All about Bellevue
Bellevue translates to what French phrase?
What is beautiful view?
What type of cookie is used to build small houses decorated with frosting and candy?
What is gingerbread?
Bellevue Utilities bills every ___ months for drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater services for residents and businesses.
2
Bing Crosby sang about dreaming of this kind of holiday
What is a White Christmas?
What German fairy tale about a brother, a sister, and a witch they meet in the woods was the inspiration for gingerbread houses?
What is Hansel and Gretal?
Discovered in the Coal Creek area in 1867
What is coal?
Latkes are traditional potato pancakes eaten during this holiday
What is Hanukkah?
Name of the Bellevue Utilities sponsored water conservation Garden located at the Bellevue Botanical Gardens?
What is the WaterWise Garden?
What is the first word in the song "Jingle Bells"
What is "dashing"?
This holiday's traditional colors are red, black, and green.
What is Kwanzaa?
Bellevue is the _____ largest city in Washington
What is fifth?
What is eggnog?
Bellevue Utilities manages these 4 services for residents and businesses.
1. drinking water
2. wastewater
3. stormwater
4. solid waste
Who is Buddy?
This holiday marks the shortest day of the year and is celebrated with bonfires in many cultures
What is the Winter Solstice?
Before the arrival of settlers of European origin in the 1800s, Coast Salish tribes including the _____ and _____ lived, hunted and fished around Puget Sound for thousands of years. (Name at least one)
What are the Duwamish and Snoqualmie tribes?
In Spain, people eat 12 of these at midnight for good luck on New Years Eves
What are grapes?
The majority of the of water use is used for what purpose?
What is Agriculture and/or landscapes?
Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel...is made out of what?
What is clay?
In Scandinavia, people often enjoy this hot, communal bath during winter.
What is a sauna?
With nearly ___ parks, Bellevue is known as "a city in a park."
What is 100?
In Mexico, the December celebration of Las Posadas involves cooking what traditional food?
What are tamales?
In what month is National Public Works Week?
What is May?
“Auld Lang Syne” is traditionally sung during this celebration
What is New Year’s Eve?
In China, the Lunar New Year is celebrated with this animal-themed parade
What is the dragon dance?