Answers to Current Challenge

 

1. In the Chinese Calendar, 1998 is the year 4696.
2. The years of the Rooster, Dragon, and the Snake.
3. The Spring Festival
4. The people do a major housecleaning (to clean out misfortune).
5. The first stamp the U.S. Post Office releases in 1998 is the YEAR OF THE TIGER stamp.
6. Tony the Tiger, from Kelloggs, helped celebrate the year of the tiger.
7. The Gregorian Calendar was adopted in China in 1912.
8. The celebration begins on the New Moon, sometime between January 1, and February 19th.
9. The "Year of the Dragon" was celebrated during America's BiCentennial.

JR's Tough Trivia

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