17+ New Year Trivia Questions with Answers

It’s New Year’s Eve, and you’re looking for a little last-minute entertainment before the year is over. What could be better than some trivia? You can test your knowledge about all kinds of things on this quiz. Find out how much you know by reading these New Year Trivia Questions with Answers!

A 2011 New York Times obituary for the late Peter Falk discussed the actor’s 30-plus year gig as what TV character?

COLUMBO

A state that celebrated its “cuarto centenario” in 1998, New Mexico was founded in what year?

1598 *CORRECT*

A traditional food for the Japanese New Year,mochi is a cake primarily made of what ingredient?

RICE

According to a popular tradition, what should newlyweds do with the top tier of their wedding cake?

EAT IT IN A YEAR

At the age of 19, what future politician married his 26 year old high school geometry teacher?

NEWT GINGRICH

German kids wear what round neck for good luck on New Year

Pretzels

Half years who made her show business debut at the age of 2 1/2 as part of her family’s vaudeville act on the ‘new grand theater stage’

Judy garland

How Is Saint Sylvester’s Day Better Known?

News Years Eve

In ‘Bridget Jones Diary”, Bridget Jones makes a New Years Resolution, to sort out her life, meet a man and keep a diary, but who played Bridget Jones

Renée Zellweger

In What Year Did Captain Cook Reach New Zealand

1769

In which country do people wear white clothes in order to have good luck during the new year?

Brazil

In which country do they eat 12 grapes as the clock strikes midnight (one each time the clock chimes) on New Year’s Eve?

Spain

On which annual day do most heart attacks occur

New years day

The German New Year’s carnival

Fasching

What is New Year’s Eve called in Scotland?

Hogmanay

What is the top New Years Resolution

Lose weight

Who Was Declared Dead On New Years Day 1953 At The Age Of 29?

Hank Williams