Christmas Trivia Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Country where “Silent Night” originated
  2. 6. Voiced the Grinch in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” but most famous for playing Frankenstein’s monster
  3. 8. Plays Ernest P. Worrell in “Ernest Saves Christmas”
  4. 10. Material the first artificial Christmas trees were made of
  5. 14. Wintery last name of the poet who wrote “Christmas Tree”
  6. 15. Popular Christmas song written to be for Thanksgiving (also first song broadcast from space)
  7. 16. Cromwell banished this in England
  8. 21. Male co-star in “White Christmas”
  9. 22. KFC is the most popular Christmas meal in this country
  10. 23. Actor who played six rolls in “The Polar Express”
  11. 24. Country where “The Nutcracker Ballet” first premiered
  12. 25. Alternate title for “O Come, All Ye Faithul”
  13. 26. Christmas song written as a plea for peace during the Cuban missile crisis
  14. 28. The First Lady who wrote a Christmas Story
  15. 29. Decade Coca-Cola began using Santa Claus in ads
  16. 30. What Lucy wants for Christmas
Down
  1. 1. Highest grossing Christmas movie of all time
  2. 2. Cherished item Alvin gave to a sick boy for Christmas
  3. 3. Decade NORAD began tracking Santa on Christmas Eve
  4. 5. This state holds the Guinness record for largest snowman
  5. 7. Original name of the poem “The Night Before Christmas”
  6. 9. This former retail store commissioned, published, and gave out Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  7. 11. Country that started the tradition of putting up Christmas trees
  8. 12. This TV station runs “A Christmas Story” 48 hours straight over Christmas
  9. 13. Explains the meaning of Christmas to his friends
  10. 17. This Disney cartoon character has been a Christmas Eve staple in Sweden since 1959
  11. 18. Snowmans name in the song “Winter Wonderland”
  12. 19. Male co-star in “White Christmas”
  13. 20. Poinsettia’s native country
  14. 24. This actor who played this character in “A Christmas Story” was also in “Elf”
  15. 27. Bob Cratchet didn’t have this piece of winter clothing