New Year’s Eve Customs Around the World

In which country do they eat 12 grapes as the clock strikes midnight (one each time the clock chimes) on New Year’s Eve?

• Canada

• Vietnam

• Italy

• Spain

In which country do some people eat long noodles to to wish for a long life?

• Italy

• Japan

• Argentina

• China

In which country is a bell struck 33 times?

• Colombia

• Puerto Rico

• Korea

• China

In which country do people go to the beach to jump seven waves and throw flowers in the sea while making a wish?

• Brazil

• Mexico

• Spain

• Argentina

In which country do people eat noodles while listening to a bell start ringing and strike 108 times?

• Italy

• Germany

• Greece

• Japan

In which country do people who want to travel take a suitcase and carry it around the house on New Year’s Eve?

• The Philippines

• Venezuela

• the Unites States

• Korea

In which country do people wear white clothes in order to have good luck during the new year?

• Papua New Guinea

• France

• Brazil

• the Philippines

In which country do families dress a stuffed male doll with old clothes from each member of the family and then burn it, symbolizing forgetting all the bad things of the old year?

• Hungary

• Colombia

• Angola

• Mexico

In which country do they pound rice into a glutinous form using a huge hammer?

• Thailand

• Indonesia

• Japan

• China

In which country do people wear masks to burn on December 31 to drive away bad luck?

• Ecuador

• Spain

• Nigeria

• Argentina