New Year trivia

1. When do the Chinese celebrate their New Year?
2. The first New Year's Eve ball drop in Times Square happened on?
3.The Jewish New Year is called?
4.What does Auld Lang Syne mean?
5 How much does New York's Waterford crystal ball weigh?
6.In some countries what do people do with Christmas trees on New years day?
7.What is Father Time?
8.What is known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival?
9.What does Rosh Hashanah mean?
10. In the ancient Roman calendar when did the New Year begin?
11.What New Year tradition began in Greece around 600 BC?
12.When was the first New Year holiday observed?

Nature

1.How did the butterfish get its name?
2.Do birds have fingers?
3.Which penguin is the deepest diver?
4.Which reptiles like eating jellyfish?
5.Which reptile has an invisible shadow?
6.Which ants like a thorny nest?
7.How can you tell a rattlesnake's age?

[Answers]

New Year trivia

1.At the second new moon in the winter solstice.
2,December 31, 1907.
3. Rosh Hashanah.

4.Times gone by.
5.It is six feet in diametre and weighs 1,070 pounds.
6, They make bonfires with them.
7. It is a mythical personification time.
8.The Chinese New Year
9.. Head of the year.
10, March 1.
11. Using a baby to signify the New Year
12, In ancient Babylonia about 4000 years ago.

Nature

1.Butterfish are long, slender fish that live in pools on rocky sea-shores. The slimy, slippery feel of their bodies has earned them their name.

2.Yes. They have three of them. The first, which is the thumb, supports a small but important part of the wing called the alula. The second and third support the main flight feathers.

3.The Emperor penguin. It can dive to depths of 260m (870 feet) and stay below the surface for 18 minutes.

4.Almost all marine turtles eat some jellyfish but the great leathery turtle feeds mainly on jellyfish.

5.Lichen bark geckos are little lizards found in Madagasar. They are hard to spot as they rest on the trunk of a tree and blend in with the rest of the environment. Their colour generally matches the background. They also have a narrow flap of skin that runs round their body and drapes on the tree. This hides the animal's shadow which might be a give-away to hunters.

6.The acacia ant makes its small nest in the spiny tips of twigs acacia thorn trees in the Savanna (dry plains with bushes and trees).

7.A rattlesnake's rattle is made up of loose rings of hard scales. A new ring is added each time the snake shed's its skin. So, the oldest snakes often have the loudest rattle.