Which of these holidays is NOT usually celebrated in the month of December?

The story behind the answer

Thanksgiving is correct because, in the United States, it’s celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November (and in Canada on the second Monday in October)—not in December. By contrast, Christmas is on December 25, Kwanzaa runs December 26 to January 1, and Hanukkah often falls in December (its date shifts because it follows the Hebrew lunar-solar calendar).

Context helps lock it in: Thanksgiving began as a harvest festival and became a fixed U.S. holiday when Congress set the fourth-Thursday date in 1941 (after President Lincoln had earlier proclaimed a late-November observance). Memory tip: “Turkey before tinsel”—Thanksgiving comes before December’s lights, whether they’re Christmas trees, menorahs for Hanukkah, or the kinara for Kwanzaa.