New Year's Day

0:03 Calaruga Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme is New Year's Day, Rose Bowl History, first, baby, traditions, resolutions and January First origins. Question one. When Julius Caesar overhauled the Roman calendar, he reset the start of the year. What year did his Julian calendar first take effect, making January first the official New Year's Day in Rome? Question two. The Rose bull is famously played in Pasadena, but one wartime exception broke the pattern. After Pearl Harbor, Where and why was the January first nineteen forty two Rose Bowl game held? Question three? Before the iconic Rose Bowl stadium opened in the early nineteen twenties. Which Pasadena venue hosted the first Rose Bowl game in nineteen oh two and the games from nineteen sixteen through nineteen twenty two. Question four.

1:06 Local media once raced to profile the first baby of the year, but many hospitals now decline to participate. What primary concern has led to curbing these announcements? Question five. Long before gym memberships and goal tracking apps, which ancient Mesopotamian New Year festival featured people making promises, often to return borrowed goods and pay debts to win favor from the gods. We'll be right back with these answers after this break. Welcome back. Question one, In what year did Caesar's Julian calendar make January first New Year's Day? Answer forty five BCE. Advised by the astronomer Sosygyones. Caesar introduced the Julian calendar to correct drift in the lunar system.

1:59 While some medieval regions later observed March twenty fifth or Easter as New Year, the fifteen eighty two Gregorian Reform helped re standardize January first across Catholic Europe and beyond. Question two, Where and why was the nineteen forty two Rose Bowl moved? Answer? Durham, North Carolina due to wartime security fears after Pearl Harbor authorities banned large West Coast gatherings following the December nineteen forty one attack, so the game moved to Duke University's Wallace Wade Stadium. Oregon State beat Duke twenty sixteen. It was one of only two Rose Bowls played outside Pasadena. The other was in twenty twenty one due to COVID nineteen restrictions. Question three, which venue hosted Rose Bowl games before the Rose Bowl Stadium.

2:42 Answer Tournament Park. Tournament Park, adjacent to Caltech was home to the early matchups until the dedicated Rose Bowl Stadium debuted. The game moved there beginning with the nineteen twenty three edition. Question four, Why do many hospitals avoid first baby of the year publicity? Answer? Privacy and identity theft concerns. Publishing a newborn's full details can expose families to fraud, scams, or unwanted attention. In the Hippaa era, many hospitals and newsrooms limit specifics or skip the tradition altogether to protect families. Question five. Which ancient festival is an early source of New Year's resolutions? Answer the Babylonian a Ketu festival During a ke to Babylonian's pledge to the gods, notably Marduk as the agricultural year began, Romans later made vows to Janus, and the modern idea of New Year's resolutions evolved from these ancient practices. That concludes today's five daily trivia questions.

3:39 I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.