Wonderful Old Building and Loan
According to the 2003 Christmas comedy, Elf, this is the first rule of the Code of Elves.
"Treat every day like Christmas."
This festive pastry is typically rolled and filled with walnuts (if you're in Slovenia that is).
Potica
These are the birds mentioned in "The 12 Days of Christmas."
Partridge, turtledove, French hen, calling bird, goose, and swan
This "Spring Festivial" welcomes the new year.
Chinese New Year
On Christmas Eve 1979, the Russians invaded this country.
Afghanistan
This novel whose first word is "Christmas" has been adapted for film seven times.
Little Women
This U.S. president received a 110-lb. fruitcake as a Christmas gift.
FDR
This former Catwoman sang a well-known version of "Santa Baby."
Eartha Kitt
Bonus points: What Disney character did Eartha Kitt voice?
On Hanukkah, this group of Jewish rebels regained control of Jerusalem and rededicated the Temple.
The Maccabees
Signed in Belgium, this 1814 treaty ended the War of 1812.
The Treaty of Ghent
Bonus points: Name the faction of Congress that advocated for war against Great Britain.
This was the original film distribution company to release the Christmas-Halloween hybrid, The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Touchstone
Bonus points: Name the director of the film.
You can make this 2-word chocolate roll cake while watching the same-named item burn on TV.
Yule Log
Bonus points: What is the French translation of Yule Log?
This 1980s trio rapped, "It's Christmas time in Hollis, Queens, mom's cooking chicken and collard greens."
Run DMC
In Russia, Yuletide culminates on January 7, which is this religious occasion.
Orthodox Christmas
A tough year for pop music icons got worse when this Wham! singer died on Christmas Day.
George Michael
Bing Crosby introduced the timeless song "White Christmas" in this 1942 film about a hotel in the country.
Holiday Inn
This city is considered the gingerbread capital of the world.
Nuremberg
The tune for this popular arboreal German Christmas carol is used for Maryland's state song.
O Tannenbaum
This mid-November Hindu festival celebrates "victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance."
Diwali
On Christmas Eve, this act went into effect, abolishing the "alien ineligible to citizenship" cateogory of U.S. immigration law and overturning the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Asian Exclusion Act of 1924, but retaining the racist quota system for nationalities and regions.
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 or McCarran-Walter Act
These towns are the inspirations for the setting of It's a Wonderful Life, Bedford Falls.
Seneca Falls and Bedford Hills
Folklore tells a tale of a choirmaster passing out this confection to children, wishing to remedy the noise they made during Christmas Eve service.
Candy Cane
These "[bend] near the Earth, to touch their harps of gold."
Angels
Bonus points: Name the title of the song.
Kwanzaa highlights these seven principles, one for each day starting on December 26 to January 1.
Unity (Umoja), self-determination (Kujichagulia), collective work and responsibility (Ujima), cooperative economics (Ujamaa), purpose (Nia), creativity (Kuumba), faith (Imani)
On December 25, 1916, Irish nationalists were released from this interminate camp after being imprisoned for the Easter Rising in Dublin earlier that year.
Frongoch Internment Camp
Bonus point: Where was the internment camp located?