Resolution Realities
Global New Year Traditions
Trivia/Fun Facts
Health
Nature
100

Year after year, this is the most common New Year’s resolution among Americans.

What is losing weight or getting healthier?

100

In a popular Spanish New Year’s tradition, people eat this at midnight for good luck.

What are 12 grapes?

100

This is the purpose of Groundhog Day.

What is to predict the length of winter.

100

Which hormone is released in life or death situations.

What is adrenalin?

100

What is the most common color in the northern lights?

What is green?

200

True or False: Most New Year’s resolutions last longer than six months.

What is false? (Most are not continued after three months.)

200

In Denmark, people sometimes smash this item on neighbors’ doorsteps for good fortune.

What are plates?

200

True or False: In a non-leap year, January 1 and January 31 always fall on the same weekday.

What is true?

200

What is the hardest substance in your body?

What is enamel?

200

What tree do acorns come from?

What is Oak?

300

Studies show that only about this percentage of people successfully keep their New Year’s resolutions for the entire year.

What is about eight to ten percent?

300

Eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day is a long-standing tradition in this country, especially in the South.

What is the United States?

300

This was the first year the Times Square ball dropped to ring in the New Year in New York City.

What is 1907?

300

A protein that can identify and fight a specific pathogen

What is antibody?

300

Carrots were originally what color?

What is purple?

400

This is the most common reason people abandon their New Year’s resolutions.

What are unrealistic goals?

400

In Mexico, some people place this item in their champagne glass for luck.

What is a gold ring?

400

This is the most common color worn in Brazil on New Year’s Eve to attract good luck and peace.

What is white?

400

Nerve which is connected to the back of the eye?

What is optic nerve?

400

True or False: Volcanoes can produce lightning.

What is true?

500

This ancient civilization is credited with starting the tradition of making promises or resolutions at the beginning of the year.

What are the the Babylonians?

500

In some Greek households, this vegetable is hung on the porch for good luck in the coming year.

What is an onion?

500

This country’s New Year celebration includes throwing water on people for good luck.

What is Thailand?

500

A break of a bone that is incomplete?

What is hairline fracture?

500

What body part do Butterflies mostly use to taste things?

What is their feet?

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