The New Year
Poles
(Paper) Cuts
Quantities
Wordplay
100

The biggest sponsor of the annual New York City ball drop.

What is Planet Fitness?

100

This pole (either North or South) is closer to Anchorage, Chernobyl, and Oslo than the other.

Where is the North Pole?

100

There are 15 people (including Kevin McCallister) in the Chicagoan house of this iconic festive movie.

What is Home Alone? (1st and 2nd movie are both acceptable)

100

Water freezes at 0 degrees with this temperature system.

What is Celsius?

100

The person who picked a peck of pickled peppers in a tongue twister.

Who is Peter Piper?

200

This major sporting event will be held partially in Milan & Cortina, Italy for February 2026.

What is the Olympics?

200

Julius Caesar and the largest species of penguin share this title.

What is "Emperor"?

200

"Cabin Fever" is the sixth book of this comedic series, written by Jeff Kinney, which includes Manny and Rodrick.

What is Diary of a Wimpy Kid?

200

One of these is gifted in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" carol.

What is a partridge?

200

ADIEU is the most common first guess in this game.

What is Wordle?

300

A predicted event where the years 1900 and 2000 being indistinguishable on devices worldwide would cause massive collapse of tech-related infrastructure, which was blown way out of proportion.

What was Y2K/The Year 2000 Problem?

300

This magnetic element coats currency with our 16th president on it. (Name the element)

What is copper?

300

[DAILY DOUBLE] Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are schools from this book/movie series.

What is Harry Potter?

300

The number of ice-cream flavors Baskin-Robbins originally started with, and the number visible in its logo.

How many are 31?

300

The color of the tile in the first row and seventh column of an original Scrabble Board.

What is red?

400

The animal that is lucky for the next Lunar New Year.

What is the (Fire) Horse?

400

The country closest to Antarctica that sounds like a synonym for "cold" when pronounced. 

What is Chile?

400

Johnny Depp is an actor from this 2005 film adapted from a Roald Dahl tale.

What is Charlie and The Chocolate Factory?

400

The number of Arabic Numerals.

How many is 10?

400

The name of the New York Times crossword where the word "CRANES" is never a possible answer unless the normal board is modified in some way.

What is The Mini?

500

The fruit that is commonly eaten at New Year in a European place that may say "Feliz Ano Nuevo" and eat the fruit for good fortune. (Name the fruit)


What are grapes?

500

This device can be formed by wrapping wire around a bolt and running a current through it.

What is an electromagnet?

500

And Then There Were None is a book written by this very famous female mystery writer. 

Who was Agatha Christie?

500

This American city with a longitude of about 40.7N has nicknames that may remind you of Fuji, Jazz, Smith, and maybe even bats if you're a reader.

Where is New York City?

500

By itself it flies or hits, by adding "ter" at the end it can be baked, and with an added "h" at the end instead it commonly has bubbles.

What is a bat?

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