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OK, the answers!

Part 1 – New Year Questions

1. Where did people start gathering to celebrate New Year for the first time in 1904?

Times Square, New York (to celebrate the new, New York Times building)

2. In what country to people burn “Jack Straw” at New Year?

Hungary

3. What is the Jewish New Year called?

Rosh Hashanah

4. In what country to people throw water at each other at New Year?

Thailand (although it's in April)

5. In Spain, what do people traditionally eat at midnight on New Year’s Eve?

12 grapes


Part 2 – General Knowledge

1. What was the first Big hit for the band Roxette, "The ?"

Look

2. What word can both be the result of loss of a wicket in Cricket or an unseen card in Poker that may win the hand?

Out

3. Borovets, Bansko and Pamporovo, what one is farthest South?

Pamporovo

4. What fuel is “is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter”?

Peat

5. What’s the odd word out? ALT, HAS, DEL, END?

HAS (only one not on a keyboard)

6. The first album by Evanescence or a 1998 Denzel Washington film?

Fallen

7. Michael Jackson album, released in 1979?

Off the Wall

8. A song by the Beatles, Matt Cardle and The Creepshow?

and, not Help!, but "Run for Your Life."

So yes the last set of answers does read, "Look out, Pamporovo Peat has fallen off the Wall, Run for your life!

Scubasam 8

PP 7

dbut 7

fraser 9 plus a half for getting Pamporovo eventually, and for working it out!

Billy 9

Snow White 9

So a close one, but think fraser just gets the last quiz of 2011.

Happy New Year when it comes!