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New Year's Quiz with City!
City of Angels - Home of Obsidian and Gunsmoke January 2nd, 2022 1:24:34pm 3,956 Posts |
Welcome to the first of my monthly events... a quiz! Hosted the first week of the month, my monthly quiz will focus on expanding your knowledge of traditions around the world, literature and pop culture. And to kick it off, we are starting with a New Years Quiz! So get sleuthing and send your answers over (DO NOT POST THEM HERE). Each correct answer will receive 500 points on an animal of your choice. If you get them ALL correct, you will receive an extra 2.5k points, rounding it up to a nice 10k. You have until 11.59pm on the 01/8/2022 1. Who wrote the song ‘Auld Lang Syne’? 2. In 2022, Chinese New Year will be the year of which animal? 3. Literally meaning the 'beginning of the year', what name is given to the Jewish New Year? 4. Songkran, often celebrated by water fights, is the New Year's festival in which Asian country? 5. What year did the ball first drop in Times Square, New York 6. When was the Gregorian calendar first officially used in Western countries? 7. Which nation celebrates the New Year first? 8. Who is given the credit for starting the tradition of New Year’s kiss? 9. Which place in the world is the last to ring the New Year? 10. Where in the world do men dress up as demons on New Year’s to scare the kids into behaving well? 11. What is the New Years festival in Scotland known as? 12. Who did Sherlock Holmes meet for the first time on New Year’s Day 1881? 13. What is the gemstone of January? 14. Which reclusive US author born on New Year’s Day 1919 created the fictional Holden Caulfield? 15. Who had a hit with ‘New Year’s Day’ in 1983?
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N.adhima 🏖 28 more days of school!!! January 2nd, 2022 5:10:07pm 2,058 Posts |
Sent! |
ᴏᴀᴋ ♥ ‹𝖒𝖆𝖎𝖓› ▸ 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 🎀 January 2nd, 2022 5:12:06pm 3,976 Posts |
Sent! Thank you City that was really fun! :) If any points please send to Altair (#358886) |
ᴏᴀᴋ ♥ ‹𝖒𝖆𝖎𝖓› ▸ 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 🎀 January 2nd, 2022 5:34:55pm 3,976 Posts |
bumping this for you City! :) |
🐈~BV~Keep Staring At The Stars⭐🎵 January 2nd, 2022 10:13:14pm 8,095 Posts |
Yay! |
vanity 🎀 January 3rd, 2022 10:36:25am 306 Posts |
Just sent !! :) |
Lady Rancher 1, Wild n Wicked Wolves, January 3rd, 2022 3:49:18pm 1,706 Posts |
sent, thx for the fun pts to trake 354763 please |
ɹ o ʇ ǝ l l ǝ ʞ s January 4th, 2022 7:49:09pm 3,525 Posts |
Sent! This was fun, thanks City! |
Tifisati - January 6th, 2022 12:57:47pm 509 Posts |
sent |
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