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100

What do trucks put down on the ground to melt ice and stop it from freezing?

salt

100

Can you eat a mistletoe? 

No, it is EXTREMELY poisonous. 

100

What movie is based in Whoville?

The Grinch

100

This holiday celebration leads to 1.5 tons of confetti filling the streets of Times Square. 

New Year's Eve

100

Name 3 types of Holiday cookies. 

Shortbread, Sugar cookies, gingerbread, Spritz cookies, orange madeleine's, haystacks, viennese almond crescents, etc.

100

What is the most important custom associated with Hanukkah?

The lighting of the menorah, a candelabra with eight branches plus a holder for the shammash (“servant”) candle that is used to light the other eight candles.

200

At what temperature does it snow? 

32 degrees F

200

What food and drink is left for Santa?

Milk and Cookies

200

Which of these is not a Christmas movie? 

Scream, Home Alone, or It's a Wonderful Life

Scream is not a Christmas movie 

200

How many federal US holidays are there? 

11! New Years Day, Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.  

200

What beverage company has been using Santa Claus and or a Polar Bear in its advertising since 1931?

Coca-Cola

200

What traditional Christmas decoration is actually a parasitic plant?

Mistletoe

300

How many inches of snow was the most ever recorded in NY?

49 inches in 1900

300

Name 2 spices used to make gingerbread cookies.

Ginger, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg
300

Name the author who inspired the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas. 

Dr. Seuss 

300

Name another religious/cultural holiday that is celebrated towards the middle or end of December.

Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Diwali, or Chinese New Year, etc

300

What is a driedel?

A) a potato pancake B) a candel holder C) a type of ribbon D) a 4 sided top

D) a 4 sided top (a small four-sided spinning top with a Hebrew letter on each side, used in a children's game traditionally played at the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.)

300

What well-known Christmas carol became the first song ever broadcast from space in 1965?

Jingle Bells

400
Christmas is always on a Friday. 

True or False. 

False. 

400

What Christmas beverage is also known as “milk punch?”

Eggnog 

400

What color was Rudolph's nose?

Red

400

What is the winter solstice? 

The shortest day of the year (December 21)

400

What is the name of a famous Christmas Ballet? It includes a Mouse King. 

The Nutcracker

400

What country has the most holidays?

Turkey has the most federal holidays of any country in the world. There are 16 federal holidays in Turkey every year. BUT Argentina's employees are entitled to 15 paid public holidays and every year the government adds a few more holidays known as "bridge holidays" which means that a holiday last two days.

500

When does winter officially start? (answer can be within 2 days)

December 21st 

500

What Hispanic food is a holiday tradition to make? 

Tamales

500

In The Polar Express, who can hear the bell ring?

only those who believe in Christmas magic

500

How many reindeer pull Santa's sleigh? 

8 Reindeers originally, 9 with Rudolph 

500

According to the folklore of Austria and other countries, what horned figure punishes naughty children at Christmastime?

Krampus

500

In what modern-day country was Saint Nicholas born?

Turkey