Holiday Traditions
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Potpourri
100
This is the most popular type of cookie left out for Santa.

What is chocolate chip?

100

The Pet Rock debuted this year.

What is 1970?

100

Grandma was run over by this animal.

What is a reindeer?

100

This person has 2 kids in college.

Who is Demetra Harris?

100

This 1946 Christmas movie has appeared on television the most number of times.

What is It's a Wonderful Life?

200

On the Friday night during Hanukkah this food is added to the Hanukkah meal.

What is challah?

200

The year Kwanzaa was first celebrated.

What is 1966?

200

This person wrote the music for Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas.

Who is Danny Elfman?

200

This family member attended a filming of the Price is Right.

Who is Tenille Bettenhausen?

200

This was the very first balloon character in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

What is Felix the Cat?

300

This seven-branched candelabra is used during Kwanzaa.

What is a Kinara?

300

In Steven Spielberg's movie, An American Tail, the story begins on this night of Hanukkah.

What is the first night?

300

In the song "Twelve Days of Christmas" this is given on the 7th day.

What is Swans swans a-swimming?

300

This family member is the youngest to graduate from high school in 2020.

Who is Lee Harris?

300

The first U.S. president to recognize Hanukkah in the White House.

Who is Jimmy Carter?

400

In the Christmas movie "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" the Grinch was described by these three words.

What is Stink, Stank, Stunk?

400

The number of reindeer that pull Santa Claus's sleigh.

What is 9?

400

This song from the 1942 movie, Holiday Inn, was the number one Christmas song until 1997.

What is White Christmas?

400

This daredevil in the family performs aerial acts with confidence. 

Who is Emerson Bettenhausen?

400

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice always occurs around one of these two dates.

What is December 21 or December 22?

500

As the clock chimes midnight to ring in the New Year, this Spanish tradition involves eating twelve of this fruit.

What are grapes?

500

The 2020 Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center, NY, is this many feet.

What is 75'?

500

The name of this tune sung by Kermit the Frog on Christmas Eve in The Muppet Christmas Carol.

What is One More Sleep ‘Til Christmas?

500

This youngster in the family plays the cello.

Who is Reese Bettenhausen?

500

This city claims to be the birthplace of the ugly sweater party after hosting an Ugly Christmas Sweater event in 2002.

What is Vancouver?