They’re the first to celebrate
New Year

1 — Which capital in the world is first to celebrate New Year — Tokyo, Canberra, Wellington or Singapore?
2 — What was the Hogmanay tradition of The Creaming of the Well?
3 — What are probably the most common New Year resolutions people make? 
4 — Which animals have an official birthday on January 1?
5 — Which rock band had a hit with New Year’s Day?
6 — Why are tall dark strangers considered lucky first-foots at Hogmanay? 
7 — Who will celebrate New Year on February 9 and October 4?
8 — Rearrange FISHY KIN POW to reveal something you might raise to toast the New Year.
9 — Old Father Time is a symbol of the New Year. What is he usually depicted carrying?
10 — Where in Scotland does the New Year Ba’ take place?
11 — In 1975 the group Pilot reached No. 1 in the charts with which song? 
12 — Which blonde TV actress has the same surname as the Roman God of beginnings? 
13 — What poem did the late Duncan Macrae recite on TV at Hogmanay?
14 — What is the birthstone for January?
15 — Which world-famous horror novel was published on January 1, 1818?
16 — On January 1 it was how many years since the UK joined the Common Market, now the EU?
17 — In what famous city does a ball drop to celebrate the New Year?
18 — If you’re superstitious, how should a visitor arriving before midnight on Hogmanay leave?
19 — In which European country do they eat 12 grapes, one for each chime, as the clock strikes midnight on Hogmanay?
20 — On New Year’s Day, 1964, Jimmy Savile presented the first-ever Top Of The Pops. Can you name four of the eight artists featured? 

Sunday Post Quiz Answers, January 2, 2005

1 — Wellington (12 hours ahead of GMT.)
2 — The “cream” was the first water drawn from the local well or spring on New Year’s Day. A woman was said to be guaranteed marriage if she could get the man she desired to drink the water before the end of the day. 
3 —To give up smoking and/or drinking, or to go on a diet. 
4 — Race horses. 
5 — U2.
6 — Because they’re opposite of the fair-haired Norse invaders of the 4th to 12th Centuries. 
7 — Chinese on February 9 and Jews on October 4. 
8 — NIP OF WHISKY. 
9 — A scythe. 
10 — In Orkney. It’s a ball game played through the streets of Kirkwall.
11 — January. 
12 — Samantha Janus. 
13 — The Wee Cock Sparra. 
14 — Garnet. 
15 — Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.
16 — 33 Years. 
17 — New York. 
18 — He or she should be shooed away forcefully if necessary. 
19 — Spain. 
20 — The Rolling Stones, The Dave Clark Five, The Swinging Blue Jeans, Dusty Springfield, The Hollies, Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Freddie and the Dreamers and The Beatles.