1. Name the country in which friends and family wish each other a happy Navasard on the first of January.
2. Name the country that refers to New Year's Day as "Chaul Chnam Thmey."
3. If you are of this descent, you may pick and eat 12 grapes as the clock strikes midnight.
4. Families in this country celebrate St. Basil and eat the Vassilopitta on the first of January.
5. As the clock strikes midnight, and we say farewell to 2013, many may sing to this Scottish folk song, which was given new words in the 1700s by Robert Burns. Name both the song and its translation.
Answers
1. Armenia.
2. Cambodia.
3. Spanish or Portuguese.
4. Greece.
5. "Auld Lang Syne," which means "long, long ago."
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