Christmas in NYC
This iconic Midtown landmark hosts the most famous Christmas tree lighting in the country.
What is Rockefeller Center?
Figgy pudding is famously mentioned in the Christmas carol that includes the line, “Oh, bring us some figgy pudding.”
What is We Wish You a Merry Christmas?
This 1954 musical stars Bing Crosby as a performer who helps save a failing inn.
What is White Christmas?
Santa Claus is traditionally believed to live at this icy location.
What is the North Pole?
This shiny decoration was originally made from real silver and draped across Christmas trees.
What is tinsel?
This legendary toy store near Rockefeller Center appears in Home Alone 2 under the name “Duncan’s Toy Chest.”
What is FAO Schwarz?
In the United States, eggnog became popular in the 18th century largely because this ingredient was cheaper than beer or wine.
What is rum?
Before dominating the charts, this artist released a Christmas EP featuring her cover of Wham!’s “Last Christmas.”
Who is Taylor Swift?
Elves are traditionally responsible for doing this job for Santa.
What is toy making?
This shiny, metallic type of Christmas tree became wildly popular in the 1950s.
What is an aluminum Christmas tree?
Buddy briefly works at this real New York department store before being fired.
What is Gimbels?
This fairy tale helped popularize gingerbread houses in European folklore.
What is Hansel and Gretel?
In Home Alone, Kevin McCallister’s family is traveling to this European city when they leave him behind.
What is Paris?
This actor played Santa in The Santa Clause.
Who is Tim Allen?
This tree style is meant to recreate the look of a freshly snow-covered evergreen indoors.
What is a flocked Christmas tree?
This state has provided the most Rockefeller Center Christmas Trees over the years.
What is New York?
In A Christmas Story, this improvised holiday dinner replaces a ruined turkey and becomes one of the most memorable scenes in Christmas movie history.
What is Chinese food?
This 1950s novelty hit about an unusual holiday wish remains a staple of Christmas playlists.
What is “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”?
The reindeer names Donner and Blitzen come from German words meaning this natural phenomenon.
What are thunder and lightning?
This royal figure helped popularize Christmas trees after an illustration appeared in 1848.
Who is Queen Victoria?
This iconic New York venue has been home to the Rockettes since 1932.
What is Radio City Music Hall?
Once valued for its long shelf life, this dessert became both a Christmas staple and a seasonal punchline.
What is Fruit Cake?
This Brenda Lee hit is one of the oldest songs to re-enter modern Christmas charts.
What is Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree?
This darkly humorous holiday song from the late 1970s remains one of the most debated Christmas tracks ever recorded.
What is “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”?
In this animated film, the Christmas tree helps represent belief and tradition rather than materialism.
What is A Charlie Brown Christmas?