HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
This game is played just like Jeopardy.
However, all the game clues are themed around people, events and dates that occurred at past family holiday gatherings.
Supplies:
- A scoreboard (chalkboards, whiteboards and easels with white flip paper are ideal) to keep track of points
- Clue cards with well-researched questions relating to past holidays.When possible, try to make sure that the majority of the guests playingthe Jeopardy Family Holiday Game were at the events that the questionsare based upon. Here are some examples of possible clues:
- This person cooked the Turkey for last year’s family Thanksgiving dinner in Ohio.- This delicious cookie recipe has been kept a family secret since the early 1900’s.
- In this year, Aunt Sally’s car broke down and prevented her from attending the Christmas party.
This game is also played like Jeopardy, but the questions should refer to traditional holiday stories.
For example, if the holiday being celebrated is Christmas, all questions should refer to the traditional story of Old Saint Nick, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, the story of the Three Kings, Frosty the Snowman, etc.
The same idea should be applied to Hannukah, Kwanzaa, the Chinese New Year, etc.
- Supplies:
This game requires the same supplies as the Jeopardy Family Trivia game above
In this holiday trivia game, family members are split up into two teams. One team member picks a card from a pile that has names of popular holiday songs written on it.
The team member who chose the card must keep the card secret and then hum the tune of the song for the rest of their team members to guess. Each team has thirty seconds to name the holiday song for one point.
Supplies:
- 30 second egg timer
- Scoreboard (chalkboards, whiteboards and easels with white flip paper are ideal) to keep track of points
- Stack of cards with popular holiday songs written on one side.
- In this game, family members are split up into two teams, Team A and Team B.
- One member of Team A will pick a holiday song from a stack and read off the first refrain of lyrics.
- One word from the lyrics should be blanked out (not spoken). It is then up to the chosen team member from Team B to finish the lyric by saying the word that was left out.
- Supplies:
- For this game, a songbook of popular holiday songs is necessary. Or,simply go online and print out lyrics for all the songs you plan to usein the trivia game.
- For Christmas songs, try Carols.org.
- For Hannukah songs, try Chanukah.com.
- Before the game starts, the host should go through the songbook orlist of songs and blank out one word per line of the song. The answer(the blanked out word) should be written at the end of each song’sline. This way, the missing lyric is easy to find yet removed from theline itself so the person reading out the line won’t say the lyric onacciden
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