Fun quizzes to liven up New Year’s parties: a collection of questions everyone can enjoy
Are you struggling to come up with fun quiz questions for a New Year’s party—something that will really liven things up? The truth is, there are plenty of entertaining quizzes that everyone can laugh over, even when participants are from different generations and have varied interests! You can have people guess where a piece of background music is from, puzzle over the readings of tricky kanji, or test their trivia skills.
From quizzes that are fun regardless of knowledge level to ones that spark lively conversation, we’ll introduce quiz ideas perfect for a New Year’s party.
This year, make your New Year’s gathering a time filled with smiles through quizzes!
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Fun quizzes to liven up your New Year’s party: a collection of questions everyone can enjoy (31–40)
Product Guessing Quiz
Present images of product packages with only the names hidden and have participants guess the exact product names.
Since items that blend into daily life are often referred to by nicknames, people might not know the official names.
Using your own products as questions is also recommended—it adds pressure about how well they understand the products and makes it more exciting.
You can also use the quiz to assess how memorable the product names are and the quality of the naming, which could inform future product development.
Trivia Quiz
Trivia quizzes that make you go “Huh, interesting!” are a surefire hit.
They’ll work with any generation and in any gathering.
If you check YouTube, you’ll find an incredible number of trivia quiz videos—just pick some from there for reference and you’re good to go.
That said, it’s best to consider the type of people who’ll be attending and tailor the questions in a certain direction.
Another tip: even if people are meeting for the first time, making it a team format where they can discuss answers with the person next to them is a great idea.
Have fun and enjoy the friendly atmosphere together!
VTuber Quiz
Many VTubers are active in the public eye, including those affiliated with major agencies like hololive and Nijisanji.
This quiz tests how many of those VTubers you know, challenging both the breadth of your interest in the VTuber industry and the depth of your knowledge.
A classic question type asks you to identify the VTuber from a silhouette, which alone tests how many character portraits you’ve seen.
With memorable moments from streams and questions about songs, the wide scope of their activities makes it possible to create quizzes across a variety of categories.
Video Game Music Intro Quiz
Games that are hailed as masterpieces and go down in history are remembered not only for their stories and controls, but also for their BGM.
This quiz focuses on that background music that enriches a game’s world, asking you to guess the game from the music.
Even if you know the game, you might not have listened closely to every track, so it’s best to pick themes that symbolize the work or songs played during memorable scenes.
By learning more about when each track plays, it might inspire you to experience the game yourself.
Retro Game Quiz
This is a quiz where players compete over detailed knowledge related to retro games.
Since some people might not recognize the retro titles that come up, a multiple-choice format with four options that can be answered by intuition may make it easier to proceed.
By thinking about masterpieces that paved the way to today’s games, you might also get a sense of the layers of history.
It could also serve as an opportunity to learn about expression techniques unique to retro games.
It might be fun to include questions that only the generation who actually played them would understand, creating a dynamic where other generations chime in with playful reactions.
Fun quizzes to liven up New Year’s parties. A collection of questions everyone can enjoy (41–50)
Three Kingdoms Quiz
Set during the late Eastern Han period of China, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms spans roughly a century of history.
Both the historical chronicle Records of the Three Kingdoms and the narrative novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms are widely loved.
This quiz focuses specifically on events from that era to test how well you understand the time period and the works.
Since the novel adds dramatic embellishments to heighten the story, choosing which source—history or fiction—to center on will also be important.
Tackle a variety of questions about characters and events, and use this as a springboard to spark your interest in both history and storytelling.
Finding misspellings in four-character idioms
Many people feel they understand four-character idioms (yojijukugo), but don’t really pay attention to the exact characters.
Let’s play a yojijukugo typo-spotting game and get a little smarter together.
On a large sheet of drawing paper, deliberately write the idioms with incorrect characters.
For example, for “四面楚歌” (shimensoka), write something like “四面素歌,” then have everyone figure out which character is wrong and what the correct one should be.
If you also write the meaning of each idiom on the paper, people who don’t know the term can enjoy it too.
Have fun with the game while getting lively with comments like, “That person really knows their yojijukugo,” or “Do you get it? Not really, right?”
