Traditions
At midnight, what drops in Times Square signifying the start of the New Year?
What is The Ball?
According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2025 was the year of what?
What is the snake?
This was the most common resolution among Americans in 2025?
What is Saving More Money?
After Leap Day and Christmas Day, this day ranks as the next least popular birthdate.
What is January 1st?
At midnight, people eat 12 of these to bring them good luck during each month.
What are Grapes?
On New Year's Eve, people make these to set goals for the upcoming year.
What are Resolutions?
After introducing the Julian Calendar in 46 B.C., who established January 1st as the first day of the year?
Who is Julius Caesar?
About what percentage of people successfully maintain their resolutions for the entire year?
This skilled seamstress sewed American flags during the American Revolution and was born on January 1st 1752.
Who is Betsy Ross?
Eating these will bring you wealth in the New Year.
What are Black Eyed Peas?
What do many couples do at midnight?
What is Kiss?
What does the song Auld Lang Syne roughly translate to?
What is Days Gone By?
Known as "Quitters Day", what day is when many people are most likely to abandon their new resolutions?
What is the Second Friday in January? (January 10th in 2025)
Famous for his role in Top Gun as "Ice Man", this actor was born on New Year's Eve in 1959.
Who is Val Kilmer?
Eating foods of this shape represents that the year has come full circle.
What are Ring Shaped Foods? (cakes and donuts)
This game takes place on January 1st each year, the first game dating back to January 1st 1902.
What is The Rose Bowl?
What year did the first ball drop in Times Square?
When is 1907?
What generation is the most likely to set a resolution for the new year? (Gen Alpha, Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers)
What is Gen Z? (71% of Gen Z sets a resolution)
Famous for his book "The Notebook", this author was born on New Year's Eve in 1965.
Who is Nicholas Sparks?
In Greece, throwing this fruit brings good luck through scattered seeds.
What is a Pomegranate?
People will "clean out" the old year by doing this at midnight.
What is Sweeping?
The practice of making these dates back to when the Babylonians would make promises to the gods to return borrowed farm equipment and to pay off debts.
What are Resolutions?
By mid-February, what percentage of people have abandoned their resolution?
What is 80% of people?
This NFL quarterback who was a first round pick for the Washington Redskins in 2005 was born on New Year's Eve in 1981.
Who is Jason Campbell?
Unlike chickens which scratch backwards, many people eat this animal on New Year's Eve because they "root forward" and represent progress.
What are Pigs? (pork)