Winter Holidays Part 1
Whose birth is celebrated on Christmas?
Who is Jesus of Nazareth?
These two colors are symbolic of the holiday of Christmas.
What are Green and Red?
Candy canes are sold in packs of 12. This is the amount in a dozen packs.
What is 144?
Christmas songs by another name.
What are Carols?
A symbol, originally from pagan worship, popular in homes of all backgrounds during December.
What is a Christmas tree?
This week long celebration often includes lighting candles, spinning a Dreidel, eating gelt, and small gifts, commemorating an ancient miracle.
What is Hanukkah?
Names the three religions with holidays in December.
What are Christianity (Christmas), Judaism (Hanukkah), and African American folk religion (Kwanzaa)?
There is 365 days in a year, what number is Christmas day?
What is 359?
According to the song, they're "roasting on an open fire".
What are chestnuts?
The length of time Hanukkah is celebrated.
What is 8 days?
This modern Holiday was created in the United States at the end of the Civil Rights movement.
What is Kwanzaa?
A thick, sweet, creamy drink often served with nutmeg sprinkled on top.
What is Egg nog?
If the toy workshop makes 50 toys a day, how many will they make in 5 days?
What is 250 toys?
Jazz influenced Jewish music popular around holidays.
What is Klezmer?
These are placed on the table to celebrate Kwanzaa.
What are fruit and corn?
From what continent do the traditions of Kwanzaa come from?
What is Africa?
Name the three colors of Kwanzaa
What are red, green, and black?
Christmas became a national holiday in the United States in 1870, so Christmas has been a national holiday for this long.
What is 154 years?
Music from the 1960's and 1970's popular around the time of Kwanzaa's start.
What is soul music?
A symbol of both Hanukkah, and historically, of the Jewish people.
What is the menorah?
What is another name for Hanukkah?
What is the Festival of Lights?
What red star-shaped plant is used to decorate at Christmas?
What is a Poinsettia?
Santa flies at 10,000 miles an hour, and a trip around the world is 25,000 miles. It takes him this long to fly all the way around the world?
What is Two and Half hours (2.5)?
Name the famous reindeer of the holidays. (There are nine)
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder (Donner), Blitzen, Rudolph
These are the seven principles Kwanzaa is based on.
What are Unity, Self Determination, Collective Work and Responsibility, Economic Cooperation, Purpose, Creativity, and Faith?