Christmas Rappiing
Internatiuonal Yuletide
Alternative Santa Claus is comin to town
Santa on the MAp
A Christmas Carol Collage
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Kanye rapped about "Christmas in" this Manhattan neighborhood north of 110th Street

Harlem

100

Thanks to smart marketing, many in Japan celebrate Kentyucky Christmas eating this for dinner

Fried Chicken

100

Sinterklaas arrives via boat from Spain (where he lives the rest of the year, why not?) and parades through this Dutch Capital

Amsterdam

100

This Southwest U.S. state capital lies in the Northern Rio Grande Valley at about 7000 feet above sea level

Sante Fe

100

Arriving on November 19, 1867 for a U.S reading tour, this author practiced "A Christmas Carol" in front of the mirror here, now named for him

Charles Dickens

200

Tyler, The Creator raps "I am" this character, "tell your homeboy in a red suit to chill before I ban him from Who-ville"

The Grinch

200

Buche de Noel is a chocolate sponge cake resembling a yule this

Log

200

In 1810 the N.Y. Historical Society drew up a picture of this saint giving gifts but he wears a robe and--woah woah woah!--is bald

Saint Nicholas
200

Home to a lively nightlife and popular with artists, SAnta Cecilia is a district in this most populous Brazillian city

Sao Paulo

200

In English, it's "O Christmas Tree"; in German it's "O" this

Tannenbaum

300

This rapper, real name Christopher Bridges, mixes his name with "Crismas" saying, "all I want for Christmas is 2 gold front teeth"

Ludacris

300

In the Bahamas, everyone danced in the streets for the Junkanoo celebrations on New Year's and this December 26 holiday

Boxing Day

300

Not sparing it to spoil the child in "The Childrenls Friend" in 1821, Santa left parents "a long black birchen" this to use

Rod

300

The Santa Lucia River provides much of the drinking water for this capital of Uruguay

Montevideo

300

Inspired by "A Christmas Carol", the movie "Scrooged" starred him as a venal TV executive

Bill Murray

400

In this group's "Player's Ball", Andre 3000 raps, "you thought I'd break my neck to help y'all deck the halls?"

OutKast

400

In Britain, this alliterative "christmas" this is not a baked good, but a party favor that pops when you pull it open

A cracker

400

In an old print ad, Santa says a gft bringing "pleasure to every home...is rare indeed. Such a gift, my friends, is Lucky Strike"--these

Cigaretts

400
At the S.E. tip of Italy, Santa Maria Di Leuca has been called the "City Between Two Seas", the Ionian and this one to the north

the Adriatic 

400

O! American clergyman Phillips Brooks wrote the words to this Christmas carol after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land

"O Little Town of Bethlehem"

500

This 1980s trio rapped "its Christmas time in Hollis, Queens, moms cooking chicken and collard greens"

Run-DMC

500

This is a Christmas stapel in Latin America, although some in Central America use banana leaves instead of corn husks

Tamales

500

Flossie and Glossie were 2 "deer of much intelligence", casually chatting about "sledge" work with Santa in a tale by this "Oz" author

Baum

500

Santa Cruz is a port and the chief city on the island of Tenerife in these Atlantic Islands

the Canary Islands 

500

"A Christmas Carol" says, "However and wehnever we part from one another, I am sure we shall none of us forget poor" him

Tiney Tim