Holiday Movies
This department store is central to the holiday film "Miracle on 34th Street".
What is Macy's?
This holiday dessert can be preserved for over 20 years with the use of alcohol, even without refrigeration, and has been used by soldiers due to its long shelf life.
What is fruitcake?
This is the name of the little girl in the "Nutcracker" ballet.
What is Clara?
This is how you say "Merry Christmas" in Spanish.
What is Feliz Navidad?
This toy supposedly spies on kids and reports back to Santa.
What is Elf on a Shelf?
This is the item that made Frosty come to life in the movie "Frosty the Snowman".
What is a hat?
To celebrate the miracle of oil, it is important to cook with plenty of it. This is the primary ingredient of latkes, which are traditionally eaten on Hanukkah.
What are potatoes?
This holiday tradition started during the Great Depression when parents encouraged children to do it in order to teach them how to share and be charitable during the time of economic hardship.
What is leaving cookies for Santa?
This is the number of candles that appear on a traditional Hanukkah menorah.
What is 9?
This is the number of reindeer that pull Santa's sleigh.
This is the name of the animated holiday movie starring Tom Hanks.
What is the Polar Express?
15% of the US population eats this protein on Christmas Day.
What is ham?
These items, frequently with openings that hide pictures, poems, stories, and/or small gifts, are used to count down to Christmas.
What are advent calendars?
The language of which the word "Kwanzaa" comes from.
What is Swahili?
The winter holiday created by the writers of the sitcom "Seinfeld"
What is Festivus?
In "Home Alone", this is where the McCallisters were going on vacation when they left Kevin behind.
What is Paris?
This common holiday drink is descended from something called posset.
What is eggnog?
This is the name of the country that first used the tradition of Christmas trees.
What is Germany?
The common, Western name for the Iranian festival of Yalda which occurs on the longest and darkest night of the year.
What is Winter Solstice?
According to the song, this is what my true love gave to me on the eighth day of Christmas.
What is eight maids a milking?
This holiday film became a Christmas classic three decades after its initial release, when studio rights expired and television stations started airing the flick on repeat.
What is "It's A Wonderful Life"?
This decade is when Coca-Cola began featuring Santa Claus in Christmas advertising (Coca-Cola is the supposed reason why Santa wears red and white).
What is the 1930s?
This city in the United States is where the tradition of putting lit candles in the window began.
What is Williamsburg, VA?
This is the most popular meal for Christmas in Japan.
What is Kentucky Fried Chicken?
In this Broadway musical the song "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" was introduced.
What is "Meet me in St. Louis"?