Table Games
Introduced in 1971, this card game’s name comes from the Spanish word players must shout when they have a single card left in their hand.
What is Uno? The game was invented by Merle Robbins, a barber who was seeking a more family-friendly version of crazy eights.
What is the name of the "friendly" ghost?
Who is Casper
Buenos Aires is the capital of this South American country.
What is Argentina? Three more interesting facts: Nearly 97 percent of Argentinians are of European descent.
Though these land areas can be cold, they are usually known for their hot, dry climate.
What are deserts? The Antarctic continent is the outlier; it’s a huge desert, even though it’s cold.
What is the common item you are not supposed to open inside lest you bring on bad luck?
An umbrella
In 1985, a waiter devised this game using a dictionary, pencil, and a legal pad (for players to draw the clues on).
What is Pictionary? Rob Angel put together the first 1,000 Pictionary games by hand in his small apartment.
Where is Transylvania, otherwise known as home to Count Dracula, located?
Romania
New South Wales, Queensland, and Tasmania are three of the states of this country in the southern hemisphere.
What is Australia?
This once powered trains.
What is steam? Hot steam under immense pressure powered the trains.
This animal crossing your path means bad luck.
A Black Cat
With several editions released throughout the 1980s, the Canadian version of this popular board game includes locations like Ontario Northland and Rue Saint-Jacques in place of Boardwalk and Park Place.
What is Monopoly? Uniquely, the Canadian game is bilingual, celebrating the two official languages of Canada—English and French.
Who wrote the 1818 classic book “Frankenstein?”
Who is Mary Shelly
This country was part of an empire with Hungary from 1867 to 1918.
What is Austria? Notable Austrians include Josef Madersperger, who invented the sewing machine
Magma is made of these melted or partially melted materials.
What are rocks? The liquefied rock is called magma when it is below Earth’s surface. Upon eruption, it is called lava. Temperatures range between 1,300º and 2,400º Fahrenheit (700º to 1,300º Celsius).
Breaking a mirror is a well-known curse! How many years will this curse last?
7 Years
Inventor Allan Turoff initially called this game Find-a-Word, since players must use the letter dice to create words worth the most points.
What is Boggle? The Parker Brothers company renamed it in 1972, and it began to grow a dedicated following.
Where does the quote “Double, double toil and trouble” come from?
William Shakespeare's “Macbeth”
Morocco and Tunisia flank this North African country, which lies on the Mediterranean Sea’s coastline.
What is Algeria? It’s the largest country in Africa, and 80 percent of the Saharan Desert is located within
This hot event occurred on Mount Vesuvius.
What is a volcanic eruption? The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 covered the city of Pompeii.
There's a superstition about walking underneath a certain object.
A ladder
This popular game of the 1980s asks questions in six categories, including geography, sports and leisure, and history.
What is Trivial Pursuit? The original game included 6,000 questions.
What’s the most popular Halloween candy of 2023?
M&M's
Once a colony of Portugal, this southwestern African country endured a 27-year civil war, involving troops from Cuba and South Africa, from 1975 to 2002.
What is Angola? While the developed world knows little about Angola aside from its civil war, the country has some magnificent natural attractions and picturesque architecture of Portuguese influence.
Pottery is fired in these hot ovens.
What are kilns? Temperatures for home kilns typically range from 2,000º to 2,400º Fahrenheit (1,093º to 1,316º Celsius).
According to an old superstition, if you throw this seasoning over your left shoulder, you will ward off evil spirits.
Some salt
Introduced in the mid-1970s, this game is often abbreviated to D&D and features many fantasy creatures.
What is Dungeons and Dragons? It was designed by Ernest Gary Gygax and David Arneson.
Halloween Originated in what country?
Ireland; Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in) Meaning Summers End. The Celts, who lived more than 2,000 years ago, mostly in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France
This European country is the world’s 16th smallest and the only country with Catalan (a Spanish dialect spoken in eastern and northeastern regions of Spain) as its official language.
What is Andorra? It has the most tourists per capita in the world and is the only country known as a co-principality (led by two princes): the president of France and the bishop of Urgell in Catelonia, Spain.
The heat of peppers is measured on this scale.
What is the Scoville scale? Bell peppers are in the 2,000-unit range. The hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper, can reach 2.2 million Scoville units.
Stepping on this, might break your mother's back!
A Crack!