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Every Friday, Credo Reference sends out our highly anticipated Brainteaser Quiz.  Going forward, it will be posted here, along with the answers. We invite anyone who has a question, or who thinks that they have a better answer than the puzzle master, to discuss it here using the Comments features.

The questions and answers to this week’s quiz are below. In order to see the answers, click the Show the Answer link next to the appropriate question.

1. What is a “New Year’s Resolution”? Show the Answers ▼

2. Which Irish rock band’s “New Year’s Day” reached the British Top Twenty in 1983? Show the Answers ▼

3. What is the name in Scotland for New Year’s Eve? Show the Answers ▼

4. “New Year Letter” (1941) – which was called “The Double Man” in the USA – was the first of which British poet’s American books? Show the Answers ▼

5. It wasn’t until 1752 that Britan and its possessions accepted January 1 as the beginning of the year – true or false? Show the Answers ▼

6. What is the first line of the Scottish song “Auld Lang Syne”, customarily sung on New Year’s Eve? Show the Answers ▼

7. In China, what happens to people’s ages at the Lunar New Year? Show the Answers ▼

8. Which American country singer died in the early hours of New Year’s Day 1953 in the back of his car on the way to an engagement in Canton, Ohio? Show the Answers ▼

9. On which day do believers in Druidism celebrate the “New Year for Trees”: December 23, December 31, or January 2? Show the Answers ▼

10. Which English composer’s operas included “New Year” (1989)? Show the Answers ▼