Hanukkah
Christmas is the USA
Not Santa
Flora and Fauna
Songs
400

When fully lit, there are this many candles on a Hanukkah Menorah.

What is 9?

400

During the holidays, this famous New York City landmark features a colossal Christmas tree and a popular ice-skating rink.

What is Rockefeller Center?

400

This mythical winter sprite is nipping at your nose in “The Christmas Song.”

Who is Jack Frost?

400

This Christmas plant, popular for its bright red leaves, is native to Mexico and Central America.

What is a poinsettia?

400

This catch 1994 Christmas tune is the best-selling Christmas single ever recorded by a female artist, as well as being one of the highest-selling singles in music history.

What is “All I Want for Christmas is You”?

800

Game that was played to fool the Greeks and when they came to find Jews who were studying the Torah.

What is the dreidel game?

800

This office of the U.S. Armed Services tracks Santa’s voyage around the world on Christmas Eve.

What is NORAD?

800

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?

800

In North America, this is another name for wild reindeer.

What is Caribou?

800

These three words are what best describe the Grinch, “and I quote.”

What are stink, stank, and stunk?

1200

Another name for Hanukkah

What is The Festival of Lights?

1200

The movie "White Christmas" takes place in this state.

What is Vermont?

1200

A witch drops presents down chimneys in this European country’s Christmas traditions.

What is Italy?

1200

It takes this many years for a pine tree to grow to an acceptable Christmas tree height.

What is 15?

1200

Spotify has a playlist featuring 100 different versions of this holiday bop, which was originally written and recorded by 1980s Brit Pop duo Wham!

What is “Last Christmas”?

1600

In the story of Hanukkah, this was destroyed by the Romans.

What is the Temple?

1600

This U.S. state is home to the real life town of Christmas.

What is Florida?

1600

This modern-day country is where St. Nicholas was born.

What is Turkey?

1600

These three types of trees are traditionally used as Christmas trees?

What are fir, spruce and pine?

1600

“A Charlie Brown Christmas” features a Christmas song composed especially for the show, with lyrics written on the back on an envelope in ten minutes by the show’s producer.

What is “Christmas Time is Here”?

2000

This food symbolizes the money given as presents during Hanukkah 

What is gelt?

2000

This was the first U.S. state to declare Christmas an official holiday.

What is Alabama?

2000

This French character accompanies Saint Nicholas on his rounds during Saint Nicholas Day dispensing lumps of coal and/or beatings to naughty children.

Who is Père Fouettard ('Father Whipper' / 'Old Man Whipper')?

2000

The Ukrainian legend of this crawling creature inspired the Christmas of hiding a similarly shaped ornament on the tree in its honor.

What is a spider?

2000

In The Twelve Days of Christmas, lords a-leaping appear in this quantity.

What is ten?