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Name three items Buddy the Elf eats on his spaghetti.
What are: candy, candy corn, syrup, sugar, chocolate syrup, marshmallows, Pop-Tarts?
The name of the shortest day of the year.
What is the Winter Solstice?
The number of nights gifts are given during Hanukkah.
What is eight?
This four-sided top is typically played with by children around Hanukkah.
What is a dreidel?
What is SpringFest?
This is the highest-grossing holiday movie of all time.
On this holiday celebration, 1.5 tons of confetti fill the streets of Times Square.
What is New Year's Eve?
Wrapping paper is recyclable, unless it has this element on it.
What is glitter?
This ballet premiered in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1892.
What is The Nutcracker?
Pre-COVID, a four-story holiday party was held in this location.
What is Adelbert Hall?
This nearly 20-year-old animated film stars and was created by Adam Sandler.
What is Eight Crazy Nights?
Mindy Kaling wrote an iconic episode of The Office about this Festival of Lights, which typically happens in the fall but people like me include it in winter holiday trivia.
What is Diwali?
UPS delivered this many gifts last December:
—8 million
—17 million
—23 million
—32 million
What is 23 million?
According to the folklore of Austria and other countries, this horned figure punishes naughty children.
Who is Krampus?
This 26-mile race is intended to mark the 26-mile move of CWRU from Hudson, Ohio, to University Circle.
What is Hudson Relays?
This actor who player Fuller in Home Alone now stars in Succession.
Who is Kieran Culkin?
People wear red for luck on this non-Christmas holiday.
What is Chinese New Year?
On the eighth day of Christmas, this is what my true love gave to me.
What is eight maids a milking?
This song, now a Christmas classic, was actually intended to be a Thanksgiving tune.
What is Jingle Bells?
Fun fact: It also was the first song ever broadcast from space in 1965.
In this year, President Emerita Barbara R. Snyder announced the university would close between Christmas and New Year's.
—2017
—2018
—2019
—2020
What is 2017?
This was the first Christmas movie, created in 1898!
The name "Kwanzaa" means "first fruits" in this language.
What is Swahili?
This is the animatronic cassette-playing bear toy that every kid wanted for Christmas in the mid-80s.
What is Teddy Ruxpin?
This is the year Coca-Cola began using Santa Claus in its advertising: 1931, 1943 or 1956.
What is 1931?
Late-night breakfast—a semiannual break-from-finals-studying event—began in this year:
—1984
—1988
—1992
—1996
What is 1988?