The Nutcracker
Winter
On Boxing Day
Holidays
TIE BREAKER
100

If you're Home Alone you may want to rent the 1993 film of The Nutcracker with this young star in the title role

Who is MACAULAY CULKIN?

100

Number of sides on a honeycomb cell or on a snowflake

What is 6?

100

The Brits celebrate Boxing Day on the 26th of this month

What is DECEMBER?

100

At the winter solstice Wiccans celebrate just this with no tide after it

What is YULE?

100

Chimney Rock in Nebraska was a major landmark along this overland trail

What is THE OREGON TRAIL?

200

Every year the Clark's nutcracker pries thousands of seeds from these cones & buries them

What are PINE CONES?

200

Spring forward is half a mnemonic used to remember this, which actually begins in winter in the U.S.

What is DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME?

200

I feel happy inside that this song was released in the U.S. on the day after Christmas 1963, launching U.S. Beatlemania

What is I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND?

200

Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth lights the menorah in this song

What is THE CHANUKAH SONG?

300

The Nutcracker often features a pas de deux by the prince & this fairy who rules the Kingdom of Sweets

Who is THE SUGARPLUM FAIRY?

300

Host of the 2008 Summer Games this city is set to host the 2022 Winter Games becoming the first city to host both

What is BEIJING?

300

On Dec. 26 1944 Patton's Third Army relieved Bastogne during this battle

What is THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE?

300

In a Dr. Seuss story this character said with fingers nervously drumming I must find some way to stop Christmas from coming!

Who is THE GRINCH?

400

From the size of these body parts Australopithecus boisei became known as Nutcracker Man

What are TEETH?

400

The Devil Wears Prada is said to be a novelized portrait of this magazine editor, also known as fashion's ice queen

Who is ANNA WINTOUR?

400

This team sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919; curses!

What is THE BOSTON RED SOX?

400

It's the palindromic name for the Vietnamese New Year

What is TET?

500

Crowbars nutcrackers & ice tongs are different types of this simple machine

What is a LEVER?

500

In season 6 of Game of Thrones a white raven brings this news one word different from the show's tagline

What is WINTER IS HERE?

500

If you got a new brolly as a gift on Boxing Day you received one of these

What is an UMBRELLA?

500

In Massachusetts especially Plymouth Dec. 22 is Forefathers' Day celebrated by consuming this corn-&-beans dish

What is SUCCOTASH?