New Year, New Me
2010s
Ready Player 1
The Year the Earth Got COVID
Life is a Boardgame
100

What is the most popular New Years resolution?

To lose weight

100

What mobile app, released in 2016, uses augmented reality to allow players to catch virtual creatures in the real world?

Pokemon Go!

100

What 2009 game, developed by Mojang, is an open sandbox in which players often build structures and battle creepers, zombies, and other "mobs"?

Minecraft

100

Basketball icon Kobe Bryant tragically died in January this year. Which basketball team did he play with for nearly two decades?

Los Angeles Lakers

100

What are the four suits in a standard deck of playing cards?

Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Spades

200

Where does the New Year’s eve ball drop every year?

New York

200

Which animated film, released by Disney in 2013, features the hit song ‘Let It Go’?

Frozen

200

Pocket, Light, Color, and Advance were all styles or variants of what video game hardware system?

Game Boy

200

What is the real name of the Tiger King, who Netflix introduced to the world earlier this year?

Joe Exotic

200

In the game of Clue, how many murder weapons are there?

6

300

Who added the month of January to the calendar?

The Romans

300

What popular Netflix series, released in 2016, features a group of kids in Hawkins, Indiana?

Stranger Things

300

What North Carolina-based video game company created the 2018 breakout hit "Fortnite"?

Epic Games

300

Spreading across the globe, coronavirus aka Covid-19 is thought to have started in which Chinese city?

Wuhan

300

Which board game requires players to remove various body parts from a patient without touching the edges of the cavity?

Operation

400

"January" gets its name from what Roman god?

Janus, the god of doors and gates

400

Who is the main character in the ‘Breaking Bad’ television series, which ended in 2013?

Walter White

400

Which video game console released in 2006 pioneered the use of motion controls in its gameplay?

Nintendo Wii

400

Who said this about the Covid-19 virus: ‘It’s going to disappear one day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.’

Donald Trump

400

In Chess, which piece can only move diagonally?

Bishop

500

In Scottish traditions, who do you kiss at midnight on New Years Eve?

Everyone in the room

500

What is the name of the Internet of Things device launched by Amazon in 2014 that responds to the name ‘Alexa’?

Amazon Echo

500

What is thought to be the first video game, created in 1958 and becoming popular in the 1970s?

Pong

500

With COVID-19 sweeping the nation, what item, causing a nationwide shortage, did Americans deem essential to combat this deadly disease?

Toilet Paper

500

In Monopoly, what is the name of the most expensive property?

Boardwalk