Hollywood
The first ghost to visit Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.
Who is Jacob Marley?
December 26 through January 6.
What are the 12 days of Christmas?
This flowering plant is mildly toxic to our pets and commonly given as a gift or used to decorate homes for Christmas.
What is pointsettia?
This President is given credit for sending the first “official” Christmas card from the White House.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
The largest Christmas present to the USA was gifted by France in the year 1886.
What is The Statue of Liberty?
This1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film, was based on the short story and booklet The Greatest Gift
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
This holiday is commonly known as the festival of light.
What is Hanukkah?
In this country, brave divers plant the New Year's Tree underneath frozen lakes — sort of like a polar plunge.
What is Siberia?
Year the US Postal Service released its first Christmas stamp.
What is 1962?
This US state has a town named Christmas.
What is Florida?
This story takes place between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day in New York City, and focuses on the effect of a department store Santa Claus.
What is Miracle on 34th Street?
In the mid-1800s, Queen Victoria made it acceptable to eat this cake laden with fruits soaked in alcohol and sugar.
What is fruit cake?
Evoking images of snow-covered Victorian streets, the origins of this festive symbol actually date as far back as the Roman times when they were hung on the door as a sign of victory and symbol of family status.
What are Wreaths?
This US president was the first to decorate a Christmas tree in the white house.
Who is Benjamin Harrison?
This Hebrew word translated means dedication.
What is Hanukkah?
This 2004 American computer-animated adventure film is based on the 1985 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg
What is The Polar Express?
Started in Greece, the tradition of kissing under this plant due to its association with fertility.
What is mistletoe?
In this country, many locals believe in wearing white and throwing white flowers and candles into the ocean as an offering to Iemanja, the pagan Goddess of the Sea, on New Year's Eve.
What is Brazil?
The four sides of this children's toy are inscribed with Hebrew letters, mnemonics for the translated phrase 'a great miracle happened there.'
What is the dreidel?
Millions of these are eaten in modern-day Israel as part of celebrating Hanakkah.
What are jelly donuts?
A 1983 American Christmas comedy film based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters.
What is A Christmas Story?
Greek Syrian king who was a central role in the Hanukkah story.
Who is King Antiochus IV?
It's enduring characteristic made the ancients believe it was sacred. In ancient times, it was thought of as good luck because it never died, so Romans would send it to friends, family, and especially newlyweds as a gift of goodwill and good wishes.
What is Holly?
First US president to celebrate Hanukkah in the White House?
Who is Harry Truman?
The New Year tradition of eating 12 grapes at midnight comes from this country. Revelers stuff their mouths with 12 grapes in the final moments of the year—one grape for every chime of the clock!
What is Spain?