BOARD GAMES
In Trivial Pursuit, how many categories of questions are there?
What is Six Categories
Which card game has variations called ‘Canfield’ and ‘Klondike’?
What is Solitaire
What long-running game show debuted on NBC in 1964?
What is JEOPARDY!
What is the name of the classic hand-clapping game that involves rolling, patting, and drawing a “B” in the air?
What is Pat A Cake
Where is the game Marco Polo traditionally played?
What is the Swimming Pool
In Scrabble, what is the highest-scoring letter tile(s)?
What is Q and Z each worth 10 points
Which card game, often played with a standard deck, involves a bidding phase and is considered a highly strategic partnership game?
What is Bridge
Which game show involves contestants solving word puzzles to win cash and prizes?
What is The Wheel of Fortune
What is the name of the hand-clapping game and nursery rhyme that is often considered the most common in the English-speaking world, with origins tied to a 19th-century ship and various regional variations?
What is Miss Mary Mack
Merrimack ship theory — a nod to the USS Merrimack, a mid-19th-century American frigate that became the ironclad CSS Virginia during the Civil War
In traditional Double Dutch, do the ropes turn in the same direction or opposite directions?
What is Opposite
In Checkers, what happens when a piece reaches the opposite side?
Which card game is believed to have originated in China during the Tang Dynasty around the 9th century?
What is Poker
What popular game show let contestants choose between 3 doors, one of which contained a cash prize?
What is Let's Make A Deal
Which 1950s hand game included hand slapping, crossing arms, leg slaps, and claps? It could be played with a partner or in a circle
What is Down Down Baby
What widely believed explanation about the rhyme Ring Around The Rosie, has been debunked by historians?
What is the Black Plague
If you rolled five of a kind in Yahtzee, what is the highest possible score you could get on your very first roll?
What is 300!
In which card game is the term 'shoot the moon' used?
What is Hearts
What 1960s game show featured celebrity panelists who tried to guess a contestant’s occupation?
What is What's My Line
Which game used motions matching the words “sea,” “see,” and “knee”?
A Sailor Went to Sea
Which ancient civilization is believed to have inspired early forms of hopscotch?
What is the Romans
Which game has the slogan “A minute to learn, a lifetime to master”?
What is the oldest known card game that is still being played in its near original form today?
What is Cribbage
What was the first game show to air on television?
What is Truth or Consequences
The first television game show in the U.S. was Truth or Consequences, which aired on July 1, 1941, on New York station WNBT (now WNBC), coinciding with the official launch of commercial television in the country. The show challenged contestants to answer trivia questions correctly ("truth") or perform a humorous or embarrassing stunt if they failed ("consequences")
What is the other well-known and perhaps more modern name for the hand game "Miss Susie" that was popularized in the 1950s.
What is "Miss Lucy" Had A Baby
Miss Lucy had a baby
She named him Tiny Tim
She put him in the bathtub
To see if he could swim.
e drank up all the water
He ate up all the soap.
He tried to eat the bathtub
But it wouldn’t go down his throat
Miss Lucy called the doctor
Miss Lucy called the nurse
Miss Lucy called the lady
With the alligator purse
“Mumps!” said the doctor
“Measles!” said the nurse
“Nothing!” said the lady
With the alligator purse.
Out walked the doctor
Out walked the nurse.
Out walked the lady
With the alligator purse
The hand holding chain game, Red Rover is believed to date back to which European region?
What is England
Red Rover is a long‑standing children’s game with roots in 18th‑ and 19th‑century England, evolving from older capture‑and‑run traditions. While there is no single documented “invention” date, historical records show it was part of a broader folk game culture in Britain before the 20th century
In England, Red Rover likely began as a simple tag-and-running game with one “Red Rover” in the center calling out to players to come over Wikipedia. Over time, especially in the 1930s–40s, the rules evolved into the two-team, held-hands “combat” version popular today