European Gift Givers
This is the gift giver of Finland
Who is the Christmas goat?
This is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits.
What is fruitcake?
These American sweets are usually peppermint or strawberry flavored, and are shaped like a shepherd's staff.
What are candy canes?
This famous American general crossed the Delaware River in 1776 on Christmas Eve to surprise the Hessian mercenaries.
Who was George Washington?
This is the year Our Lord Jesus Christ was born.
What is 1 AD?
These are the gift givers of Iceland
Who are the Christmas lads?
This cake is made of sponge cake, to resemble a miniature log, with chocolate and other sugary decorations.
What is a Yule log?
This season that precedes Christmas has been almost completely forgotten by modern American society
What is Advent?
This was when French, English, and German soldiers did unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War during Christmas.
What is the Christmas truce of 1914?
This is the moment of the Incarnation where Gabriel gave Mary the Angelic Salutation
These three are the gift givers in Spain on the feast of the Epiphany.
Who are the 3 Wise Men?
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?
This is an exhibition of the first Christmas, involving a crib, the Holy Family, and animals and/or shepherds. It was started by St. Francis of Assissi.
What is a Nativity Scene?
This was the military march written by John Phillip Sousa on Christmas in 1896.
What is "The Stars and Stripes forever?"
This is the feast that recounts the Three Wise Men visiting the Christ child and then receiving a dream from God to go home another way.
What is the Epiphany?
This man is the gift bringer of Russia
Who is Grandfather Frost?
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?
This tradition came from the Germans, with a Christmas Carol associated with it "O Tannenbaum"
What is a Christmas tree?
This was the biggest bombing mission in military history, taking place as a part of the Vietnam War during the Christmas season of 1972
What was Operation Linebacker II?
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
This saint is the gift bringer of Greece
Who is St. Basil?
This is a cake associated in many countries with Epiphany, the celebration of the Twelfth Night after Christmas.
What is a King Cake, or three kings cake, or baby cake?
This Germanic word is often used as a synonym for Christmas.
What is Yuletide?
This was a Christmas Battle during the Civil War for the last port owned by the Confederacy in 1864.
What was the Battle of Fort Fisher?
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?