Holiday Food & Drink
Campbell’s Soup worker Dorcas Reilly invented what popular Thanksgiving side dish in 1955?
Green Bean Casserole
According to the popular American holiday song and myth, what magical object brings a famous snowman to life?
An old silk hat
What popular Christmas decoration was originally invented in Germany in 1610 and was made out of hammered strands of real silver?
Tinsel
What were the nuts referenced in Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song"?
Chestnuts
What day relates best to retail profitability and doorbuster deals
Black Friday
Which fruit was traditionally placed inside Christmas stockings?
Orange
Milk, cream, sugar, whipped eggs and usually served spiked
Eggnog
Small, magical beings with pointed ears who live with Santa Claus at the North Pole and help build toys.
Elves
What is the name of the traditional four-sided spinning top played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah?
Dreidel
What was Clark Griswold's favorite holiday dinner in the movie "Christmas Vacation"?
Pasta (Spaghetti and Meatballs)
On December 1st, this item offers children a fun way to be patient while counting the days until Santa arrives.
Advent Calendar
Starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, this 1942 Hollywood movie featured the best-selling Christmas song of all time.
"Holiday Inn" (song was "White Christmas")
What is turducken, in order from inside out?
Chicken, duck, turkey
In the famous 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (commonly known as "Twas the Night Before Christmas"), how many reindeer pull Santa's sleigh?
8 (Rudolph wasn't created until a 1939 Montgomery Ward booklet)
What Greek letter has been used as a sacred abbreviation for Christ for centuries.
X (chi/"Christos")
In the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", what were there 11 of?
Pipers Piping
Name the day: Vigil of the Nativity, Midnight Mass, Nittel Nacht
Christmas Eve
What was the reason there was a string on the original boxes of Barnum's Animal Crackers?
so the boxes could be hung on a Christmas tree
This is the #1 selling, non-chocolate candy sold in the month of December.
Which of America's Founding Fathers thought the turkey should be the national bird of the United States?
Benjamin Franklin, he thought it was more of a true original Native of America and a bird of courage vs. the bald eagle
Mexico
What 1973 American television cartoon special features 2 friends, a dog, and a bird serving a Thanksgiving meal of toast, pan-fried popcorn, pretzel sticks, jelly beans, and sundaes?
"A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" (Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock)
What is the name of the Christian festival celebrated on December 6th?
St. Nicholas Day
Thanks to a wildly successful marketing campaign in 1974, what fast-food chain became a legendary Christmas Eve "bucket" dinner tradition in Japan?
KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
How many ingredients is plum Christmas pudding made with and why?
13, to symbolize Christ and the apostles
What are the three crops traditionally planted together by Native Americans and known as the "Three Sisters"?
Corn, beans, and squash (the corn acts as a pole for the beans, the beans add nitrogen to the soil, and the leaves from the squash block out weeds)
Who answers more than 100,000 distress calls every Thanksgiving holiday?
The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line (how to handle a frozen, miscalculated, or burning bird!)
In the movie "Elf", what does Buddy claim are the four food groups?
Candy, Candy Canes, Candy Corn, and Syrup
This "national day" is celebrated annually on December 22nd.
National Cookie Exchange Day
What is the name of the Advent tradition that traces the family tree and ancestry of Jesus Christ from creation to His birth.
The Jesse Tree: Each day from December 1st to Christmas Day, features a specific Bible story to read or corresponding ornament to hang on a tree (starting with creation, moving through figures like Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David, and ending with Mary and Jesus)