Candles
What are Advent candles?
In the Christian religion, Advent candles represent each week of the four Sundays leading up to Christmas.
What is Kwanzaa?
Cultural celebration lasting a week honoring African heritage.
What is Diwali?
Hindu's biggest and most important holiday of the year.
Where did Kwanzaa originate?
United States
According to the Chinese calendar what is the animal for 2021?
Ox
What are the colors of Kwanzaa candles?
Black, red and green candles.
When is the Chinese new year?
Sometime between January 21st - February 20th
People decorate their homes with clay lamps, create design patterns on the floor using colored powders or sand, and have a firework display as part of what celebration?
Diwali
Does winter solstice have the most or least sunlight of the year?
Least
What does Santa feed his reindeer?
Hay and reindeer feed
How many candles are on the Menorah?
9, One to light the other 8
What year was the holiday of Kwanzaa first introduced?
1966
What is the festival celebrated with kites that marks the day when winter begins to turn into summer?
Kite festival-UTTARAYAN
What game is often associated with the Hanukkah holiday?
Dreidel
According to the Chinese calendar what is the animal for 2022
Tiger
What is the single candle used to light the other candles on the Menorah called?
Shammash
How long is the Chinese festival celebrating the Chinese New Year in China, also called the lunar new year?
15 days
Whom did the Jewish people rise up against in the 2nd century B.C. which is now commemorated by Hanukkah.
Greek-Syrian oppressors in the Maccabean Revolt
What city or state is thought to be host to the first Thanksgiving celebration?
Plymouth, Massachusetts
What are the names of Santa's 9 reindeer?
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph
What do the Kwanzaa candles represent?
The black candle represent the people themselves. The red candles represent the blood shed and struggles of the people. The green candles represent the earth, or the abundance of possibilities the future holds.
What marks the end of fall and beginning of winter?
Winter solstice
When is Hindus celebration of Ganesha?
Dec. 21-25, focus on wrapping up the year, celebrating the present and joyfully welcoming the future. Each day has a spiritual practice.
Name a State that has a city named turkey?
Texas, North Carolina, Louisiana
Nicholas of Bari is better known by what name?
Santa Claus