New Years History
The name of a Celebration on December 31st
What is New Years Eve?
You can watch the famous Ball Drop here on NYE
What is Times Square (or New York City)?
The word January comes from
A) Latin
B) German
C) Russian.
What is Latin?
This is a popular NYE beveridge?
What is Champagne OR Sparkling grape juice?
The names of the Tri Cities in the Lower Mainland BC.
What are Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody?
This is the most common NYE resolution
What is exercising/becoming healthier?
Finish the saying "Out with the ________, _________________________________."
What is "old, in with the new."?
This is another name for Chinese New Year.
What is a Lunar New Year? OR What is the Spring Festival?
The percentage of NYE Resolutions failed by February.
What is 80%
This is also known as the City of the Arts in the Tri-Cities.
What is Port Moody
What is 2025's Chinese New Year Animal?
The Snake
This is the most common song played on NYE.
What is Auld Lang Syne?
In this country, people eat Soba Noodles on NYE
A) S. Korea
B) China
C) Japan
What is Japan
Raise to toast.
What is one of the first things many will do with their drink glass at midnight NYE?
Tri City population is now
A) 67,000
B) 187,000
c) 245,000
What is the Tri City population C) 245,000
This unique Canadian tradition was started by Peter Pantages in 1920 in Vancouver, BC.
What is a Polar Bear Swim?
These are only 2 of the things people do on NYE.
Watch fireworks OR Write Resolution(s) OR Midnight Mass OR Ice Fishing OR Spend time with others OR Eat 12 Grapes OR Gray haired man out back door, dark haired man in front door OR Play board games OR...
These are 3 common noise makers for NYE.
What are Fireworks, Pots and Pans, Kazoos, Horns, Squawkers, Clickbox, Hand Clappers, Maracas?
Names of 3 special places/cities to spend NYE in Canada
Churchill, Manitoba to see Polar Bears
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Ottawa, Ontario (Parliament Bldg Fireworks)
Whitehorse or Yellowknife (Aurora borealis)
Banff, Alberta
Vancouver, BC (Polar Bear Swim)
Fraser, Pitt and Coquitlam
What are the names of the rivers in the Tri City region?
The first people to make NYE Resolutions.
Who were the Babylonians?
This country celebrates NYE first every year.
What is New Zealand?
This is a popular way to light up the sky on NYE.
What are Fireworks?
Now for entertainment, in the past this was done to ward off evil spirits and demons.
What is the purpose loud noises and fireworks on NYE?
Name of the First Nation in Tri City region.
Who are Kwikwetlam OR Sto:lo OR Coquitlam Band