What’s the Kennection? #145
All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?
All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?
In 1864, the Jewish poet Ludwig August Frankl named blue and white “the colors of Judah” in a poem not so surprisingly called “Judah’s Colours.”
Based on the classic 1985 children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg, the movie follows a young Santa Claus skeptic on a magical train ride to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
With Bing Crosby’s star power and Michael Curtiz directing, ‘White Christmas’ overcame early struggles to become a holiday classic.
Those brightly wrapped packages we exchange around the holidays and other special occasions: Sometimes we call them “gifts,” sometimes “presents.” Is there a difference?
From the color of snow to the shape of rainbows, weather breeds a lot of misconceptions.
A critique of wealth inequality never tasted so good.
Figgy pudding might be a fixture in Christmas carol lyrics, but you've probably never seen it in person. So just what is this British dish we've been singing about for all these years?
Cut through the half-truths and urban legends to find out more about Friday the 13th, allegedly the unluckiest day on the calendar.
A new bot collects videos that were uploaded to YouTube directly from people’s iPhones, bringing viewers back to a time before Instagram.
The Shanghai Museum‘s “Meowseum Nights” allowed cats to witness their history.
Get in touch with nature in California, Texas, or Arizona.
Conservationists warn that the monarch could die out by the end of the century unless action is taken.
For years, rumors circulated that CBS had made season after season of a ‘Blazing Saddles’ spin-off with no intention of airing it.
Some states across the U.S. are more likely to get into the holiday spirit than others, but areas like Utah and Massachusetts really outshine all the rest.
This riddle is nearly a century old—can you figure out the answer?
Most iterations of Jack Frost see him clad in icy blue and white, and as well as being responsible for nose-nipping, he’s also credited with creating frost. But where exactly did this mythical cold-weather figure originate?
The 1922 German silent film shamelessly plagiarized Bram Stoker’s novel ‘Dracula.’ But if ‘Nosferatu’ had never been made, the vampire genre so embedded in pop culture might never have taken off.
The tradition of eating ham on Christmas dates back to Nordic animal sacrifices.
From Ivan the Terrible to Herod the Great, these historical figures weren’t the best relatives.
Rex.Fit‘s newest device promises to record the calorie, protein, carb, and fat content of everything you consume.
Anti-auroras are even less common than the northern lights.
Carved from rock in modern-day Jordan, Petra prospered for centuries under Nabataean and Roman rule. This dazzling settlement is now one of the region’s greatest attractions.
We give you an obscure word with four definitions—one correct, three made up. Can you identify the correct one?