Have fun before midnight with these New Year’s Trivia Questions and Answers. January 1st is a time when people are excited to have a fresh start.
Our New Year’s Trivia will be a fun thing to do while waiting for the clock to strike midnight. If you plan to have some guests, it’ll give everybody something entertaining to do.
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New Year’s Trivia Questions And Answers 1. In what year did the New Year’s Eve ball drop for the first time in Times Square? Reveal Answer 1907 Reveal Answer 2. What percentage of Americans will make a New Year’s resolution? Reveal Answer 45% Reveal Answer 3. For approximately how many years have people been celebrating the New Year? Reveal Answer 4,000 years Reveal Answer 4. In what year was New Year’s Eve first celebrated in Times Square? Reveal Answer 1904 Reveal Answer 5. Which famous author, known for his romance novel “The Notebook,” was born on New Year’s Eve in 1965? Reveal Answer Nicholas Sparks Reveal Answer 6. Who is the woman typically credited with sewing the first-ever American flag who was born on New Year’s Day in 1752? Reveal Answer Betsy Ross Reveal Answer 7. What does eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Eve represent for the New Year? Reveal Answer Prosperity Reveal Answer Related: 105 Goals For 2023 (New Year Personal Goals Examples)
8. What is the science fiction horror novel written by Mary Shelley that was first published on New Year’s Day in 1818? Reveal Answer Frankenstein Reveal Answer 9. Which country has a tradition of wearing red underwear on New Year’s Eve? Reveal Answer Italy Reveal Answer 10. Which famous proclamation, issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, went into effect on New Year’s Day in 1863? Reveal Answer Emancipation Proclamation Reveal Answer 11. Ellis Island officially opened on New Year’s Day in what year? Reveal Answer 1892 Reveal Answer 12. Which country smashes plates and other old dishes to ward off bad spirits during New Year? Reveal Answer Denmark Reveal Answer 13. Which calendar changed New Year’s Day to January 1st ? Reveal Answer Gregorian calendar Reveal Answer 14. In Greece, it is traditional to hang which pungent vegetable on doors to promote growth and rebirth in the new year? Reveal Answer Onions Reveal Answer Related: 22 New Year’s Resolutions for Couples in 2023
15. What is the most popular drink consumed on New Year’s Eve? Reveal Answer Champagne Reveal Answer 16. The traditional New Year’s song “Auld Lang Syne” was written by who in 1788? Reveal Answer Robert Burns Reveal Answer 17. Which annual holiday , observed for seven days, begins the day after Christmas and ends on New Year’s Day? Reveal Answer Kwanzaa Reveal Answer 18. What was the first ball used in the Times Square New Year’s celebration made of? Reveal Answer Iron and wood Reveal Answer 19. Which Pacific Island nation is the first to ring in the New Year? Reveal Answer Kiribati Reveal Answer Related: Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions for Teens To Make in 2023
20. What is a common tradition for Americans when the ball drops on New Year’s Eve? Reveal Answer To kiss someone Reveal Answer 21. Which country gained independence on New Year’s Day in 1803? Reveal Answer Haiti Reveal Answer 22. How many people attended the first New Year’s Eve celebration at Times Square? Reveal Answer Over 200,000 Reveal Answer 23. The Times Square New Year’s celebration did not occur in 1942 and 1943 due to what? Reveal Answer World War II Reveal Answer 24. What was the most popular New Year’s resolution made by Americans in 2022? Reveal Answer Living healthier Reveal Answer 25. The cartoon film “Happy New Year, Charlie Brown ” was released in what year? Reveal Answer 1986 Reveal Answer Related: 2022 Trivia Questions And Answers
26. Who was the first to host the broadcast of the New Year’s Eve Times Square celebration? Reveal Answer Guy Lombardo Reveal Answer 27. About how many glasses of champagne get served every year on New Year’s Eve in America? Reveal Answer 360 million Reveal Answer 28. Approximately how much confetti gets dropped in Times Square on New Year’s Eve? Reveal Answer More than 2,000 lbs. Reveal Answer 29. Which U.S. city is known for dropping a giant chocolate kiss on New Year’s Eve? Reveal Answer Hershey, Pennsylvania Reveal Answer Reveal Answer Ancient Rome Reveal Answer 31. In what year did New Year’s Day become a federal holiday? Reveal Answer 1885 Reveal Answer 32. What do the Scots call their New Year’s Eve celebration? Reveal Answer Hogmanay
33. From which language did the word ‘January’ originate? Reveal Answer Latin
34. What does ‘Auld Lang Syne’ mean? Reveal Answer Old long since, or for old time’s sake
35. In Spain, what do people eat at each stroke of midnight for good luck? Reveal Answer Grapes
36. Which animal in the Chinese Zodiac is associated with the year 2023? Reveal Answer The Water Rabbit
37. In which country would you celebrate New Year’s Day by throwing old furniture out of the window? Reveal Answer South Africa
38. What event did the first New Year’s Day in 45 BC celebrate? Reveal Answer The introduction of the Julian calendar by Julius Caesar
Reveal Answer The Rose Bowl
40. In Japan, what is the New Year’s tradition of ‘Hatsumode’? Reveal Answer The first shrine visit of the New Year
41. In Brazil, people often wear a certain color of underwear on New Year’s Eve for luck. What color is it? Reveal Answer White
42. In ancient Rome, New Year’s was dedicated to which god? Reveal Answer Janus
43. Which island nation is the first to celebrate New Year’s? Reveal Answer Kiribati
44. The Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball is made up of how many Waterford crystal triangles? Reveal Answer 2,688
45. What does ‘Rosh Hashanah’, the Jewish New Year, mean in English? Reveal Answer ‘Head of the Year’
46. In the UK, the first guest to enter a home after midnight is called what? Reveal Answer The “First Footer”
47. In which country is it traditional to hide coins in cakes on New Year’s Day? Reveal Answer Greece
48. Which country celebrates New Year’s Day with a massive water fight? Reveal Answer Thailand
49. In Italy, lentils are eaten at New Year’s for what reason? Reveal Answer To bring prosperity and good luck
50. Which country celebrates New Year with the tradition of the “Big Orange”? Reveal Answer Miami, USA
51. What kind of tree do Romanians decorate for New Year’s? Reveal Answer A wooden stick or tree branch, called a “sorcova”
52. In what city does a giant, illuminated peach drop to signal the start of the New Year? Reveal Answer Atlanta, Georgia
53. What object is dropped to celebrate New Year in Hershey, Pennsylvania? Reveal Answer A giant Hershey’s Kiss
54. In which country do people traditionally eat 12 round fruits, one for each month of the coming year, for good luck? Reveal Answer The Philippines
55. In which country is the New Year also known as “Novy God”? Reveal Answer Russia
56. What do people in Finland predict for the coming year by melting tin and interpreting the shapes it forms? Reveal Answer It’s a tradition called ‘molybdomancy’
57. In South Korea, what age does everyone turn on New Year’s Day? Reveal Answer Everyone turns a year older on New Year’s, regardless of their birth date.
58. In which city does a shoe drop to celebrate the New Year? Reveal Answer Akron, Pennsylvania
59. What do people in Puerto Rico do with a bucket of water at midnight on New Year’s Eve? Reveal Answer They throw it out of their windows to drive away evil spirits.
60. In the Netherlands, what food is traditionally eaten to celebrate the New Year? Reveal Answer Oliebollen (Dutch doughnuts)
61. Which famous New Year’s song was written by Robert Burns in 1788? Reveal Answer ‘Auld Lang Syne’
62. The first American New Year’s Eve ball drop took place in which year? Reveal Answer 1907
63. Who was the first host of New Year’s Rockin’ Eve? Reveal Answer Dick Clark
64. In Mexico, people eat a sweet bread with a hidden coin inside on New Year’s Day. What’s the name of this bread? Reveal Answer Rosca de Reyes
65. In Australia, what record does the New Year’s Eve fireworks at Sydney Harbor hold? Reveal Answer The world’s largest fireworks display
66. What’s the tradition of ‘First-Footing’ in Scotland? Reveal Answer The first person to cross a home’s threshold after midnight will bring good fortune for the coming year
67. In Colombia, people carry empty suitcases around the block for what reason? Reveal Answer For a year filled with travel
68. The New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge is a tradition in which city? Reveal Answer Coney Island, New York
69. In ancient Babylon, what were the first known New Year’s resolutions? Reveal Answer To return borrowed farm equipment
70. What does the ‘Baby New Year’ symbolize? Reveal Answer The birth of a new year and the passing of the old
71. In which city would you find the tradition of Mummers Parade on New Year’s Day? Reveal Answer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
72. What is traditionally eaten in the Southern United States for good luck on New Year’s Day? Reveal Answer Black-eyed peas
73. In Germany and Austria, what character, often made from marzipan, is exchanged as a New Year’s gift? Reveal Answer Little pigs
74. What’s the name of the Jewish New Year? Reveal Answer Rosh Hashanah
75. In France, what is the traditional New Year’s Eve feast called? Reveal Answer Le Réveillon de la Saint-Sylvestre
76. Which famous scientist was born on New Year’s Day in 1643? Reveal Answer Sir Isaac Newton
77. In which country is a ‘Toshikoshi Soba’, a traditional noodle dish, eaten to close the old year? Reveal Answer Japan
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