Round 1
True or false
Two quick statements on New Year habits in Japan and Thailand.
- True or false
Asian New Year’s Eve Customs Quiz
Ten questions on New Year customs in Asia: a quick true or false round, a multiple-choice round and a spot-the-lie round. One question visits Ecuador. Some items touch on Buddhist and Hindu traditions.
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The rounds
Round 2
Customs and meanings
Five questions on food, gifts and ritual.
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Round 3
Spot the lie
Three sets of statements where one is invented.
- Pick answer
All questions and answers
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Round 1: True or false2 questions
Question 1 · True or false
In Japan, people eat soba noodles on New Year’s Eve for good luck.
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Answer:
True
Fun fact: The noodles are easily cut while eating, which people take as cutting off the old year's hardships, and their length stands for a long life.
Question 2 · True or false
In Thailand, people splash water on each other during New Year’s celebrations.
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Answer:
True
Fun fact: Songkran is the traditional Thai New Year and falls in mid-April, so the famous water fights mark that festival rather than 31 December.
Round 2: Customs and meanings5 questions
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Which food is traditionally eaten in the Philippines on New Year’s Eve for prosperity?
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Answer:
Round fruits
Fun fact: Families often set out twelve round fruits, one for each month, because circles are thought to attract money.
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What do people in China traditionally give out during Lunar New Year?
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Answer:
Red envelopes with money
Fun fact: Amounts ending in 8 are favoured because the number sounds like 'prosperity', while amounts with 4 are avoided because it sounds like 'death'.
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In Japan, temple bells ring 108 times at midnight to mark the New Year. What does this symbolize?
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Answer:
The 108 desires to be cleansed
Fun fact: Many temples ring before midnight and continue after it, and 108 has several explanations, among them 12 months plus 24 solar terms plus 72 microseasons.
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Which country celebrates New Year’s Eve by burning effigies called monigotes?
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Answer:
Ecuador
Fun fact: Many of the figures are made to look like prominent people from the past year before they are burned at midnight.
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In which Asian country do people eat sticky rice cake (tteokguk) to symbolize growing a year older?
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Answer:
Korea
Fun fact: A 19th-century Korean book records people asking each other how many bowls of tteokguk they had eaten as a way of asking their age.
Round 3: Spot the lie3 questions
Question 8 · Pick answer
China Edition: Can you spot the lie?
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Answer:
People eat sushi for wealth.
Fun fact: In northern China, many families eat jiaozi dumplings at midnight on New Year's Eve; their ingot shape symbolises wealth.
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Vietnam Edition: Can you spot the lie?
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Answer:
People fast for 24 hours before midnight.
Fun fact: Yellow apricot blossoms decorate homes in central and southern Vietnam, and peach blossoms in the north, during Tet.
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India Edition: Can you spot the lie?
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Answer:
Diwali is celebrated on December 31.
Fun fact: Diwali falls between mid-October and mid-November, and rangoli floor designs are most often made for it.
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