Games
A game with bishops, rooks, and knights.
What is Chess?
Caused by bacteria spread by fleas on rats, killing a massive portion of Europe's population in the 14th century
What is The Black Death (Bubonic Plague)?
Other than humans - these could be tried and convicted for crimes, and if found guilty sentenced to death.
What are animals?
Forged iron tools, horseshoes, weapons, and armor for the community and military.
What is a Blacksmith?
A Swedish CGI-animated character and Eurodance music project created in 2003 by Erik Wernquist.
Who is Crazy Frog?
A game where people ride on horses to hit eachother with lances to score points.
What is Jousting?
Tuberculosis
A chronic bacterial lung infection that served as one of the era's most efficient killers
This utensil was quite uncommon in Medieval Europe and would not often be seen around the feasting table.
What is a fork?
Entertained royals and nobles with comedy, acrobatics, music, and clever satire
What is a Court Jester?
They can swallow air to inflate their stomachs and intestines, helping them float across rivers or sink and walk along the bottom of small streams.
What are Armadillos?
A sport where someone who fights another person using swords and face masks.
What is fencing?
A stigmatized bacterial infection affecting the skin and nervous system, leading to the creation of isolated leprosariums
What is Leprosy?
Some households collected and sold this liquid to local tanners and dyers, who used the ammonia for treating leather and cleaning wool
What is urine?
Trained and cared for hunting birds used by the nobility for sport and food acquisition.
What is a Falconer?
A massive and infamous physical brawl between NBA players and fans that occurred on November 19, 2004.
What is Malice in the Palace?
An ancient game and historical toy traditionally played with the actual anklebones of sheep or goats.
What is Knucklebones?
Common gastrointestinal infections spread through contaminated water and poor sanitation in towns. Often a killer on the Oregon Trail.
What is Dysentery?
What are Eels?
One who controlled disease-spreading rodent populations in towns using traps, ferrets, and dogs.
What is a Rat Catcher?
This company manufactures more rubber tires than any other company in the world.
What is LEGO?
Violent local versions of this game—often played with a blown-up pig bladder—were banned by kings like Edward II because they caused chaos and injuries.
What is Football?
Caused by eating rye grain contaminated with fungus, leading to painful gangrene and hallucinations
What is St. Anthony's Fire (Ergotism)?
In castles, the bathroom would double as this additional space.
What are closets? (The ammonia smell helped keep moths away from the robes and furs stored in those rooms!)
Performed haircuts alongside medical tasks like bloodletting, tooth extraction, and amputations.
What is a Barber Surgeon?
This many servings of Coca-Cola are drank every day.
What is 1.7 Billion?