Kansas City
It was an exciting but sobering event in 2006 when Kansas City opened the USA's official museum of this event, with features for visitors to ponder like a field of 9,000 silk poppies
World War I
At up to $300 a pound, the world's costliest variety of this breakfast beverage is Kopi Luwak
coffee
At the winter solstice, Wiccans celebrate just this, with no "tide" after it
Yule
During the holidays, Winter White Chocolate is one of the most popular of this chain's "31 Flavors"
Baskin-Robbins
In 2018 Benedict Cumberbatch voiced this Seussian title guy who wasn't as into Christmas as the Whos were
the Grinch
Hollywood came to Kansas City to film a biopic starring Gary Sinise as this man; locations included Lee's Summit & of course, Independence
Truman
This 3-letter word follows "egg" in a drink popular during the winter holidays
nog
Twelfth Night precedes the feast of this, also known as Three Kings' Day
the Epiphany
In "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", carolers demand a "figgy" one & won't go until they get some
pudding
Alastair Sim is among those who have played this Dickensian man but unlike Michael Caine, did so without Muppets
Scrooge
In 1997, the 100th anniversary of her birth, her hometown of Atchison, Kansas unveiled a 42,000-square foot earth work portrait of this globe-trotting heroine
Amelia Earhart
The first Pilsner varieties of this were brewed in 1842 in the Czech kingdom of Bohemia
beer
Celebrated Dec. 23, Festivus includes "the airing of" these; "I got a lot of problems with you people! Now, you're gonna hear about it"
the airing of grievances
About 1.76 billion of these striped treats are sold in the U.S. every year; most of them are used for decoration
candy canes
Basically, this heartwarming Frank Capra classic is about a disgraced financier having an incredibly rough Christmas Eve
It's a Wonderful Life
A highlight of the holiday season each year is the lighting of the mayor's 100-foot Christmas tree at Crown Center, opened in 1971 by the same Kansas City businessman who founded this card company
Hallmark
Add peach-flavored schnapps to orange juice to create this "fuzzy" potent potable
Fuzzy Navel
It was the decade when Maulana Karenga (born Ron Everett) created Kwanzaa
The 1960s
It's an English tradition to adorn this tusked animal's head with sprigs of bay, rosemary & little flags
a boar (or a pig)
In this film Santa tells Buddy there are 30 Ray's Pizzas in NYC; "They all claim to be the original, but the real one's on 11th"
Elf
In 1997, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum opened its new permanent home under the leadership of Buck O'Neill, who had been a star for this Kansas City Negro Leagues team, as had greats like Satchel Paige & Jackie Robinson
the Monarchs
Let's all have one of these icy rum cocktails named for a Cuban rum-producing district
Daiquiri
In Massachusetts, especially Plymouth, Dec. 22 is Forefathers' Day, celebrated by consuming this corn-&-beans dish
Succotash
At Christmastime you might have a "burning" desire to make a buche de noel, a cake shaped like this
Yule log
2 memorable bits from this 1983 classic: the leg lamp & "You'll shoot your eye out!"
A Christmas Story