Traditions
A: This popular Christmas icon began as a promotional character for Montgomery Ward department stores.
Q: Who is Rudolph?
A: With more than 50 million copies sold, this classic Christmas tune holds the Guinness World Record for the all-time best-selling single.
Q: What is White Christmas?
A: The smooth, candy-like hard frosting used to decorate sugar cookies goes by this regal name.
Q: What is royal icing?
A: What Is The More Common Name For The Christmas Song ‘Cantique De Noël’?
Q: What is "O Holy Night?"
A: This is the true number of Santa’s reindeer in the Christmas poem T’was the Night Before Christmas.
Q: What is eight? (Rudolph isn’t mentioned.)
A: Tinsel consists of inexpensive foil now, but the glittery decoration originally started as strips of this?
Q: What is silver?
A: How many main food groups do elves have in the movie Elf?
Q: Four (candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup)
Q: In “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”, the carolers threaten to stay put until they receive this proper English dish.
A: What is figgy pudding?
A: It may sound like a composition from the Middle Ages, but this classic Christmas hymn appeared in 1843 and made its debut in 1847.
Q: What is “O Holy Night”?
A: This beverage giant was the first company to use Santa Claus in an advertising campaign.
Q: What is Coca-Cola?
A: The English also refer to Santa Claus by this proper-sounding name.
Q: What is Father Christmas?
A: One in this many men wait until Christmas Eve to do their Christmas shopping.
Q: What is one in three?
A: Rather than dining on turkey, the Whos in Whoville in Dr. Seuss’s Christmas classic “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” enjoy this descriptively named main dish.
Q: What is roast beast?
A: These barnyard beasts kept time for a humble percussionist in the Christmas carol, “The Little Drummer Boy”.
Q: What are the ox and lamb?
A: This instrumental Christmastime theme from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite was also used in early versions of the video game Tetris.
Q: What is Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy?
A: This tradition, now associated with Christmas, began in Ancient Greece as a blessing of fertility in wedding ceremonies.
Q: What is kissing under the mistletoe?
A: A tree from Killington, Connecticut in 1999 holds the record as the Rockefeller Center's tallest Christmas tree, standing at this many feet tall.
Q: What is 100 feet tall?
A: Christmas pies, served in many English-speaking countries, are also known by this more descriptive name, inspired by the blend of beef suet and fruit in the filling
Q: What are mincemeat pies?
A: Silent Night was originally written in this language.
Q: What is German?
A: The total number of ghosts that visit Ebenezer Scrooge in the Dickens novel, “A Christmas Carol” is this.
Q: What is four? (Bob Marley, Christmas Past, Christmas Present, Christmas Future)
A: This office of the U.S. Armed Services tracks Santa’s voyage around the world on Christmas Eve.
Q: What is NORAD?
A: During NASA's Gemini 6A space flight in December of this year, Jingle Bells became the first song to be played in outer space.
Q: What is 1965?
A: This traditional Christmas beverage, made with brandy, fruit juices, and spices, is also the subject of an English folk song
Q: What is wassail?
A: Which hymn-like Christmas Song Was Written During The Cuban Missile Crisis And Is A Plea For Peace?
Q: What is "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
A: Instead of receiving cash as a holiday bonus in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, Clark Griswold receives this sweet yet disappointing surprise.
Q: What is a subscription to the Jelly of the Month club?