Songs
This Mariah Carey song set a Spotify streaming record on Christmas Eve logging 10.8 million streams.
What is All I Want for Christmas is You?
This Spielberg classic follows the story of a boy and his unusual pet as they try to prevent monsters from destroying the town.
What is Gremlins?
This minor Jewish holiday commemorates the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem and is celebrated towards the end of December.
What is Hanukkah?
This Charles Dickens novella tells the story of a grumpy miser who gets visited by the three spirits of Christmas.
What is A Christmas Carol?
This Rankin/Bass special follows a reindeer as he goes from misfit to saviour of Christmas.
What is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
This Christmas song by Jose Feliciano is #8 on the Best-selling Christmas Singles Chart and is the only bilingual song in the Top 10.
What is Feliz Navidad?
This movie, starring Macaulay Culkin, follows the story of a child using Goldberg-esque traps to protect his house from burglars.
What is Home Alone?
A parody holiday made popular by the show Seinfeld highlighted by an aluminum pole instead of a Christmas tree.
What is Festivus?
This Caldecott winning children’s book tells the story of a young boy’s trip to the North Pole.
What is The Polar Express?
This special pulls from the pages of Dr. Seuss following a grouchy hermit who tries to steal Christmas from the local town.
What is How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
This song tells the story of an orphan boy bringing a newborn king an unexpected gift.
What is The Little Drummer Boy?
This Disney movie follows a disgruntled holiday king trying to bring Christmas to his town.
What is The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Also known as Christmas, this Christian feast is celebrated as the birth of Christ.
What is The Nativity of Christ?
E.T.A Hoffmann’s story follows a young girl as her favorite Christmas toy comes to life.
What is The Nutcracker and the Mouse King?
This Rankin/Bass special, based on the song of the same name by Walter Rollins and Steve Nelson, follows the story of a group of school children and a magical snowman.
What is Frosty the Snowman?
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote this suite inspired by the story of a Christmas doll and an evil mouse king.
What is The Nutcracker Suite?
This superhero movie follows its titular character as he defends the city from a mobster played by Danny DeVito.
What is Batman Returns?
A Buddhist holiday celebrated in the winter, that commemorates the enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha).
What is Bodhi Day?
This fairytale, from the brothers Grimm, follows a shoemaker as he tries to discover who continues to craft his shoes in the night.
What is The Elves and the Shoemaker
This special, based on the famous comic strip by Charles Schulz, follows the story of a boy searching for the true meaning of Christmas.
What is A Charlie Brown Christmas?
In the song “Angels We Have Heard on High” the Latin phrase Gloria in Excelsis deo translated into what?
What is Glory to God in the Highest?
This Disney movie follows the cast venturing into the woods and coming across a magical Christmas land.
What is Babes in Toyland?
An ancient Roman festival honoring Saturn in mid-December that includes partying, gift-giving, and feasts.
What is Saturnalia?
Released posthumously, these letters were written by J.R.R Tolkien to his children from the perspective of Santa Claus.
What is Letters from Father Christmas?
This Rankin/Bass special is the debut of the Heat and Snow Miser characters as their brotherly conflict impedes on Mrs. Claus’s goal to save Christmas.
What is The Year Without a Santa Clause?