New Year's Quiz 2025 - Questions About the Year That Passed

Welcome to this year’s New Year quiz from Dorre! How well do you know 2025? With political upheavals and cultural lightning strikes, it will be a year to remember! Take this quiz as a fun part of the New Year’s dinner or just to test your knowledge of 2025.

New Year quiz for New Year - 12 questions and answers about 2025

As tradition, the quiz is based on events from 2025 in sports, music, politics and more with one question dedicated to each month of the year! The answers can be found at the bottom of the page. Good luck and happy New Year!

1. January: In January Donald Trump was sworn in for a second time as the country’s president. Who did he run against in the election?

1. Joe Biden

2. Hillary Clinton

3. Kamala Harris

2. February: When Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia’s daughter’s name was to be revealed in February the King accidentally said the wrong name. What is her real name?

1. Princess Inse

2. Princess Ines

3. Princess Ilse

3. March: In an attempt to recreate the extinct mammoth using gene editing, the company Colossal Biosciences created which animal?

1. Woolly mice

2. Woolly elephants

3. Woolly pigs

4. April: One of this year’s biggest films was Disney’s Lilo & Stitch which continues the trend of remaking their animated films into ‘live-action’. Which of the following films have they not yet remade in that way?

1. Cinderella

2. Hercules

3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

5. May: Billie Eilish took home the most awards at this year’s AMAs (American Music Awards) with a total of seven wins. Her full name includes which slightly unusual title?

1. Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell

2. Billie Eilish Princess Baird O’Connell

3. Billie Eilish Dove Baird O’Connell

6. June: In June the ugly/cute doll Labubu set a record when one of the dolls was sold at auction for a record price. In dollars, how much was it sold for?

1. $250 000 (ca 2 305 720 kr)

2. $50 000 (ca 460 000 kr)

3. $170 000 (ca 1 567 540 kr)

7. July: Superheroes continued to appear on our screens all year. Among them the iconic Superman. An alien who defends the world from evil. But what is the name of his home planet?

1. Kryptonopolis

2. Kryptonite

3. Krypton

8. August: Many watched as the 672-ton Kiruna Church was to be moved five kilometers, but why was it moved?

1. To build a data center where it stood

2. Mining work risks destroying it

3. To attract more visitors

9. September: In September we were disappointed by Sweden’s men’s national team’s tough start in the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. Even though we advance to round 2 it is with a completely new national team coach. Who is it?

1. Jon Dahl Tomasson

2. Graham Potter

3. Simon Åström

10. October: People were stunned to see that a well-known art museum in Paris had been robbed in October. What was actually the simple password the museum used for its surveillance system?

1. “1793”

2. "Louvre"

3. “Mot de passe

11. November: In November the film Wicked: For Good was released. The second part of a film series based on a musical that is based on a film which in turn is based on a book series. But who wrote the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from 1900?

1. L. Frank Baum

2. Dr. Seuss

3. C.S Lewis

12. December: In December several dictionaries released the word of the year which includes, among others, rage bait. What does the term mean?

1. Online content created by AI

2. Online content designed to provoke anger

3. Online content that “cleans the feed”

Answers to this year’s New Year quiz

1. Option C: Kamala Harris

2. Option B: Princess Ines

3. Option A: Woolly mice

4. Option B: Hercules

5. Option A: Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O’Connell

6. Option C: $170 000 (1 567 540 kr)

7. Option C: Krypton

8. Option B: Mining work risks destroying it

9. Option B: Graham Potter

10. Option B: "Louvre"

11. Option A: L. Frank Baum

12. Option B: Online content designed to provoke anger

Fancy more New Year quizzes? Read previous quizzes from 2023 and 2024 here!