WINTER Expressions
Winter Flavours
Winter Holidays
Winter Wildlife
Winter Weather
Winter Activities
100

You’re on thin __________.

What is Ice?

100

The item seen here and its traditional flavor:

What is a peppermint candy cane?

100

On this holiday, nice children get presents, while naughty ones get coal in their stockings.

What is Christmas?

100

Certain animals, such as bears, do this in the winter to conserve resources when food is scarce.

What is hibernate?

100


What are icicles?
100

The winter activity that involves hitting people with cold, white spheres.

What is a Snowball fight?

200

In the __________ of winter.

What is Dead?

200

A winter drink made with egg, milk, and a lot of sugar, which originated from the early medieval British “posset.” 

What is egg nog?

200

This holiday celebrates the miracle of one night's oil burning for 8 nights by lighting a special Menorah and giving children gifts for 8 nights.

What is Hanukkah?

200

This animal looks like it is wearing a tuxedo or suit.

What is a penguin?


200

The number of points a snowflake has.

What is 6?

200

This winter activity involves sliding on the ice wearing special shoes that have blades.

What is ice skating?

300

That’s just the tip of the __________.

What is Iceberg?

300

The type of cookie this house is made out of. 

What is gingerbread?

300

The holiday that celebrates love but originated as a liturgical feast to celebrate the decapitation of a third-century Christian martyr.

What is Valentine's Day?

300

What happens to the arctic fox in winter if it spends a lot of time in the snow.

What is, its fur turns white?

300

A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.

What is a blizzard?

300

What you create when you lie on a snowy surface and flap your arms and legs.

What is a snow angel?


400

I slept so well last night, I was out __________.

What is Cold?

400

This sweet drink, a favorite of children and adults alike, is made from roasted & ground beans.

What is hot chocolate (or cocoa)?

400

Lunar or Chinese New Year is marked each year by one of 12 different ones of these.

What are Animals?

400

 The animal seen here: 

What is an arctic squirrel?

(It can lower its body temperature to below freezing during hibernation!)

400

The condition in which it is snowing so much the driver can not see the road or distinguish the ground from the sky.

What is a white-out?

400

What this activity is called

What is Dog sledding?

500

I’m no good at meeting new people, I can never seem to __________.

What is Break the ice?

500

A traditional food people eat for Lunar (Chinese) New Year.

What is (any one fine for the points)

  • Sweet rice cake (nian gao)
  • Dumplings (Jiaozi)
  • Sweet Rice Balls (Tangyuan)
  • Tangerines and Oranges
  • Whole Fish or Chicken
  • Noodles
500

The month in which winter ends in the Northern Hemisphere

What is March?

500

The color of a polar bear's skin.

What is black?  (Their FUR is colourless and transparent, their SKIN is black.)

500

At this temperature it is cold enough for snow to form in the atmosphere, though it might be warmer at ground level.

What is 32 deg. (F, or 0 C)

500

The activity seen here:

What is sledding or tobogganing?

600

I’ll do that when hell__________.

What is Freezes over?

600

This Swedish drink is made from red wine, orange, a spirit such as rum, and spices such as cinnamon, with almonds and raisins placed in the bottom of the cup.

What is glögg?

600

The special name given for the shortest day of the year

What is the Winter Solstice?

600

This arctic cetacean:

What is a beluga whale?

600

A dangerous condition when skin, especially hands and feet, gets so cold it could be damaged.


What is frostbite?

600

The activity seen here:

What is snow shoeing?

700

To not talk to someone is to give them the __________.

What is Cold shoulder?

700

What Clarence the Angel ordered at Nick's bar

What is flaming rum punch - or - mulled wine? (He asks for the former first, then the latter - "Heavy on the cinnamon, light on the cloves.")

700

The animal we watch on February 2nd to see if it sees its shadow - if so, 6 more weeks of winter!

What is a Groundhog? (or Who is Punxsutawney Phil?)


700

This circumpolar, carnivorous bird:

What is a snowy owl?

700

A dangerous condition in which the body's temperature is abnormally low.

What is hypothermia?

700

This activity, which YouTube TV keeps trying to get you to watch:

What is curling?