Jan. 1, 2026
New Year's Day
Rose Bowl history, first baby traditions, resolutions, and January 1st origins.
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Calaruga Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme
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is New Year's Day, Rose Bowl History, first, baby, traditions,
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resolutions and January First origins. Question one. When Julius Caesar
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overhauled the Roman calendar, he reset the start of the year.
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What year did his Julian calendar first take effect, making
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January first the official New Year's Day in Rome? Question two.
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The Rose bull is famously played in Pasadena, but one
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wartime exception broke the pattern. After Pearl Harbor, Where and
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why was the January first nineteen forty two Rose Bowl
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game held? Question three? Before the iconic Rose Bowl stadium
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opened in the early nineteen twenties. Which Pasadena venue hosted
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the first Rose Bowl game in nineteen oh two and
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the games from nineteen sixteen through nineteen twenty two. Question four.
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Local media once raced to profile the first baby of
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the year, but many hospitals now decline to participate. What
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primary concern has led to curbing these announcements? Question five.
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Long before gym memberships and goal tracking apps, which ancient
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Mesopotamian New Year festival featured people making promises, often to
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return borrowed goods and pay debts to win favor from
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the gods. We'll be right back with these answers after
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this break. Welcome back. Question one, In what year did
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Caesar's Julian calendar make January first New Year's Day? Answer
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forty five BCE. Advised by the astronomer Sosygyones. Caesar introduced
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the Julian calendar to correct drift in the lunar system.
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While some medieval regions later observed March twenty fifth or
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Easter as New Year, the fifteen eighty two Gregorian Reform
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helped re standardize January first across Catholic Europe and beyond.
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Question two, Where and why was the nineteen forty two
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Rose Bowl moved? Answer? Durham, North Carolina due to wartime
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security fears after Pearl Harbor authorities banned large West Coast
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gatherings following the December nineteen forty one attack, so the
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game moved to Duke University's Wallace Wade Stadium. Oregon State
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beat Duke twenty sixteen. It was one of only two
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Rose Bowls played outside Pasadena. The other was in twenty
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twenty one due to COVID nineteen restrictions. Question three, which
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venue hosted Rose Bowl games before the Rose Bowl Stadium.
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Answer Tournament Park. Tournament Park, adjacent to Caltech was home
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to the early matchups until the dedicated Rose Bowl Stadium debuted.
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The game moved there beginning with the nineteen twenty three edition.
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Question four, Why do many hospitals avoid first baby of
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the year publicity? Answer? Privacy and identity theft concerns. Publishing
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a newborn's full details can expose families to fraud, scams,
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or unwanted attention. In the Hippaa era, many hospitals and
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newsrooms limit specifics or skip the tradition altogether to protect families.
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Question five. Which ancient festival is an early source of
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New Year's resolutions? Answer the Babylonian a Ketu festival During
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a ke to Babylonian's pledge to the gods, notably Marduk
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as the agricultural year began, Romans later made vows to Janus,
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and the modern idea of New Year's resolutions evolved from
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these ancient practices. That concludes today's five daily trivia questions.
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I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the
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help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.
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