Christmas Traditions
Hanukkah Traditions
Holiday Pop Culture
Holidays By the Numbers
Holiday Fact or Fiction
100

What color are mistletoe berries?

What is white

100

The number of nights Hanukkah is celebrated. 

What is 8?

100

The Christmas movie where a boy desperately wants a Red Ryder BB gun.

What is A Christmas Story?

100

The number of candles on a menorah including the shamash.

What is 9?

100

Christmas trees were originally decorated with candles.

What is Fact - candles were used before electric lights became available.

200

The decoration that was originally made from strands of real silver?

What is Tinsel

200

The city where the Hanukkah miracle is believed to have taken place.

Where is Jerusalem

200

The holiday movie in which a man accidently kills Santa and must take his place.

What is "The Santa Claus".

200

The number of ghosts that visit Scrooge in A Christmas Carol?

What is 4?

200

Hanukkah is mentioned in the Torah.

What is Fiction- Hanukkah occurred after the Torah was written.

300

The Christmas song that was originally written for Thanksgiving.

What is "Jingle Bells"

300

The small gifts or money often given to children during Hanukkah.

What is gelt?

300

What comedian released "The Hanukkah Song", listing famous Jewish Celebrities.

Who is Adam Sandler? 

300

The number of reindeer Santa originally had before Rudolph was added.

What is 8?

300

The modern image of Santa Claus wearing a red suit date back to the 1800s.

What is Fact - illustrations from the late 19th century helped establish the red suit. 

400

The beverage company that helped popularize the modern image of Santa Claus.

What is Coca-Cola?

400

The jelly-filled doughnut traditionally eaten during Hanukkah.

What is sufganiyah?

400

The television series that aired one of the first prime-time episodes centered around Hanukkah in the 1990s.

What is Friends?

400

The number of years Home Alone held the title of highest-grossing live-action Christmas film.

What is 27?

400

Hanukkah is the most religious holiday in Judaism.

What is Fiction - holidays like Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah are more significant religiously.

500

The country that started the Christmas tree tradition.

What is Germany?

500

The meaning of the word "Hanukkah".

What is dedication?

500

The actor who played Clark Griswold in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation".

Who is Chevy Chase?

500

The number of gifts total given in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas".

What is 364

500

The tradition of exchanging gifts at Christmas comes directly from the Bible. 

What is Fiction - while the Bible mentions gifts given to Jesus, modern Christmas gift-giving developed later from a mix of European traditions and cultural customs.