Adam's 30th Birthday Round 2

Board Games

100

 In which game do players outbid each other for pieces of art?

Masterpiece

200

What game is said to be the oldest in recorded history?

Backgammon

300

What Chess move involves moving both the King and the Rook?

Castling

400

How many official versions of Monopoly are there reported to be?

ALL PLAY: closest answer wins!

Over 300

500

How many moves was the longest game of chess?

269 (lasted over 20 hours)

Math

100

What is the next number in the Fibonacci Sequences 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34?

55

200

What is the only temperature that is identical in both Celsius and Fahrenheit?

40 below is the same value in Celsius and Fahrenheit

300

Which number is the only one whose meaning can be written in the same number of letters?

Four 

400

A prime number is only divisible by itself and 1. How many two-digit prime numbers are there? 

The answer is not a prime number!

21

500

A famous math problem, what is the highest number of chicken Mcnuggets that you CANNOT buy using combination of 6, 9, and 20 packs?

ALL PLAY: closest answer wins!!

43

Breakthrough Inventions

100

What common hygiene aid was invented while the inventor was in prison?

Toothbrush 

William Addis of Clerkenwald, England, around 1780.

200

Who invented scissors?

Leonardo Da Vinci

300

The first known vending machine was created by mathematician and engineer Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria. What did his machine dispense?

Holy Water 

400

Who invented dynamite in 1867, later establishing the Nobel Prizes?

Alfred Nobel.

500

Name 5 inventions we would not have without space travel.

ALL PLAY & DOUBLE OR NOTHING: closest answer wins 

Camera phones, scratch resistant lenses, CAT scans, LED's, land mine removal, athletic shoes, foil blankets, water purification systems, Dust busters, ear thermometer, home insulation, wireless headsets, memory foam mattress, freeze-dried food, artificial limbs, computer mouse, portable computer 

Video Games

100

What game inspired factorio?

Minecraft

200

What was the name of the first video game platform?

Magnavox Odyssey (1972)

300

What was the first game to be played in large scale video game competition?

Space invaders (1980)

400

In WoW: How many bosses does the upper floor have?

Nine

500

Roughly how many people worldwide play PC vs. console gaming?

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Console gaming ~629 million players worldwide, while PC gaming ~900 million players. 

That's more than 1 in 10 people across the globe

Flags

100

What is the most common color on world flags?

Blue, Red and White

200

What are the rarest color on national flags?

Purple, Orange and Gold 

300

What is an expert on flags and their history called?

A vexillologist

400

How many country flags have animals on them?

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36

500

Name the 3 national flags that differ on their front and reverse sides

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• Moldova – Only the front displays the Coat of Arms
• Paraguay – The reverse side contains the treasury seal
• Saudi Arabia – has a sword and the Arabic inscription for “There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” Since the flag contains sacred writing, the reverse side of the flag is a duplicate of the front and two flags are usually sewn together