December III

Christmas Movies

100

In this movie, the McAllisters fly to Paris, leaving youngest son, Kevin, at home.

Home Alone

200

In this yuletide flick, Tim Allen develops a white beard and round belly overnight

The Santa Clause

300

In this movie, Clark Griswold and family try to create a perfect Christmas, but plans are complicated by the arrival of a cousin

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

400

This 1944 classic movie featured Judy Garland singing "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", and another old song instructing Louie to 'Meet me at the Fair'

Meet Me In St. Louis

500

In this 1947 classic, a young girl named Susan works with a lawyer to prove that Santa Clause is real

Miracle on 34th Street

World Capitals

100

Athens

Greece

200

La Paz

Bolivia

300

Nairobi

Kenya

400

Ottowa

Canada

500

Baghdad

Iraq

Animals

100

This is the only big cat that cannot roar

Cheeta

200

A group of these menacing reptiles is called a rhumba

Rattlesnakes

300

This mammal is known to have the most powerful bite in the world

Hippopotamus

400

This weird Australian animal is the most venomous mammal in the world

Duck Billed Platypus

500

The Hog-nosed, or Bumblebee, variety of this flying creature is the smallest of all mammals, weighing less than 2 grams

Bat

Fastest

100

At 342 RPM, Polish-Canadian ice-skater Olivia Oliver holds the world record for this

Spinning on ice skates

200

The world record for this 23,000 mile journey is 57 hours and 54 minutes - much less than 80 days!

Flying around the world

300

The Viking T6 can complete this household chore at a record speed of 133.57mph.

Mowing the lawn

400

Eric Treider, of Norway, can complete this office task with 100% accuracy at a speed of 217 WPM

Typing

500

Reaching a top speed of 141 MPH in under 5 seconds, Formula Rossa is the fastest one of these in the world

Roller Coaster

World Christmas Trivia

100

The first song ever played in space was this upbeat Christmas Classic

Jingle Bells

200

In Poland, people keep one of these for good luck in the bathtub in the days before Christmas - then they cook it and eat it.

A fish

300

In Austria, naughty children must deal with this vengeful Christmas character

Krampus

400

In Venezuela, many streets are closed to traffic on Christmas Eve so that families can do this

Roller Skate to Midnight Mass

500

In Spain, it's traditional to place a Caganer in the nativity scene. The Caganer is doing this:

Defacating

First Ladies

100

This First Lady is the only woman to be featured on U.S. paper currency

Martha Washington

200

Dolly Madison saved this important artifact before British troops torched the White House in 1814. 

a rare painting of George Washington

300

In April of 1933, this first lady snuck out of a White House dinner with famed aviator Amelia Earhart and other guests, and spent hours flying around Baltimore.

Eleanor Roosevelt

400

This first lady loved pink so much that she inspired the official color 'First Lady Pink', which became extremely popular in the 1950s

Mamie Eisenhower

500

This was the first First Lady to wear pants in public

Pat Nixon

Numbers

100

3.14159 is usually called by this name

Pi 

200

This many people have walked on the moon

12

300

This is the only number that cannot be expressed in Roman Numerals

Zero

400

This is the most popular 'favorite number'

7

500

There are One billion trillion of these celestial bodies in the universe - which is more than all the grains of sand on earth.

Stars