Trainer Teasers
This trainer jazz danced their way out of Texas, their former residence.
Who is Kaylee?
This famous classic holiday flick directed by Frank Capra is about a guy who's had some rough luck, meets an angel, and then decides he's had it good all this time.
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
Saint Nicholas is thought to be the inspiration for Santa Claus, but Saint Nicholas Day is celebrated on this other day in December.
What is December 6?
Who came up with the idea of gingerbread men, made to represent visiting foreign dignitaries?
This trainer, a long-time Sunday School teacher, is a huge fan of rap music.
Who is LaTisha?
This classic nutty cartoon was supposed to have a laugh track. Good grief!
What is A Charlie Brown Christmas?
How tall was the biggest working menorah for a Hanukkah celebration?
What is 60 feet tall? (It was built in 1997 and required a crane to lift a Rabbi each night to light the candles.)
Cookies were originally created to do this, not to be eaten.
What is to test the temperature of an oven? (Cookies as we know them today were first made not to eat but to test the temperature of an oven. Cooks would take a small dollop of cake batter and bake it as a means of gauging whether the oven was ready or not.)
This trainer has been trained in ballet, tap, jazz, and Polish dancing.
Who is Kim?
This flick, based on a the semi-fictional anecdotes by author Jean Shepherd, features a 40s-era family, a leg lamp, and a Peking duck Christmas Dinner.
What is A Christmas Story?
Which number is the most symbolic of the Kwanzaa celebration?
What is seven? (There are seven letters in Kwanzaa and seven days for the celebration that includes seven principles and seven primary symbols.)
This cookie's name means "to squirt."
What is the spritz cookie? (According to What's Cooking America, the name comes from the German word spritzen, which means "to squirt." This is because the dough is pushed and squirted through a cookie press. One Norwegian tradition is to make them in the shapes of S's and O's, but today, they're often made into Christmas trees, stars, and more.)
This trainer could speak fluent Hebrew until the age of 13.
Who is Dannyelle?
The Wet Bandits endure a lot of suffering at the hands of an 8-year-old in this movie.
What is Home Alone?
The nine days of Las Posadas honor the nine months Mary spent doing what?
This cookie has been around since the 1700s and was originally known as a Nazareth cookie.
What is the sugar cookie? (Created by German Protestant Settlers in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, they were so good that they were eventually recognized as Pennsylvania's official cookie by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Their simplicity made them extremely popular for kids to make and leave out for Santa Claus. )
This person was a state championship canoe racer.
Who is Lynn?
Adam Sandler plays a 30-something party animal who overdoes it enough to face legal trouble.
What is Eight Crazy Nights?
Which famous emperor chose January first as New Year’s Day?
Who is Julius Caesar? (Julius Caesar selected the date to honor Janus, the god of beginnings.)
This cookie came about when it was discovered that the main ingredient was a good substitute for lard or butter.
What is the peanut butter cookie? (Sweetooth Design Company points out that in 1897, an article in Popular Science News said peanut butter could be used as shortening to replace butter and lard in recipes. In the 20th century, George Washington Carver did research on the stuff, finding something similar. The first peanut butter cookie recipe was seen in Mrs. Rorer's New Cook Book in 1902, and in 1933, a Pillsbury recipe suggested pressing on them with a fork, and the technique stuck.)