Winter weather
This term is used for the temperature you feel compared to the actual temperature when it is cold and windy.
What is wind chill?
This originally pagan holiday celebrates the year’s longest night and marks the start of winter.
What/when is the winter solstice?
On St. Nicholas day, good Austrian children will receive gifts from St. Nicholas. If they have been bad though then they will suffer the wrath of this half-man half-goat figure.
Who is Krampus?
This separate new years celebration that doesn’t line up with traditional new years is common among different East Asian countries and takes place in January or February.
What/when is Chinese or Lunar New Year’s?
Bibingka is a rice cake baked in banana leaves and topped with butter, cheese, and coconut eaten in this Asian country around Christmas.
What/where is the Philippines?
Astronomical winter begins on December 21st while meteorological winter begins on ________ 1st.
When is December?
This holiday celebrating African American heritage is celebrated every year for the week after Christmas (26-1).
What/when is Kwanzaa?
Saint Nicholas (the Santa inspiration) is from this country in the Mediterranean.
What/where is Turkey?
This Pacific island country celebrates New Year’s first every year.
What/where is Kiribati (pronounced kee-ruh-bas)?
This East Asian country eats KFC for Christmas after a 70s campaign titled Kentucky Fried Christmas.
What/where is Japan?
The official definition of a white Christmas (NOAA) is to have at least ____ snow at ___ AM of December 25 local time.
What/how much is 1 inch?
When is 7 AM?
This term that originally described a Germanic pagan festival celebrated around the start of winter, is now used for the winter/Christmas season.
What/when yule or yuletide?
The town of Rovaniemi, in this Northern European country, branded itself as the home of Santa in 2009.
What/where is Finland?
This American territory in the Pacific is the last inhabited place to celebrates New Year’s Day last.
What/where is American Samoa?
Families in this European country gather around every Christmas Eve at 3pm to watch Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas after it was one of the only shows that you could watch when tv came on.
What/where is Sweden?
DC gets about __ to __ inches of snow per year.
What is/are 13 - 16?
The 26th of December is known as ______ day or second christmas in many countries. This was originally created to give gifts to those in need.
What/when is Boxing Day?
Mariah Carey makes about ___ to ___ million every year for her song All I Want For Christmas Is You.
What is 2.5-3 million?
success if you guess between 2.25-3.3 million
Antarctica holds a music festival named Icestock every year that has an attendance of around this many people.
How many are 1,000-1,200 people?
correct if you guess 900-1,500
Christmas Island is the name of one island each in these two countries.
What/where is/are
Australia - Christmas Island
Kiribati - Kirimati translates to Christmas in Gilbertese
This weather event occurs when visibility goes below 1/4 of a mile due to snow for more than 3 hours.
What is a blizzard?
This African country celebrates Christmas on January 7th because they use their own calendar (based off of the orthodox Christian calendar).
Where/what is Ethiopia?
This witch delivers treats or coal (good vs bad) to Italian children on the eve of Epiphany.
Who is La Befana?
This European country has the unique tradition of breaking plates for new years to bring good luck and push out bad spirits.
What/where is Denmark?
This European country has an interesting tradition putting a pickle (green ornament) on the tree that gives good luck to the person that finds it first.