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It is the most common New Year's Resolution
What is Get into shape / Lose weight / Exercise more?
This cocktail came about by accident when a bar owner had too much ginger beer on his hands.
What is a Moscow Mule?
The Moscow Mule is so easy-drinking that one might think it was some brilliant mixologist’s crowning achievement―but that’s hardly the case. The cocktail was merely a solution to a problem: Bar owner Jack Morgan had too much ginger beer on his hands and vodka distributor John Martin was struggling with a surplus of Smirnoff. Morgan threw the two together into a copper mug he had kicking around to make the drink stand out, and stand out it did.
Snowflakes almost always have this number of sides.
What is six?
A teenager was murdered at this theme park in 1981.
What is Disneyland?
This United States Supreme Court decision was made on January 23, 1973.
What is Roe vs. Wade?
The triangles on the Times Square ball are made from this material.
What are (Waterford) Crystals?
On May 4, 1964 the United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution that says of this spirit, “[it is] a Distinctive Product of the United States and is unlike other types of alcoholic beverages, whether foreign or domestic."
What is Bourbon?
This pinkish-red substance is sometimes used as an alternative to salt to melt ice on roads.
What is Beet Juice?
For years, it's been common practice to use salt on roads and sidewalks in order to melt slippery—and potentially dangerous—ice. But, salt can actually be harmful to the environment and in an effort to be more eco-friendly, some cities are using alternative methods to melt ice, such as beet juice, beer waste, and pickle brine, according to National Geographic. A county in Wisconsin, a state famous for its dairy, is even using cheese brine to prep roads before snowstorms!
This serial killer saved a child from drowning, retrieved a woman’s purse from a thief, and worked for a suicide hotline.
Who is Ted Bundy?
This raunchy radio host's show debuted on January 20, 1997?
Who is Howard Stern?
This traditional New Year's song began as a poem written by Robert Burns in 1788
What is "Auld Lang Syne" ?
This liquor was banned / illegal to drink in the United States until 2007.
What is Absinthe?
For a long time, absinthe carried with it a bad reputation. In France, the simultaneous rise in absinthe’s popularity and decline in wine production in the mid-1800s led to a lot of anti-absinthe propaganda among those loyal to the wine industry. Rumors of absinthe being a hallucinogen and driving drinkers to madness took over the conversation when vineyard worker Jean Lanfray was put on trial for murdering his wife and children. The basis of his defense? He had been drinking absinthe and was driven mad enough to kill. Thanks to this reputation, absinthe was banned in the United States until 2007 when the drinking public finally acknowledged that the spirit didn’t cause anyone to hallucinate or go mad, and was definitely necessary in the making of an authentic Sazerac.
The first Winter Olympics were held in this county in 1924.
What is France?
In 1921, the International Olympic Committee gave its patronage to a Winter Sports Week to take place in 1924 in Chamonix, France. This event was a great success, attracting 10,004 paying spectators, and was retrospectively named the First Olympic Winter Games.
This country had the lowest murder rate in 2020.
What is Japan?
.2 people / per 100,000
This Award Show was first held on January 25, 1949.
What are the Emmy Awards?
The Dutch believe eating what on New Year's Day will bring good luck.
What are doughnuts?
The ritual of eating these luscious lumps of sugary dough started with a less-than-appetizing story, perhaps meant as a warning to eat well before the advent of mid-winter want. Eating oliebollen was considered a surefire way to ward off the whims of a cruel pagan goddess named Perchta.
Winston Churchill famously praised this cocktail as having "saved more Englishman's lives and minds than all the doctors in the Empire."
What is the Gin and Tonic?
During Britain’s 19th century occupation of India, malaria spread rampantly among soldiers and was often responsible for wiping out entire battalions. Eventually, a solution was discovered; quinine powder found in the bark of the cinchona tree both treated and prevented malaria, but the powder was extremely bitter and hard to stomach on its own. To make it easier to digest, the British mixed the powder with soda and sugar, creating “tonic,” and threw some gin in there for good measure. Thus the birth of the Gin & Tonic, the secret weapon of the British Indian forces.
Millions of this insect fly to Mexico for the winter.
What are monarch butterflies?
They are the only insect that migrates to a warmer climate that is 2,500 miles away each year.
This Central American country had the highest murder rate in 2020.
What is El Salvador?
82 people / per 100,000
This Space Shuttle exploded on January 28, 1986.
What is the Challenger?
In this country it is customary to eat 12 grapes - one at each stroke of the clock at midnight on New Year's Eve
What is Spain?
Each grape represents good luck for one month of the coming year. In bigger cities like Madrid and Barcelona, people gather in main squares to eat their grapes together and pass around bottles of cava.
This Founding Father was quoted, "Wine makes daily life easy, less hurried, with fewer tension and more tolerance."
Who is Ben Franklin?
This foreign country is home to "the snowiest city on Earth"
What is Japan?
Aomori City in northern Japan receives more snowfall than any major city on the planet. Each year citizens are pummeled with 312 inches, or about 26 feet, of snow on average.
In 2004 this animal buried a mother and child after trampling them to death in northern Kenya.
What is an elephant?
Lokalo Ekitela was on her way to market when the elephant charged her and her two-year-old son, reports Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper.
Before disappearing into the bush, the elephant buried the bodies under some leaves and twigs in Laikipia District.
Elephants are known to bury their own dead under foliage and often stay with the body, apparently in mourning.
While MLK Jr day is officially recognized on the 3rd Monday in January, what is MLK's official birthday?
What is January 15?
1929
MLK day was first observed in 1986