Casinos

Where are you?

100

Twenty of the thirty largest hotels in the world are casino resorts located where?

What is the Las Vegas strip

200

 What casino powerhouse location surpasses Las Vegas?  

What is Macau 

300

What was the first casino resort on what would become the Las Vegas Strip?  

 What is El Rancho Vegas 

400

In 1976, New Jersey voters legalized casino gambling where?

What is Atlantic City

500

Name the locations of the 2 new casinos about to open in Massachusetts?

Springfield and Everett 

The house always wins

100

What is the handle?

What is total amount of money bet at a game

200

 What are the two basic categories of gambling? 

 What is social gambling and mercantile (or commercial) gambling

300

What do casinos with thousands of guest on any given day rely on to track patron play?

What is customer loyalty programs

400

 What is the win?

 the handle minus the money paid out on winning bets (what the casino keeps)

500

This allows casinos to make a profit and offer fair games 

What is the house "edge" 

Casino Games

100

 Name 3 tables games 

 What is blackjack, craps, roulette, baccarat, poker

200

 Which casino game offers the best chance of winning?

 What is blackjack?

300

How many spaces does a roulette wheel have?

 What is 38 spaces (1-36, 0, and 00)

400

Slots account for what percentage of overall gambling profits?

What is 60%

500

What game is similar to lotto or bingo and is found in many bars and restaurants

What is Keno

Casino History

100

 What billionaire purchased casinos in the 1960’s, changing the way casinos were viewed by the public and the government?  

 Who is Howard Hughes

200

During the Great Depression, what state legalized gambling to increase tourism? 

 What is Nevada

300

 What year was the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act established?

 What year was the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act established?

400

 Gambling dates back how many thousands of years?

Gambling dates back how many thousands of years?

500

The creation of the modern casino in 1941 had what type of a theme for their names?

Western themed (El Rancho Vegas, Golden Nugget, Hotel Apache, Horseshoe, Frontier) 

What happens in Vegas...

100

What are comps?

What is complimentary goods and services offered to casino patrons in order to attract their business

200

Which CT casino is the 2nd largest in the United States?

What Foxwoods 

300

 The gaming industry has continued scrutiny by who?

What is the (federal) government

400

The gaming industry is less dependent on casino revenue and more dependent on what?

What is Food and Beverage, retail, entertainment, rooms

500

 What is name of the Las Vegas casino with more than a thousand  dancing fountains in front of the hotel?

 The Bellagio