New Years Around the World
Brazilians wear what color while jumping into the ocean for good luck?
What is White?
Tales of Roman and Greek gods and goddesses fall under this ology.
What is mythology?
What is the most popular resolution on New Year's Day?
What is to lose weight?
Where is the of the Waterford Crystal New Year’s Eve Ball?
Where is Times Square?
This natural water wonder spans Canada and the United States.
What is Niagara Falls?
Durum, semolina, self-rising, bread, and whole wheat are types of this.
What is flour?
At the stroke of midnight, people often do this with their loved ones.
What is they kiss?
Y2K
What is the year 2000?
In 2024,what will be the Chinese New Year animal ?
What is a Dragon?
This ology is a collection of literary works.
What is an anthology?
What are top 2 destinations to celebrate on New Year's Eve?
What are top 2 destinations to celebrate on New Year's Eve?
Sin City- Las Vegas
Big Apple City-New York City
What materials made up the first-ever Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball?
What is iron and wood?
Fruit and vegetable production relies heavily on these stinging pollinators.
What are bees?
The United States grows avocados in California and this state.
What is Florida?
Beverage with a pop and a fizz.
What is champagne?
The Dutch believe eating what on New Year’s Day will bring good luck?
What is Donuts?
This is the study of religious questions.
What is theology?
What US city is voted to have the best parties on New Years Eve?
What is New Orleans?
When did LED lights first appear on the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball?
*Double Jeopardy if guessed within 2 years*
What is 2007?
Today we have regulations and technologies to help lower carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But we still depend on these living things to pull the greenhouse gas out of the air.
What are plants or trees?
This apple bears the partial name of a Japanese company that still makes camera film.
What is Fuji?
Eat, drink, and be_____
What is be Merry?
Italian and Spanish people wear what color underwear for good luck in the new year?
*Double Jeopardy*
What is Red?
This is a set of doctrines or beliefs.
What is ideology?
People in the United States eat this for good luck on New Year’s Eve.
What are Black Eyed Peas?
The number of lightbulbs that covered the first Times Square New Year's Eve Ball.
A. 200
B. 500
C. 100
What is 100?
This dwarf planet was discovered in 1930 and hasn’t made a revolution around the sun since then.
What is Pluto?
Dates are this dried fruit.
What are figs?
Many people make these, even though most don't follow through with them.
What are New Year's resolutions?
When is Chinese New Year 2024
*Get within 5 days*
When is January 29th, 2025?
This ology is the study of the antiquities from the land of the pharaohs.
What is Egyptology?
Purple beach balls decorated in Christmas lights are dropped on New Years Eve in this US state.
What is Maine?
How large is the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball in diameter?
A. 12 feet
B. 13 feet
C. 14 feet
What is 12 fee?
It is often repeated that this crustacean never dies of old age.
What is the lobster?
Farfalle belongs to this group of Italian staples.
What is pasta?
According to research, what percent of people stick with their New Years resolution.
*Double jeopardy if you know what percent of people quit by the end of the month*
9 % of Americans stick with their resolutions the entire year
Over 43% quit before the end of January
What is traditionally tossed into rivers at New Year in Romania?
What is coins?
This is the study of the nature of disease.
What is pathology?
Forget the Crystal Ball, this city/state lowers a possum
*Double Jeopardy*
What is Brasstown, North Carolina?
Before the giant crystal ball, this is how Times Square mark the start of the New Year?
What is fireworks?
This peak in the Himalayan Mountains straddles Nepal and Tibet.
What is Mount Everest?
These are Mediterranean/ Middle Eastern fried or baked balls or patties made with chickpeas, herbs, and spices and often drizzled with tahini.
What are falafel?
What is the meaning of the superstition of leaving doors and windows open on NYE?
"Let the old year out"