The Sporting Life
Moments in Time
At the Year’s End
Modern Culture
Principles of Science
400
This NHL trophy is awarded to the league champion.
The Stanley Cup
400
This country has had three capitals.
South Africa
400
This country’s hit “Auld Lang Syne” is a New Year tradition.
Scotland
400
This platform is used by Harry Potter to get the train to Hogwarts.
Platform 9 and 3/4
400
This element has the chemical symbol Fe.
Iron
800
This country hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Brazil
800
This empire, ruled by Czars, collapsed during the 1917 revolution.
The Russian Empire
800
This major populated country celebrates New Year first due to time zones.
New Zealand
800
This novel won the Booker prize this year.
Flesh by David Szalay
800
This branch of science insects.
Entomology
1200
This athlete has won the most Olympic medals in history.
Michael Phelps
1200
This treaty, signed in 1919, officially ended World War I and punished Germany.
The Treaty of Versailles
1200
In Japan, a Buddhist tradition involves ringing a bell this many times on New Year’s Eve to cleanse sins from the past year.
108
1200
This Taylor Swift album includes the song “Shake It Off.”
1989
1200
This is the largest bone in the body.
The Femur
1600
This LA Lakers legend wore the numbers 8 and 24.
Kobe Bryant
1600
This government program under Franklin D. Roosevelt helped pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression.
The New Deal
1600
The Gregorian calendar, widely used to mark the new year, replaced this calendar introduced by Julius Caesar.
The Julian calendar
1600
This Marvel superhero is known as “The First Avenger.”
Captain America
1600
This process describes water turning into vapor.
Evaporation
2000
This team was last qualified for the World Cup in 1998.
Scotland
2000
This powerful ancient city-state defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
Sparta
2000
In Spain, it’s traditional to eat 12 of these at midnight on New Year’s Eve—one for each stroke of the clock—to bring good luck for the coming year.
Grapes
2000
This memoir was written by Prince Harry.
Spare
2000
This neurotransmitter is often nicknamed the brain’s “feel-good chemical” and plays a key role in mood regulation.
Serotonin