Christmas Classics
In this 1964 special, an elf who’d rather be a dentist teams up with a reindeer whose glowing feature makes him an outcast.
What is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
This is the name of a furry friend often seen around the Newman House.
What is Tosca?
This 4th-century bishop of Myra, known for secret gift-giving to the poor, inspired the modern Santa Claus legend during Advent.
Who is St. Nicholas?
This Judean town became the birthplace of Jesus due to a census ordered by Caesar Augustus.
What is Bethlehem?
This song includes the lyric "Over the hills we go, laughing all the way"
What is Jingle Bells?
These marinated cubes of chicken, a Binghamton specialty, are traditionally grilled on skewers and served on Italian bread.
What is Chicken Spiedies?
In this film, a forgotten airline ticket and a spilled bottle of milk during a chaotic family dinner end up being the reason one child wakes up alone on Christmas morning.
What is Home Alone?
This is the number of years Sister Rose has been the director of campus ministry for the Newman House.
What is 10 years?
This 13th-century Italian friar created the first live Nativity scene in Greccio to help people visualize Jesus' humble birth.
Who is St.Francis of Assisi?
The angel instructs Joseph in a dream to flee to this country with Mary and the child to escape King Herod's threat.
What is Egypt?
This song includes the lyric "Oh the weather outside is frightful"
What is Let It Snow
More than 100 animal species live in this Binghamton park attraction, opened in 1875 and one of the oldest zoos in the U.S.
What is the Ross Park Zoo?
In this movie, the main character spends the night inside a department store display, lying among mannequins and holiday decorations in an attempt to blend in.
What is Elf?
The Binghamton University Newman House belongs to this Roman Catholic diocese.
What is the Diocese of Syracuse?
Known as the Church's first martyr, this bold preacher in Acts forgave his killers as they stoned him outside Jerusalem.
Who is St. Stephen
Wise men from the East follow this celestial sign to Jerusalem, seeking the newborn king of the Jews to pay him homage.
What is a star?
This song includes the lyric "Dancin, and Prancin, in Jingle Bell Square, in the Frosty Air"
What is Jingle Bell Rock
These two rivers meet in Downtown Binghamton.
What are the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers?
In this Christmas special, Jingle and Jangle lose Vixen after she’s impounded for not having a dog license, forcing them to disguise her as a “snow dog” to get her back.
What is The Year Without a Santa Claus?
This is the number of chairs inside chapel.
What is 153?
This Sicilian virgin martyr, whose name means "light," rejected a rich suitor to sell her possessions and aid the needy during a famine.
Who is St. Lucia?
Fulfilling Isaiah's prophecy in Matthew's Gospel, the virgin will bear a son called this name, signifying "God with us."
What is Emmanuel?
This song includes the lyric "You will get a sentimental feeling, when you hear"
Rockin Around the Christmas Tree
Binghamton’s minor league baseball team, now the Rumble Ponies, once had this circus-themed name.
What were the Binghamton Mets?
“Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings” is heard in this classic, where George Bailey sees a world in which he never existed.
What is It’s a Wonderful Life?
This is the year the Binghamton University Newman House was founded.
What is 1969?
This 19th-century Oxford scholar and Anglican priest converted to Catholicism, later becoming a cardinal famous for his eloquent defense of conscience and truth.
Who is St. John Henry Newman?
John's prologue describes the Word who "became flesh and lived among us," full of grace and this quality, as the only Son from the Father.
What is truth?
This song includes the lyric "You’re here, where you should be, snow is falling as the carolers sing"
What is Underneath the Tree
This is the year Binghamton University was founded?
What is 1946?