Free Printable 2025 New Year’s Eve Jeopardy

This fun New Year’s Eve Jeopardy game is a fun way to remember all the happenings from the past year! The Jeopardy game includes 60 different questions that are filled with 2025 trivia, events, and important people!

With our Thanksgiving Jeopardy and Christmas Jeopardy games being so popular, I thought it’d be fun to make a New Year’s Eve version that incorporates things just from this past year (kind of like my New Year’s Eve trivia games).

This New Year’s Eve Jeopardy game is played just like the actual game show with regular Jeopardy, double Jeopardy, and even a final Jeopardy question at the end! All of the categories are based on things from this year – things like 67, Life of a Showgirl, and more!

It’s a simple addition to any New Year’s Eve party, especially if you get our PowerPoint templates that all ready to play right now without any work on your part!

Depending on the group you’re playing with, there are a couple of different ways you could use these New Year’s Eve Jeopardy questions and answers – individual, small groups, or large teams! Or you could really just use the questions as your own 2025 trivia questions!

1 – Divide into teams

Start by figuring out your group size and the logistics of how to play with your group. I’ve included suggestions based on the number of people you’re playing with, but you can just play however makes the most sense to you!

1. Small group (up to 5 people) – everyone plays individually, play just like the normal game show where everyone is on their own!
2. Medium group (6-16 people) – split into teams and have the teams work together to answer the questions and play. Stick to four teams of four people or less.
3. Large group (17+ people) – have everyone play individually and just hand out treats, prizes, etc. for individual question answers – you could put a spoon or something at the front and people have to grab it if they know the answer. Or just have people keep track of their points and the person with the most points at the end wins!

Give each team or individual a buzzer. (I recommend having teams rotate who is manning the buzzer if you’re playing with teams every question or every few questions so everyone gets a chance.) Or just have the buzzer available to the entire team and anyone can buzz in for the team, but that does get a little more complicated.

I love these buzzers because they make different sounds so it’s easy to hear which one buzzed in first, which is trickier than you think!

2 – Start the Game

Start the game by reading the $200 question in the first column on your board. It might be different depending on how you laid out your categories but in our board, it would be the In Pop Culture for $200 question.

The first team to hit their buzzer has five seconds to answer the question. The answers are in the form of a question (e.g., Who is Ariana Grande?), but you can decide if you care if they answer that way or not.

• If they answer correct – they win that questions points AND they get to choose the next question.
• If they answer wrong – they lose the points that go with that question (yes, you can go negative) and other teams can immediately buzz in to try and answer the question and get the point.

If any team doesn’t buzz in within 10 seconds, you can tell them the answer to the question and whoever chose the next question can choose another one.

3 – Choose the Next Question

Whoever answers the question correctly wins both the points and the chance to choose the next question – both category and value.

So for example, they might choose Heroes for $400 as their question or Villains for $800. Remove that question from the board once it’s asked so that people know which questions have already been answered. Creating a post-it note game (like we did with our Friendsgiving Jeopardy board), a board with small envelopes with papers in them, or using our PowerPoint templates makes it simple to see the already answered questions!

Read the question that corresponds with the value and category they chose (in our example above – Heroes for $800) and start the process again – whoever buzzes in first and answers correctly wins those points and control of the board.

Keep going until you’ve gotten through all of the questions in the initial Jeopardy round then setup the board and play Double Jeopardy in the exact same way, except instead of $200, $400, $600, $800, and $1000 questions you’ll use $400, $800, $1200, $1600, and $2000 questions.

How do Daily Doubles Work?

There are daily doubles noted in the PDF if you’d like to use them in the game. They’re also indicated in the PowerPoint templates.

When someone chooses a Daily Double:

1. Announce that the question is a daily double before you ask the question.
2. The contestant who chose the question only wagers how much they want the question to be worth, up to the amount that they have in the bank.
3. Ask just that contestant the question and if they answer it correctly, they win the points – if they don’t, they lose the points from their score.

how does Final Jeopardy work?

The last question of the New Year’s Eve Jeopardy game is called Final Jeopardy and it’s one single question. While I have included this in my game sets, it’s totally optional if you want to do it not. It’s better for small or medium groups or just an extra question to use if you’re playing with larger groups.

1. Read the Final Jeopardy category (not the question) to the group.
2. Have everyone write down how much they wager on the question, up to the amount they have in the bank.
3. Read the question and give everyone one minute to write down their answer. Don’t forget to play Jeopardy music!
4. Go through answers one at a time and anyone who answered correctly wins what they wagered, anyone who doesn’t loses what they wagered. I like to start with whoever has the least money then move toward the most.

Who wins?

The winner of New Year’s Eve Jeopardy is the person at the end of all three rounds with the highest number of points. If you’re playing with teams, use the team’s score instead and the team with the highest total points wins!

Don’t forget to give the winning player or team a prize – everyone loves prizes! Since this is New Year’s Eve Jeopardy, something trendy or popular from this past year would be a really fun prize. Something like

I have two different versions of a New Year’s Eve Jeopardy that you can use to play your game. If you’d like to just use a version that’s all done for you – I have PowerPoint templates in my shop that you can just download and play with. You’ll need PowerPoint (not Google Slides or Keynotes) to use these, but they’re great!

If you don’t want a digital version, I’ve also created a set of printouts including categories and values that work with making the Post-It note New Year’s Eve Jeopardy board you can see in this post! Or skip the post-it notes and just print these on paper and tape them to a board!

How to make a Post-It Note Jeopardy board

1. Start by printing out a copy of the blank Jeopardy printouts sheet (the one that says Jeopardy Board Printout at the top). You can print as many as you want or just one and use that one over and over again (like I did).
2. Add standard 3×3 post-it notes to the boxes, sticky side down. You can use whatever color post-it notes you want. I used Friendsgiving colors for my board, but you can use whatever color you want.
3. Put that paper back into your printer, making sure to load it correctly so that the post-it notes will be printed on (there should be an icon in your print tray). And make sure your post-it notes are all pressed down firmly so they don’t get caught in the printer.
4. Print the first sheet of values and they’ll print right on top of the post-it notes. Repeat for the rest of the value sheets and the Friendsgiving category cards.
5. Hang all of those post-it notes either up on the wall, a chalk board, or do what I did and add them to a foam board!

Once you have added all your categories and values, you can add a heading of some sort at the top. I just printed out a New Year’s Eve Header for my board, but you could get super creative here if you really want – feel free to get crafty!

Set up a Double Jeopardy board as well either on another foam board or on the back of the regular Jeopardy board for you to use.

New Year’s Eve Jeopardy FAQs

2025 Jeopardy Questions and Answers

I’ve created a set of 2025 Jeopardy questions and answers that include six regular Jeopardy categories and questions, six Double Jeopardy categories and answers, and a Final Jeopardy category and question for a total of 61 question options!

I’m not going to list all the questions and answers here, you can download those at the bottom of this post, but here are a couple of examples of the Friendsgiving Jeopardy questions and answers you’ll find in the download. There are questions about all sorts of things!

1. On Screen Hits for $1200 – An AI enhanced version of this 1939 film debuted at the Las Vegas Sphere (What is Wizard of Oz?)
2. Heroes for $400 – Branch of the military that turned 250 on June 14, 2025 (What is the army?)
3. In Memoriam for $800 – It’s inconceivable to believe that this Princess Bride director is no longer with us (Who is Rob Reiner?)
4. Winners for $200 – They tush pushed their way to a Super Bowl win (Who are the Philadelphia Eagles?)
5. Historical Events for $600 – Universal opened this park, their fourth in Orlando, in May 2025 (What is Epic Universe?)

More New Year’s Eve Games

If you like this New Year’s Eve Jeopardy game, make sure to check out some of our other New Year’s Eve games that would work great for any New Year’s Eve party!

• New Year’s Eve outburst – another one full of answers specific for 2025!
• New Year’s Eve minute to win it games – tons of quick and easy games all inspired by New Year’s Eve traditions!
• New Year’s Eve danger words – a fun word game using classic New Year’s words!
• New Year’s Eve bingo – a classic game with a New Year’s Eve theme!
• New Year’s Eve scattergories – another fun classic with New Year’s Eve themes!

Download the 2025 Jeopardy Game

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As a reminder, the PDF will include:

• Instructions to play
• DIY Jeopardy Board printables (get the PowerPoint games here)
• Jeopardy game with 60 questions across a regular and double Jeopardy game
• Final Jeopardy and Daily Double Questions for both games