GIE Holiday Traditions
This GIE team member does a holiday cleanse for the new year that involves burning sage and thinking positively about the year ahead
Iggy
Clark Griswold is hoping to buy this with his Christmas bonus in the movie "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"
A pool
The number of ways Hanukkah can be spelled correctly in the English language
3: Hanukah, Chanukah, Hanukkah
Applesauce and sour cream
Years a Christmas tree grows on average before they can be sold...
15 years
This OTP team member's family makes grasshoppers every Christmas Eve
Bella
Best selling Christmas song of all time
White Christmas by Bing Crosby
Santa's original name is Sinterklaas, which European country does this name come from?
Netherlands
What fruit is traditionally put in a Christmas stocking?
Orange
Kwanzaa is celebrated on these days
December 26th to January 1st every year
This GIE team member's tradition involves making a big ice cream sundae bar with different kinds of ice creams, soda to mix in, cookies, cereals, and other stuff to mix together on NYE. This tradition also involves popping balloons every hour to count down with 15-20 friends and family.
Jonathan
The highest grossing Christmas movie of all time
The Grinch (2018) is the highest-grossing Christmas movie of all time, earning $540 million.
The country in which the modern tradition of kissing under mistletoe started
England
Most popular holiday meat eaten (with 22 million of them eaten on Christmas alone)...
Turkey
Dedication
This GIE team member has read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" with family members every year since birth
Gwen
The most covered Christmas song, with over 137,000 recorded versions
Silent Night
Number of holidays celebrated around the world in December
11: St. Nicholas Day, Immaculate Conception Day, Bodhi Day, Feast Day of Our Lady Guadalupe, Hanukkah, Yule, Christmas, Boxing Day, Kwanzaa, Zarathosht Diso, New Year’s Eve
The reason figgy pudding always cooked in a mold
It is a steamed pudding, it needs a specific shaped mold to allow it to cook properly.
This country traditionally eats KFC for Christmas dinner
Japan
Santa has never wrapped this GIE team member's presents
Heather
The year Adam Sandler performed his famous "The Chanukah Song" on SNL
1994
Christmas was banned in 1644 in England and the English Colonies in America... How long did the ban on Christmas last?
20 years
The reason fried foods like latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (doughnuts) are traditionally eaten during Hanukkah
They are prepared in oil, recalling the Maccabee’s oil miraculously lasting eight days.
The ball that drops to commemorate New Year's Eve in Times Square, NYC, is covered in nearly 2,700 crystal triangles from what company named for a city in Ireland?
Waterford