Christmas Fun Facts

4. He is believed to have been the first President to put a Christmas tree in the White House.
7. Twenty-eight sets of _____ bricks are sold every second during the Christmas season.
9. Christmas is not a Biblical holy day as it is not mentioned in the Bible; In fact, many of the symbols and customs we associate with Christmas began with winter ________ rituals and pagan festivals.
12. A _________ featured in Christmas poems and songs was a type of candy with dried fruit, usually a plum, and spices rolled into a ball and coated with chocolate or hard sugar candy.
14. _______ Christmas tree decorations often include an artificial spider and web because they believe a spider web found on Christmas morning brings good luck.
15. During a Christmas feast hosted by King Richard the II of England in 1377, three hundred _____ and twenty-eight oxen were consumed.

1. It takes on average 6-8 years for a Christmas tree to be fully grown, but it can take as long as _______ years.
2. A Christmas ______ with holly represents the blood Jesus shed (the red berries) and the crown of thorns.
3. This company introduced their first Christmas cards in 1915.
5. One can eat more than 7,000 ______ at Christmas when you add up the turkey, stuffing, mashed and sweet potatoes, other sides, pie, rolls, and drinks.
6. Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol was written in ___ weeks.
8. It is believed _______ began the tradition of the Christmas tree.
10. A “grog” is any drink made with rum; hence the name for the egg, cream, nutmeg, and rum drink _____ which originated in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.
11. Many people abbreviate Christmas as _____ which is actually based upon X being the first letter of Jesus Christ’s name in Greek.
13. The people of ______ receive a tree from the people of Oslo, Norway every year to thank them for their assistance during World War II.