QUIZ: Sharpen your pencil and test your knowledge with our New Year’s trivia quiz

What do you know about . . .

NEW YEAR’S?
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In many places, the In Italy, what do people do What is the Jewish New In the United States, the

1 coming of the new year is

celebrated by singing the
traditional Scottish song
2 on New Year’s Day to bring
good luck in the coming
year?
3 Year called?
a. Hanukkah
b. Yom Kippur
coming of the new year is
celebrated by the lowering
of a gigantic crystal ball.
Auld Lang Syne. What does a. Go to mass c. Rosh Where does this event take
“auld lang syne” mean? b. Wear red underwear Hashanah place?
a. New Year’s Day c. Eat black-eyed peas d. Bar Mitzvah a. Central Park
b. Till we meet again d. Drink from Tivoli b. Times Square
c. Sweet memories Fountain c. Yankee Stadium
d. Old long ago d. The Statue of Liberty

5 6 7 8
The first New What is the most Under which calendar is In what greater Los
Year’s Eve ball common New Year’s New Year’s Day Jan. 1? Angeles community does
drop took resolution? a. Julian calendar the Rose Bowl Parade
place in a. Lose weight b. Gregorian calendar take place?
what year? b. Stop swearing c. Jewish calendar a. Hollywood
a. 1907 c. Stop texting and d. Chinese S M T W T F S b. Anaheim
b. 1937 driving calendar c. Thousand
c. 1947 d. Stop flicking Oaks
d. 1957 through all the TV d. Pasadena
channels

11 12 13
One of the world’s largest In the United States, New What London, Ontario,

9 10
In ancient Egypt what According
event dictated the to the Chinese and first new year’s Year’s Day is synonymous musician was synonymous
timing of New Year’s Calendar, celebrations takes place in with college football. Where with Auld Lang Syne?
celebrations? 2011 is the what city? is the Fiesta Bowl played? a. Justin Bieber
a. Pharaoh’s birthday year of a. Sydney, Australia a. Glendale, Arizona b. Tommy Hunter
b. Flooding of Nile the . . . ? b. Sydney, Nova Scotia b. New Orleans c. Dale Hunter
c. Solar eclipse a. Penguin c. Cole Harbour, c. Miami d. Guy Lombardo
d. Exact alignment b. Rabbit Nova Scotia d. Dallas
of stars with Great c. Goose d. Pittsburgh
Pyramid d. Polar bear

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What disaster movie was

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Dick Clark was last on Dick Which of the following How did baseball star What came
Clark’s Rocking New Year’s significant events Roberto Clemente die on set on New Year’s Eve? first: The
Eve television happened on New Year’s New Year’s Eve, 1972? a. Airplane Tournament of
special in Day? b. Earthquake Roses parade
a. In a plane crash
what year? c. Poseidon Adventure or the Rose
a. First rover landing on Mars b. Lost at sea
d. Towering Inferno Bowl game?
a. 1997 b. Alaska joined the United c. Domestic
b. 1999 States dispute
c. 2003 c. UN headquarters opens in d. In a car
d. 2008 New York crash
d. HST came into effect

Answers: 1. d 2. b 3. c 4. b 5. a 6. a 7. b 8. d 9. b 10. b 11. a 12. a 13. d 14. c 15. a 16. a 17. c 18. The parade
QUIZ WRITTEN BY JOHN KASTNER/QMI AGENCY