Travel Trivia Thursday Kick-Off

By: Colleen Lanin, The Travel Mama
December 31st, 2009

Welcome to Travel Trivia Thursday! I’ve been posting a Travel Trivia question on the home page since TravelMamas.com went live at the end of March 2009. From now on, I will post one trivia question every Thursday as the Quick Tip on the home page and as a mini blog post. This way, RSS subscribers will receive the question in their reader or email inbox. This will also keep a log of past trivia questions on the Blogs & Trip Reports page in case you have a hankering to test your travel knowledge (on a particularly slow work day, for example!). Please let me know what you think about Travel Trivia Thursday…love it, hate it, indifferent …whatever!

Here’s this week’s question…

In which country is it a tradition to eat 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight to celebrate the New Year?

a) Denmark

b) Mexico

c) Spain

d) Belarus

e) Philippines

 

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Answer: c) Spain

Spaniards eat 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight to celebrate the New Year, attempting to eat the whole dozen before the clock stops chiming. Read more about Strange New Year’s Traditions Around the World on Gadling.com. Here’s more on the 12-grape tradition in Nigella Lawson Shares New Year’s Food Traditions on npr.com.

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