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New Year Trivia Answers Archive

Review earlier daily rounds, reveal the correct answer, and use the short explanation to learn the fact behind each question. Page 7 of 12 covers seven completed UTC days.

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Daily round

  1. Which college football game is traditionally linked with Pasadena's New Year celebration?

    Answer: Rose Bowl

    The Rose Bowl game is the sporting counterpart to Pasadena's Tournament of Roses events.

  2. Which country recognizes Matariki as a public holiday?

    Answer: New Zealand

    New Zealand established a national public holiday celebrating Matariki.

  3. Which April festival marks the traditional New Year in Laos?

    Answer: Pi Mai

    Pi Mai is the Lao New Year festival, celebrated with cleansing and water customs.

  4. What does the Latin phrase “anno Domini” literally mean?

    Answer: In the year of the Lord

    Anno Domini literally means “in the year of the Lord” and underlies the abbreviation AD.

  5. Which Paris landmark is often illuminated during New Year celebrations?

    Answer: Eiffel Tower

    The Eiffel Tower is a prominent focus of Parisian New Year imagery and illumination.

Daily round

  1. The Islamic calendar is based primarily on which cycle?

    Answer: Phases of the Moon

    Islamic months begin according to a lunar cycle, making the year shorter than a solar year.

  2. The month of January is named for which Roman god?

    Answer: Janus

    January takes its name from Janus, the Roman god associated with doorways and transitions.

  3. Which performance features a team operating a long fabric creature during Chinese New Year?

    Answer: Dragon dance

    A dragon dance uses multiple performers to animate a long, flexible dragon figure.

  4. What time of day does 00:00 mark at the start of January 1?

    Answer: Midnight

    The 24-hour notation 00:00 marks midnight, the civil boundary between December 31 and January 1.

  5. What gas creates bubbles in sparkling wine?

    Answer: Carbon dioxide

    Dissolved carbon dioxide forms the streams of bubbles in sparkling wine.

Daily round

  1. Who wrote the version of “Auld Lang Syne” that made the song famous?

    Answer: Robert Burns

    Scottish poet Robert Burns recorded and adapted the words associated with Auld Lang Syne.

  2. Which color is prominently associated with good fortune during Chinese New Year?

    Answer: Red

    Red decorations and envelopes signify luck and celebration during Chinese New Year.

  3. What is osechi ryōri?

    Answer: Japanese New Year dishes

    Osechi ryōri is the assortment of symbolic foods prepared for Japanese New Year.

  4. In the Scottish custom of first-footing, what does the “first foot” describe?

    Answer: The first visitor after midnight

    First-footing centers on the first person to enter a home after midnight.

  5. Which pope introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582?

    Answer: Gregory XIII

    Pope Gregory XIII introduced the calendar reform that now bears his name.

Daily round

  1. Which item is commonly raised for a toast at midnight?

    Answer: A drinking glass

    Participants commonly lift drinking glasses when making a New Year's toast.

  2. Which Brazilian city is known for a large beach celebration at Copacabana?

    Answer: Rio de Janeiro

    Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro hosts a major New Year's Eve gathering.

  3. Which song did bandleader Guy Lombardo famously perform on New Year's broadcasts?

    Answer: Auld Lang Syne

    Guy Lombardo's New Year's broadcasts helped establish Auld Lang Syne as a North American midnight standard.

  4. Matariki marks the Māori New Year through the appearance of what?

    Answer: A star cluster

    Matariki is the Māori name for the Pleiades, whose rising signals the new year in many Māori traditions.

  5. A Gregorian year divisible by 100 is a leap year only when it is also divisible by what number?

    Answer: 400

    The Gregorian rule keeps century years as leap years only when they are divisible by 400.

Daily round

  1. Which noodle dish is commonly eaten on New Year's Eve in Japan?

    Answer: Toshikoshi soba

    Toshikoshi soba, meaning year-crossing noodles, is a Japanese New Year's Eve tradition.

  2. Nowruz begins near which astronomical event?

    Answer: March equinox

    Nowruz begins at the vernal equinox, when day and night are approximately equal.

  3. Which city hosts the annual Mummers Parade on New Year's Day?

    Answer: Philadelphia

    Philadelphia's Mummers Parade features costumed clubs performing on New Year's Day.

  4. What is the name for a period of ten consecutive years?

    Answer: Decade

    A decade is a span of ten years.

  5. What name is given to a party horn that unrolls when blown?

    Answer: Noisemaker

    A party noisemaker may produce sound and extend a rolled paper tube when blown.

Daily round

  1. Which California city hosts the Rose Parade on New Year's Day?

    Answer: Pasadena

    The Tournament of Roses Parade travels through Pasadena, California.

  2. Which calendar term means a continuous system of numbered years beginning from a reference event?

    Answer: Era

    A calendar era numbers years from a designated epoch or reference point.

  3. Confetti was named after small sweets from which country?

    Answer: Italy

    The word confetti comes from Italian sweets once thrown during festive occasions.

  4. Which city is famous for a New Year's Eve ball drop in Times Square?

    Answer: New York City

    New York City hosts the well-known Times Square ball drop on New Year's Eve.

  5. In which river is the London Eye reflected during many London New Year celebrations?

    Answer: Thames

    The London Eye stands beside the River Thames in central London.

Daily round

  1. How many days does a common Gregorian year contain?

    Answer: 365

    A common Gregorian year has 365 days; a leap year has one additional day.

  2. In Spain, how many grapes are traditionally eaten with the midnight clock chimes?

    Answer: Twelve

    Spain's midnight custom uses twelve grapes, one for each clock chime and month ahead.

  3. Which explosive decoration was historically used to drive away evil spirits in Chinese tradition?

    Answer: Firecrackers

    Firecrackers became part of New Year celebrations through traditions about frightening harmful spirits.

  4. Which event starts the numbering of years in the Islamic calendar?

    Answer: The Hijra

    The Islamic era is counted from the Hijra, Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina.

  5. Which American state is represented by the fruit in Atlanta's Peach Drop tradition?

    Answer: Georgia

    Atlanta's Peach Drop draws on the peach's longstanding association with Georgia.