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100

The two items children put out for Santa on Christmas eve.

What is milk and cookies?

100

Merry Christmas is Feliz Navidad in this language.

Spanish

100

In the Frosty the Snowman special this object brings life to frosty.

A top hat

100

In Quebec a traditional Christmas Banquet is had after midnight mass and it goes by this name, meaning "waking up".

Réveillon

100

A milk-based beverage available around the Christmas holidays and comes in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions.

Eggnog

200

Santa’s Saint name.

Who is Saint Nicholas?

200

Many Christmas songs were actually written by Jewish songwriters, but can you name one of them? 

“White Christmas” by Irving Berlin, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” by Johnny Marks, “Let It Snow” by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, and “Winter Wonderland” by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith.

200

The profession that Hermey the elf dreams of pursuing in stop-motion Christmas classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Dentist
200

This city is officially known as "The Christmas Capital of Canada".

Winnipeg

200

The name given to small sausages wrapped in bacon (a staple at a British Christmas dinner)

Pigs in a blanket

300

The company that is responsible for the modern-day depiction of Santa.

What is Coca-Cola?

300

This, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, is the best selling single of all time. 

White Christmas

300

The number of ghosts that visit Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.

Four (Jacob Marley and Christmas past, present, and  future)

300

In 1917, the city of Boston sent medical personnel and supplies to aid in the recovery after the Halifax Explosion, since then Halifax sends this Christmas staple to Boston every year.

A Christmas Tree

300

Chocolate cake that is typically eaten in Quebec during the holiday season.


Bûche de Noël or yule log

400

The number of reindeer that pull Santa's sleigh. 

Nine (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzin, Rudolph)

400

According to the popular song, this is the gift you would receive on the 10th day of Christmas.

Ten lords-a-leaping

400

The creature that says goodbye to Buddy at the beginning of Elf when he leaves for New York.

Narwhal.

400

This holiday activity in Newfoundland and Halifax used to require a permit, but when most partakers ignored this process, it was banned for decades until the year 1990. 

Mummers or Belsnicklers

400

The country where stollen is the traditional fruit cake.

What is Germany?

500

This is the official birth country of Santa.

Turkey (The legend of Santa Claus can be traced back hundreds of years to a monk named St. Nicholas. It is believed that Nicholas was born sometime around A.D. 280 in Patara, near Myra in modern-day Turkey. )

500

This christian hymn, which is also the name of a rocking movie musical from 2012, came from a Hanukkah song called “Ma’oz Tzur”.

Rock of Ages

500

The line "every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings" comes from this holiday movie. 

It's a Wonderful Life.

500

In Newfoundland and Labrador this start to the holidays is used as an excuse to start drinking and is thought to be derrived from an old slang term for a loose-moraled woman. 

What is Tibb's/Tipp's eve

500

The fairy tale that inspired gingerbread houses.

Hansel and Gretel