Traditions
One in three men wait until this day to do their Christmas shopping.
What is Christmas Eve?
The name “Santa Claus” appears in the Christmas poem “T’was the Night Before Christmas” this number of times.
What is zero?
The English also refer to Santa Claus by this proper-sounding name.
What is Father Christmas?
The color of Elvis’s suede shoes, as well as the Christmas he will have without you.
What is blue?
The total number of ghosts that visit Ebenezer Scrooge in the Dickens novel, “A Christmas Carol” is this.
What is four? (Bob Marley, Christmas Past, Christmas Present, Christmas Future)
During the holidays, this famous New York City landmark features a colossal Christmas tree and a popular ice-skating rink.
What is Rockefeller Center?
This giggling red monster was the hit of the holidays as the best-selling Christmas toy of 1996.
What is Tickle Me Elmo?
In Germany, this frightening anti-Santa Claus with goat’s hooves and horns punishes children who misbehave instead of bringing them gifts.
Who (or what) is Krampus?
These three words are what best describe the Grinch.
What are stink, stank, and stunk?
The number of lights on the Griswold house in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”
What is 25,000?
This US state was the first to officially recognize Christmas as a holiday.
What is Alabama?
This beverage giant was the first company to use Santa Claus in an advertising campaign.
What is Coca-Cola?
This tradition, now associated with Christmas, began in Ancient Greece as a blessing of fertility in wedding ceremonies.
What is kissing under the mistletoe?
This familiar song was the first Earth tune played in outer space.
What is “Jingle Bells”?
These are the four major food groups for elves in the Christmas film “Elf”.
What are candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup?
It takes this many years for a pine tree to grow to an acceptable Christmas tree height.
What is 15?
The year Christmas was first celebrated on December 25th.
What is 336 AD?
Popping tubes used in the U.K. to hold gifts and small treats go by this name.
What are Christmas crackers?
It may sound like a composition from the Middle Ages, but this classic Christmas hymn appeared in 1843 and made its debut in 1847.
What is “O Holy Night”?
This is the family name of Tiny Tim and his father Bob in Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol.”
What is Cratchit?
These two items traditionally appear at the tops of Christmas trees.
What are stars and angels?
This instrumental Christmastime theme from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite was also used in early versions of the video game Tetris.
What is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy?
This holiday, observed in the U.K. on the day after Christmas, originated as a way for the rich to give their servants items to share with their families.
What is Boxing Day?
This artist's video for the song "Christmas Tree Farm," features home video footage from her childhood on a real Christmas tree farm.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This “Home Alone” character fends off a pair of robbers by building slapstick traps in his house.
Who is Kevin McAlister?