New Year's Eve 2022

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  1. 3. In this city, there’s an orange that rises rather than a ball that drops. The 35-foot neon-lit Big Orange rises up on the side of the InterContinental Hotel, and fireworks launch when it reaches the top.
  2. 4. Single ladies in this country sleep with mistletoe under their pillow to bring about love in the new year.
  3. 5. The idea of dropping this to signal the passage of time dates back to 1833 when a ball was installed on top of England's Royal Observatory at Greenwich, allowing the captains of nearby ships to precisely set a vital navigation instrument.
  4. 7. More than 360 million glasses of this are consumed by Americans every New Year’s Eve.
  5. 8. In this country, residents throw unused plates that have been saved up throughout the year at the front doors of family and friends for good luck.
  6. 10. He hosted New Year’s Rockin’ Eve for 24 years before suffering from a stroke.
  7. 15. There are more than 3.2 million flowers used in the floats for this parade every year.
  8. 16. The name January comes from this Roman god of beginnings, time, doorways, and endings.
  9. 18. It is estimated that a million people crowd into this area of New York each year to watch the ball drop.
  10. 19. Song whose title means ‘times gone by.’
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  1. 1. The earliest recorded festivities in honor of a new year’s arrival date back some 4,000 years to this city.
  2. 2. The Egyptians, Phoenicians, and Persians began their new year on this day.
  3. 5. Eating this food on New Year’s Day is a southern tradition said to bring economic prosperity in the coming year.
  4. 6. In Turkey, it's considered good luck to put this on your doorstep as soon as the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Day.
  5. 9. This musical festival is held every New Year’s Eve in Antarctica.
  6. 11. Doing this at midnight is said to come from the idea that doing so will prevent loneliness during the coming year and ward off evil spirits.
  7. 12. This island in the Central Pacific is the first location to ring in the new year each year.
  8. 13. This song takes 1,000 years to play and was launched on January 1, 2000. It is set to start over again immediately after it finishes in 2999.
  9. 14. Two thousand pounds of this are dropped in Times Square every New Year’s Eve.
  10. 17. In this country, people make their wish, write it on a piece of paper, and burn the paper. Then they put the ashes into a glass of champagne and drink it.