Christmas Around the World | Know Your Team | The Women of History | World Geography | M(usic)&M(ovies)s |
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What is Australia?
In this country,Santa's sleigh is not pulled by reindeer but by eight white kangaroos.
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Who is Manal Gindi?
Muffin's owner
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Who is Amelia Earhart?
This person is known for their solo flight across the Atlantic in 1932 in a record time of 14 hours and 56 minutes.
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What is the Ganges?
In India's West Bengal state & in Bangladesh this great river is known as the Padma.
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Who is Drake?
Hooray for this hip-hopper who with God's Plan is the only act other than the Beatles with 20 Top 10 hits in one decade
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What is the Japan?
Eating Kentucky Fried Chicken as a Christmas time meal has become a widely practiced tradition in this country and every year, people line up at KFC restaurants to place their orders for Christmas dinner.
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Who is Marc Duvert?
Drives an Audi S5
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Who is Harriet Tubman?
Known as the Moses of her People, she led over 300 slaves to freedom.
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What is Zimbabwe?
From 1964 to 1980, this country was known as Rhodesia.
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Who is Anthony A. Anderson?
In the Matrix, Neo was his nickname. This was his actual name.
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What is the Netherlands?
Children in this country receive presents from Sinterklaas on December 5, not Christmas Eve or Day. And if they leave carrots for Sinterklaas’s horse, he’ll leave sweets for the kids.
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Who is Yashika Gnanachelvan?
Since the day she started, she has had strawberry cream on her desk
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Who is Marie Curie?
Born in Warsaw, she is the only woman, so far, to have been awarded the Nobel Prize twice
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What is Paris?
The Seine River goes through this capital
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What is Norwegian Wood?
The Beatles sang about this type of wood, in their 1965 song of the same name.
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What is Venezuela?
Every year, city-dwellers make their way to Christmas morning mass on roller skates every year.This tradition is now so well-established in this country's capital, that many of the city's streets are closed to traffic from 8am onwards, so that the skating congregation can get to church safely.
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Who is Arin Kodagoda?
Has an 8 year old son, who builds a gingerbread house every Christmas.
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Who is Benazir Bhutto?
She was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority nation.
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What is Chiang Mai?
Known for its stunning landscapes and its beautiful ancient temples, this city is also home to Baan Chang Elephant Park.
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What is Sen?
In "Spirited Away" while in the spirit world, Chihiro's name is changed to this.
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What is Austria?
"Krampus", the ghoulish creature and evil accomplice of St Nicholas, is said to wander the streets of this country in search of badly-behaved children
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Who is Kim Foulds?
You will never catch this person chewing gum.
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Who is Mary Shelley?
Author of one the greatest novels of modern literature, also known as "The Modern Prometheus", about a young scientist who gives life to a creature in a scientific experiment.
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What is Somalia?
Located on the Horn of Africa, this country is that continent's easternmost extension
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What is "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie?
Rapper Vanilla Ice had a hit song titled "Ice Ice Baby", that sampled from this song.
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