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New Year Trivia - An Interesting Challenge

Megha Dahake
Several nations rejoice the New Year occasion in certain way and the 1st day of January is regarded as a countrywide holiday. Educate yourself more with this Quiz!
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New Year's Day, is witnessed on 1st  January, the day one, of the year on the contemporary Gregorian calendar and the Julian calendar.
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While January gets its label from Janus, the Roman God of commencements and conclusions, February comes from the word februum which means cleansing and februa, the devices used for cleansing.
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Through the Roman era, March was noticed as the commencement of the calendar. As per the Live Science Report, in 46 B.C., Julius Caesar designed the Julian calendar, that established the New Year.
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In 45 B.C., Shortly after fetching the Roman dictatorship, Julius Caesar resoluted that the customary Roman calendar was in ominous necessity of transformation.
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The recent New Year's festival shoots from the antique, two-faced, Roman deity Janus after whom the month of January is also baptized. One face of Janus observed the past, and the other gazed forward to the future.
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The Christians visit the churches for a watch night ceremony till middle of the night, praying for sanctification in the upcoming new year because it is also portion of the Christmastide season executions.
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Black-eyed peas swell when cooked, so are considered as a symbol of prosperity. The green color symbolizes money and hence the traditional food for New Year.
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The Julian Calendar was substituted by the Gregorian Calendar with a variation in the formula for computing leap years. The commencement of the legal new year was changed from March 25 to January 1.
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The first New Year's resolves started over 4,000 years ago during prehistoric Babylon. The Babylonians are said to have begun the custom in the course Akitu, a 12-day New Year carnival.
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The initial Roman calendar comprises of 10 months and 304 days, with each New Year starting at the vernal equinox; as per the practice, it was formed by Romulus, the creator of Rome, in the eighth century B.C.
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