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QUESTIONS:

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

2. What is the shape of the candy cane molded after? Shepards crook

3. What was the name of the dog that belonged to the Grinch in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"? Max

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

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

6. Where did the real St Nicholas live? Poland or Germany

7. When you go Wassailing, what is it that you are doing? Caroling they gave wassil to carolers

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? A tree

10. The poem commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" was originally titled what? An evening with St Nicholas

11. What year were the first electric Christmas tree lights used in? 1954

12. Good King Wenceslas was king of which country?

13. When was Christmas first celebrated?

14. Why was December 25th chosen as Christmas Day?

15. What country did poinsettias originally come from?   

16. How did Xmas originate as an abbreviation for Christmas? They took Christ out

17. What comes after '8 maids a-milking' in the song "The 12 days of Christmas"? Nine drummers drumming

18. When are the 12 days of Christmas? 13 through the 25

19. Of Santa's reindeer, how many are female and who?Vixen Comet 2

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?

23. What is holly's symbolic meaning to Christians?

24. What does the bible mention as the date of Christ's birth? tax season

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? weather was bad and they needed away Santa could still see to travel

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? Rockafeller Center

30. In what year did Toys for Tots begin?

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