Quiz  /  The New Year: Fact or Fiction? Quiz

  • 1. 
    The earliest known record of a New Year festival dates from about 2000 BCE.

  • true
  • false

  • 2. 
    For the early Greeks, the new year began with the spring equinox.

  • true
  • false

  • 3. 
    Though Roman republican calendar initially marked the new year on March 1, but changed the official date to January 1 after 153 BCE.

  • true
  • false

  • 4. 
    In early medieval times most of Christian Europe regarded the Feast of the Annunciation as the beginning of the new year.

  • true
  • false

  • 5. 
    The Jewish religious calendar marks January 1 as the beginning of the new year.

  • true
  • false

  • 6. 
    The Gregorian calendar restored January 1 as New Year’s Day.

  • true
  • false

  • 7. 
    According to the Muslim calendar, the new year begins in the month of Muharram.

  • true
  • false

  • 8. 
    The Chinese New Year is celebrated officially for a month beginning in late March or early April.

  • true
  • false

  • 9. 
    The Romans derived the name for the month of January from their god Juno.

  • true
  • false

  • 10. 
    In the English-speaking West, the Scottish ballad “Auld Lang Syne,” revised by poet Lord Byron, is often sung on New Year’s Eve.

  • true
  • false
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