Nerdy Trivia: December 31, 2025

I'm wishing everyone a lot of luck if your goal is to stay up until midnight to watch a ball drop (or a giant potato if you're in Idaho). Personally, I haven't decided if I want to watch this year end or wake up next year nice and refreshed.

"Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" has been the countdown king for over three decades, and for many people, Dick Clark himself is synonymous with the ball drop in Times Square. It kinda felt like he'd be there forever, but eventually Clark joined forces with his younger competition. When did Ryan Seacrest start hosting "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve"?

Take a swing at some random trivia. When you get the answer, just hit "Random Question" to keep going!

63 years ago TODAY, daytime TV learned the power of a perfectly timed pause when "Match Game" premiered on NBC in 1962!

Gene Rayburn hosted the original version like it was a clean little word game, but the fun was always in the tension. Someone sets up the sentence, everyone pretends they’ve got the “normal” answer, and then you watch the room tiptoe around what they actually want to say on daytime TV. That simple setup is the whole blueprint, and it’s easy to see how it eventually evolved into the looser, cheekier version people still quote like it aired yesterday.

As the clock strikes twelve on December 31st, crowds around the world join together in song to welcome the new year. The tradition spans cultures and generations, bringing strangers together in a shared musical moment. What exactly is that familiar tune everyone belts out when the ball drops?

Check out more celeb birthdays in today's birthday post!