Trivia (Sunkissedrose)

1. What American state was the first to make Christmas an official holiday?

2. What is the shape of the candy cane molded after? The J in Jesus or the staff.

3. What was the name of the dog that belonged to the Grinch in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"? Max (good thing I just watched this the other day)

4. What star led the Three Kings to Jesus? North Star

5. What was the name os Scrooges' dead business partner in "A Christmas Carol"? Jacob Marley

6. Where did the real St Nicholas live? Holland

7. When you go Wassailing, what is it that you are doing? singing

8. In the movie "It's A Wonderful Life", how do you know that an angel has received his wings? a bell rings

9. What was the picture on the first stamp printed for the Christmas season? Tree?

10. The poem commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" was originally titled what?

11. What year were the first electric Christmas tree lights used in?

12. Good King Wenceslas was king of which country? Chezcholviakia..(can't spell)

13. When was Christmas first celebrated?

14. Why was December 25th chosen as Christmas Day? because of winter solstice?

15. What country did poinsettias originally come from?

16. How did Xmas originate as an abbreviation for Christmas? people wanted to take the religion out of Christmas?

17. What comes after '8 maids a-milking' in the song "The 12 days of Christmas"? 7 swans a swimming or is it 9 Ladies Dancing...lol

18. When are the 12 days of Christmas? they start before christmas and end in january....

19. Of Santa's reindeer, how many are female and who?they are all female ...dasher, dancer, prancer, vixen, comet, cupid, donder and blitzen....even rudolph....

20. How many sides does a snowflake have? 6

21. Which emperor is credited with standardizing December 25th as Christmas day?

22. In Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory" what identical gift was bestowed upon the bootlegger, the busdriver, the knife grinder, 2 Baptist missionaries in Borneo and the President of the US? a fruit cake

23. What is holly's symbolic meaning to Christians? the stickers are symbolic to the thorns of his crown and the berries represent his blood.

24. What does the bible mention as the date of Christ's birth? it is never mentioned in the bible.

25. What was the original reason for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (as a song) to be written, by who in what year, and who first officially performed it?

26. What year did "A Charlie Brown Christmas" debut on CBS and has aired every Christmas since?

27. What auspicious television event occurred on December 24, 1968?

28. Where is Christmas Island?

29. Where is America's official Christmas tree located? in california

30. In what year did Toys for Tots begin? 1947