Holiday Foods
Name the 4 basic ingredients in eggnog.
Bonus: 100 points if you can name the fifth one.
What is milk, cream, sugar, and eggs.
Bonus: alcohol, such as brandy, rum or whiskey.
In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, in total there are four ghosts that visit Scrooge. You must name all 4.
What is ghost of Christmas past, present, future, and Jacob Marley.
How many players are needed to play a game of dreidel?
This holiday flower is sold in the common shades of red, pink and white. The shape of this flower is also said to symbolize the star of Bethlehem.
What is Poinsettia
Inspired by John Lloyd Wright these interlocking wooden beams made many architects.
What are Lincoln Logs?
When it comes to nutrition these candies aren't so bad. With only 50 calories and no fat or cholesterol, but watch out for their sugar content! They're major culprits in causing holiday season cavities.
What is Candy Canes.
On New Year's Eve, we sing this song.
What is "Auld Lang Syne". By Robert Burns.
What is the candle used on the menorah to light the other candles called?
What is "shamash"
How would you feel about kissing under a parasite? That favorite holiday plant stays green all winter because it sucks the minerals and water from its host... not so romantic.
What is mistletoe?
This toy made famous by A Christmas Story and the famous phrase. "You'll shoot yer eye out!"
What is Red Ryder BB gun?
When trading with Asia during the Middle Ages it made a lot of new spices accessible to Europeans... Even Queen Elizabeth I ordered ________ made to resemble the dignitaries visiting her court.
What is Gingerbread cookies?
These are the most popular two health-related New Year Resolutions in the United States.
What is Losing Weight and Exercising.
The best part of Jewish holidays is often the food! To celebrate the "miracle of oil", fried potato pancakes are eaten in Hanukkah. What are these pancakes called?
What are latkes or levivot
Lots of birds are attracted to this bush's bright red berries. Particularly fieldfares, blackbirds, song thrushes and redwings.
What is Holly?
What iconic toy, invented in 1943, consists of a helical spring that “walks” downstairs, stretches, and bounces in various ways?
What is Slinky.
North Carolina Special!
From humble roots in a garage to a 40,000 square foot facility today. This good has quite a nutty taste for the holiday season.
What is Southern Supreme Fruitcake.
If you lived in Germany, you may have scared your children with the Anti Saint Nicholas if they were misbehaving.
Who is Krampus?
Chanukah usually starts on the 25th of Kislev, a date that varies in the Gregorian calendar. Chanukah is also commonly known as the festival of what?
What is Lights
This frost sensitive herb is becoming associated with Christmas, due to people trimming it into a Christmas tree shaped topiary.
What is Rosemary?
What popular board game, patented in 1935, involves buying, trading, and developing properties, intending to drive opponents into bankruptcy?
What is Monopoly?
This sweet treat emerged in 19th century from France. People get very creative giving it a natural bark texture with berries and mushrooms to spare.
Bonus 100 points if you can say it in French!
What is a Yule Log or Bûche de Noël?
What modern day country were the 'Greeks' based in?
What is Syria
While this is an unexpected plant for the holiday season... lacking evergreen needles and bright red berries. However, its colorful blooms coming in shades of pink and red blooms from September to February.
What is Christmas Cactus.
Which 1940s toy, created as a modeling compound for cleaning wallpaper, became popular as children’s sculpting material?
What is Play-Doh.