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Holiday Quiz
Answer each of these questions on a piece of paper, then click on “Continue reading” at the bottom to check your answers.
1. Who is this?
2. What holiday are they celebrating?
3. Where does Santa Claus live?
4. What holiday are they celebrating?
5. What are they drinking?
6. Who is this?
7. What holiday are they celebrating?
8. What are they riding in?
9. Who gets a lump of coal from Santa?
To see the correct answers, click on “Continue reading”:
Daytime Holiday Party Video
The Perfect Holiday Gift
The 2015 NYC Taxi Calendar is now on sale! Once again proceeds will benefit University Settlement. Last year the calendar raised $40,000 for University Settlement – an excellent, unexpected – and certainly unusual – source of general support.
Click here to learn more about the project.
Click here to watch University Settlement staff talk about it on Fox 5.
Click here to purchase your calendar today!
A Video for Veterans Day
For Veterans Day, here’s a short video about one soldier in World War II. When you finish watching, take the quiz to test your comprehension:
This video comes from StoryCorps, which records real people’s real stories. To watch more videos from StoryCorps, click here.
Columbus Day: Just the Facts
Here are a few facts about Christopher Columbus and Columbus Day:
1. Columbus’s actual name was Cristoforo Colombo.
2. He was from Italy, but he worked for Spain.
3. He “discovered” America in 1492. “Discovered” is in quotation marks because there were already people here before 1492: the Native Americans.
4. Native Americans are also known as “Indians” because Columbus believed he had reached Asia.
5. He sailed in three ships: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
6. He first landed in the New World on an island he called San Salvador. Historians aren’t sure which island this now is.
7. Columbus probably wasn’t the first European to reach the American continent. Leif Ericson, a Viking, may have reached the New World over four hundred years earlier.
7. Columbus Day became an official U.S. holiday in 1937.
Now you know more than the people in this video!: