Christmas
"'Twas the Night Before Christmas" has mamma in this headgear "and I in my cap"
a kerchief
Woody Allen joked that he earned pin money in school hustling in this Hanukkah top game
dreidel
Steve Beard obtained his Bachelors and Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from this 2nd oldest Bay Area university
San Jose State University
Kwanzaa's kinara holds 7 of these; a menorah holds 8
candles
This holiday is celebrated as an alternative to the pressures and commercialism of the Christmas holiday season.
Festivus
In "A Christmas Story", the huge box marked "fra-jee-lay" ("fragile") contains this alliterative 2-word award
the leg lamp
This Motown singer went viral recently for wishing a former Detroit neighbor a Happy "Cha-noo-kah" in a video
This food item in Steve's "ebay Retirement" collection was not created for NASA, but was used on John Glenn's Mercury flight in February 1962, and on subsequent Gemini missions
Tang
Prof. Maulana Karenga was inspired to create Kwanzaa after the 1965 riots in this Los Angeles neighborhood
Watts
According to this show, which created the holiday, it is celebrated on December 23
Seinfeld
In "Santaland Diaries", this humorist wrote about his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's
David Sedaris
This comic voiced 3 characters in the animated Hanukkah movie "Eight Crazy Nights"
Adam Sandler
Mr. Beard chairs this AIAA committee, whose scope is "Standardization in the simulation of atmospheric and space flight conditions in ground-based simulators and special-purpose aircraft for the purpose of aircrew training, or for design, development, and evaluation of aerospace vehicles, systems, and subsystems."
Modeling and Simulation
The colors of Kwanzaa are...
Red (for the struggle)
Green (for the hope)
Black (for the people)
This holiday practice, which occurs during the holiday meal, involves each person telling everyone else all the ways they have disappointed them over the past year
The Airing of Grievances
This period in the ecclesiastical year leading up to Christmas begins Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020
Advent
In Israel, these sweet pastries are the traditional food of Hanukkah
jelly donuts
Steve is one of how many children?
Six
The Kwanzaa feast table is decorated with one ear of corn for each of these in the household
children
Another of this holiday's traditions, called this, allows the head of household to challenge one attendee to a wrestling match. The holiday does not end until the head of household is pinned.
Feats of Strength
For more than 200 years, Spain has made people rich on Christmas with the Lotería de this
Navidad
Being locked up by Pompey was the fate of Antigonus II, the last king descended from these Hanukkah heroes
the Maccabees
It may seem irrational, but Steve Beard doesn't like cake, and often prefers this dessert instead
pie
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has revived customs like the harvest festival of "first" these that also inspired Kwanzaa
first fruits
This city's annual public Festivus celebration has been held since 2005, featuring live bands, a Seinfeld trivia contest, and the holiday traditions. In 2017, the City Paper called its 13th iteration "the longest-running celebration of Sein-Culture in the 'Burgh".
Pittsburgh