Holiday misconceptions
The popular Christmas song, "Jingle Bells", was originally for what holiday?
What is Thanksgiving
There are this many "days of Christmas"
What is 12 days
This famous movie about Thanksgiving came out in 1973
What is "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving"
Children who misbehave may find a lump of this black rock in their stockings on Christmas morning.
What is coal?
This popular Christmas drink is made using raw eggs
What is eggnog
The material from which original Chanukah (Hanukkah) Gelt is made?
What is metal/coin
According to Macy's, this many people attended the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York each year (within 500,000)
what is 3.5 million
The day after Thanksgiving is called
What is black Friday
These two items traditionally appear at the tops of Christmas trees.
What are stars and angels?
Beer took up this percentage of all alcohol sales this Christmas season (within 2%)
What is 8%
The thrid most celebrated holiday this year.
What is Christmas
Leading up to Thanksgiving this past year, this state produced the most Turkeys
What is Minnesota
In “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer,” Grandma had been drinking too much of this festive holiday beverage.
What is eggnog?
The oil that the priests burned lasted for how many nights
What is 8 nights
This drink is often associated with fall and Thanksgiving
What is Apple cider
Who gave us the modern-day look of Santa? (Red coat, red hat, big beard, etc)
Who is Thomas Nast
There are this many ways that Hanukkah can be spelled
What is 17
This famous New Year's event is mostly associated with New York.
What is the New Year's ball drop?
This U.S. president was the first to pardon a turkey in 1989
Who is George H.W. Bush
Liquor took up this percentage of all drink sales (within 2%)
What is 49%
How many glasses (flute glasses) of champagne that is drunk to begin the New Year? (Within 25 million)
What is 360 million glasses?
These two years are the only times when the New Year's ball did not drop (Name one of the year's)
What is 1942 and 1943
While roughly 20% of Americans say they don't stay up until midnight on New Year, Only this percentage of millennials say that (within 2%)
What is 11%
This tradition, now associated with Christmas, began in Ancient Greece as a blessing of fertility in wedding ceremonies.
What is kissing under the mistletoe?
During the Lighting of the Menorah, Jewish people often drink this type of drinks
What is Champagne or a Champagne cocktail