Santa Claus
Quotes
Eggnog
Christmas
Snow
100
What Santa Claus is called in the United Kingdom
Who is Father Christmas?
100
"Come, see the north-wind's masonry.
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions with projected roof
Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.
Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work
So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he
For number or proportion."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
100
Ingredient in eggnog that caused the residents and staff of a nursing home in 1981 to all get salmonella poisoning
What is raw eggs?
100
British female children's fantasy author and supporter of the Communist Party of Great Britain who wrote The Christmas Pig
Who is J. K. Rowling?
100
Temperature in Fahrenheit above which snow starts to melt
What is 32 degrees?
200
The first movie to feature Santa Claus, released in 1912
What is Santa Claus?
(You seriously couldn't get that? I don't even know what to say...)
200
"Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused — in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened — by the recurrence of Christmas."
Who is Charles Dickens?
200
The number of grams of sugar the average cup of eggnog has, according to the USDA
What is 21.4?
200
The country that Christmas Island is a part of
What is Australia?
200
The state where the largest snowflake ever was recorded
Where is Montana?
300
1981 Bloom County political cartoon featuring Santa rejecting the demands of PETCO (Professional Elves Toy-Making and Craft Organization) for higher wages, with the elves then going on strike, President Ronald Reagan then stepping in and firing all of the elves satirized this real life event
What is the 1981 air traffic controller strike?
300
"To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year"
Who is E. B. White?
300
1826 riot that started at the United States Military Academy at West Point because of mass drunkenness caused by alcoholic eggnog
What is the Eggnog Riot?
(Seriously? You couldn't guess that? I'm disappointed...)
300
Leader of the UK when Christmas was banned by the Parlimentarian government in 1647 after the English Civil War
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
300
The country where the deadliest avalanche of all time occurred
Where is Peru?
400
US state that bans the usage of Santa Claus to sell alcoholic beverages
Where is Ohio?
400
"You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why —
Santa Claus is coming to town!"
Who is Haven Gillespie?
400
The year when the first commercial non dairy eggnog was released
When is 1981?
400
The president who sponsored the first electrically illuminated Christmas tree in the White House, also the first president to win non-consecutive terms
Who is Grover Cleveland?
400
1992 cyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson that inspired the metaverse concept
What is Snow Crash?
500
Postal code of Santa's Workshop in Canada
What is H0H 0H0?
500
"The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted, Northland Wild."
Who is Jack London?
500
Variant of eggnog originating in Venezuela
What is ponche crema?
500
Roman winter celebration in honor of the god Saturn that inspired Christmas
What is Saturnalia?
500
Indigenous language that, according to myth, has over 100 words for snow, although the topic is controversial among linguists due to the language's polysynthetic grammar
What is Eskimo?