Sounds of the Season
How many swans are swimming in the 12 Days of Christmas?
What are 7 swans.
This film follows a train ride to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
What is The Polar Express?
This plant, often hung in doorways during Christmas, is associated with the tradition of kissing underneath it.
What is Mistletoe?
“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear."
Who is Buddy the Elf in Elf?
This constellation is known as “the Hunter.”
What/Who is Orion?
This Bing Crosby classic is the best-selling single of all time and dreams of a snowy holiday.
What is White Christmas?
This character learns the hard way that Christmas “doesn’t come from a store.”
Who is the Grinch?
This astronomical event marks the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is Winter Solstice?
“Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings."
Who is Zuzu from It’s a Wonderful Life?
Which planet in our solar system has the most gravity?
What is Jupiter?
This song, recorded by The Waitresses in 1981, tells the story of a stressful holiday season.
What is Christmas Wrapping?
This is the self-given name to the burglars in Home Alone.
What are the Wet Bandits?
In Denmark, people celebrate New Year’s Eve by jumping off this piece of furniture at midnight.
What is a chair?
“We’re gonna need a bigger tree.”
Who is Clark Griswald from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
This actress ties Cloris Leachman for the most Primetime Emmy Awards ever won by a female performer?
Who is Julia Louis-Dreyfus?
This song has lyrics that go,
"Guess who eats together at the Carnegie Deli
Bowzer from Sha Na Na and Arthur Fonzarelli"
What is the Chanukah Song?
This 1945 Film set is famously set in a state on the east coast of the country, (and the movie title also contains where Emily is originally from).
What is Christmas in Connecticut?
This seven-day celebration, created during the Black Freedom Movement of the 1960s, takes its name from a Swahili phrase meaning “first fruits.”
What is Kwanzaa?
JINGLE JACKPOT!!!!
This character sings, "I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes, Christmas is all around me, And so the feeling grows."
Who is Billy Mack from Love Actually.
This European country and African country fly flags with very similar green, white, and orange vertical stripes?
What are Ireland and Côte d'Ivoire.
This song was the first song to be broadcast in Space.
What is Jingle Bells?
This movie, often debated as a Christmas film, was Alan Rickman’s first film role.
What is Die Hard?
The word “Hanukkah” comes from Hebrew and means this.
What is dedication?
“Seeing isn’t believing. Believing is seeing.”
Who is Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street?
This theorem in right‑triangle trigonometry states a2+b2=c2
What is the Pythagorean theorem?