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The person who correctly answers the question will then post a question of their own.

 

Question: In what year did illustrator Haddon Sundblom first design and use the modern day Santa Claus image for the Coca Cola company?

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Turkey

 

The French word “Noel” is often used around Christmas, but what was its original meaning in Latin?  (I always thought it meant "good news". Learned something new today :))

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Noel today means Christmas, Christmas carol, Christmas Season, etc.  However, the original Latin meaning was natal meant Birth or Birthday.

 

 

 

What was the first song to be broadcast from space in 1965? Hint.....its a Christmas Carol

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Answer: A Visit From St. Nicholas

 

Question: When was the first known candy cane made?

Answer : 1874 ? 

 

Question: What political cartoonist is largely responsible for defining what the modern Santa Claus looks like?

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Answer : 1874 ? 

 

Question: What political cartoonist is largely responsible for defining what the modern Santa Claus looks like?

It was actually 1670 in Germany. :)

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Answer: Thomas Nast

 

Question: In A Charlie Brown Christmas who plays the inn keeper in the Christmas play?

 

Answer:  Pig Pen

 

Question: From which country does the poinsettia plant originate?  

 
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Answer:  Pig Pen

 

Question: From which country does the poinsettia plant originate?  

 

 

 

 

Answer: Mexico

 

Question: What Christmas decoration is actually a parasite?

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Answer: Mexico

 

Question: What Christmas decoration is actually a parasite?

Answer: Mistletoe

 

Question: What Christmas food is made from "marsh-whorts?

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Answer: Mistletoe

 

Question: What Christmas food is made from "marsh-whorts?

 

Answer: Cranberry Sauce?

 

Question: What large former retail outlet commissioned and published Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

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Answer: Cranberry Sauce?

 

Question: What large former retail outlet commissioned and published Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

Answer : Montgomery Ward 

 

Quote : In what decade did NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command, formerly CONAD) start tracking Santa on Christmas Eve?

It was actually 1670 in Germany. :)

What...well I tried. That one has so many different dates every where

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Answer : Montgomery Ward 

 

Quote : In what decade did NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command, formerly CONAD) start tracking Santa on Christmas Eve?

What...well I tried. That one has so many different dates every where

Ya that's kind of why I decided on it. To be tricky lol

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Answer : Montgomery Ward 

 

Quote : In what decade did NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command, formerly CONAD) start tracking Santa on Christmas Eve?

What...well I tried. That one has so many different dates every where

 

Answer:  December 24, 1955

 

 

Question:   Visions of which sweet foodstuff danced in children’s heads as they slept, according to Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “‘Twas the Night before Christmas”?

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Answer:  December 24, 1955

 

 

Question:   Visions of which sweet foodstuff danced in children’s heads as they slept, according to Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “‘Twas the Night before Christmas”?

Answer : Sugar Plums 

 

Quote: How were the writer of the story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the writer of the song Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer related?

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Answer : Sugar Plums 

 

Quote: How were the writer of the story Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the writer of the song Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer related?

Answer: Brother-in-law

 

Question: In the movie A Christmas Story what was the name of the family whose dog's ate the Christmas Turkey?

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Answer: Brother-in-law

 

Question: In the movie A Christmas Story what was the name of the family whose dog's ate the Christmas Turkey?

 

Answer: Bumpuses (Sp?)

 

Question: What day is a close second and sometimes surpasses Black Friday for busiest brick and mortar shopping day of the year?

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Answer: Bumpuses (Sp?)

 

Question: What day is a close second and sometimes surpasses Black Friday for busiest brick and mortar shopping day of the year?

 

 

Well I had several guesses for this one....1. small business saturday, 2. Christmas eve, 3..... so I admit I had to look it up to find out.

 

Answer: The last Saturday before Christmas (a.k.a Super Saturday)

 

Nice questions!

 

 

Question: Who created the first electric light Christmas display?

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Well I had several guesses for this one....1. small business saturday, 2. Christmas eve, 3..... so I admit I had to look it up to find out.

 

Answer: The last Saturday before Christmas (a.k.a Super Saturday)

 

Nice questions!

 

 

Question: Who created the first electric light Christmas display?

Answer : Thomas Edison 

 

Question : When did outdoor Christmas lights begin. 

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Answer : Thomas Edison 

 

Question : When did outdoor Christmas lights begin. 

 

Answer: I hope this still counts as I cheated and looked it up!  Either 1880 with Thomas Edison's first outdoor light display or 1890 with first strings of lights mass produced and sold.

Question:  Who is credited with creating the first Nativity scene (creche)?

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Blame St. Francis of Assisi, who is credited with staging the first nativity scene in 1223. The only historical account we have of Francis' nativity scene comes from The Life of St. Francis of Assisi by St. Bonaventure, a Franciscan monk who was born five years before Francis' death

 

Question what year did Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer premier on TV

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Blame St. Francis of Assisi, who is credited with staging the first nativity scene in 1223. The only historical account we have of Francis' nativity scene comes from The Life of St. Francis of Assisi by St. Bonaventure, a Franciscan monk who was born five years before Francis' death

 

Question what year did Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer premier on TV

Answer: 1964

 

Question : who created frosty the snowman

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