History
This beverage giant was the first company to use Santa Claus in an advertising campaign.
What is Coca-Cola?
In Mexico, children break open these hanging papier mache sculptures to release the gifts inside.
What are pinatas?
This real-life department store served as the setting for the Christmas film “Miracle on 34th Street”.
What is Macy’s?
This piece of clothing brought Frosty the Snowman to life.
What is his old silk hat?
This Charles Dickens story is one of the most-performed Christmas plays of all time.
What is A Christmas Carol?
It takes this many years for a pine tree to grow to an acceptable Christmas tree height.
What is 15?
You can get your Christmas card postmarked not at the North Pole, but at the city called North Pole, located in this, the largest U.S. state.
What is Alaska?
This giggling red monster was the hit of the holidays as the best-selling Christmas toy of 1996.
What is Tickle Me Elmo?
This place where Santa Lives.
What is the North Pole?
This ballet, often performed in December, features Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy.
What is The Nutcracker?
You can get your Christmas card postmarked not at the North Pole, but at the city called North Pole, located in this, the largest U.S. state.
What is Alaska?
This holiday, observed in the U.K. on the day after Christmas, originated as a way for the rich to give their servants boxes of items to share with their families.
What is Boxing Day?
This popular reindeer began as a promotional character for Montgomery Ward department stores.
Who is Rudolph?
Toys coming from this magical workshop.
What is Santa’s workshop?
This live TV musical (later staged live) follows Charlie Brown and includes the song “Christmas Time Is Here.”
What is A Charlie Brown Christmas?
The English also refer to Santa Claus by this proper-sounding name.
What is Father Christmas?
A witch drops presents down chimneys in this European country’s Christmas traditions
What is Italy?
This mega toy store chain, often associated with Christmas shopping frenzy, began in 1948 and filed for bankruptcy in 2018.
What is Toys “R” Us?
Tiny little minions that help Santa wrap gifts
What are Elves?
This Radio City Music Hall show features the Rockettes.
What is The Christmas Spectacular?
The number of lights on the Griswold house in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”
What is 25,000?
The tradition of using a decorated tree as a symbol of Christmas began in this European country.
What is Germany?
This board game, first published in 1935, is a top seller during the holiday season.
What is Monopoly?
In Germany, 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?
The first Nutcracker ballet premiered in this city in 1892.
What is St. Petersburg?