Dec. 31, 2025

New Year's Eve Traditions:

New Year's Eve Traditions:
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New Year's Eve Traditions: midnight rituals around the world, champagne history, Auld Lang Syne.

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Calaruga shark media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison. In today's theme

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is New Year's Eve traditions, midnight rituals around the world,

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champagne history, aldlang sign. Question one. At the stroke of

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midnight on New Year's Eve, people across a certain European

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country try to eat one grape for each of the

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twelve bell chimes, a luck bringing ritual known as last

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dose uvas de la suerte. Which country is this tradition

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most closely associated with? Question two? During Japan's New Year's

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Eve ceremony called Joya no Caine, Buddhist temples ring their

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massive bells to symbolically cleanse people of worldly desires. Exactly

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how many times are the bells told? Question three. A

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popular legend claims a monk cried, come quickly, I am

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tasting the stars upon inventing sparkling champagne, which seventeen the

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century Benedictine monk is tied to this myth, even though

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the wine's effervescence evolved gradually through improved bottling and fermentation methods.

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Question four. In Scotland's Hogmen at celebrations, good luck for

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the coming year is said to arrive with the first

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person to cross a home's threshold after midnight, often carrying

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small gifts like coal, shortbread, or whiskey. What is this

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custom called? Question five? The New Year's anthem Aldlang's sign

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comes from a poem adapted from older Scott's verses, which

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poet is credited with collecting and shaping the version we

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sing today, sending it to the Scott's Musical Museum in

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the late eighteenth century. We'll be right back with these

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answers after this break. Welcome back. Question one. Which country

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eats twelve grapes at midnight on New Year's Eve? Answer? Spain.

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Spaniards eat twelve grapes at midnight one per chime to

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invite good fortune for each month ahead. The custom took

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off in the early nineteen hundreds, boosted by grape growers

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after a bumper harvest, and has since become a nationwide staple.

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Question two. How many bell tolls are rung in Japan's Joyanocaine?

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Answer one hundred and eight. The bells ring one hundred

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and eight times to represent the one hundred and eight

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human desires in Buddhist teaching, with the final strokes around midnight,

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marking spiritual renewal. Many temples begin before midnight, so the

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last tolls coincide with the new year. Question three, which

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monk is mythically credited with inventing champagne? Answer? Dom Perignon.

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Dom Perignon seller master at Autviller refined blending and quality,

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but did not invent bubbles or utter. The famous quote

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champagne sparkle emerged over time thanks to stronger glass cork

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technology and controlled secondary fermentation. Question four, What is Scotland's

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midnight first visitor luck custom? Called? Answer? First footing? First

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footing is a century's old Scottish and Northern English tradition

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in which the first guest after midnight brings prosperity. The

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gifts symbolize warmth, food, and conviviality for the household. Question five.

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Who is credited with the lyrics of auld Lang sign? Answer?

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Robert Burns. Robert Burns collected and adapted the folk song

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around seventeen eighty eight. It was published posthumously in seventeen

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ninety six. The title roughly means old long since or

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days gone by. A reflection on friendship and remembering the

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past that concludes today's five daily trivia questions I'm Mark Ellison,

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and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology.

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See you tomorrow.