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

2. What is the shape of the candy cane molded after?
A shepard’s crook/staff

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?
Star of Bethlehem


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


6. Where did the real St Nicholas live?
turkey

7. When you go Wassailing, what is it that you are doing?
Visiting neighbors to get goodies and stuff

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


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


10. The poem commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" was originally titled what?
A Visit From Saint Nicholas


11. What year were the first electric Christmas tree lights used in?
1895


12. Good King Wenceslas was king of which country?
Czechoslovakia


13. When was Christmas first celebrated?
Around 200 A.D.



14. Why was December 25th chosen as Christmas Day?
It almost coincides with the Winter Solstice


15. What country did poinsettias originally come from?
Mexico


16. How did Xmas originate as an abbreviation for Christmas?
Christ in greek is Xristos


17. What comes after '8 maids a-milking' in the song "The 12 days of Christmas"?
9 ladies dancing


18. When are the 12 days of Christmas?
The 12 days after Christmas


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


20. How many sides does a snowflake have?
6


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



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?
Christmas fruit cake


23. What is holly's symbolic meaning to Christians?
Berries are Christ’s blood, thorns are His crown


24. What does the bible mention as the date of Christ's birth?
It doesn’t mention the exact day.


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?
A Montgomery store giveaway.
1947, recorded by Gene Autrey


26. What year did "A Charlie Brown Christmas" debut on CBS and has aired every Christmas since?
December 1965


27. What auspicious television event occurred on December 24, 1968?
Crew of Apollo 8 read the first chapter of Genesis on Christmas Eve


28. Where is Christmas Island?
In the Indian Ocean


29. Where is America's official Christmas tree located?
King's Canyon National Park in California


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