New Years Eve in the USA
New Years Eve "Back Home"
NYE Traditions
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Professions
100

This happens in New York City on NYE.

What is The Ball Drop?

100

This salad is at every NYE table.

What is оливье?

100

Alcoholic beverage most popular at NYE parties.

What is champagne?

100

How did Gleb and Natasha meet?

At a birthday party

100

This person works as a financial analyst.

Who is Gleb Malchikov?

200

The most popular New Year's resolution.

What is to lose weight?

200

This person and his sidekick visits children for NYE.

What is Дед Мороз and Снегурочка?

200

Americans do this act after the clock strikes midnight on NYE.

What is kissing?

200

How did Masha and Eva meet?

Ella introduced Eva to her friend group.

200

This person worked at several start-ups before his current job writing textbooks.

Who is Mikhail Savvateev?

300

Traditional New Year's song in English speaking countries.

What is Auld Lang Syne?

300

Soviet movie that is broadcast every NYE.

What is "Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром!"?

300

Name of UW club that brought friends in this room together and began NYE celebrations.

What is RAYA?

300

How did Arthur and Caroline meet?

In church

300

This person works for a company which builds metal tubes that fly in the sky.

Who is Natasha?

400

Top three destination in the US for NYE.

What is Las Vegas, New York, Disney World (Orlando)?

400

Two popular salads that feature beets.

What is Шуба and Винегрет?

400

These three people have been celebrating NYE together consecutively for the past 10 years.

What is Misha, Gleb, and Ira?

400

How did Ira and Sasha meet?

At Ira's house.

400

This person works for Amazon.

Who is Milana?

500

This city hosts the best parties on NYE.

What is New Orleans?

500

Explain the history of "Старый Новый Год', why it exists and is celebrated.

In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII replaced the Julian Calendar with the Gregorian Calendar to re-align calendar dates with their respective equinoxes. The Julian Calendar had an excess of one leap day per century and was thus, 14 days behind. Because countries with an Eastern Orthodoxy majority did not submit to the pope, Ukraine and Russia only began using the Gregorian Calendar in 1918.

500

Americans in the South eat this food to bring them good luck.

What is black-eyed-peas?

500

How did Danik and Mariana meet?

Through friends.

500

This person got their degree in Nuclear Engineering and interned at a nuclear power plant. 

Who is Oleksandr Vodko?