is Tickle Me Elmo?

500

Spotify has a playlist featuring 100 different versions of this holiday bop, which was originally written and recorded by 1980s Brit Pop duo Wham!

What is "Last Christmas"?

500

This instrumental Christmastime theme from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite was also used in early versions of the video game Tetris.

What is the dance of the sugar plum fairy?

500

 This is the true number of Santa’s reindeer in the Christmas poem T’was the Night Before Christmas.

What is eight?