Resolutions
What is the most common New Year’s resolution worldwide?
Exercise more/improve fitness
Officially established via executive order on January 20th, 2025, President Trump created this agency, unofficially led by tech billionaire Elon Musk
What is the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)?
What is Times Square?
The title of this song, the lead single from the album The Life of a Showgirl, makes reference to a tragic figure from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet
What is The Fate of Ophelia?
One of the most harmful air pollutants to humans is particulate matter. Typically, particulate matter is broken down into two categories based on its particulate size: fine particles, PM2.5, with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less, and coarse particles, designated as having an average particle diameter of this
What is 10 micrometers (PM10)?
This planet is colloquially known as the red planet
What is mars?
This console, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989 by Nintendo, received criticism upon its release for its monochrome 8-bit display
What is the Nintendo Gameboy?
By what month do most people abandon their New Year’s resolutions?
February
This fire, started on January 7, became fueled by extreme winds and spread to Los Angeles. The fires destroyed more than 16,000 structures, burned tens of thousands of acres, and killed 29 people.
What is the Palisades fire?
In Spain, they eat one of these at each stroke of midnight, twelve total, to hopefully bring good luck
What is a grape?
This song, performed by a group of fictional demon hunters, made it to the top of the Billboard Top 100 in August
What is Golden?
The scale used to measure air quality
What is the Air Quality Index?
The second president of The United States
Who is John Adams?
Which gaming console, released in 2000, still holds the title for highest selling game console, propelled by its secondary use as a DVD player
What is the PlayStation 2?
According to Merriam-Webster, one of the first appearances of the phrase "New Year Resolutions" was in a newspaper in 1813 in this city, 40 years after tea was thrown into its harbor
What is Boston?
On June 14, two lawmakers representing this state were shot at their homes in an act of politically motivated violence.
What is Minnesota?
In Brazil, they believe that getting wet and jumping over seven of these will bring good luck - one for each of the divine spirits of the Umbanda religion
What is a wave?
This song, originally released in 1994, both started and ended the year as the number one song on the Billboard Top 100.
What is All I Want For Christmas Is You?
The principal cause of acid rain are these compounds from human sources, such as electricity generation, animal agriculture, factories, and motor vehicles, which react with water molecules in the atmosphere to produce acidic compounds
What is sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide?
The number of days in a leap year
What is 366?
This console, released in 2017, with its ability to go between being a TV-connected system and a portable handheld, has become the second-highest selling console of all time
What is the Nintendo Switch?
During the Middle Ages, medieval knights would renew their vow to chivalry by placing their hands on this bird, known for the male's eye-spotted "tail" or "train" of feathers, which they display as part of a courtship ritual. The annual vow would take place at the end of the year as a resolution to maintain their knightly values.
What is a peacock?
On October 19, four masked thieves stole jewels worth more than $100 million from this famous museum
What is the Louvre?
In Greece, they hang bundles of these over their doors, since they have been known to sprout even when no one pays attention to them, which makes them good symbols of fertility and abundance.
What are onions?
Though technically released in 2024, this song by newcomer British artist was a viral hit at the beginning of the year and recently garnered them a Grammy Award
What is Messy?
In the 1970s, the discovery of a massive hole in the ozone layer triggered global fear regarding increased skin cancer rates, eye damage, and ecological devastation caused by unchecked UV radiation. In response, multiple countries banned the manufacturing and use of these halogenated hydrocarbons to try and fight this hole, which has shown evidence of decreasing in size since the banning of these chemicals
What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
The shape of a stop sign
What is an octagon?
The Kinect, released in 2010, was a motion-sensing accessory for this console
What is the XBox 360?
Research suggests that this percentage of people actually stick to their resolution to the end of the year
A) 1-3%
B) 4-6%
C) 8-10%
D) 12-15%
What is C) 8-10?
On April 14, the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket as made an 11-minute sub-orbital flight with an all-woman crew. Among the passengers were singer Katy Perry, former NASA scientist Aisha Brown, and this morning show television personality
Who is Gayle King?
In Ireland, it's customary to chase away bad spirits by banging this food on the walls and doors of the house.
What is bread?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Abracadabra?
The three main components of Earth's atmosphere (by mole fraction) includes nitrogen, oxygen, and this gas
What is Argon (approximately 0.9340%)
The number of months with 28 days
What is 12?
The main combatants of the "console wars" of the early 1990s were the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and this console, whose popularity was greatly increased in the United States from a certain blue hedgehog
What is the Sega Genesis?
After emperor Julius Caesar established January 1 as the beginning of the new year circa 46 B.C., ancient Romans began offering sacrifices to this God, January's namesake, believing that he symbolically looked backwards into the previous year and ahead into the future
Who is Janus?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is Illinois?
This traditional Southern U.S. dish of black-eyed peas and rice often cooked with pork (like bacon or ham hock) and seasonings, is famously eaten on New Year's Day for good luck
What is Hoppin John? (Or Carolina peas and rice)
Though the artist has performed this song as part of their live set since at least 2024, she officially released this song in summer 2025. Several publications reported that, following the song’s release, tourism interest in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan surged
What is The Subway?
To comply with the US Environmental Protection Agency's stricter regulations, most gasoline-powered vehicles starting with the 1975 model year were produced with this, which utilizes precious metals to convert toxic exhaust gases like carbon monoxide into harmless nitrogen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide.
What is a catalytic converter?
The year GHD was founded
What is 1928?
Often considered the first commercially successful video game, Pong was developed by this company, first as an arcade game, but released as a home version in 1975 exclusively through Sears retail stores
What is Atari?
The concept of a New Years resolution is credited to this ancient civilization, first noted around 4,000 years ago, during their 12-day springtime festival called Akitu
Who are the Babylonians?
Released in late fall 2025, this sequel film made headlines for the speed in which it was able to break $1 billion at the box office, becoming the second highest grossing film of the year, behind Chinese-released Ne Zha 2
What is Zootopia 2?
In Denmark, it is customary to stand on top of one of these and "leap" into the New Year as the clock strikes midnight
What is a chair?
Released in 2024, this diss track gained another life in 2025 after being performed at the Superbowl Halftime Show
What is Not Like Us?
Earth's third atmospheric layer, this layer is notable as the coldest layer of the atmosphere where most meteors burn up, creating shooting stars.
What is the mesosphere?
The year Republican Herbert Hoover wins the presidential election by a wide margin over Democratic New York Governor Al Smith
What is 1928?
The final console manufactured by Sega, this console was considered a commercial failure and with its discontinuation on March 31, 2001, ended Sega's nearly 18 years in the console market.
What is the Dreamcast?