National Games & Puzzles Week
Monopoly is modeled after this city on the East Coast
Atlantic City
Before it was known as Veterans Day, what name did it previously have?
Armistice Day
Black Friday typically occurs on this day every year
The Friday after Thanksgiving
What color are the goal posts in football?
Yellow
What historical event occurred on November 11th?
The end of World War 1
What are one of the two letters in Scrabble worth 10 points?
Q and Z
Who was the President who signed the bill into law designating November 11th as Veterans Day?
Eisenhower
Black Friday is named after the financial term "in the black" meaning a business is this
Profitable/cash-flow positive/not in debt
What part of the body can’t touch the ball in soccer? (Except the goalie.)
Who was elected as the 16th U.S. President and the first Republican on November 6, 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Dominoes originated in the 13th century from this country
China
How does Memorial Day and Veterans Day differ?
Veterans Day celebrates living veterans. Memorial Day celebrates fallen veterans
This day, the Monday after Thanksgiving, is an online alternative to Black Friday
Cyber Monday
What NFL team has never made it to the Superbowl?
The Detroit Lions are the oldest NFL team to have never appeared in a Super Bowl and the only franchise from the NFC to have never played for the trophy.
What author published on November 24th, 1859 the book "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection", theorizing that all living creatures descended from a common ancestor?
Charles Darwin
What game of logic was invented in America but has a Japanese name?
Sudoku
What organizations urged for Amristice Day to be changed to Veterans Day?
U.S. veteran organizations
The term "Black Friday" first appeared in The New York Times in this decade
1970s
What country was golf banned in between 1427- 1744 because the government believed it interfered with military training?
Scotland
Whose tomb was discovered at Luxor, Egypt, by British archaeologist Howard Carter?
King Tut's Tomb was discovered on November 4th, 1922.
What was the name of the Journalist who wrote the first crossword puzzle that was published in New York World in December of 1913?
Arthur Wynne
Between 1971 and 1977, what day was Veterans Day celebrated before it was moved back to it’s original date?
Fourth Monday of October
This city popularized the term Black Friday to describe the traffic and crowds caused by holiday shoppers and tourists for the Army-Navy game. (This city has hosted 89 out of 121 Army-Navy Games due to it being midway between West Point and Annapolis)
Philadelphia
What Baseball team has won the most world series?
The Yankees
What state became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights on November 20th, 1789?
New Jersey