Some interesting facts about New Year

•        “Christmas” is not synonym to “New Year”. Christmas celebrates event when God became a human. Christmas is more religious.

•        New Year in Ancient Egypt was celebrated in September.

•        Russian symbol of New Year is Ded Moroz. Ded Moroz has his own birthday on day of the First Snow.

•        There are some another same holidays. For example, Old New Year, which is celebrated on 13 and 14 January.

Rules and structure of quiz

•        Quiz contains 12 questions, 3 questions to each country.

•        Class should be divided into 4 teams, 8 pupils in every team.

•        Every team has a captain, its own name and slogan.

•        If team is ready to answer, captain have to say

“We are ready!”

•        Class have only 1 minute to answer the question. Good luck!