Trivia Quiz on Board Games

1. What is Chinese checkers played with

A) Checkers pieces

B) Coins

C) Marbles

D) Glass beads

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2. What kind of 'mate' produces a tie in a chess game

A) Checkmate

B) Fool's Mate

C) Draw by repetition

D) Stalemate

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3. On a darts board what number is directly opposite 10

A) Fourteen

B) Eight

C) Twelve

D) Twenty

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4. What is the game we call Noughts and Crosses called in America

A) Tic Tac Dough

B) Xs and Os

C) Tic tac toe

D) Othello

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5. In what game would you nurdle scrunge or carnovsky

A) Crokinole

B) Quoits

C) Tiddlywinks

D) Checkers

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6. In Italy where are Monterosa Ave Park of Victory Constantine Ave

A) In Rome

B) In Milan

C) On a Monopoly board

D) In Naples

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7. What's the only 5 point letter in scrabble

A) J

B) Q

C) K

D) Z

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8. Local law - Atwood con - cant play what if waiting politician speak

A) Monopoly

B) Chess

C) Scrabble

D) Boggle

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9. Schschpiel is what game in Germany

A) Chess

B) Checkers

C) Go

D) Backgammon

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10. Which Game Takes Its Name From The Latin For “Bird Of Prey?

A) Subbuteo

B) Aquila

C) Raptor

D) Falcon

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11. What is the tallest piece on a chessboard

A) Queen

B) Rook

C) King

D) Bishop

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12. Anthony Pratt invented what in the 1940s

A) Monopoly

B) Scrabble

C) Risk

D) Cluedo

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13. In chess, what name is given to the only move involving two pieces

A) En passant

B) Promotion

C) Checkmate

D) Castling

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14. Who is always the victim the game of Cluedo

A) Dr. black

B) Colonel Mustard

C) Miss Scarlet

D) Professor Plum

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15. What is the British equivalent of the game known in America as 'Tick-Tack-Toe'

A) Tic Tac Toe

B) X's and O's

C) Noughts and crosses

D) Three in a Row

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16. About which game has most books been written

A) Go

B) Poker

C) Checkers

D) Chess

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17. What games name literally means To Grope Frantically

A) Monopoly

B) Risk

C) Scrabble

D) Clue

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18. What number is on the opposite side of the 'five' on dice

A) Four

B) Two

C) One

D) Six

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19. How many numbers are on the spinner in 'the game of life'

A) Five

B) Ten

C) Twelve

D) Nine

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20. If You Rolled A 4 On Your First Throw In a Game Of Monopoly What Square Would You Land On

A) Mediterranean Avenue

B) Reading Railroad

C) Income Tax

D) Baltic Avenue

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21. There are 318,979,564,000 possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a game of

A) Chess

B) Checkers

C) Go

D) Shogi

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22. For which game would you win the Plimpton Cup

A) Chess

B) Backgammon

C) Go

D) Checkers

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23. What sport/game is bobby fischer associated with

A) Chess

B) Backgammon

C) Checkers

D) Go

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24. In the kama-sutra the art of which game is recommened for women to study ?

A) Chess

B) Backgammon

C) Go

D) Checkers

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25. To which of its games did Hasbro give a red card in January 2000

A) Monopoly

B) Connect Four

C) Subbuteo

D) Risk

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26. How many spots are on a dice

A) 21

B) 6

C) 7

D) 28

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27. In English its worth 10 points but in Polish only one what is

A) Letter Z in scrabble

B) Letter Q in scrabble

C) Letter J in scrabble

D) Letter W in scrabble

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28. What is the highest scoring english word in 'scrabble'

A) Quartzy

B) Quizzical

C) Oxyphenbutazone

D) Muzhiks

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29. Parcheesi is the national game of which country

A) Italy

B) Japan

C) India

D) Brazil

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30. FIDE govern what game

A) Go

B) Checkers

C) Shogi

D) Chess

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31. How many dots are on a twister mat

A) 30

B) 24

C) 28

D) 32

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32. Lexico was invented in 1932 what did it change its name to

A) Scrabble

B) Criss-Crosswords

C) Lexiko

D) WordCross

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33. How many dice are used in Backgammon

A) Two

B) Three

C) Five

D) Four

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34. The ELO system is used to rate players of which board game

A) Checkers

B) Chess

C) Go

D) Scrabble

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35. How many bonus points in Scrabble if all seven tiles played at once

A) Forty 40

B) Fifty 50

C) Sixty 60

D) Seventy 70

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36. Alfred Butta invented what in 1941 - marketed 1948

A) Monopoly

B) Crossword Puzzle

C) Scrabble

D) Boggle

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37. How much 'monopoly' money do you collect for finishing second in a beauty contest

A) Five dollars

B) Twenty dollars

C) Ten dollars

D) One hundred dollars

E) Two dollars

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38. What is found in one third of American homes

A) A coffee table

B) A microwave

C) A pet dog

D) Scrabble

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39. In which country did draughts (checkers) originate

A) China

B) France

C) Mesopotamia

D) Egypt

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40. How many squares on shogi (japanese chess) board

A) 64

B) 100

C) 49

D) 81

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41. Where Will You Find The Character “ Jake The Jailbird ”?

A) In the game's instruction manual

B) On the Monopoly box cover

C) On the Community Chest cards

D) On A Monopoly Board

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42. What was voted the best monopoly piece in 1998

A) The Top Hat

B) The Car

C) The Battleship

D) The Iron

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43. What game tiles were first made with a pocket knife

A) Domino tiles

B) Mahjong tiles

C) Scrabble

D) Rummikub tiles

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44. What was the board game introduced in the eighties which featured six categories of questions and little pie shaped pieces you had to collect?

A) Monopoly

B) Pictionary

C) Trivia Pursuit

D) Scattergories

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45. In scrabble what two letters are worth ten points

A) QZ

B) QK

C) ZX

D) JV

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46. Beasley how much does park place cost in monopoly

A) Four hundred fifty dollars

B) Three hundred fifty dollars

C) Four hundred dollars

D) Five hundred dollars

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47. What Is The Name Of The Murder Victim In The Board Game Cluedo

A) Dr Black

B) Colonel Mustard

C) Miss Scarlet

D) Professor Plum

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48. What kind of money, more than real money, is printed in a year throughout the world

A) Monopoly

B) Play money

C) Prop money

D) Cryptocurrency

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49. What is written at the bottom of a Oiuja board

A) Hello

B) Good bye

C) Farewell

D) See you later

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50. What is the board game where it pays to know your trivia

A) Monopoly

B) Trivial pursuit

C) Scrabble

D) Codenames

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