Christmas Around the
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World
This fast food chain is especially popular as the traditional Christmas meal in Japan
What is KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)?
This item used as a fuel, is said to be given to naughty girls and boys by Santa
What is a lump of coal?
Frosty the Snowman's nose is made of this
What is a button?
Santa's sleigh is pulled by this many reindeer before joined by Rudolph
What is 8 reindeer?
In Austrian and Bavarian folklore, this frightening anti-Santa Claus with goat’s hooves and horns punishes children who misbehave instead of bringing them gifts
Who is Krampus?
During advent, one candle is lit each Sunday until they are all bright. This candle is the last one lit, symbolizing Jesus being with us
What is the Christ candle?
According to It's A Wonderful Life, every time a bells rings, this happens
What is "an angel get his wings?"
These barnyard beasts kept time for a humble percussionist in the Christmas carol, “The Little Drummer Boy”.
What are the the ox and the lamb?
People in this Scandinavian island nation traditionally gift books on Christmas Eve, called the Yule Book Flood, and spend the evening reading them while sipping chocolate
What is Iceland?
This tradition, now associated with Christmas, began in Ancient Greece as a blessing of fertility in wedding ceremonies
What is kissing under the mistletoe?
In A Charlie Brown Christmas, the Peanuts gang sings this song at the end of the movie
What is "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
“I’m dreaming of a white Christmas” with every one of these
What is every card that I write?
Christmas is celebrated on this day after 45 days of fasting from meat and dairy by Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christians
What is January 7th? (Christmas is called Ganna)
Saint Nicholas was born in this modern-day country
What is Turkey?
This is the "first gift of Christmas" given in The Polar Express
What is a bell from Santa's sleigh?
There are this many types of birds given in "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
What is 6 birds? (Partridge, Turtle Doves, French Hen, Calling Birds, Geese, Swans)
Christmas Day in this South American country in the Andes, includes Takanakuy, a series of organized fistfights, designed for people to settle their differences outside of the courts
What is Peru? (Santo Tomas, Peru)
This U.S. state was the last to officially recognize Christmas as a legal holiday in 1907
What is Oklahoma?
This is the first rule in the Code of Elves in the movie, Elf
What is "treat every day like Christmas"?
This Christmas song was the first broadcast from space in 1965
What is Jingle Bells?