Holiday Office Party Jeopardy

This evergreen plant is traditionally decorated with lights and ornaments inside homes each December.

What is a Christmas tree?

Families traditionally hang these by the chimney with care, according to the classic poem A Visit from St. Nicholas.

What are stockings?

This plant with white berries is traditionally hung in doorways, and standing beneath it is an invitation for a kiss.

What is mistletoe?

This nine-branched candelabrum is lit one additional candle at a time during the eight nights of Hanukkah.

What is a menorah?

This West African harvest-inspired holiday, created in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, is celebrated from December 26 to January 1.

What is Kwanzaa?

This holiday song famously asks listeners if they recall the most famous reindeer of all.

What is "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"?

Written by Irving Berlin, this song opens with the sun shining and the grass green, before dreaming of a white one.

What is "White Christmas"?

This 1994 Mariah Carey song has become one of the best-selling holiday singles of all time, with a title expressing a simple wish for the season.

What is "All I Want for Christmas Is You"?

This song, written in 1857 for Thanksgiving, was originally titled The One Horse Open Sleigh.

What is "Jingle Bells"?

This Ladino Hanukkah song written by Flory Jagoda has a title that translates to Eight Candles.

What is "Ocho Kandelikas"?

This 1946 film stars Jimmy Stewart as a man who gets to see what life would be like if he had never been born.

What is It's a Wonderful Life?

This 1990 comedy features a young boy named Kevin McCallister defending his home from two bumbling burglars.

What is Home Alone?

This 1994 Tim Allen comedy follows a man who accidentally causes Santa to fall off a roof and must take his place.

What is The Santa Clause?

This 2003 comedy stars Will Ferrell as a man raised by Santa's elves at the North Pole who travels to New York City to find his birth father.

What is Elf?

This 1947 film follows a department store Santa who claims to be the real Kris Kringle and ends up on trial to prove it.

What is Miracle on 34th Street?

This spiced, milk-based drink is traditionally topped with nutmeg and often spiked with rum or brandy during the holidays.

What is eggnog?

This ring-shaped fried pastry, coated in powdered sugar and filled with jelly, is a traditional treat during Hanukkah.

What are sufganiyot?

This dense, spiced English dessert is traditionally set aflame with brandy before serving on Christmas Day.

What is Christmas pudding?

This striped, peppermint-flavored confection shaped like a shepherd's staff is hung on trees and stirred into hot cocoa each December.

What is a candy cane?

This braided, slightly sweet bread is traditionally eaten by Jewish families to welcome the Sabbath and holidays, including Hanukkah.

What is challah?

This Mexican and Central American celebration held December 16 through 24 reenacts Mary and Joseph's search for lodging with candlelit processions.

What are Las Posadas?

In this Scandinavian country, St. Lucia Day is celebrated on December 13 with girls wearing candle-lit wreaths on their heads.

What is Sweden?

This East Asian custom has families lining up at a fried chicken chain for a specially ordered Christmas dinner, a tradition dating to a 1974 marketing campaign.

What is KFC for Christmas?

This Italian gift-giving figure is a kind, broom-riding witch who delivers presents to children on Epiphany Eve, January 5.

Who is La Befana?

This Iranian and Central Asian festival celebrating the winter solstice involves families staying up all night eating watermelon and pomegranates.

What is Yalda?

This ancient Roman festival held in mid-December featured feasting, gift-giving, and a temporary reversal of social roles between masters and slaves.

What is Saturnalia?

This gift-giving game, in which coworkers anonymously buy a small present for an assigned colleague, is also known as Kris Kringle in some offices.

What is Secret Santa?

This festive but deliberately unflattering knitwear, covered in reindeer, snowmen, or blinking lights, has inspired its own themed party genre every December.

What is an ugly Christmas sweater?

This type of gathering, featuring mixed drinks served before a formal dinner, grew popular in the United States during the 1920s Prohibition era.

What is a cocktail party?

This Charles Dickens novella, published in 1843, popularized the modern idea of Christmas as a time for generosity toward one's employees, through the reformed miser Ebenezer Scrooge.

What is A Christmas Carol?