While waiting for the holiday meal to be prepared, or the food to calm down, or between football games, answer our questionnaire on the history of the Cincinnati holiday and surprise everyone who has enjoyed its wisdom of local anecdotes.
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The head of which local business circle of relatives persuaded President Franklin D. Does Roosevelt move Thanksgiving from the last Thursday to the fourth Thursday in November to create more grocery shopping days for Christmas?
2. Duke Energy’s Christmas trains are celebrating their 75th anniversary this year. The demo originally built as a traveling promotional style for which genuine railroad?
3. La nursery living on the outdoor lawn the Krohn Conservatory in Eden Park moved there in 1967. Western Southern’s sponsors first installed the nursery in 1939 at which local site?
4. Which famous actor sang “C-I-N-C-I-N-N-A-T-I” in the 1986 TV movie “Babes in Toyland” with Drew Barrymore, rhyming Cincinnati with Maserati?
5. Joseph Henry Sharp’s 1892 portrait, “Fountain Square Pantomime”, shows a front of the Tyler Davidson fountain watching a Christmas exhibit at which branch of the store?
6. The Ruth Lyons Children’s Fund, founded through the pioneer of transmission in 1939, raised more than $22 million for gifts to patients at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. What day did the year of the crusade begin?
7. Cincinnati nicknamed the New York Christmas of the 50s why acclaimed movie of 2015?
8. Blues singer and pianist Charles Brown, who sang “Merry Christmas Baby,” running in a nightclub in northern Kentucky when King Records founder Syd Nathan asked him to write and record a song, which has become a popular party in 1960.
9. Illustrator Tony Sarg, who is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, incorporated puppets into his children’s illustrations, which helped him create what outstanding culture in 1927?
10. “A Christmas Melody,” a Hallmark Channel film filmed in Wyoming and Hyde Park in 2015, the first director of which artist to feature?
11. Inspired through what his mother said as a child in Covington, composer Haven Gillespie wrote the lyrics of which vintage Christmas song on the back of an envelope in 15 minutes.
12. La branch of Shillito had the elves. Pogue had a reindeer that spoke electronically.
13. What local occasion celebrated the weekend after Christmas at Christ Church Cathedral on Fourth Street since 1939 features costumes from the time and has its roots in an exhibition and procession that originated in Oxford, England, in 1340?
14. True or false? Two rabbis from Cincinnati popularized Hanukkah in the United States.
15. In the celebrated episode “Turkeys Away” of the sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati,” why did M. Did Carlson allow the radio station to throw turkeys from a helicopter as a promotion for Thanksgiving?
16. Comedian Jean Shepherd, who wrote and narrated the nostalgic classic “A Christmas Story,” worked in Cincinnati as a DJ from 1947 to 1954, on which radio station?
17. According to Judi Barrett’s children’s eBook “Santa from Cincinnati,” Baby Boy Claus was born on December 25 at which local hospital?
18. Gibson Greeting Cards of Cincinnati, one of the first corporations to offer a variety of Christmas cards in the United States. In 1955, the company opened a shop on which world-famous street?
19. Charles Dickens visited Cincinnati in 1842, the year before the publication of “A Christmas Carol”. During his trip, he stopped at an iconic spot in the area and couldn’t get a cognac.
20. “Dr. Albert Hague, composer of How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Seuss, graduate of the Cincinnati College of Music, known to television audiences for his supporting role in which series of the eighties?
21. In the early 2010s, the “Ring” CD compilation series included Christmas music through local artists to raise money for which local organization.
22. Which long-term Oscar-winning Norwood film acted as a dancer with Rosemary Clooney in the 1954 period Christmas film “White Christmas”?
23. What christmas song album did Ruth Lyons release in 1958 that sold 250,000 copies in a 4-city domain?
24. Which Cincinnati party had its own Twitter account?
25. The PNC Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden Which animals represent 9-meter-tall nutcrackers?
1. Fred Lazarus Jr. of the Lazarus family, who ran the federated stores.
2. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
3. Lytle Park.
4. Keanu Reeves.
5. Mabley and Carew.
6. October 4, anniversary of Lyon.
7. “Expensive”.
8. “Please come through the house for Christmas. “
9. Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Balloons.
10. Mariah Carey.
11. “Santa Claus comes to town” – “You should be careful
12. Pogie and Patter.
13. La boar’s head and the Christmas party.
14. True Rabbi Isaac M. Wise of the Plum Street temple and Rabbi Max Lilienthal of the Mound Street temple vacationed Hanukkah to their congregations and promoted them in their Jewish publications.
15. God being his witness, he thought that turkeys could simply fly.
16. Almost everyone, so almost any answer will do. Guide a DJ on WCKY-AM, WSAI-AM, WKRC-AM and WLW radio.
17. Cincinnati General Hospital.
18. Disneyland Street.
19. The Golden Lamb in Lebanon, Ohio.
20. “Fame”. He played the music teacher, Professor Shorofsky, in the television series from 1982 to 1987 and in the original film from 1980.
21. Cincinnati Public Radio.
22. George Chakiris. Co-star Vera-Ellen also from Norwood.
23. “Ten Christmas Melodies”.
24 The Fountain Square Tree (@TreeFountain) after its tattered debut in 2020.
25. I have had 3 over the years: a rhinoceros, a lion and an elephant.