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Question: The biggest New Year's Day Parade is in which European country?
Answer: London
Question: The early Roman calendar designated which date as the New Year?
Answer: March 1st
Question: In the UK the annual New Year's eve show 'Hootenanny' has a countdown followed by a rendition of what song?
Answer: Auld Lang Syne
Question: Which English singer had a hit with a song called Millennium?
Answer: Robbie Williams
Question: What kind of membership increases in the new year due to resolutions being made?
Answer: Gym
Question: What was the name for the technology scare around the Millennium?
Answer: Millennium Bug
Question: What is the first country to ring in the New Year?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: In the UK who hosts the annual New Year's eve show 'Hootenanny'?
Answer: Jools Holland
Question: The Gaelic calendar is still used in which country?
Answer: Ireland
Question: Which city is the first in the world to be celebrating the stroke of New Year's Day in it's millions?
Answer: Sydney
Question: In which city is the free New Year's event called America's Party?
Answer: Las Vegas
Question: According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, what are stolen more on New Year's Day than on any other holiday?
Answer: Vehicles
Question: In Italy, what do boys and girls receive gifts of on New Year's Day?
Answer: Money
Question: In which Australian city is one of the biggest New Year's celebrations?
Answer: Sydney
Question: Noisemaking and fireworks on New Year's Eve is believed to have originated in ancient times, when they were thought to do what?
Answer: Dispel evil spiritsÂ
Question: Rosh Hashanah is the New Year's celebration of which religion?
Answer: Judaism
Question: What do visitors write on confetti released at Times Square at New Year's?
Answer: Wishes
Question: Which country was hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on New Year's Day 2012?
Answer: Japan
Question: What is the most popular New Year's Resolution in the United States?
Answer: Lose Weight
Question: The Time Square New Year's Eve Ball came about as a result of a ban on what?
Answer: Fireworks
Question: What is name for a promise you make to yourself to start doing something good on the first day of the year?
Answer: New Year's Resolution
Question: What hand-held sticks are often lit by children on New Years eve?
Answer: Sparklers
Question: The Celebrity Millennium is what mode of transport?
Answer: Ship
Question: The Fifth day of Chinese New Year is the God of ___'s birthday?
Answer: Wealth
Question: What fruit is dropped at New Year's in Atlanta, Georgia?
Answer: Peach
Question: Which 'Day of Christmas' is New Year's Eve?
Answer: 7th
Question: The Millennium Falcon features in which film series?
Answer: Star Wars
Question: What first of the New Year is said to bring luck?
Answer: Visitor
Question: Which country is the world's largest supplier of sparkling wine, a lot of which is drunk at New Year's?
Answer: France
Question: Sun nien fai lok' means Happy New Year in which language?
Answer: Chinese (Cantonese)
Question: In which Australian city is the Millennium Train?
Answer: Sydney
Question: The New Millennium is also known as what?
Answer: Y2K
Question: Which Island is the first to bring in the New Year?
Answer: Christmas Island
Question: Where in New York is the New Year's Eve ball dropped?
Answer: Times Square
Question: In the 'Friends' New Year episode 'The One with the Routine', who joined Ross and Monica at the TV broadcast?
Answer: Joey
Medium
Question: Some consider lighting fires and ___ to be bad luck on Chinese New Year's Day, so all food consumed is cooked the days before?
Answer: Using Knives
Question: Some consider using a ___ to be bad luck on Chinese New Year's Day?
Answer: Broom
Question: Some believe that the second day of Chinese New Year is also the birthday of all ___?
Answer: Dogs
Question: U2's song 'New Year's Day' was from their 1983 album, what was it called?
Answer: War
Question: In Vietnam the New Year usually begins in which month?
Answer: February
Question: The Dutch believe that eating what on New Year's Day will bring good fortune?
Answer: Donuts
Question: Traditionally for Chinese New Year, firecrackers were once lit to scare away who?
Answer: Evil Spirits
Question: What color do the people of Brazil typically dress on New Year's Day?
Answer: White
Question: Traditionally, in what country on New Year's Eve do people go around town throwing old dishes at their friends' doors?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Approximately how many people who set New Year resolutions fail?
Answer: 0.88
Question: Some Chinese New Year traditions include lighting firecrackers and giving what in red paper envelopes?
Answer: Money
Question: What color do most of the natives of Brazil wear on New Year's Eve?
Answer: White
Question: Soon after New Year's day was established, Roman pagans observed the New Year by doing what?
Answer: Engaging in drunken orgies
Question: Traditionally, the Chinese New Year was a time to honor deities as well as who?
Answer: Ancestors
Question: The 3rd day of Chinese New Year is considered an unlucky day to have what?
Answer: Guests
Question: The traditional Netherlands 'New Year's Dive' sees thousands of people sprint into the freezing ocean wearing underwear and what?
Answer: Santa Hats
Question: How many floats were there on the 2013 Rose Parade?
Answer: 42
Question: Rick Allen, lost his arm in a car crash on New Year's Eve 1984, which band is he the drummer of?
Answer: Def Leppard
Question: Hogmanay is a New Year's festival in which country?
Answer: Scotland
Question: In which 2005 film does a police sergeant rally the cops and prisoners together to protect themselves on New Year's Eve?
Answer: Assault on Precinct 13
Question: The 'Family Guy' New Year episode 'Da Boom' featured the family after a nuclear holocaust. Which famous singer did they meet?
Answer: Randy Newman
Question: They eat a special soup called Tteok-Guk, which is a hot soup with thin, flat rice cakes and most of the time ___ are inserted?
Answer: Eggs
Question: The 2004 New Year's No.1 Billboard Hot 100 was OutKast with which song?
Answer: Hey Ya!
Question: The celebration of the New Year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about how many years ago?
Answer: 4000
Question: In what sport is the New Year's Four Hills Tournament played?
Answer: Ski Jumping
Question: There is an Estonian tradition of eating how many meals on New Year's day?
Answer: 7
Question: How many marching bands were there on the 2013 Rose Parade?
Answer: 23
Question: What color underwear do the natives of Mexico and Italy wear at New Year's?
Answer: Red
Question: How many equestrian units are there on the 2013 Rose Parade?
Answer: 21
Question: The Lion Dance for Chinese New Year has how many people operating a lion costume?
Answer: 2
Question: In what year was the first New Year's Eve Nos Galan Road Race?
Answer: 1958
Question: The first babies of the new Millennium were born in which country?
Answer: New Zealand
Hard
Question: In what year was the first Spengler Cup Final on New Year's Eve?
Answer: 1923
Question: In medieval times, a cake was put on which farmyard animal during New Year's?
Answer: Cow
Question: In order to realign the Roman calendar with the sun, Julius Caesar had to add how many extra days to the year 46 B.C.?
Answer: 90
Question: In what year was the first New Year's Eve Saint Silvester Road Race?
Answer: 1925
Question: At what time is a red maple leaf dropped at New Year's in Eastport, Maine?
Answer: 11:30 PM
Question: In what year did Roman emperor Julius Caesar first establish January 1 as New Year's day?
Answer: 46 B.C.E
Question: How many light bulbs lit the original New York City New Year's Eve ball?
Answer: 100
Question: In 1582 the calendar had slowly fallen behind the seasons over the years, so Pope Gregory advanced the calendar by how many days?
Answer: 10
Question: A sculpture called the 'D Burst' is dropped from which building in Detroit, Michigan during New Year's?
Answer: Hard Rock Café
Question: In the film 'The Hudsucker Proxy' Norville is chased by angry mobs through the streets on New Year's Eve before doing what?
Answer: Climbing a clock tower
Question: A team from which British university won the first Spengler Cup Final on New Year's Eve?
Answer: Oxford
Question: By the early medieval period most of Christian Europe regarded Annunciation Day as the beginning of the year. What date is that?
Answer: March 25th
Question: 2,000 doves of peace were released to celebrate the Millennium in which square?
Answer: Manger Square
Question: A structure in the form of what food is dropped in Plymouth, Wisconsin during New Year's?
Answer: Cheese
Question: In Bengali for New Year what do they use to paint patterns on the ground out the front of their houses?
Answer: Flour
Question: In Italy and Mexico, what do people wear on New Year's Day as a symbol of good luck for the upcoming year?
Answer: Red Underwear
Question: At the Orlando Citrus Parade the floats are decorated with what?
Answer: Tangerines
Question: Due to ill health, who substituted for Dick Clark in 2005 for 'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve'?
Answer: Regis Philbin
Question: In the Medieval, what was the name of the vow that knights took which is similar to a New Year's Resolution?
Answer: Peacock Vow
Question: In the Eddie Murphy/Dan Aykroyd film 'Trading Places', on New Year's Eve they sneak onto a party train to steal a report on what?
Answer: Frozen orange juice prices
Question: In Ancient Egypt, the year began with the annual flooding of what?
Answer: The Nile
