Games
Foosball looks like a tabletop version of what sport?
Soccer
Golf
Baseball
Tennis
0

How many points are there on a backgammon board?
48
24
12
36
1

How many spaces can each of four stones move if you throw two "sixes" in backgammon?
36
6
12
24
1

If you've landed on Baltic Avenue, Illinois Avenue or Boardwalk, you could be playing Monopoly, or you could be in which city, for whose streets Monopoly properties are named?
New York City
Charleston
Atlantic City
New Orleans
2

Which chess pieces change places during castling?
King and queen
Knight and rook
King and rook
King and knight
2

What is the maximum number of queens that can theoretically be on the board during a game of chess?
2
18
6
4
1

What is the world's first postage stamp commonly called today?
The Penny Victoria
The Penny Whistle
The Penny Royale
The Penny Black
3

In which year was the Barbie doll introduced?
1951
1937
1906
1928
0

Many believe that the four suits in a deck of cards reflects French medieval society. If so, what do the spades represent?
The merchants
The priests
The nobility
The soldiers
2

Parcheesi is sometimes called the national game of which country?
Albania
Egypt
Italy
India
3

Which country produced the first adhesive postage stamp?
US
Germany
UK
France
2

What do fans of deltiology collect?
Postcards
Paper currency
Matchboxes
Snowdomes
0

What were the first baseball cards used to promote in 1887?
Gum
Baseball gloves
Beer
Tobacco
3

Whose face is supposedly a composite of 23 Congressional Medal Honorees?
G.I. Joe
Superman
Tarzan
Barbie's friend Ken
0

On which country's Monopoly board is Boardwalk replaced with Mayfair?
Japan
United Kingdom
Australia
South Africa
1

Which game was invented during the Depression by Alfred Butts, who called it "Lexiko"?
Twister
Scrabble
Monopoly
Snakes and Ladders
1

What do fans of labology collect?
Beer labels
Labrador retrievers
Chemistry sets
Flags
0

At what count will a casino blackjack dealer stand?
9
11
21
17
3

Which children's game is called "mosca cieca" in Italy, "gallina ciepa" in Spain and "colin-maillard" in France?
Blindman's buff
Checkers
Hopscotch
Hide and seek
0

Of what game is acey-deucey a variation?
Poker
Checkers
Backgammon
Cricket
2

In 1958, who became the world's youngest chess grand master?
Max Euwe
Gary Kasparov
Boris Spassky
Bobby Fischer
3

Do not pass go. Which board game briefly became a TV game show, hosted by Michael Reilly, in the summer of 1990?
Monopoly
Pictionary
Clue
Trivial Pursuit
0

Barbie fans take note! What are doll collectors called?
Arctophiles
Plangonologists
Philatelists
Bibliophiles
1

According to the Crayola people, which crayon color tends to be used up first?
Blue
Flesh (now peach)
Green
Black
3

This grandmaster beat IBM's Big Blue in 1996, but it beat him the year after. Who is he?
Max Euwe
Gary Kasparov
Anatoly Karpov
Boris Spassky
1

Which game did a pair of Montreal newspapermen create in 1979, a variation of which you're playing right now?
Trivial Pursuit
Scruples
Scattergories
Pictionary
0

The French created the modern deck of playing cards, defining the suits and combining the knight and the page to create what new card?
The jack
The ace
The king
The joker
0

What toy, the first ever advertised on TV, once got four votes to be mayor of Boise, Idaho?
Barbie
Mr. Potato Head
GI Joe
Buzz Lightyear
1

What does a phillumenist collect?
Stamps
Beer labels
Military medals
Match boxes
3

John Gray was the first person to collect these, but so did George V and Franklin D. Roosevelt. What are they?
Buttons
Stamps
Baseball cards
Coins
1

In 1972, who did Bobby Fischer beat to become Chess Champion of the World?
Gary Kasparov
Boris Spassky
Anatoly Karpov
IBM's Big Blue
1

In draw poker, how many cards are dealt face up to each player?
Five
Three
Seven
None
3

Which of these poker hands is the lowest?
Four of a kind
Straight
Flush
Full house
1

What toy company is the world's most prolific designer of women's fashions?
Parker Brothers
Coleco
Hasbro
Mattel
3

The game Go is popular in Japan, but where did Go come from, more than 2,000 years ago?
Korea
India
China
Vietnam
2

What video game, developed by Toru Iwatani, inspired a 1982 Top 40 song by Akron radio jingle composers Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia?
Space Invaders
Pac-Man
Donkey Kong
Pong
1

How much money do you start out with in Monopoly?
$5,000
$10,000
$15,000
$1,500
3

On what property do Monopoly players land most often? 
Pennsylvania Avenue
Kentucky Avenue
Illinois Avenue
Vermont Avenue
2

In 1999, Monopoly introduced what new token, its first in 40 years?
A sack of money
A car
A wheelbarrow
A piggy bank
0

What ancient game includes such variations as Big Clock, Matador, Sebastopol and Traffic?
Dominoes
Tag
Marbles
Poker
0

In the Sioux language, "tonka" means great. Since 1947, what sort of product has also been "tonka"?
Instant coffee
Toy trucks 
Saddles
Blue jeans
1

What country is allowed to issue stamps with no national name on them at all?
United States
China
Great Britain
Vatican City
2

What Nintendo hit started out as a flop called Radarscope until it was redesigned by a Japanese art student?
Donkey Kong
Pac Man
Space Invaders
Frogger
0

In contract bridge, which suit ranks highest?
Diamonds
Spades
Clubs
Hearts
1

What game did Joseph P. Babcock create by combining rummy and an old Chinese tile game?
Chinese checkers
Go
Mah Jongg
Ping pong
2

Lego gets its name from the phrase "leg godt," meaning "play well" in which language?
German
Danish
Austrian
Russian
1

In 1900, a country issued a stamp featuring an extinct volcano belching fire and smoke. Panama circulated these stamps to the American Senate, which decided that Panama was a safer place to put a canal. What country lost a canal because a stamp?
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Mexico
2

One of the world's rarest stamps is the 1856 penny magenta from what part of the world?
British Guiana
Great Britain
Hungary
Cape of Good Hope
0

Which of these is not a suit of the Minor Arcana of tarot cards?
Cups
Swords
Hearts
Pentacles
2

Romanian peace activist Ely Culbertson and American lawyer Charles Goren were both known for their skill at what card game?
Bridge
Crazy Eights
Poker
Blackjack
0

Which of these is a character in the movie "Reservoir Dogs," rather than a suspect in the board game Clue?
Mrs. Peacock
Professor Plum
Mr. Pink
Colonel Mustard
2

What kind of puzzle did a London mapmaker named John Spilsbury invent to help him teach geography?
Trivia puzzle
Crossword puzzle
Jigsaw puzzle
Find-a-word puzzle
2

What complicated game involving strangely shaped dice was invented in 1973 by a Wisconsin insurance executive named Gary Gygax?
Dungeons and Dragons
Snakes and Ladders
Risk
Yahtzee
0

Originally an elephant, which chess piece moves diagonally only and was originally called the fool by the French?
Bishop
Rook
Pawn
Queen
0

How many numbered balls do most bingo halls use?
16
25
80
75
3

In 1993, Americans were sending letters to non-existent addresses so that the letters would come back marked "Return to Sender." Who was on the stamp they were using?
Buddy Holly
Jerry Lee Lewis
Elvis Presley
Chuck Berry
2

In 1993, Id Software released what it calls "the hottest 3-D action game of all time." What game is this?
Sim City
Myst
Doom
Quake
2

In a standard game of poker, which of these hands is highest?
Straight
Flush
Four of a kind
Full house
2

If you own an original Slinky and stretch it out as far it can go, how long, in feet, would the straight piece of wire be?
6 feet
13 feet
55 feet
87 feet
3

How many pieces does each player have at the beginning of a checkers game?
8
16
12
10
2

What Nolan Bushmill video game company shares a name with the Go equivalent of "check"?
Sega
Atari
Nintendo
Pong
1

Which of these is not part of the kid's game rochambeau (also known as rochambo)?
Scissors
Rock
Water
Paper
2

What video game system was reportedly delayed because it was powerful enough to interfere with missile launches?
Nintendo N64
PlayStation 2
Sega Genesis
Sony Dreamcast
1

Who was honored by the US Postal Service with his own stamp on January 8, 1985, which would have been his 50th birthday?
Elvis Presley
Lassie
Prince Charles
Neil Armstrong
0

What do the opposite sides of a die add up to?
Five
Ten
Six
Seven
3

What Japanese game is played on a board with 19 horizontal lines and 19 vertical lines?
Chinese checkers
Go
Mah-jongg
Chess
1

To celebrate her 40th birthday in 1999, Barbie got a tattoo. What was it?
A dolphin
A heart
A rose
A butterfly
3

The World Monopoly Game champion wins an amount of money equal to the fake money that comes in the box. How much?
$1,514,000
$15,140
$1,514
$151,400
1

In what product did Joshua Lionel Cohen finally use a miniaturized motor he invented?
Lionel Slinkies
Lionel Trains
Lionel Dinky Toys
Lionel Erector Sets
1

For fairly obvious reasons, in 1962 the Crayola people decided to rename the "flesh" crayon. What did they rename it?
Caucasian
Peach
Beige
Cream
1

In the Pac-Man game, what are Blinky, Clyde, Inky and Clyde?
Sharks
Chopping circles
Ghosts
Power Pills
2

Although the name originally referred to a pigment used in India, not to the color of Aboriginal skins, what did the Crayola people rename the Indian red crayon in 1999?
Chestnut
Old penny
Red clay
Baseball mitt
0

The reasons vary, but which playing card is called "the curse of Scotland"?
Jack of Clubs
Queen of Hearts
Nine of Diamonds
Ace of Spades
2

From the German words suggesting "obligation to move," "zugzwang" usually means a forced move that worsens your position in what game?
Chess
Hide and go seek
Scrabble
Backgammon
0

Which chess piece, the only one that has to move differently to capture a piece, can also capture pieces en passant?
King
Rook
Pawn
Bishop
2

Which of these playing cards is usually not depicted "one-eyed" and in profile?
King of Diamonds
King of Clubs
Jack of Spades
Jack of Hearts
1

Which king in a deck of cards is called the suicide king because it looks like he stuck a sword through his head?
King of Clubs
King of Hearts
King of Diamonds
King of Spades
1

Of the two Super Mario Brothers, one is Mario. Who is the other?
Luigi
Mario
Antonio
Pietro
0

Played with two decks of cards, what Uruguayan rummy game is won by forming melds until you get 5000 points?
Klondike
Crazy eights
Gin rummy
Canasta
3

A numismatist collects coins, but what does a notaphilist collect?
Paper money
Wallets
Autographs
Stamps
0

In the Sega system, what is Sonic?
A wolverine
A porcupine
A badger
A hedgehog
3

Who was Barbie's first African-American pal?
Yolanda
Midge
Skipper
Christie
3

Along with the Z, which of these tiles would have the highest value (10) in Scrabble?
W
J
X
Q
3

What is both the highest number on a dartboard and the number of opening moves in chess?
100
12
50
20
3

What is both the number of dominoes in a standard set and the number of properties you can buy in Monopoly?
50
35
28
42
2

Excluding 0 and 00, how many numbers are on a roulette wheel?
36
88
99
12
0

What is both the number of territories to conquer in Risk, and the number of spaces in the outer ring of Trivial Pursuit?
42
24
36
15
0

Since 1970 the World Series of Poker has been held at Binion's Horseshoe, a casino in what city?
Atlantic City
Singapore
Monte Carlo
Las Vegas
3

Buzz in if you know this. What game features Cavity Sam?
Operation
Scrabble
Clue
Monopoly
0

Which of these is the name, not of a character in "Reservoir Dogs," but of a suspect in Clue?
Mr. Pink
Mr. Green
Mr. Orange
Mr. White
1

When the game begins, what piece sits on all four corners of a chess board?
Knight
Bishop
Rook
Pawn
2

A minor poet, with the unfortunate name of Sir John Suckling, seems to have invented what game that uses both a board and cards?
Casino
Cribbage
Solitaire
Euchre
1

What game is played on a 64-square board in North America, but on a 100-square board in Europe (especially France)?
Backgammon
Cribbage
Checkers
Chess
2

The original version of which video games pitted against each other seven of Earth's finest warriors--Liu Kang, Rayden, Sonya, Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage, Kano and Scorpion?
Doom
Resident Evil
Mortal Kombat
Street Fighter
2

In Britain, what toy is known as the bandalore, quiz or the Prince of Wales toy?
Yoyo
Spinning top
Slingshot
Tiddlywinks
0

What is a winning score in both blackjack and ping-pong?
21
30
12
9
0

Not all video games come from Japan. It just seems that way. What country gave us Tetris?
New Zealand
Brazil
India
Russia
3

In chess, what piece is represented by the letter K?
King
No piece is
Knight
Rook
0

Which of these is not one of the weapons in the classic version of the board game Clue?
Baseball bat
Lead pipe
Rope
Candlestick
0

In the most common system of chess notation, what letter - or letters - designates the knight?
L
N
K
Kn
1

Although Share-a-Smile Becky did have a hot pink wheelchair, whose Dream House turned out to be wheelchair inaccessible?
Malibu Stacy
Cabbage Patch Kids
GI Joe
Barbie
3

What decade provides the setting for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City?
1960s
1970s
1990s
1980s
3

In chess, the bishop can only move diagonally. Which of these pieces never moves diagonally?
King
Rook
Pawn
Queen
1

In what board game would I invade Irkutsk, Yakutsk and Kamchatka?
Monopoly
Battleship
Risk
Axis and Allies
2

Invented in Germany by Margaret Steiff, what do arctophiles collect?
Teddy bears
Plates
Stamps
Postcards
0

How many squares are there on a standard bingo card?
36
49
25
16
2

What country gave the world maryoshka nesting dolls?
Russia
Poland
Hungary
Switzerland
0

In many card games, such as rummy and solitaire, what is the "bird-like" word for the unused or discarded cards?
Feather
Talon
Gizzard
Beak
1

James McManus wrote "Positively Fifth Street" about what game?
Poker
Scrabble
Chess
Monopoly
0

Chinese checkers is played on a board that looks a little like a Star of David. What is the maximum number of players who can play at once?
Two
Six
Four
One
1

When beginning a game of chess, which of these pieces is next to the rook?
Bishop
Knight
King
Queen
1

Best known for Barbie, Mattel also created what line of die-cast cars for boys?
Matchbox
Dinky
Hot Wheels
Corgis
2

At tournaments, what game typically begins with a balloted opening requiring a three-move restriction, chosen at random?
Contract bridge
Dungeons and Dragons
Backgammon
Checkers
3

Most stamps are square or rectangular. But who broke the mold in 1853 with the first triangular stamp?
Nepal
Hungary
Newfoundland
Cape of Good Hope
3

After designing the Sparrow and Hawk missile systems for the US military, Jack Ryan went on to mold what toy for Mattel?
Barbie
Slinky
Hot Wheels
GI Joe
0

Popular in Japan, what pinball-like game involves small steel balls bouncing around nails until they land in pockets?
Karaoke
Pachinko
Foosball
Anime
1

Early versions of what game include senet, played in Ancient Egypt, and tabula, played in Ancient Rome?
Checkers
Chess
Poker
Backgammon
3

One word, two syllables. What party game's name come from the Portuguese word for "entertainment"?
Marbles
Charades
Checkers
Poker
1

In 1985, what character, who no doubt fired a lot of full-metal-jacket bullets, was featured on the last full-metal lunchbox made in the US?
Han Solo
Papa Smurf
The Terminator
John Rambo
3

In 1935, who became the first character licensed to appear on a lunch box?
Mickey Mouse
Popeye
Flash Gordon
Bugs Bunny
0

What former Postmaster General appeared on the first official US postage stamp, issued on July 1, 1847?
Alexander Hamilton
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Gouverneur Morris
1

In what year's Christmas season were parents desperately chasing Cabbage Patch Kids, which came with their own adoption certificates?
1973
1963
1953
1983
3

If you're playing poker and it's "deuces wild," which of these cards do you most want to see?
Ace of spades
Jack of hearts
Two of clubs
Eight of diamonds
2

Because this score is impossible to get in cribbage, what number is used to mean you've scored zero points?
29
19
13
54
1

In his 1962 book "Beat the Dealer" Edward Thorpe describes the computer trials he'd run to find ways of beating the house in what card game?
Baccarat
Bridge
Poker
Blackjack
3

In games such as Texas Hold'Em, what do you call the first three cards turned up?
Flop
Post
Muck
Hold
0

In blackjack, you want to see a 21. What number do you want in baccarat?
11
9
13
15
1

In the Sims House Party computer game, what rotund celebrity shows up if your Sims are throwing a particularly awesome party?
Paris Hilton
Charlie Sheen
Kid Rock
Drew Carey
3

What is the only chess piece that normally moves in a way the queen cannot?
Rook
Knight
Bishop
Pawn
1

Introduced by Milton Bradley in 1966, what risque game became a huge hit after Johnny Carson and Eva Gabor played it on "The Tonight Show"?
Operation
Pictionary
Twister
Scruples
2

Probably developed by British officers in India, what game uses 22 balls, 15 of which are red?
Pool
Snooker
Cribbage
Backgammon
1

As the story goes, stuffed bears were named for what president, who was the subject of a Washington Post cartoon while hunting in Mississippi?
Woodrow Wilson
Ulysses Grant
Theodore Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
2

In 1958, Wham-O sold 25 million units of a fad product in just four months, all thanks to an idea it got from Australian gym classes. What is it?
Hula Hoop
Hacky Sack
Superball
Frisbee
0

Kriegspiel is an odd version of what game, using two boards, in which neither player can see the other's pieces and a third person officiates?
Chess
Cribbage
Backgammon
Poker
0

Probably invented by teenagers from Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ, the "spirit of the game" assumes everyone will follow the rules of ultimate. What do you use to play ultimate?
Dominos
Yo-yo
Frisbee
Slinky
2

Because he reworked the scoring system in around 1910, Elwood Baker of the Knickerbocker Whist Club in New York is credited with creating what rummy-based game?
Gin
Solitaire
Crazy Eights
Poker
0

In 1995, Parker Brothers formally apologized to the residents of what Atlantic City street, the name of which is misspelled in Monopoly?
Mediteranean Avenue
Parke Place
Ilinois Avenue
Marven Gardens
3

In 1942, Monopoly added the dog, wheelbarrow and horse-and-rider tokens, replacing all but which of these original tokens?
Purse
Iron
Rocking horse
Lantern
1

Which of these weapons cannot be used in Clue to do away with Mr Boddy?
Candlestick
Knife
Poison
Rope
2

In the British version of Clue, called Cluedo, which character is a reverend?
Mr White
Colonel Mustard
Mr Green
Professor Plum
2

What mix of boric acid and silicone oil, originally called gupp, did GE's James Wright invent as a substitute for rubber?
Play-Doh
Slinky
Crayon
Silly Putty
3

Played in India, kabaddi is a team game similar to what North American kids' recreation?
Tag
Hopscotch
Tiddlywinks
Marbles
0

Anatoly Karpov became famous for a chess style named for which snake?
Cobra
Boa constrictor
Anaconda
Python
1

This name is shared by both a board game from Avalon Hill, set in the ancient world, and by a computer game by Sid Meier, in which you can take over the world. What is this game?
Risk
Civilization
SimCity
Age of Empires
1

The name of what game literally means "sparrow"?
Rummy
Chess
Backgammon
Mahjong
3

What archaic arcade game could have answered the question, "Why did the freshwater anuran amphibian cross the road?"
Donkey Kong
Pong
Frogger
Pac-Man
2

In what Sid Meier computer game do you build a civilization through history until it can conquer (or least pacify) its rivals?
Alpha Centauri
Age of Empire
Civilization
Diplomacy
2

The world champ in what game wins $15,140, the amount of money it comes with?
Trivial Pursuit
Careers
Life
Monopoly
3

Designed by Toshihiro Nishikado, what archaic arcade game had you shooting down aliens with a "laser cannon" as you jumped back and forth from behind forts?
Missle Command
Galaga
Space Invaders
Asteroids
2

What Xbox videogame series pits Master Chief against the aliens attacking Earth?
Half Life
Doom
Halo
Metal Gear Solid
2

What "massively multiplayer online role-playing game" from Sony is set largely in the fictional world of Norrath?
EverQuest
Ultima Online
Dark Age of Camelot
Final Fantasy
0

The flagship of the Hero System, Champions is a role-playing game set in what genre?
Superheroes
Science fiction
Pulp fiction
Fantasy
0

Published by GDW and famous for its "Little Black Books," Traveller was set in what genre?
Fantasy
Espionage
Science fiction
Post-apocalypse
2

Stamps that can't actually be used for postage are named for what fictional character?
Little Mermaid
Cinderella
Snow White
Red Riding Hood
1

In what video game do you meet Atrus of the D'Ni people?
Doom
Halo
Myst
Alpha Centauri
2

The martingale is a gambling technique in which double your bet each time you lose, and bet the minimum after you win. What game is this strategy best for?
Slots
Blackjack
Poker
Roulette
3

