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 New Year’s parties: A set of questions anyone can enjoy (1–10)
Abbreviation Quiz
This is a quiz where you guess the full names of things you’ve been using unconsciously, which actually turn out to be abbreviations.
It’s a fun bit of trivia, so give it a try if you like.
For example, shokupan (sliced bread) is actually short for staple-food bread, kyokasho (textbook) for instructional-use book, keizai (economy) for “governing the world and saving the people,” and enka (a traditional ballad genre) for “speech song.” It’s fascinating that words you’d never expect to be abbreviations—and that won’t even appear when you try converting them on a computer—are in fact shortened forms.
It sounds fun not only as a quiz but also as something to learn as knowledge, doesn’t it?
Food Quiz
A trivia quiz that’ll make you go, “Oh, really? That’s interesting!” This is a multiple-choice food trivia quiz with four options.
For example, it asks questions like, “Which sobering ingredient is found in ramen?” It’s great that each answer comes with a detailed explanation.
It’s fun to get excited when you realize something you’ve been doing without thinking actually makes sense.
There are also quizzes about familiar foods like soba, curry, and salad, which can spark common topics for everyone present—highly recommended.
Fill-in-the-blank quiz
Fill-in-the-blank quizzes like these are often featured on TV shows, aren’t they? This is a brain-training fill-in-the-blank quiz where you’re given only a few clues for a relatively long word or phrase, and you have to guess what it is.
It might be good to reveal more hints as time goes on, but it’s best if you can figure it out as early as possible.
Also, even when the word is originally in katakana or kanji, it can be harder to recognize when it’s written in hiragana.
Sometimes you still can’t get it even if the first letter is shown.
Trust your intuition and give it a try!
Which one is the AI image quiz
With the advancement of AI technology, it’s become easier to be fooled by things like fake images, and there are more and more things we just can’t trust these days.
This quiz helps you build the skills to avoid being deceived by that kind of thing by asking you to guess which image was created by AI.
Depending on the item, it can be genuinely hard to tell, and if your vision is blurry from presbyopia, you might almost certainly mistake one for the other.
As a general trend, AI-generated images often look a bit too perfect or give off an obvious “AI-made” vibe.
Manga Episode 1 Quiz
This is a quiz where we present the opening lines or narration from the first chapter that signals the start of a story, and you try to guess which work it’s from.
It might be difficult for people who only know the work in broad strokes or have only seen the anime.
Some manga also change their themes or mood during serialization, so it’s interesting to note the differences from the atmosphere you might imagine based on the title.
Many works let you try just the first chapter, so let’s carefully verify subtle nuances while looking at the actual panels.
Arunashi quiz
These days, quiz champions from the University of Tokyo are in such high demand that they’re constantly appearing on TV.
Here’s a “Aru-Nashi” quiz that’s sure to get everyone excited as you see whether you can solve it faster than they can.
It uses the “exists in ◯◯, not in ◯◯” format, so it doesn’t rely on knowledge—you can answer it with a flash of insight, which is a nice plus.
Because it calls for a multifaceted perspective and shifts in thinking, it’s perfect for gatherings with colleagues.
You can even play by creating your own questions.
It’s a brain-teasing quiz that’s great for New Year’s parties.
Common Sense Quiz
When it comes to general-knowledge quizzes, those tricky questions that make you go “Gaaaah!” when you get caught out are the most fun, right? That satisfying frustration of thinking it’s easy only to find the answer is something completely different—that “I blew it” feeling—is what makes it both annoying and enjoyable.
If you’re planning a quiz contest for a New Year’s party, you can’t go wrong including these.
They’re great for all ages, so it’s fine even when there are lots of kids.
Everyone can have a lively, rowdy good time, and sometimes an unexpected person shows off hidden knowledge, guaranteeing an exciting, immersive atmosphere.
trick question
It looks like a simple quiz at first, but it’s a tricky one with a hidden trap in the problem statement.
A common format is to insert a part in the middle that makes you think about numbers or scenarios, while the answer is actually in the very first line at the beginning.
If the quiz is read aloud rather than shown as an image, it’s even easier for listeners to lose focus on the opening.
The fun of this quiz is the frustration you feel when you get tripped up, but I think it’s also important to strike a balance so as not to make the participants angry.
Matchstick Quiz
A matchstick puzzle where flexible thinking pays off.
Starting from a given diagram, the challenge is: “Move only one matchstick to make ○○.” Once you see the answer, it’s surprisingly simple, but getting that spark of insight is the hard part.
Another nice point is that it doesn’t require detailed rules, so everyone from kids to adults can enjoy it.
It’s a classic brain-training game that’s been around for ages, and it would be a hit at a New Year’s party if you split into groups and make it a team competition!
Pokemon BGM Quiz
This is a quiz focusing on the background music (BGM) used in the Pokémon series, one of Nintendo’s flagship franchises.
Because the series has been loved for so long, it features a wide variety of BGMs, and you can feel the passage of time through the music.
Play a BGM track and have participants guess which game and which location it’s from, then get everyone excited by sharing stories about how they approached those Pokémon in that context.
Since some people may have only played certain titles, it’s recommended to consider a balance of eras when selecting questions.