TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, December 31, 2012

Greetings Infomaniacs,

I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a very happy and healthy new year. If you are celebrating tonight, be safe and have fun! See you in 2013. Here's some fun new year's facts....

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

HINT: (1900-1978), well-known American author and journalist. Wrote several novels and books about the outdoors, and also wrote "outdoor editorials" for The New York Times for more than 30 years.


RANDOM TIDBITS
It is often thought that the first visitors you see after ringing in the New Year would bring you good or bad luck, depending on who you keep as friends and enemies. That's why most people celebrating on New Year's Eve often do so with friends and family.

Items or food that is ring-shaped is also good luck. This symbolizes "coming full circle", which is what one year does. Some cultures eat ring-like food through the evening and through the night to ensure that good luck will be bestowed upon everyone who eats. The Dutch often eat doughnuts.

Foods that are eaten on New Year's Eve are cabbage because the leaves represent prosperity. Ham (or a hog) also symbolizes prosperity. In Asian cultures, rice is a hearty and lucky staple that is eaten around midnight to signify the coming year of fortune.

Auld Lang Syne is sung at midnight to toast in the New Year. The song was composed by Robert Burns sometimes in the 1700's. The term means "old long ago" or "the good old days."

Stats of the first New York ball: 700 pounds; 5 feet in diameter. The ball was made from wood and iron.

The modern ball that is dropped is made from Waterford Crystal and weights over 1,000 pounds. There are over 9,000 LED lights, but uses hardly any energy. The ball begins to drop at 11:59 and completes the journey exactly at midnight to ring in the New Year.


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

ANSWER: Hal Borland.

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