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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• New Year's Eve Celebrations

At which Madrid landmark do people traditionally eat 12 grapes at midnight on New Year’s Eve?

Answer

Puerta del Sol

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• New Year's Eve Celebrations

What is the Scottish name for New Year's Eve, the night before Hogmanay celebrations continue?

Answer

Hogmanay

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• New Year's Eve Celebrations

Which city hosts the annual Hogmanay street party and torchlight procession that form Scotland’s best-known New Year festival?

Answer

Edinburgh

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• New Year's Eve Celebrations

What is the name of Scotland’s traditional New Year celebration, famous for torchlight processions and street parties?

Answer

Hogmanay

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• New Year's Eve Celebrations

What is the name of the New Year's Eve ball drop venue in New York City, named for the nearby square?

Answer

One Times Square

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

What was the population of the United States in the first census of 1790, a founding-era figure relevant to America250?

Answer

3,929,214

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

Which 1969 mission first landed humans on the Moon, a space milestone included in America’s national story?

Answer

Apollo 11

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

How many stripes are on the U.S. flag, a symbol displayed during America250?

Answer

13

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

For America's 250th anniversary, what name is given to the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution?

Answer

Bill of Rights

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

In what year did the United States Bicentennial take place, the immediate predecessor to America250?

Answer

1976

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

At which building did George Washington resign his military commission, a Revolutionary milestone recalled by America250?

Answer

Maryland State House

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• America's 250th Anniversary (America250)

How much power did the Corliss Centennial Engine produce at Philadelphia's 1876 exposition?

Answer

1,400 horsepower

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