By and Bi
Fads and Trends
Board Games
The 80's
What Kind of Animal?
200

A tiny unit of digital processing, and what the "B" stands for in GB, KB, MB.

Byte

200

On Twitter, it's recently become popular to describe something vapid or soulless as "spiritually ____".

Israeli

200

The word for the final stages of a game of chess, where most of the pieces are off the board, or the subtitle of the highest grossing Marvel movie.

The endgame

200

This drink was invented in 1884 by pharmacist John Pemberton in Atlanta, it was intended to be used as a medicinal tonic.

Coca-Cola

200

Fruit, vampire

Bat

400

It's not a biography, but a kind of film dramatizing the life of a person; the movies Bohemian Rhapsody and Oppenheimer are these.

Biopic

400

This Emirati dessert filled with pistachio cream went enormously viral on TikTok in 2024.

Dubai chocolate

400

The Russian peninsula Kamchatka is of particular strategic importance in this board game.

Risk

400

In September of 1984, in only his second episode hosting the show Jeopardy!, all three contestants wagered all their money in Final Jeopardy! and got it wrong, resulting in a three-way tie. He went on to host the show for another 36 years.

Alex Trebek

400

Spider, Rhesus

Monkey

600

**DAILY DOUBLE**

The psychological effect by which people are less likely to help someone in an emergency situation if many other people are present.

The Bystander effect

600

Created in 1975, Gary Dahl invented this "pet" that is as low maintenance as possible.

Pet rock

600

Nigel Richards memorized an entire dictionary to successfully compete in the French-language version of this board game, despite not speaking a word of the language.

Scrabble

600

It was very easy for settlers to hunt these animals, as the lack of natural predators on the island of Mauritius meant that they had no fear response. The last of these flightless birds was killed around 1681.

Dodo birds

600

Spectacled, American Black

Bear

800

A legislature divided into two houses or chambers is known as this.

Bicameral

800

This fad hosted through the blockchain grew popular in 2021. One user expresses his dissatisfaction; "All my apes gone".

NFTs

800

**DAILY DOUBLE**

These blue properties at the end of the board are the two most expensive properties in Monopoly, they combine for a price of $750.

Boardwalk and Park Place

800

In 986, the Viking sailor Bjarni Herjólfsson accidentally became the first European to sight the continent of North America. He meant to go to this Arctic island instead, with which Donald Trump has a strange obsession.

Greenland

800

Rainbow, brook

Trout

1000

A small, quiet road that does not see much use, and in a Frank Sinatra song: "Each careful step, along the ___".

Byway

1000

Several people have died doing this 2000's Bay Area trend where one exits their moving car and dances alongside it.

Ghost riding the whip

1000

NFL quarterback Joe Burrow recently professed his love for this board game in an interview. He likes to "hoard some ore and wheat" so he can have powerful cities in the late game.

Settlers of Catan

1000

In 1281, the Mongol invasion of Japan was struck down for a second time by the "divine winds". In reality, it was likely this kind of storm akin to a hurricane.

A typhoon

1000

Beaded, frilled

lizard

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