Christmas
List as many of santa's reindeer as you can -- each one is worth 100 points!
Who are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen, and Rudolph?
The number of candles on a menorah
What is nine?
The number of years people have been celebrating Kwanzaa (approximately)
What is 69 years?
The color most people wear during Chinese New Year
What is red?
The day New Years Eve is celebrated
When is December 31st?
True or false-- Christmas was not originally celebrated on December 25th.
What is false?
The people who typically celebrate hannukah
Who are Jewish people?
Kwanzaa- cultural or religious holiday?
What is cultural?
List as many countries as you can who celebrate Lunar or Chinese New Year.
The team with the most countries listed gets the points!
What are China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and possibly others (all you have to do is convince me)
The most common NYE tradition in America
What is watching the ball drop in Times Square?
(I will also accept watching fireworks for half points)
How many wise men (or kings) are traditionally included in the Christmas story and nativity scenes?
What is three?
Other names for Hannukah (300 points per!)
What are Channukah (Hebrew name) and The Festival of Lights?
The number of candles in a Kwanzaa lamp (bonus points if you can list how many are of each color and what the colors are)
What are seven total-- 3 green, 3 red, and one black?
List 3 common traditions
(each extra is worth 100 bonus points!)
What are reunion dinners, giving red envelopes of money, setting off firecrackers, spring cleaning, wearing new clothes, decorating with red, and enjoying the lion/dragon dances?
The first year (as close as possible) that New Years was celebrated in America
(If no one gets it exactly, whoever is closest gets the points.)
When is 1751-1752?
What holiday did Christmas lowkey steal the idea of Christmas trees from?
What is Winter Solstice?
What is 2,000?
Kwanzaa traditions (100 extra points for any extras!)
What are giving gifts, lighting candles on a Kwanzaa lamp, holding a feast, sharing a unity cup, decorating houses, and enjoying community activities?
List as many common foods as you can.
The team with the most foods gets the points!
What are dumplings, spring rolls, noodles, fish, and sweet rice cakes/sticky rice balls
List three NYE/NYD traditions
The team with the most traditions gets the points!
What are parties, fireworks, kissing your partner at midnight, watching the Times Square ball drop, toasting at midnight, making resolutions, and opening the front door to welcome the new year
The origin of stockings/why stockings are traditionally hung by a fireplace
What is they hung them there "to dry" so that soldiers wouldn't know that Santa was delivering gifts?
List as many Hannukah traditions as you can. Each additional one is worth 250 points!
What are lighting the menorah for eight nights, eating foods fried in oil, playing dreidel with a spinning top, giving gelt (chocolate coins), singing songs, reciting blessings, and exchanging gifts
Why Kwanzaa is celebrated
What is to celebrate African American and Pan African culture and history?
The reason people wear and decorate with red on Chinese New Year
What is the color red scares off the dragon who would eat Chinese people around the time of Chinese New Year?
The "mascot" of NYE/NYD
Who is Father Time?