Christmas legends
This is the saint who is known to give gifts to children, and who slapped Arius at the council of Nicea
Who is Saint Nicholas?
This is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits.
What is fruitcake?
This Dr. Seuss character did not like Christmas as much as the Whos
Who was the Grinch?
This is a Christmas carol about one of Santa's reindeer
What is Rudolph the red nose reindeer?
This is the year Our Lord Jesus Christ was born.
What is 1 AD?
An origin for this German Christmas tradition comes from St. Boniface, who chopped down a pagan oak tree, and from its stump sprung an evergreen, meant to represent the eternity of Christ.
What is a Christmas tree?
These American sweets are usually peppermint or strawberry flavored, and are shaped like a shepherd's staff.
What are candy canes?
This is a story of an old miser who does not like Christmas and is visited by the ghost of his business partner as well as 3 spirits.
What is A Christmas Carol?
This carol is about decoration of the halls for Christmas
What is Deck the Halls?
Christ was born in this town, to which His parents came from Nazereth.
What is Bethlehem?
This is the Dutch St. Nicholas's (Sinterklaas) black servant
Who is Zwarte Piet?
This cake is shaped like a building, covered with a variety of candies and icing, and are popular Christmas decorations.
What is a gingerbread house?
The poem "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" terms these "coursers," calling each of them by name.
What are reindeer?
This carol is about a boy who plays the drums and visits the Christ child
Who is Little Drummer Boy?
This exhibition of the first Christmas, involving a crib, the Holy Family, and animals and/or shepherds was started by St. Francis of Assissi in 1223.
What is a Nativity Scene?
This man is the gift bringer of Russia
Who is Grandfather Frost?
A treat you lay out for Santa
What are cookies and milk?
Finish this line: Hark the Herald Angels sing, Glory to the newborn King! Peace on Earth and mercy mild,
What is "God and sinners reconcil'd"
This carol is about a snowman who comes to life through a magical hat
What is "Frosty the Snowman?"
Recite the St. Andrew's Novena (you don't have to say "What is...")
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary at midnight in Bethlehem in the piercing cold. In that hour, vouchsafe I beseech Thee, Oh my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires through the merits of our Savior Jesus Christ and His blessed mother. Amen
These are the gift givers of Iceland
Who are the Christmas lads?
This cake is a layer cake made out of cocoa powder, cherries, Kirsch, and whipped cream, with dark chocolate as a decoration.
What is black forest cake?
Finish the line: Good King Wenceslaus looked out, on the feast of Stephen, when the snow laid roundabout,
What is "deep and crisp and even?"
This song begins with "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire"
What is "The Christmas Song?"
This feast commemorates when King Herod, out of fear of the Messiah, killed every firstborn son under the age of 2 years old in Bethlehem.
What is the Feast of the Holy Innocents?