Question 1

Which is the biggest selling board game of all time?

Accepted Answer

Monopoly - Yes, this classic is still the biggest seller of all time.

Question 2

Which card game uses the term "the river"?

Accepted Answer

Texas hold'em

Question 3

Which poker term is popularly called a "bump"?

Accepted Answer

Raise

Question 4

What card game uses no cards under a 9?

Accepted Answer

Pinochle

Question 5

What game term has come to mean something without value?

Accepted Answer

Monopoly money

Question 6

Someone playing what game might say "Fifteen-two, fifteen-four, fifteen-six, and a pair for eight"?

Accepted Answer

Cribbage

Question 7

In which game do players perform "bearing off"?

Accepted Answer

Backgammon

Question 8

Which game uses marshals, spies and bombs?

Accepted Answer

Stratego

Question 9

Which game created by Gary Gygax needs polyhedral dice?

Accepted Answer

Dungeons and Dragons

Question 10

This game requires a pair of specialized boards so that opponents cannot see each other's game setup.

Accepted Answer

Battleship

Question 11

Which game requires 5 dice and a special scorecard to play?

Accepted Answer

Yahtzee

Question 12

Which of the following games does not require dice?

Accepted Answer

The Game of Life

Question 13

Which game utilizes "gambits"?

Accepted Answer

Chess

Question 14

Which game might your hear a player declare "attacking Indonesia" while shaking dice?

Accepted Answer

Risk

Question 15

This tile-based game can be played in either 4-player or solitaire form.

Accepted Answer

Mahjong

Question 16

In which game do players start with "$10000 and a car"?

Accepted Answer

The Game of Life

Question 17

This French card game requires special cards with automotive meanings.

Accepted Answer

Mille Bornes

Question 18

This game was so popular in Ancient Egypt, parlors dedicated to this game sprang up all over.

Accepted Answer

Senet

Question 19

Chinese checkers is a game invented in which country?

Accepted Answer

Germany - The game was created in Germany but was named Chinese checkers by Americans.

Question 20

Snakes and Ladders (retooled as Chutes and Ladders by Milton-Bradley) originated where?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 21

This "count-and-capture" game with contrasting counters and a board with pits to hold them is popular in Africa and the Middle East.

Accepted Answer

Mancala

Question 22

The American card game Black Lady is a variation on which game?

Accepted Answer

Hearts

Question 23

Which card is known as the "suicide king"?

Accepted Answer

King of hearts - This card seems to show the king stabbing himself in the head with his sword, but this is simply 2D lack of perspective.

Question 24

The name of this tile-based game is now synonymous with "a single action leading to many consequential results".

Accepted Answer

Dominos

Question 25

This specialty card game involves trading commodities cards.

Accepted Answer

Pit

Question 26

Chess is one of the most universally played games.  Where is it believed to originate?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 27

Which board game has players named for colors?

Accepted Answer

Clue

Question 28

This card game hit the market in 1971 and is derived from the old card game Crazy 8s.

Accepted Answer

Uno

Question 29

This double-deck card game began in South America as a variation of rummy and was huge in the US in the 1950s.

Accepted Answer

Canasta

Question 30

Final Question: This game has 6 categories of question (in the original format) and involves collecting pie slices for correct answers.

Accepted Answer

Trivial Pursuit - This is the Russian nesting doll of questions: a trivia question about Trivial Pursuit on a trivia site.  Is that redundant?

WIN BIG! A Quiz About Games... Cards, Dice, Boards and Playing Them

2) Which card game uses the term "the river"?

3) Which poker term is popularly called a "bump"?

4) What card game uses no cards under a 9?

5) What game term has come to mean something without value?

6) Someone playing what game might say "Fifteen-two, fifteen-four, fifteen-six, and a pair for eight"?

7) In which game do players perform "bearing off"?

8) Which game uses marshals, spies and bombs?

9) Which game created by Gary Gygax needs polyhedral dice?

10) This game requires a pair of specialized boards so that opponents cannot see each other's game setup.

11) Which game requires 5 dice and a special scorecard to play?

12) Which of the following games does not require dice?

13) Which game utilizes "gambits"?

14) Which game might your hear a player declare "attacking Indonesia" while shaking dice?

15) This tile-based game can be played in either 4-player or solitaire form.

16) In which game do players start with "$10000 and a car"?

17) This French card game requires special cards with automotive meanings.

18) This game was so popular in Ancient Egypt, parlors dedicated to this game sprang up all over.

19) Chinese checkers is a game invented in which country?

20) Snakes and Ladders (retooled as Chutes and Ladders by Milton-Bradley) originated where?

21) This "count-and-capture" game with contrasting counters and a board with pits to hold them is popular in Africa and the Middle East.

22) The American card game Black Lady is a variation on which game?

23) Which card is known as the "suicide king"?

24) The name of this tile-based game is now synonymous with "a single action leading to many consequential results".

25) This specialty card game involves trading commodities cards.

26) Chess is one of the most universally played games. Where is it believed to originate?

27) Which board game has players named for colors?

28) This card game hit the market in 1971 and is derived from the old card game Crazy 8s.

29) This double-deck card game began in South America as a variation of rummy and was huge in the US in the 1950s.

30) Final Question: This game has 6 categories of question (in the original format) and involves collecting pie slices for correct answers.