New Year's Resolutions & Traditions Around the World

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Good Luck!! In Spain, you must eat 12 of this fruit - one for each chime of the clock - to ensure good luck.

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Lucky Foods
In Spain, you must eat 12 of this fruit - one for each chime of the clock - to ensure good luck.

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In the Southern U.S., these legumes are eaten because they look like coins and represent wealth.

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In Japan, people eat long "toshikoshi" noodles to symbolize this hope for their life.

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In Italy and Brazil, these small, coin-shaped legumes are eaten to bring money in the New Year.

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In Turkey and Greece, you smash this red fruit on the floor to release seeds representing abundance.

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Strange Customs
In Denmark, it is tradition to jump off of a {what} at midnight to "leap" into the New Year?

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In Latin American countries like Mexico, wearing this color underwear signifies you want love in the New year.

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In the Philippines, people wear this pattern because the round shapes symbolize coins and wealth.

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In Brazil, it is traditional to head to the beach and jump over seven of these for good luck.

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In Greece, this vegetable is hung on the front door as a symbol of rebirth and fertility.

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The Ball Drop
In 1907, the first Times Square ball was made of wood and this metal.

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The ball drop was suspended for two years in 1942 and 1943 due to this global event.

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Since 1999, the ball has been covered in crystal triangles made by this famous company.

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What classic Scottish song, meaning "Times Gone By," is played immediately after the drop?

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Roughly 3,000 pounds of this paper material is dropped by volunteers onto the crowd at midnight.

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Ancient History
This ancient civilization is credited with being the first to make New Year's resolutions 4,000 years ago.

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January is named after Janus, the Roman god with two {what}?

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Before Julius Caesar changed the calendar, the New Year originally began in this month.

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The most common resolution for ancient Babylonians was to return borrowed {what}?

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In medieval times, this noisy practice at midnight was done to scare away evil spirits.

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Weird U.S. Drops
Atlanta, Georgia rings in the new year by dropping a giant one of these fruits.

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Boise, Idaho celebrates its agriculture by dropping a giant, glowing {what}?

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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania drops a 400-pound version of this yellow marshmallow chick.

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Raleigh, North Carolina drops a giant copper version of this nut.

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Key West, Florida drops a "drag queen" sitting inside a giant one of these shoes.

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Champagne & Resolutions
What is the specific French name for the wire cage that holds the cork on a champagne bottle?

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It is said that you should twist the wire cage exactly this many times to open it properly.

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A double-sized champagne bottle (1.5L) is known as a {what}?

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According to statistics, what is consistently the #1 most broken New Year's resolution?

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A champagne cork can fly out of a bottle at speeds of up to how many miles per hour?

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