Holiday Traditions
This plant is often used to decorate homes during Christmas, with its bright red and green leaves.
What are Poinsettias?
Fun Fact: Poinsettias were discovered and named after the first United States Minister to Mexico, Joel Roberts Poinsett, in the early 19th century.
Finish the lyrics ""Rudolph, with your nose so bright
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What is "Won't you guide my sleigh tonight?"
This fragile (it must be Italian) package was delivered to the Parkers in 1983's A Christmas Story.
What is the Leg Lamp?
In the United States, this type of meat is most commonly served for Christmas dinner.
What is Ham?
According to the National Pork Board, approximately 100 million pounds of ham is purchased in the weeks leading up to Christmas each year.
The Hanukkiah Menorah has this many candles.
What is nine?
One for each eight night of Hanukkah and the ninth holder, called the shamash, is used to light the other candles on each evening of Hanukkah.
In the song "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," Santa is going to find this out.
What is Who's Naughty or Nice?
Kris Kringle is asked to portray Santa Claus here, in 1947's Miracle on 34th Street.
Where is Macy's?
The actor who played Santa Claus, Edmund Gwenn, actually gained 30 pounds to look the part, and when he accepted his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, he famously said, "Now I know there's a Santa Claus!"
This unique Christmas tradition in Japan involves eating food from this American fast-food chain for dinner.
What is KFC?
This became tradition in the 1970s after a successful marketing campaign positioning KFC's fried chicken as a special holiday meal.
The location of the first reenactment of the Nativity of Jesus, in 1223 A.D.
Where is Greccio, Italy?
In that year, Francis of Assisi assembled a Nativity scene outside of his church in Italy and children sang Christmas carols celebrating the birth of Jesus.
This classical composer wrote the oratorio "Judas Maccabeus" based on the Hanukkah story in 1746.
Who is George Frederick Handel?
Cousin Eddie's dog's scent-sational name from 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
What is Snots?
He has a sinus condition!
Two of the traditional Hanukkah dishes, Sufganiyot and Latkes, have this in common.
What is they are fried in oil?
This is to remind of the Miracle of Hanukkah.
The colors of the Kinara, the seven-branched candlestick lit for Kwanzaa.
These colors represent the struggle, the people, and the hope the future brings, respectively.
In the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch," would not the singer touch the Grinch with this.
What is a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole?
The name of the toy that Arnold Schwarzenegger, as Howard Langston in 1996's Jingle All the Way, is searching the town for once he discovers every store is sold out.
What is Turbo Man?
Official Turbo Man action figures have been released. Tiger Electronics released a 13.5" figure in 1996, which has become a rare collector's item. In 2021, Funko released more toys based on the film, such as a replica of the action figure seen in the film and several POP! vinyl figures.
It is customary for Italian-Americans to celebrate Christmas Eve with a feast of seven different types of this.
What is fish?
The Feast of the Seven Fishes is an Italian-American tradition that symbolized the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church.
In Germany, this is hidden deep in the branches of the tree as the last ornament on Christmas Eve.
A pickle ornament.
Why? It is said that the first adult to find the pickle will have a year of good luck, while the first child gets and extra gift from Santa.
When building Frosty in "Frosty The Snowman" this magical item gave him life.
What is a hat?
"There must have been some magic in
That old silk cap they found
For when they placed it on his head
He began to dance around."
Ebenezer Scrooge's, of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, late business partner of which is the first ghosts to visit Ebenezer on Christmas Eve.
Who is Jacob Marley?
Fun Fact: A Christmas Carol was written in 1843.
The century that the holiday drink, eggnog, was first consumed.
What is the 13th Century?
The word "eggnog" may come from the Scottish and Gaelic words noggin, meaning "cup", and grog, an English term for hard liquor. The drink may have originated in medieval Britain as a posset, a warm drink made with milk, spices, and beer or wine.