The little marshmallow chicks that we eat on Easter are called by this name.
What are Peeps?
Americans Eat About 1.5 Million Marshmallow Peeps on Easter day alone... making them the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy. The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, factory makes an impressive 5.5 million a day.
Comedy Classic features these New Year's Resolutions:
“I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomaniacs, chauvinists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts.”
What is "Bridget Jones's Diary"?
This is the song we all sing at the very end of New Year's Eve.
What is (the Scottish folk song) "Auld Lang Syne"?
This is the shape of the New Year's Eve Ball.
quadrilateral hexagon
geodesic sphere
concentric oval
triodescent obelisk
What is a a geodesic sphere?
The 2 men who founded AA
Who are Bill and Bob
(Bill Wilson and Dr.Bob Smith in 1935)
This is how many Cadbury Eggs are produced for Easter.
963,000
1.2 million
500 million
1.2 billion
What is 1.5 million Cadbury Creme Eggs?
Cadbury’s make 500 million Creme Eggs every year! If you piled them on top of each other, it would be 10 x higher than Mount Everest.
This famous flick features a deadly kiss on New Year's Eve.
What is "The Godfather II"?
This many pounds of confetti are dropped on Times Square at midnight, New Years Day.
500
2000
760,000
25,000,000
What is 2000 lbs?
People write their wishes for the new year and submit them to the Wish Wall in Times Square (or online) and those wishes are turned into the confetti that falls over the crowd at midnight.
When was the first New Year's eve Ball drop?
1899
1907
1938
1951
What is 1907?
The injectable version of Naltrexone, used to reduce cravings for opiate addicts and alcoholics.
What is Vivitrol?
The Easter Bunny legend began in this country.
United States
Ireland
Germany
Sweden
What is Germany?
The origin of the Easter Bunny dates back hundreds of years, beginning in pre-Christian Germany. Here, the hare was said to be the symbol of the Pagan Goddess of Spring and Fertility.
This classic flick features a famous New Year's Eve Kiss.
What is "When Harry Met Sally"?
Instead of a ball, Miami, Florida rings in the new year with this.
What is an orange?The raising of Mr. Neon, the 35-foot, sunglass-clad metal fruit, has been a tradition for over 30 years.
This is how many colors the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball can display.
375
25,000
16 Million
500 Billion
What is 16 million?
Name 3 Support groups that don't have the name "Anonymous" in their title.
Ex. What are Refuge, Dharma, Celebrate, Life Ring and SMART
This food is surprisingly associated with Easter.
Fish Sticks
Pretzels
Pizza
Frog Legs
What is pretzels?
Pretzels are associated with Easter because the twists resemble arms crossing in prayer. From the 1950s, it was tradition for Germans to eat a pretzel and a hard-boiled egg for dinner on Good Friday.
This rags to riches 1980's comedy culminates on New Year's Eve.
What is "Trading Places"?
The ball had another purpose before it was used on New Year's Eve:
To help astronomers explore the night sky
It was a ship captain's navigation tool
To balance William Shakespeare's famous stage in Essex, England
What is a ship captain's navigation tool?
Long before it was used on New Year's Eve, a ball on top of England's Royal Observatory in Greenwich was dropped at 1 p.m. every day (starting in 1833) to help ship captains coordinate their navigation equipment. Similar balls were set up in coastal areas around the world.
This is how much the Times Square Ball weighs.
257 lbs
11,875 lbs
273,982 lbs
3,763,842 lbs
What is 11,875 lbs
Name the 5 Stages of Change
What are Pre-Contemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action and Maintenance?
Easter means rebirth in German.
True of False
What is FALSE
The Holiday Was Named After the Anglo-Saxon Goddess Eostre
Scholars believe that Easter was named after a festival celebrating Eostre and the coming of spring. Her sacred symbols are thought to have been the hare and the egg.
This Disaster Flick gets turned upside down on New Year's Eve.
What is "The Poseidon Adventure"?
This is when the "baby" became a symbol of a new year.
600 B.C.
1776
1866
1947
What is 600 B.C?
Baby New Year has been a symbol of the holiday since around 600 B.C., starting in ancient Greece when an infant was paraded around in a basket in celebration of Dionysus, the god of fertility (and wine). The baby represents a rebirth that occurs at the start of each new year.
This is what the triangles on the outside of of the New Year's Eve Ball are made of.
What is Waterford Crystal?
This therapy replicates REM sleep to help patients suffering from trauma.
DOUBLE THE POINTS IF YOU KNOW WHAT IT STANDS FOR!
What is EMDR or
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing