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New Year Trivia Answers Archive

Review earlier daily rounds, reveal the correct answer, and use the short explanation to learn the fact behind each question. Page 8 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Which festival traditionally closes the Chinese New Year celebration period?

    Answer: Lantern Festival

    The Lantern Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month and concludes the traditional festivities.

  2. Which paper accessory is traditionally pulled apart at festive British dinners?

    Answer: Christmas cracker

    A Christmas cracker is pulled by two people and opens with a snap, often around the New Year holiday period.

  3. Which citrus fruit often tops the Japanese New Year decoration kagami mochi?

    Answer: Daidai

    A daidai bitter orange traditionally sits atop the stacked rice cakes of kagami mochi.

  4. Which yellow flower is associated with Ethiopia's Enkutatash season?

    Answer: Adey abeba

    The yellow adey abeba flower blooms around the Ethiopian New Year and symbolizes the season.

  5. The title “Auld Lang Syne” comes from which language?

    Answer: Scots

    Auld Lang Syne is a Scots phrase referring roughly to times long past.

Daily round

  1. Which country has a New Year custom of casting molten metal and interpreting its shape?

    Answer: Finland

    Finnish New Year fortune-telling traditionally interprets shapes formed by cooled molten metal.

  2. At which longitude is the Prime Meridian defined?

    Answer: 0 degrees

    The Prime Meridian is the reference line at zero degrees longitude.

  3. What time standard replaced Greenwich Mean Time as the principal international civil reference?

    Answer: Coordinated Universal Time

    Coordinated Universal Time, abbreviated UTC, is the main global civil time standard.

  4. How many years make a century?

    Answer: 100

    A century comprises one hundred years.

  5. Which Japanese decoration combines pine and bamboo at New Year?

    Answer: Kadomatsu

    Kadomatsu decorations use pine and bamboo and are placed near entrances for New Year.

Daily round

  1. Apples are traditionally dipped in what food for a sweet Rosh Hashanah?

    Answer: Honey

    Apples dipped in honey express a wish for a sweet year in Jewish custom.

  2. At which Madrid square do crowds gather for Spain's televised midnight grape tradition?

    Answer: Puerta del Sol

    The clock at Puerta del Sol is the focal point of Spain's nationally broadcast New Year countdown.

  3. Which punctuation mark is often used to separate hours, minutes, and seconds in a digital countdown?

    Answer: Colon

    Digital time displays conventionally use colons between hours, minutes, and seconds.

  4. What food is tossed at doors in Greece as a New Year symbol of abundance?

    Answer: A pomegranate

    Greek New Year custom may involve smashing a pomegranate so its many seeds symbolize abundance.

  5. What is the Japanese New Year holiday called?

    Answer: Shōgatsu

    Shōgatsu is the Japanese celebration of the new calendar year.

Daily round

  1. Rosh Hashanah begins in which Hebrew month?

    Answer: Tishrei

    Rosh Hashanah starts on the first day of Tishrei in the Hebrew calendar.

  2. What does a countdown measure before midnight?

    Answer: Time remaining

    A countdown announces the shrinking number of seconds until the new year begins.

  3. Which country is the historical center of the Nowruz tradition?

    Answer: Iran

    Nowruz has deep roots in ancient Persia, corresponding largely to modern Iran.

  4. Which month begins the Gregorian calendar year?

    Answer: January

    January is the first month of the Gregorian calendar year.

  5. Which calendar did the Gregorian calendar replace in countries that adopted the reform?

    Answer: Julian calendar

    The Gregorian reform corrected drift that had accumulated under the Julian calendar.

Daily round

  1. Which animal comes first in the Chinese zodiac cycle?

    Answer: Rat

    The Rat occupies the first position in the twelve-animal Chinese zodiac sequence.

  2. During which New Zealand season does the predawn rising of Matariki occur?

    Answer: Winter

    Matariki rises in New Zealand's predawn sky during winter and marks a new seasonal cycle.

  3. What color underwear is traditionally associated with New Year luck in parts of Latin America?

    Answer: Yellow

    Yellow clothing, including underwear, is used in several Latin American New Year customs as a symbol of luck or prosperity.

  4. Which ring-shaped cake is a New Year specialty in Denmark and Norway?

    Answer: Kransekake

    Kransekake is built from stacked rings of almond-based cake for celebrations including New Year.

  5. Songkran is a traditional New Year festival in which country?

    Answer: Thailand

    Songkran is Thailand's traditional New Year festival, observed in April.

Daily round

  1. Which Pacific island nation is among the first countries to enter a new year by civil time?

    Answer: Kiribati

    Kiribati's Line Islands use UTC+14, placing them among the earliest inhabited places to begin a new civil year.

  2. Thingyan is the traditional New Year water festival of which country?

    Answer: Myanmar

    Thingyan is Myanmar's April New Year celebration and is widely known for water festivities.

  3. Which imaginary line largely determines where one calendar date changes to the next?

    Answer: International Date Line

    Crossing the International Date Line changes the civil date by one day.

  4. Rosh Hashanah is the New Year observance of which religion?

    Answer: Judaism

    Rosh Hashanah marks the Jewish New Year within the Hebrew calendar.

  5. What is the Vietnamese lunar New Year commonly called?

    Answer: Tết

    Tết is the familiar shortened name for Vietnam's lunar New Year festival.

Daily round

  1. What are red envelopes containing gift money commonly called in Mandarin?

    Answer: Hóngbāo

    Hóngbāo are red envelopes used to present money on holidays and special occasions.

  2. How many animals form the traditional Chinese zodiac cycle?

    Answer: Twelve

    The Chinese zodiac repeats a sequence of twelve animal signs.

  3. Which ancient Roman ruler gave his name to the Julian calendar?

    Answer: Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar sponsored the reform that produced the Julian calendar.

  4. Which round bread may conceal a coin in Greek New Year celebrations?

    Answer: Vasilopita

    Vasilopita is cut around New Year, and finding its hidden coin is considered fortunate.

  5. Chinese New Year begins on what kind of calendar date?

    Answer: A lunisolar date

    Chinese New Year follows a traditional lunisolar calendar rather than one fixed Gregorian date.