Christmas History
This Christian group banned Christmas in Boston from 1659 to 1681.
Who are the Puritans?
The modern Santa Claus is mainly a mix of these two figures.
Who are Saint Nicholas (Sinterklaas in dutch) and Father Christmas?
This item is given on the seventh of twelve days of Christmas.
What are swans a-swimming.
This is the country where the custom of putting up a Christmas tree originated.
What is Germany?
This day is a close second and sometimes surpasses Black Friday for busiest brick and mortar shopping day of the year.
What is last Saturday before Christmas (a.k.a Super Saturday)?
What is a pagan midwinter festival?
This political cartoonist is largely responsible for defining what the modern Santa Claus looks like.
Who is Thomas Nast?
This is the country where Silent Night originated.
What is Austria?
This animal's parts were used to make the first artificial Christmas trees.
What are goose feathers painted green?
This large former retail outlet commissioned and published Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
What is Montgomery Ward?
While the French word "noel" is often used around Christmas, this is its original meaning in Latin.
What is "birth"?
This is the original title of the poem the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas”.
This was the original title for The Little Drummer Boy.
What is Carol of the Drum?
This is the first year that the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was put up.
What is 1933?
The man who voiced the Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas! was most famous for playing this popular Hollywood monster.
Who is Frankenstein’s Monster?
This Roman holiday was held from December 17th to the 23rd and had a large influence on how Christmas was celebrated.
Saturnalia.
Coca-Cola started using Santa Claus in advertisements in this decade.
What is the 1920s?
This is the relationship of the writer of the story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the writer of the song Rudolph
What is brothers-in-law?
This plant-based Christmas tradition was popularized by servants in Victorian England?
What is kissing under the mistletoe?
This is the number of wise men / Magi / kings who visited the baby Jesus, accoriding to the bible.
- It doesn’t mention a number. -
Among Christians who lived in the East, this was the original date Christmas was celebrated.
What is January 6th?
This entrepreneur was the first person to dress up as Santa in his department store and started the tradition of department store / mall Santas.
Who is James Edgar?
This jaunty Christmas carol written in 1739 was supposed to be accompanied by slow and somber music.
What is Hark! The Herald Angels Sing?
This person created the first electric light Christmas display.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This is the most popular meal for Christmas in Japan.
What is KFC fried chicken?