Weapons
This explosive device, often thrown by hand, is designed to injure, kill, or destroy enemy forces.
What is a grenade?
This 1815 battle marked the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in Belgium.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
This chocolate-covered wafer bar is made by Nestlé and has a name that sounds like a famous astronomer.
What is a Milky Way?
This 1986 nuclear disaster occurred at a power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
What is Chernobyl?
In this strategy game, players build settlements, cities, and roads on an island using resource cards like brick, wood, and wheat.
What is Settlers of Catan?
This Japanese weapon is a curved, single-edged sword traditionally used by samurai.
What is a Katana?
This conflict, from 1950–1953, was fought on an Asian peninsula and involved U.S., Chinese, and UN forces.
What is the Korean War?
This candy, popular around Easter, features pastel-colored marshmallow shapes in the form of chicks and bunnies.
What are Peeps?
This 1912 maritime disaster involved a British passenger liner sinking.
What is the RMS Titanic?
In this deduction game, players try to determine which character committed a murder, with what weapon, and in what room.
What is Clue?
This blunt weapon consists of a heavy head attached to a handle and was used to crush armor or bones.
What is a Mace?
This conflict from 1861–1865 divided the United States and featured battles like Gettysburg and Antietam.
What is the American Civil War?
These red, spicy-sweet cinnamon-flavored candy sticks are popular at movie theaters.
What is Red Hots?
This 1871 fire destroyed much of this U.S. city, leaving over 100,000 residents homeless.
What is the Chicago (Great Chicago Fire)?
This game involves capturing territory with armies and rolling dice to determine the outcome of battles.
What is Risk?
This pole-mounted blade was commonly affixed to muskets so infantry could both shoot and engage in close combat.
What is a bayonet?
During World War II, the Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in this year, known as D-Day. (Bonus 100 pts if you get the date)
What is 1944? (June 6)
This candy, first made in 1893, features thick chocolate surrounding nougat and nuts, and shares its name with a famous city.
What is Toblerone?
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This hurricane, one of the deadliest in U.S. history, struck New Orleans and surrounding areas in 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
In this abstract strategy game, players place stones on a 19x19 grid trying to surround more territory than their opponent.
What is Go?
A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, often used by South American gauchos to entangle legs of animals.
What is a Bola?
This ancient war between Athens and Sparta lasted from 431 to 404 BC.
What is the Peloponnesian War.
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This British candy, invented in the 1920s, combines malted milk and chocolate and is often compared to the American Whoppers.
What are Maltesers?
In 2018, 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped for over two weeks in a flooded cave system in this Southeast Asian country before an international rescue operation freed them.
What is Thailand?
Cards Against Humanity is inspired by this earlier card game.
What is Apples to Apples?