Sleigh, Queen!
This singer’s 1994 holiday album Merry Christmas not only featured her iconic hit, but also a gospel-inspired rendition of “Silent Night” that showcased her five-octave range.
Who is Mariah Carey?
These human-shaped cookies are often decorated with icing clothing and buttons.
What are gingerbread men?
This pirate-themed anime, featuring Monkey D. Luffy, became one of Netflix’s most successful live-action adaptations.
What is One Piece?
This 2012 film adaptation of a beloved musical famously used live on-set singing rather than pre-recorded tracks, a rarity for movie musicals.
What is Les Misérables?
This 1983 film, based on Jean Shepherd’s semi-autobiographical stories, is narrated by an adult Ralphie and warns of the dangers of BB guns.
What is A Christmas Story?
In 2020, this pop star’s Holiday Special featured guests like Jane Krakowski and the Peanuts gang, supporting their duet version of “Christmas Tree Farm.”
Who is Taylor Swift?
These striped holiday cookies get their signature swirl from twisting vanilla and peppermint dough together before baking.
What are candy cane cookies?
In this anime, students learn the power of teamwork, hard work, and dedication, and that height isn't everything. Also, Conrad is a hater.
What is Haikyuu?
This Broadway hit featuring the Schuyler sisters became a filmed movie in 2020 when Disney+ released its live stage recording.
What is Hamilton?
This 1992 holiday sequel features a villainous duo of the Wet Bandits returning as the “Sticky Bandits,” plus a cameo from Donald Trump.
What is Home Alone 2: Lost in New York?
This pop diva voiced the animated version of Cindy Lou Who’s mom in The Grinch (2018) and released the Christmas bop “Santa Tell Me.”
Who is Ariana Grande?
This spicy blend—often including cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves—is essential for many holiday baked goods, from pies to cookies.
What is pumpkin spice?
This cult classic anime features bounty hunter Spike Spiegel and inspired a jazz-influenced soundtrack by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts.
What is Cowboy Bebop?
Julie Andrews made her film debut in this 1964 musical adaptation whose stage version opened on Broadway only two years prior.
What is Mary Poppins?
This 1947 film follows a department store Santa named Kris Kringle who must legally prove that he is the real Santa Claus.
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
This drag superstar released Ho Ho Ho, a holiday album featuring songs like “Merry Christmas, Mary,” cementing her place as the queen of festive camp.
Who is RuPaul?
These delicate cookies are made by pressing dough through a cookie press, often shaped into wreaths or trees with bright holiday colors.
What are spritz cookies?
This cerebral anime follows Light Yagami after he discovers a supernatural notebook that grants him the power to kill anyone whose name he writes.
What is Death Note?
This 1961 film adaptation of a Bernstein-Sondheim musical won 10 Oscars, including Best Picture, and was remade by Steven Spielberg in 2021.
What is West Side Story?
This 2005 film starring Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart shows a formerly overweight teen returning home for the holidays and confronting his past.
What is Just Friends?
This pop icon released the camp-filled Christmas film On the Sixth Day of Christmas in the 1990s and later performed a holiday duet with RuPaul on RuPaul’s Holiday Spectacular.
Who is Cher?
This Italian Christmas cookie, studded with nuts and dried fruit and flavored with anise, shares its name with a famous opera.
What is pizzelle? (If you meant the opera clue, What is biscotti? can also apply — but pizzelle is the canonical anise cookie.)
This groundbreaking anime from 1995 introduced psychological mecha storytelling and sparked debates over its abstract finale in episodes 25 and 26.
What is Neon Genesis Evangelion?
This 2005 adaptation of a Broadway classic about a Parisian theater and its masked inhabitant is one of the highest-grossing musical films of all time.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
This 1968 psychedelic holiday film features the Beatles traveling through animated landscapes while singing holiday-adjacent hits like “All You Need Is Love.”
What is Yellow Submarine? (If you prefer strictly Christmas-themed: What is Santa Claus Conquers the Martians?)