Christmas Trees
In 1882, Edward H. Johnson, a friend of Thomas Edison, introduced this Christmas decoration.
What are electric Christmas lights?
This Christmas song was written for Thanksgiving.
What is Jingle Bells?
This was the best-selling Christmas toy in 1980 and cost $1.99.
What is the Rubik Cube?
These were the first Christmas tree decorations.
What are fruit and nuts?
They can see ultraviolet light to spot food in snow.
What are reindeer?
This decoration was created in Nuremberg, Germany in 1610 and at one point in history, it was made out of real silver.
What is tinsel?
This Christmas icon was created by a copywriter for the Montgomery Ward department store in 1939.
What is Rudpolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
This featured a family toast flanked by scenes of charity and was sent by Sir Henry Cole, an English politician, in 1843.
What was the first Christmas card?
In 1670, a German choir master used these new confections to keep his choirboys content during long practices.
What are candy canes?
This comes from the Greek letter Chi, the first letter of Christ in Greek, and has been used for centuries as a Christmas abbreviation.
What is Xmas?
This is the reason President Teddy Roosevelt banned Christmas trees in the White House in 1901
What are concerns about environmental effects? But his sons decorated a small tree cut on the White House grounds and hid it in a closet until Christmas morning.
This Christmas item is an aphrodisiac.
What is mistletoe?
This item featured a wreath, two candles and the phrase "Christmas 1962" and cost $.04 each.
What is the first US Christmas postage stamp?
Finding one of these on the Christmas tree will earn a child an extra gift.
What is the pickle ornament?
This character, who wears flowery Hawaiian clothes, is Kanakaloka.
Who is Santa in Hawaii?
This dates back to the early 1800s in Germany and was made from dyed goose feathers.
What is the oldest artificial Christmas tree?
This was first state to recognize Christmas as a state holiday.
What is Alabama?
This gift for soldiers in WWII was designed to reveal maps of escape routes.
What was a special deck of playing cards?
One of these is 114 years old and had been passed down from generation to generation.
What is fruit cake?
Between 15,000 and 18,000 people do this every year from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day.
What are visits to hospital emergency rooms due to holiday decorating accidents.
This country has the largest floating Christmas tree in the world - it stands at 278 feet.
What is Brazil -- specifically Botafogo Beach,?
Nine days before Christmas in 1965, astronauts on the Gemini 6 pranked Mission Control with a report of this.
What is an Unidentified Flying Object? As things got tense, they interrupted the broadcast with “Jingle Bells.”
HOH OHO in Canada.
What is Santa's postal Code?
Since 1974, this has become the traditional food for Christmas in Japan.
What is Kentucky Fried Chicken?
The Addis Brush Company used these to make sturdy, non flammable artificial tree branches that held heavy ornaments.
What are toilet brush machines?