New Year's Traditions

New Year’s was always celebrated on January 1.

• True

• False

In Thailand they throw what for three days?

• Rice

• Snow

• Elephants

• Water

This country eats 12 grapes at midnight

• Denmark

• Finland

• Spain

• Philippines

This country creates small metal charms from molten tin

• Spain

• Finland

• Scotland

• South Africa

The pattern the molten tin makes symbolises what

• the next horse they will get

• the face of their next lover

• the country they will next go to

• the source of health, wealth or happiness for the new year

In Ireland, they take a loaf of hard bread and smack it against the wall of their house to...

• Wake up their sleeping children

• Keep bad luck out of their house

• Scare away the rats and bats

• make their house taste delicious

Many countries smash plates for different reasons, but in Denmark, if you wake up on New Year's day and find a pile of smashed china you will be...

• Happy, because it shows you have many friends

• Worried, because it shows you have many enemies

• Flattered, because it shows you have many admirers

• Angry, because it is an annoying mess

In Siberia, they place their 'yolka' underwater. Why is this impressive?

• Because evil spirits try and stop you

• Because the tree is decorated

• Because it is -49 degrees in the water

• Because the tree is spiky

Where might you celebrate New Year's Eve if you were in Talca, Chile?

• In a giant cake

• In a boat

• In a clock tower

• In a cemetery

In what piazza in Venice does the annual Kiss-a-thon take place?

• St Mark's

• St Matthew's

• St Roger's

• St Stewart's