Holiday Trivia

This holiday event was created in 1924 as an attempt to attract shoppers on Christmas day. Three years later Felix the Cat made his first appearance, and he can still be seen one Thursday a year.  

• Black Friday

• The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

• The Rose Bowl

• Festivus

This holiday is also known as The Festival of Lights and lasts 8 days.

• Kwanzaa

• Hanukah

• Christmas

• Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Tết

This holiday flavoring is sold by the can and actually contains very little of the gourd advertised on the label.

• Pumpkin

• Cinnamon

• Egg Nogg

• Nut Meg

This fictional character was created in 1939, and today, children look into the night sky looking for his famous identifying trait.

• Frosty

• Mickey Mouse

• Rudolph

• Hanukah Harry

Coke began using this character in their advertising as far back as the 1920s.

• Krampus

• Frosty the Snowman

• Santa

• Rudolph

This holiday festival culminates on February 12^th this year. There’s no ball drop, but you may hear fireworks or receive a red envelope.

• Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Tết

• Valentines Day

• Russian New Year

• Ramadan

In Germany, children who misbehave don’t get a stocking full of coal, but they may have to worry about this not so jolly visitor.

• Nobody

• Nietzsche

• Krampus

• Schadenfreude

This day became a national holiday during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, but it has since moved from the third Thursday to the fourth Thursday.

• Veteran's Day

• Thanksgiving

• President's Day

• Halloween

This movie, released in 1983, has become a classic, and you can now buy a replica leg lamp in a box marked, “Fragile,” and follow Ralphie’s holiday story all day long on December 25^th.

• A Madea Christmas

• A Christmas Story

• Home Alone

• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Minus war time blackouts in 1942 and 43, this event in New York City has occurred annually since 1907.

• The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

• The Lighting of the Rockefeller Christmas Tree

• New Year’s Eve Ball Drop/Time Square Ball Drop

• The Sacs Christmas Parade