Board Games
What classic game involves capturing opponent pieces on a black-and-white checkered board?
Chess
What process allows plants to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food?
Photosynthesis
What weapon does a samurai traditionally use?
Katana
What is the most common letter in the English language?
E
This large inflatable ball is used for exercise or yoga.
What is a stability ball / exercise ball?
What game was originally created to act as an educational, anti-monopolist tool.
Monopoly
What is the fastest growing plant in the world?
Bamboo
Who was known as the "father of the atomic bomb"?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Derived from Old French for "a game evenly matched," this word now refers to a state of risk or danger.
What is Jeopardy?
This ball is used in the worlds most popular sport.
What is a Soccer ball?
In what game must you must figure out who committed a murder, with what weapon, in which room?
Clue
A "murder" is the collective noun used to describe a group of what black birds?
Crows
Where was the AK-47 created?
The USSR
THIS ROUND WILL BE DOUBLE POINTS IF YOU WIN (+600) BUT NO CONSEQUENCE IF YOU LOOSE CLOSEST GUESS WINS
How many different meanings does the word "run" have?
~645 distinct meanings
This sport uses the smallest ball.
What is table tennis or squash?
What board game is derived from the Swahili verb meaning "to build".
Jenga
What bird is the only bird capable of flying backward and upside down?
The hummingbird
What were the names of the first two atomic bombs used in warfare?
Little Boy and Fat Man
There are only two common words in the English language that end in "-gry", what are they?
Angry and hungry
This old historical figure is rumored to have only one ball.
What is Adolf Hitler?
Where was the first (recorded) boardgame created?
Ancient Egypt and the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia)
This specific scale, ranging from 0 to 5, is used to measure the intensity and damage of a tornado.
The Fujita Scale (or EF Scale)
What is the fastest projectile weapon used by humans?
Railgun
What word describes a word that is its own opposite. For example, "dust" can mean to remove dust (cleaning a table) or to add it (dusting a cake with sugar).
Contronym
This title for the heaviest ball used in sports is a tie between Bowling this activity.
What is shot put?