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This is the most common New Year's resolution for 2026.
What is to exercise more?
This company was owned by Adolph Ochs, who also founded the inaugural ball drop atop his newly built headquarters.
What is the New York Times?
According to tradition, babies born on this date grow up to enjoy the luckiest of lives - Paul Revere, Betsy Ross, and Pope Alexander VI all have it in common.
What is January 1st?
This location, with a shape in the name, hosts the annual ball drop for New Year's Eve.
What is Times Square in New York City?
This French effervescence drink is a favorite to cheers with for the New Year.
What is champagne?
Approximately a ton of this is dropped in Times Square on New Year's Eve.
What is confetti?
Celebrations for New Year's Eve have been traced back as far a this date.
What is 45 BCE?
In Argentina, it is believed to step with this foot at midnight will bring you good luck for the rest of the year.
What is your right foot?
This is the time the Ball starts dropping on New Year's Eve.
What is 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time?
In the South, many eat this dish on New Year's Day for good luck, wealth, and prosperity in the coming year. It is often served with collard greens (representing money) and cornbread (representing gold).
What is Hoppin' John (black-eyed peas, rice, pork)?
According the the Chinese New Year, 2026 is the year of this animal.
What is the Horse?
This ancient civilization is thought to be the first to practice making (and breaking) New Year's resolutions.
Who are the Babylonians?
In the Philippines, this print (shaped like a coin) is believed to bring prosperity for the months to come when worn on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
What are polka dots?
The number of versions of the Ball that have dropped on New Year's Eve.
What is nine?
In Spain and several Spanish-speaking countries, a dozen of this food are quickly consumed to symbolize hope for their future?
What are grapes?
This popular New Year's Day tradition involves participants to take a dip or swim in a cold body of water.
What is a Polar Plunge?
Historians believe the tradition of kissing at midnight on New Year's Eve traces back to the Roman's celebration of this god we now know refer to as the sixth planet from the sun?
What is Saturn? (Saturnalia's revelry - god of agriculture and prosperity)
According to Polish tradition, doing this on New Year's Day will help you be an early bird for the rest of the year.
What is waking up early?
On this date, the first New Year's Eve Ball was dropped.
What is December 31, 1907?
Linked to Scandinavian roots, this silver, small, and oily fish is consumed in some U.S. states like Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa as a symbol of long life and fortune.
What is pickled herring?
The largest ball ever, this is the weight of the 2026 ball to drop on New Year's Eve.
What is 12,350 pounds?
Before the ball drop in New York, this was the first "time-ball" to drop in 1833 - which would drop at one o'clock every afternoon, allowing the captains of nearby ships to precisely set their chronometers.
What is the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England?
In Greece, this fruit is thrown on the ground and smashed into 13 rounds - one for every month of the year, and an extra for added prosperity!
What is a pomegranate?
Due to wartime lighting restrictions, these two years the New Year's Eve ball did not drop.
What was 1942 and 1943?
In Sweden and Norway, this food is hidden in rice pudding - find it and expect 12 months of good fortune.
What is an almond?