# New Year's Feud **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 2, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517 "2024-01-02T20:40:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/1 "2024-01-02T20:40:40Z")
**Object of the game:** Give the most popular answer for each category. You want to match the other people in the game. **Rules:** **DO NOT READ THIS THREAD BEFORE YOU POST YOUR ANSWERS** , lest you see the other answers. If you highlight the questions and right click, you can “quote” and not see the answers. We play by the honor system. **Formatting rules:** If formatting is not followed, your answers might be DISQUALIFIED! 1. answer 2. answer 3. answer 4. answer etc. Make your list look like the one above. No double spacing. No periods (except for the one following the number.) No quote marks, no punctuation if it is not necessary! No emojis! No extraneous bullshit is allowed. If you feel you must qualify your answer, do it AFTER THE LIST! The reason this is so important is because I cut and paste all the answers, and I have to edit each answer to make them identical. It is a lot of work, so please make it easier on me. Thanks. **Scoring** - All matching answers will be worth 2 points each. For example: If 4 people match that means they each get 8 pts for that answer. No matches = 0 points. The game will end when I feel that no more people are going to play, or a maximum of 50. I’ll score as fast as time will allow. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/2 "2024-01-02T21:09:06Z")
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. There, I think I have the most popular answer for each question. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/3 "2024-01-02T21:10:51Z")
I was going to do that but I thought I would wait… ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/4 "2024-01-02T21:14:52Z")
oops! 1. Besides losing weight, name a common New Year’s resolution. 2. What is a New Year’s superstition from a country besides the U.S.? 3. Within 100 years, what decade was January 1 officially declared the first day of the year? 4. What is a common food eaten for good luck on New Year’s? 5. Name one of the countries that are LAST to celebrate the New Year. 6. Name a host of a televised New Year’s Eve celebration. 7. Name a hangover cure. (Mimimal words please!) 8. Name a song with “new” in the title. 9. Name a song that mentions “year.” 10. Name a song that mentions “midnight.” ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/5 "2024-01-02T21:21:23Z")
1. Quit smoking 2. Opening all windows and doors for midnight (Irish) 3. ?? 4. Black eyed peas 5. Japan 6. Dick Clarke 7. Hair of the dog 8. New Year’s Day 9. Year of the Cat 10. After Midnight ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/6 "2024-01-02T21:23:05Z")
1. Spending more time with family 2. Eating sauerkraut for wealth in the new year 3. 1400 4. Black-eyed peas 5. The United States 6. Dick Clark 7. Bloody Mary 8. New York, New York 9. When I was seventeen 10. Like a Prayer Some overlap there between 1 and 4, but I don’t know many non-food-related superstitions for the New Year. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/7 "2024-01-02T21:27:48Z")
1. Quit smoking 2. Eating a dozen grapes, one at a time with each chime, as the clock strikes midnight (Spanish) 3. 40’s BCE (during the days of the Roman Empire, when Julius Caesar changed the calendar) 4. Grapes 5. United States (specifically, American Samoa) 6. Dick Clark 7. Bloody Marys 8. Brand New Key (by Melanie) 9. Year of the Cat (by Al Stewart) 10. Midnight at the Oasis (by Maria Muldaur) _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/8 "2024-01-02T21:46:54Z")
1. Exercise 2. 3. 1000 4. Black eyed peas 5. Samoa 6. Dick Clark 7. Coffee 8. New York, New York 9. Another Year is Dawning 10. Midnight Special ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/9 "2024-01-02T21:47:36Z")
1. Go to the gym 2. Pass 3. Pass 4. Black eyed peas 5. Australia 6. Dick Clark 7. Alka Seltzer 8. A Whole New World 9. Reelin’ In the Years 10. Midnight Train to Georgia ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/10 "2024-01-02T21:57:42Z")
1. giving up smoking 2. Can’t think of any 3. 1558 4. coal 5. Canada 6. Jools Holland 7. Alcohol abstinence 8. The new frontier 9. Can’t think of any 10. The midnight hour ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/11 "2024-01-02T22:01:57Z")
1. Exercise more 2. Eat corned beef and cabbage 3. 8th C. A.D. 4. Corned beef and cabbage 5. Russia. 6. Ryan Secrist. 7. Strong coffee 8. Brand New Key 9. Year of the Cat 10. Midnight at the Oasis Yay! A poll! Thanks, Rebo! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/12 "2024-01-02T22:29:19Z")
1. Exercise more 2. Eating grapes at muidnight 3. 1500’s 4. Black eyed peas 5. Tonga 6. Dick Clark 7. Hair of the Dog 8. Brand New Day, by Sting 9. In the Year 2525 10. Midnight at the Oasis I thought about Samoa for #5 but part of it is US Territory. I also thought about the US because of Hawaii. But I was pretty sure Tonga was on this side of the dateline. The song I listed for #8 is, for whatever reason, one of the few songs by Sting I know. He wasn’t a favorite artist of mine. I was just reading about #2 in another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/13 "2024-01-02T22:43:41Z")
1. stop smoking 2. pass 3. 400 4. black-eyed peas 5. Narnia 6. Dick Clark 7. water 8. I Want a New Drug 9. Year of the Cat 10. In the Midnight Hour ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/14 "2024-01-03T00:42:20Z")
That one about when Jan 1 became the beginning of the year is a tough one. I knew that a Pope Gregory tried to organize things in the 1500’s, but one could argue for Julius Caesar as well in the first century BC. And a lot of European countries didn’t adopt the Gregorian calendar until the 18th or even 19th century. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/15 "2024-01-03T00:53:38Z")
1. Exercise more. 2. pass 3. AD50 4. Black Eyed peas 5. USA 6. Dick Clark 7. Bloody Mary 8. New York, New York 9. Year of the Cat 10. Midnight Confession ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/16 "2024-01-03T00:53:42Z")
1. Exercise more 2. Spreading birdseed on the front doorstep in the morning 3. 1750s 4. Black-eyed peas 5. United States 6. Dick Clark 7. Hair of the dog 8. New Year’s Day 9. Year of the Cat 10. Living After Midnight Commentary: 2 - Norway/Sweden 5 - Hawaii/Aleutian Islands 8 - U2 9 - Al Stewart 10 - Judas Priest I have no idea why Discourse is indenting my responses. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/17 "2024-01-03T02:04:43Z")
1. Quit smoking 2. Open the windows to let the old year go 3. 30 BC 4. Black eyed peas 5. United States 6. Dick Clark 7. drink more 8. I want a new drug 9. It Was a Very Good Year 10. Midnight at the Oasis ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/18 "2024-01-03T02:57:29Z")
1. Give up drinking 2. Pass 3. 400 AD 4. Black eyed peas 5. Cook Islands. 6. Ryan Seacrest 7. Water 8. A Day in the Life 9. '39 10. After Midnight ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/19 "2024-01-03T03:59:29Z")
1. Exercise 2. ? 3. 1600 4. Hoppin’ John 5. Samoa 6. Dick Clark 7. Raw eggs 8. Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag 9. In the Year 2525 10. After Midnight ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517/20 "2024-01-03T04:15:35Z")
1. Quitting smoking 2. Mexico 3. 1750 4. Hoppin’ John 5. USA 6. Dick Clark 7. Gatorade 8. New Years Day 9. In the Year 2525 10. After Midnight [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-feud/995517.md?page=2)