Shared from Facebook, MTL host Chad M., answers in the comments:

1. After a disjointed performance in 2016, what pop superstar was invited to perform again in Times Square at 2017’s New Year’s Eve celebration, this time with fewer technical difficulties?

2. The Islamic New Year celebrates Muhammad’s trip in 622 from Medina to what holiest city of Islam?

3. On New Year’s Day in 1999, MTV2 played one music video repeatedly for 24 hours, for a song by which artist?

4. In response to an internet meme, the New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special saying goodbye to 2019 showed a montage of Barbara Walters repeatedly saying what phrase?

Halftime: What are the first four songs that play after a snippet of “Auld Lang Syne” in Times Square at midnight on New Year’s Day?

5. Due to his association with it over decades of radio and TV broadcasts, what bandleader once said that when he died, he would take New Year’s Eve with him?

6. Embodied by gift-giving and time with friends, Hogmanay is a New Year’s celebration occurring in which U.K. country?

7. Travel sites recommend spending time in Hanoi’s Old Quarter if visiting during what New Year celebration?

8. In a Spanish tradition to welcome the New Year, celebrators eat one of what fruit with each bell strike at midnight?