By Nancy Virden (c)2024
Play this game with your friends and family during this holiday season. I picture a group sitting in a circle or around a table, but anywhere is fine. Make it more exciting by casting friendly votes on a person’s answer or asking the person whose turn it is to pitch a penny in a jar for each answer.
- Name one favorite holiday food and who made it best.
- Name the state bird of one state you have lived in
- Which attendees of this gathering are older than you?
- Quote a favorite Bible Verse or read this one five times fast: Romans 7: 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I
- Name the capital city of one country you have visited.
- For what is your generation best known?
- How many books in the New Testament made up the gospels?
- Best movie line (act it)
- Favorite book and when you read it
- Name one accomplishment you achieved this year (everything counts)
- What do Washington DC, Philadelphia, and New York City share historically?
- What does your city import?
- Name your mayor (or name a mayor)
- What is your favorite memory of one person in attendance?
- Name a favorite song (sing it)
- What movie made you cry?
- Who was Jim Thorpe?
- Favorite act in the circus
- Tell the year of the worst snowstorm you experienced
- Name five autumn leaf colors
- What did Jesus say were the two most important commandments?
- Have you witnessed a miracle? Do tell…
- Name one president from before 1960
- How did John refer to Jesus at the beginning of the book of John?
- What two members of your gathering look alike?
- Poultry white meat or dark?
- Name a logo that comes in your favorite color
- From where did the antique closest to your seat come?
- Name a famous person you would like to meet and why
- Name the New Testament books John the Apostle wrote
- The most prominent crop in the Midwest USA is potatoes (T or F)
- Water, tea, or coffee?
- What did one penny say to another? (Let’s get together and make some cents. Which all of you just did!)
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Today’s Helpful Word
Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart is good medicine
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