Dates and Time
This calendar ended on December 21, 2012, which led some to believe it predicted the end of the world.
What is the Mayan calendar?
Celebrated on December 26 in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada as gift giving day, typically to charities.
What is Boxing Day?
Where people eat as many grapes as possible during the countdown to midnight.
What is Spain?
1960 heist movie that takes place in Las Vegas.
What is Ocean's Eleven?
Performed the half-time show at the Super Bowl LV on February 7.
Who is The Weeknd?
The largest country that is within one time zone.
What is China?
A holiday celebrated from December 26 to January 1 established in 1966 by a professor at California State University as a response to the Watts riots in Los Angeles.
What is Kwanzaa?
Where people carry an empty suitcase around for New Years.
What is Colombia?
2005 film adaptation of a musical about Bohemians in the East Village of New York City struggling with life, love and AIDS, and the impacts they have on America.
What is Rent?
The most decorated U.S. female Olympic athlete, winning two gold and two silver medals in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Who is Katie Ledecky?
An ancient Greek analog computer that was used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance as well as track the four-year cycle of athletic games.
What is the Antikythera mechanism?
The season of the liturgical calendar following Advent, also often called the "12 days of Christmas".
What is Christmastide?
Where people paint their front door red.
What is China?
1972 adventure film where nine people explore a cruise ship at sea in a manner that turns their whole lives upside down.
What is The Poseidon Adventure?
Won the Oscar's Best Picture award on April 25.
What is Nomadland?
Two uninhabited islands that are the last to bring in the new year.
What is Howland and Baker Islands?
Observed on December 28 in the Christian tradition, honoring the children killed by King Herod in his quest to find baby Jesus.
What is Holy Innocents' Day?
Where people wear polka-dot clothing and carry coins in their pockets.
What is Philippines?
2014 drama where four strangers find themselves on the roof of a building known for suicides and unexpectedly find ways to help each other out.
What is A Long Way Down?
Won his fifth World Chess Champion title on December 10.
Who is Magnus Carlsen?
The longest year in history with 445 days to realign the year with the Julian calendar, sometimes referred to as "the last year of confusion".
When was 46 B.C.?
Traditionally celebrated in Ireland on December 26 by killing wrens and parading them through the streets.
What is St. Stephen's Day?
Where people wear red underwear.
What is Italy?
1987 comedy by Woody Allen where a man reminisces about his youth, growing up in the 1930s and 40s in New York.
What is Radio Days?
The name of the ship that blocked the Suez Canal from March 23-29.