CHRISTMAS MOVIES
In Home Alone, what city do the McCallisters travel to for vacation?
What is Paris?
“Carol of the Bells” is based on a Ukrainian folk chant called what?
What is “Shchedryk”?
In which country do people celebrate “St. Knut’s Day” on January 13 to officially end Christmas?
What is Sweden?
“Figgy pudding” is a steamed dessert most similar to what modern dessert style?
What is a British steamed plum pudding?
What year was NORAD’s Santa Tracker accidentally created?
What is 1955?
In Die Hard, the Nakatomi Plaza tower is actually this real Los Angeles building.
What is Fox Plaza?
Which Christmas song was the first to be broadcast from space in 1965?
What is Jingle Bells?
This country’s Christmas dinner includes “Janssons frestelse,” a creamy anchovy-potato casserole.
What is Sweden?
Japan’s Christmas KFC tradition began heavily in which decade?
What are the 1970's?
Queen Victoria’s adoption of which Christmas tradition made it popular in the U.K. and North America?
What is the Christmas tree?
In The Polar Express, the train ticket number “11344” is a reference to what?
What is the book’s page number and paragraph where the boy appears?
“Do You Hear What I Hear?” was written during which historical crisis?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
In which country do families decorate trees with spiderwebs for good luck?
What is Ukraine?
The Italian Christmas cake “panettone” originates from which specific city?
What is Milan?
In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, how many ghosts visit Scrooge?
What is four? (Past, Present, Future, plus Marley)
In Elf, Buddy’s biological father works at a publishing company that produces what?
What are children's books?
This timeless tune holds the Guinness World Record for best-selling single of all time.
What is White Christmas?
In Iceland, Gryla the giantess boils misbehaving children in what?
What is a cauldron? (related to the Yule Lads myth)
Halászlé, a Hungarian Christmas soup, is traditionally made from which freshwater fish?
What is carp?
The first company to use Santa Claus in advertising was not Coca-Cola but this brand.
What is White Rock Beverages?
In A Christmas Story, the family eats their Christmas dinner at a Chinese restaurant called what?
What is Bo Ling (fictionally “Bo Ling Chop Suey Palace”)?
Which Christmas carol is written entirely as a conversation between an angel, a lamb, and a shepherd?
What is "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
In Greece, goblins called Kallikantzaroi appear only during which 12-day period?
What is between Christmas and Epiphany (Dec 25–Jan 6)?
In Ethiopia, Christmas dinner often includes “Doro Wat,” made from what?
What is spicy chicken stew?
The original Yule log was not chocolate—but an actual log burned for how long?
What is 12 days?