Winter
What do trucks put down on the ground to melt ice and stop it from freezing?
salt
Can you eat a mistletoe?
No, it is EXTREMELY poisonous.
This holiday celebration leads to 1.5 tons of confetti filling the streets of Times Square.
New Year's Eve
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.
Lunar New Year (sometime's called Chinese New Year) falls between these two months
What are January and February
At what temperature does it snow?
32 degrees F
What Christmas beverage is also known as “milk punch?”
Eggnog
Name another religious/cultural holiday that is celebrated towards the middle or end of December.
Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Diwali, or Chinese New Year, etc
What beverage company has been using Santa Claus and or a Polar Bear in its advertising since 1931?
Coca-Cola
In this country people often wear white and jump into the ocean to celebrate NYE
-Guatemala, Haiti, Brazil, Japan
What is Brazil
How many inches of snow was the most ever recorded in NY?
49 inches in 1900
Name 2 spices used to make gingerbread cookies.
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.
This four-sided spinning top with a Hebrew letter on each side, is used in a children's game traditionally played at the Jewish festival of Hanukkah
What is a driedel?
In this country it is typical to eat 12 grapes as the clock tower chimes 12 times at midnight on New Year's Eve
-Spain, Italy, Russia, Mozambique
What is Spain
This country was the host of the first Olympic Winter Games
What is (Chamonix) France
This potato-based dish is typical during Hanukkah celebrations
What are latkes?
This is the shortest day of the year (December 21)
What is the winter solstice?
This is a famous Christmas Ballet that includes a Mouse King.
The Nutcracker
In this country it is believed to be good luck to wear round shapes (polka-dots) and eat round fruits for NYE
- Thailand, The Philippines, Egypt, Colombia
What is The Philippines
This is the first year the United States implemented Daylight Savings in the winter
When is 1918
(Half points for the correct decade)
What Hispanic food is a holiday tradition to make?
Tamales
This African winter celebration is culturally based, rather than religiously.
What is Kwanzaa
This country has the most federal holidays
What is Turkey?
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.
On this continent it is very common for people to walk or run with an empty suitcase around the block to bring good luck and manifest travel in the new year
What is South America
(can also accept Latin America because it is true of Central America)