New Years Around the World
New Year's Eve is called this in most of the Spanish-speaking world.
What is Nochevieja?
What is 8?
The Feast of Saint Nicholas, traditionally celebrated on this day, used to be a primary day of gift giving in the early Church.
What is December 6th?
This "Big Three" American sport is played in the Winter Season in High Schools and Colleges.
What is basketball?
This cooked meal was the original centerpiece of the Cratchit's Christmas meal before it was replaced by the gift of a Turkey by a reformed Ebeneezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
What is a Christmas Goose?
This Cantonese phrase, literally meaning "[congratulations], I wish that you enlarge your wealth," is commonly heard in American cities during the celebration of Lunar New Year.
Although some eastern churches celebrate the Epiphany, the day celebrating the arrival of the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem, according to the Julian Calendar on January 19th, the rest of the Christian world celebrates it on this day.
What is January 6th?
This 12-day Germanic winter celebration gave rise to many modern Christmas traditions.
What is Yule?
The last non-group, large-purse golf tournament in western world is usually this tournament, which was won by Scottie Scheffler in 2024.
What is the Hero World Challenge?
The making of these delicious, corn-based dishes is often a centerpiece of Christmas celebrations in families of Mexican descent.
What are tamales?
The Lunar New Year of Chinese and many other East Asian cultures occurs each year to coincide with this event.
What is the second full moon after the winter solstice?
This winter holiday, invented in 1966, runs from December 6th to January 1st.
What is Kwanzaa?
Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem and the reconquest of Israelite lands from this empire.
What is the Seleucid ("Greek" accepted) empire?
This tournament, previously known as the "Father/Son Challenge" until 2020, traditionally occurs not quite in Winter, but in December.
What is the PNC Championship?
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This fried food bizarrely became a staple of Christmas celebration in Japan starting in the 1970s.
With more than two million people participating in public celebrations, the largest New Year's Eve celebration usually happens in this country.
What is Brasil? (Rio de Janiero)
This second day of Christmastide celebrated in Britain was once a day of charitable giving, but is now primarily a day for shopping and watching football matches.
What is Boxing Day?
The Roman Holiday Saturnalia occurred (or started) on this day.
Since 2022, the Superbowl has been played on this day.
What is the second Sunday of February?
This brown, molasses-rich baked good is often cut into the shape of little people and festive items during Christmastime.
What is gingerbread?
This (along with two others, only one name needed) is the first country that celebrates the New Year each year.
What is [Kiribati/Samoa/Tonga]?
Before 2024, this was the most recent year in which Christmas Day and the first day of Hanukkah coincided.
What is 2005?
Before December 25th was declared to be Christmas by the Western Church, the day marked this popular holiday in the Roman Empire.
What is Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (the day [or feast] of the birth of Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun).
Three out of the five Winter Olympians with the highest Olympic medal counts come from this country.
What is Norway?
This alcoholic Christmas drink remains popular in Europe, and is often seasoned with cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon, and occasionally spiked with extra Vodka in Eastern European countries.
What is mulled wine? (Mulled cider also acceptable)