Christmas Trivia
This is a quiz made to test to see how much you REALLY know about Christmas! Hope you have fun!
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- eggnog
- drink made of raw eggs, cinnamon, and heavy cream
- elves
- people that work at Santa's workshop
- "It's a Wonderful Life"
- movie that appears on TV more often than any other holiday movie
- 1957
- year that the Queen's Christmas speech was first televised
- reindeer
- real animals that pull Santa's sleigh
- June 26, 1870
- day that Christmas became a national holiday in the U.S.
- Greek alphabet
- where the abbreviation for Christmas (xmas) came from
- 6 weeks
- how long it took Charles Dickens to write "A Christmas Carol"
- evergreen
- type of tree used as the national Christmas tree
- Parade of Lights
- park full of Christmas nighttime decorations that are lit up
- Rockefeller Center
- place in New York City where popular singers sing their favorite Christmas tunes their way and a huge tree is lit up
- Montogomery Ward
- who first created Rudolph in the late 1930's for a holiday promotion
- frumenty
- Celtic dish that the modern Christmas pudding descended from
- Thanksgiving
- the holiday that the popular song "Jingle Bells" was originally written for
- Mexico
- country that the poinsettia plant was brought into the U.S. from
- pickle
- In Germany, German famiies put this food in their tree somewhere and whoever finds it first wins a prize
- Old English
- language that the word "Christmas" came from
- The Nutcracker
- the most famous Christmas ballet
- angel
- thing that told Mary she was going to have a baby
- 364
- how many gifts you would receive if you actually received every present in "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
- 1843
- year that the first vintage holiday cards were made
- Alabama
- the first state to recognize the Christmas holiday officially
- Charles Dickens
- author of "A Christmas Carol"
- 8 tons
- how much the Rockfeller Center tree weighed in 2008
- North Pole
- toy capital of the world
- Coca Cola
- first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion
- hot chocolate
- very popular winter drink
- 1895
- year that the first electric light were used for Christmas trees
- Donder
- another name for Donner the reindeer
- St. Nicholas
- Santa Claus' real name
- Norway
- country that 2008's Rockfeller Center's Christmas tree was from
- Franklin Pierce
- first president to decorate the White House Christmas tree