I Know That Tune...
John Barry - 1962
What is James Bond?
Published by Hasbro players roll two dice to go around the board and collect properties - Hope I don't land on Park Place!
What is Monopoly?
Pittsburgh has more of these than any other city in the world, they must've gotten the funding from the unused wall budget
What are Bridges?
The Old Norse word 'vindauga' gave us this pane-ful word for an opening in a wall
What is a Window?
A cruel royal female
What is a Mean Queen?
Alan Silvestri - 1985
What is Back To The Future?
Believed to be the oldest board game in the world that is still being played this two player game involves players placing Black and White stones onto a large grid based board
What is Go?
Fort Pitt was a British Fort built during the French and Indian War on top of this French Fort that originally watched the three Rivers. Its also the namesake of a college in Pittsburgh today
What is Fort Duquesne?
This insect's name is derived from the superstition that it enters a sleeping person's aural organs
What is Earwig?
A putrid download onto your computer
What is a Vile File?
Vangelis - 1981
What is Chariots of Fire?
This two player game from Mesopotamia finds each player with 15 pieces that can move up and down the boards 24 triangles
What is Backgammon?
Originally known as the "Buena Vista Tract", this historic Northside District commemorates an American conflict
What are the Mexican War Streets?
Used to describe stately mansions of the old south, it's from the Latin for 'before the war'
What is Antebellum?
TIGI has a line of hair products called this to give you that tousled just woken up look
What is Bed Head?
Elmer Bernstien - 1963
What is The Great Escape?
This is a generic name for a family of two-player turn-based strategy board games played with small stones, beans, or seeds and rows of holes or pits in the earth, a board or other playing surface. The object is to capture all of the other players pieces.
What is Mancala?
Downtown Pittsburgh, home to 30 skyscrapers and the famous "Cultural District", is also known by this metalic and geometric nickname
What is The Golden Triangle?
This term for a minor engagement in war traces its origins back to the old Italian word scaramuccia
What is Skirmish?
An African equine born under the sign of the scales
What is a Zebra Libra?
Thomas Newman - 1994
What is The Shawshank Redemption?
This mysterious Indian Board game from the 6th Century is the ancestor of a modern game we're all familiar with - Chess.
What is Chaturanga?
Pittsburgh was named in 1758, by this General, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.
Who is John Forbes?
This term for a novice or beginner is from Latin & Greek for 'newly planted'
What is Neophyte?
Detectives meeting at an agreed time and place
What is Gumshoe Rendezvous?