🕯️ RITUALS & FRESH STARTS
This many seconds are counted down before midnight on New Year's Eve.
Wearing this color is believed to attract love in the new year.
Red
This country celebrates New Year twice: once on January 1st and again with their Lunar New Year.
China
This city is famous for its massive New Year’s Eve ball drop.
New York City
In Spain, people eat 12 of these fruits at midnight, one for each chime of the clock.
Grapes
A yellow tongue is associated with attracting what in the new year?
Money and prosperity
In Denmark, people throw this at friends’ doors.
Plates
This drink is technically for celebrations but causes most New Year regrets.
Champagne
Opening these in your house at midnight lets the old year out and the new year in.
Doors and windows
You should avoid doing this household chore on New Year's Day or you'll "wash away" good fortune.
Laundry/washing clothes
In what country people burn life-sized figures known as “Año Viejo"?
Ecuador
This movie is basically about New Year’s Eve in NYC with lots of intertwined stories.
New Year’s Eve
The most common New Year's resolution broken by February according to surveys.
Losing weight/going to the gym
According to common New Year folklore, kissing someone at midnight is believed to bring what for the coming year?
Luck and continuity in love
This country celebrates New Year in March based on the solar calendar.
Iran
This singer’s lip-sync fail became a legendary New Year’s Eve moment.
Mariah Carey
In the Southern U.S., eating this vegetable on New Year's represents folding money and financial success.
Collard greens (or cabbage)
The tradition of making noise at midnight originally served this purpose.
Scaring away evil spirits (or bad luck)
In Japan, temple bells ring this many times.
108
This 1989 rom-com ends with Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal sharing a New Year's Eve kiss.
When Harry Met Sally