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Holidays Around the World
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Potpourri
100

You'll shoot your eye out!

What is a Christmas Story?

100

This retailer’s 2024 holiday campaign featured “Kris K.,” a charming, sweater-clad Santa who set social media abuzz as the internet’s “Hot Santa.”

What is Target?

100

This five-day Hindu festival celebrates good over evil and light over darkness with lamps and lights.

What is Diwali?

100

What is the most popular gift purchased for holidays?

What are Gift Cards

100

Cyber Monday takes place the Monday after Thanksgiving and Black Friday. In what year was it introduced?

What is 2005?

200

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal

What is Home Alone 2?

200

In 2025, Macy’s launched this festive campaign, counting down with daily deals and surprises for over three months.

What is “100 Days of Christmas”?

200

In China, this New Year celebration involves red envelopes and is a major festival marked by parades and family gatherings. 

What is Lunar New Year?

200

Holiday shopping starts earlier and earlier every year. What is the top concern that consumers have which pushes them to shop earlier?

Inventory availability OR slow shipping times

200

In Japan, this fried chicken chain is a Christmas tradition thanks to a 1970s ad campaign.

What is KFC Christmas?

300

"You sit on a throne of lies!"

What is Elf?

300

In a festive collaboration, this fast-food giant teamed up with Dr. Seuss’s green holiday grump to promote a limited-time menu, including themed packaging and seasonal treats.

What is McDonalds?

300

This is the phrase the letters on a dreidel stand for.

What is "a great miracle happened here?"

300

What technology is increasingly used by retailers to enhance the in-store shopping experience during the holidays?

What is augmented reality (AR)?

300

This early-2000s animated feature, in which Adam Sandler lends his voice to a trifecta of eccentric characters, chronicles the redemption arc of a misanthropic former basketball prodigy during the Festival of Lights.

What is Eight Crazy Nights?

400

"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. And when he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"

What is It's a Wonderful Life?

400

In 2025, this “Justified” and “The White Lotus” actor donned green fur and sass to play the Grinch in Walmart’s festive “WhoKnewVille” ad campaign.

Who is Walton Goggins?

400

This Mexican holiday honors deceased loved ones with altars, marigolds, and special foods, welcoming spirits home.

What is Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos)?

400

The top-selling gifts for kids in 2025, reported the National Retail Federation, were ____ for girls and ____ for boys

Barbie products, LEGO kits

 

400

This state has the largest shopping mall in America 


Minnesota (Mall of America)

Location # 239


500

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. And then I remember that, right now, at this very moment, people are arriving and departing, and love actually is all around."

What is Love Actually?

500

Debuting in 1995, this soda brand’s “Holidays are Coming” commercial, featuring a convoy of glowing red trucks, has become a seasonal tradition in over 100 countries.

What is Coca-Cola?

500

In Germany, this frightening anti-Santa Claus with goat’s hooves and horns punishes children who misbehave instead of bringing them gifts.

Who (or what) is Krampus?

500

What is the #1 most regifted item?

Candles

500

Observed by many Italian-American families on Christmas Eve, this seafood-centric celebration traditionally features at least seven different fish dishes.

This is the best episode of the Bear according to Lauren

What is the Feast of the Seven Fishes?