Board Games
Professor Plum is from what Parker Brothers game?
What is Clue
In this sport, athletes race down an icy track on a small sled, feet first, reaching speeds over 80 mph. This frozen rubber disc is sought after to play this traditional game with five players and a goalie on each side
What is luge?
The Mayflower commemorating the landing of the pilgrims in what state?
What is Massachusetts
The name for a vertical column on the periodic table
What are groups
This type of word sounds the same as another word but has a different meaning — like pair and pear.
What is a homophone?
Utilities and railroads are popular in this trading board game
What is Monopoly
Named for a Norwegian, this term is used to define a jump in figure skating and features a triple and quadruple version.
What is an Axel
The southwestern state features the YUCCA as its state flower
What is New Mexico?
This element is found in bananas
What is potassium?
This type of expression means something different from its literal words — like “break the ice” or “hit the hay.”
What is an Idiom
The word ZAG would score 13 points in this tile board game
What is Scrabble
Shaun White holds the most gold medals in this Olympic sport
What is Snowboarding
The forget me not is the flower of this northwestern state
What is Alaska?
What is the first element on the periodic table?
What is hydrogen?
A word spelled by rearranging the letters of another — like listen becoming silent — is called this.
What is an anagram?
Bobby Fisher was one of the best at this game
What is Chess
Ice, stones, targets…and brooms are used in this popular Canadian sport.
What is curling
What is the state flower of Maryland?
What is the black eyed Susan?
This element, atomic number 26, is the most common metal on Earth by mass and is essential for blood because of the hemoglobin it helps form.
What is Iron
This term describes two words that look the same and are spelled the same, but have different meanings — like bat (the animal) and bat (used in baseball).
What are homonyms?
This board with letters numbers and the words “yes” mysterious spells out the name, the name of this mysterious board game
What is Ouija
Oui- yes in French
ja- yes is German
What winter feature sliding sport features a rider riding headfirst down an ice track
What is skull or skeleton racing
What two southern states share the magnolia as their state flower
What is Louisiana and Mississippi
Named after the Greek word for “stranger,” this noble gas has one of the brightest glows when electrified and sits between krypton and xenon on the periodic table.
What is Argon
This type of clever phrase uses the same beginning sound repeatedly — as in “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
What is alliteration?