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Quiz: New Year's Eve Customs In which country do you find each of these customs? Click on the small gray box next to the word 'Answer" to find the answer to each question. In which country do they eat 12 grapes as the clock strikes midnight (one each time the clock chimes) on New Year's Eve? a. Canada b. Vietnam c. Spain Answer c In which country do some people eat long noodles to to wish for a long life? a. Italy b. Japan c. Argentina Answer b In which country do people go to the beach to jump seven waves and throw flowers in the sea while making a wish? a. Italy b. Spain c. Brazil Answer c In which country is a bell struck 33 times? a. Korea b. Puerto Rico c. Colombia Answer a In which country do people eat noodles while listening to a bell start ringing and strike 108 times? a. Germany b. Japan c. Greece Answer b In which country do people who want to travel take a suitcase and carry it around the house on New Year's Eve? a. The United States b. Venezuela c. The Philippines Answer b In which country do people wear white clothes in order to have good luck during the new year? a. France b. Papua New Guinea c. Brazil Answer c In which country do families dress a stuffed male doll with old clothes from each member of the family and then burn it, symbolizing forgetting all the bad things of the old year? a. Hungary b. Angola c. Colombia Answer c In which country do they pound rice into a glutinous form using a huge hammer? a. Thailand b. Japan c. Indonesia Answer b In which country do people wear masks to burn on December 31 to drive away bad luck? a. Spain b. Ecuador c. Nigeria Answer b   Return to: New Year's Customs | New Year's Page | Home Page TOPICS Online Magazine - ©1997-2008 Sandy and Thomas Peters - topics.mag@gmail.com