Travel trivia: Which city celebrates New Year’s first?

Posted on January 1st, 2011 by Laura Byrne Paquet in Travel Trivia

Because of time zones, which of these cities celebrates the new year earliest?

  • Auckland, New Zealand
  • Beijing, China
  • Seoul, South Korea
  • Sydney, Australia

Appropriately, I’m kicking off the daily travel trivia question here at Facing the Street with a question about New Year’s Day. Think you know the answer? Send it to me as a comment at the bottom of this post. At the end of the week, I’ll draw one name from all the people who answered correctly, and that person will receive this week’s prize: the Putumayo Presents Yoga CD, with 14 great world music tracks to enhance your yoga practice.

Come back tomorrow for another travel trivia question and another chance to win the Putumayo Presents Yoga CD! And if you can’t wait til then for your trivia fix, check out my husband Paul’s trivia site, TriviaHallOfFame.com.

This contest closes at 5:00pm EST on Friday, January 7, 2011.

Flickr/Creative Commons photo of New Year’s Eve in Singapore courtesy of Eustaquio Santimano.

Disclosure: The CD was provided by Putumayo World Music.

5 Comments on “Travel trivia: Which city celebrates New Year’s first?”

  1. Helena Katz

    New Zealand. It’s closest to the international dateline when you add a day (from North America).

    What a fun travel/geography trivia game!

    Happy New Year!

    H.

  2. Laura Byrne Paquet

    Thanks for being the very first person to play my new trivia game by leaving a comment, Helena!

  3. Tony Clemens

    Auckland, New Zealand

  4. mary jane

    Auckland, nz

  5. Maureen Ryan

    Auckland, New Zealand

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