Gaming!

100

What is this game called?

Fun fact: it is the game that Mario first appeared in

Donkey Kong

100

What is this cute thing?

A PlayStation 5 by Sony

100

What special ability does Pikachu (Pokemon) have?

Electricity!

100

Pacman was designed to inspire which type of food?

Pizza!

100

What color is the most expensive street in monopoly?

200

This vastly popular gaming console is produced by Nintendo, and published in 2017

The Nintendo Switch

200

What is the object that opposing players must destroy in order to win at "League of Legends"?

Nexus

200

Pokémon was originally released on which video game console?

Gameboy

200

Nintendo began as a company that sold which products?

A. Comics

B. Playing Cards

C. Computer Chips

B. Playing Cards

200

Fight Night 2004 is a game about what kind of sport?

A. Boxing

B. MMA

C. Wrestling

D. Racing

A. Boxing

300

As of now, which of the following industry has the largest market worldwide?

A. Console gaming (PS5, Xbox, NS, etc.)

B. PC gaming

C. Mobile gaming

"The mobile games revenue reached $93.2 billion, the global console games market was valued at about $50.4 billion and the PC games market was valued at about $36.7 billion."

300

In Mario Kart, you can pick up items along the race that have different usages. What does the red turtle shell do?

Hit and stop the opponent in front of the user

300

The original street design for Liberty City in "Grand Theft Auto" was based on which real-life city?

New York City

300

Which movie did Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson star in that was based on a videogame?

Though not his best film, the rock starred in the 2005 "Doom" adaption, or Bonus: "Rampage" in 2018

300

Which was the first video played in space?

A. Pong

B. Super Mario World

C. Tetris

D. World of Warcraft

Answer C. Tetris: In 1993, a Russian astronaut played Tetris on his Game Boy on his way to the MIR Space Station—during rare astronaut downtime, that is.

400

In the first “Legend of Zelda” game, why was the maximum amount of Rupees set at 255?

Hint: it is released in 1986

It is in an 8-bit system, where 255 is the largest integer value that can be stored in the 8-bit format.

400

Which year was the very first computer game that had digital graphic display created? (The game was tic tac toe) A. 1930 B. 1952 C. 1965 D. 1973

B. 1952

400

Ready Player One (2018) is a movie that made a big amount of detailed references to various video games, and paid tributes to many great games in history. Who is the director of this movie?

Steven Spielberg

400

How young was the youngest e-sports millionaire?

15:

Fifteen-year-old Jaden Ashman has won half of $2.25 million (£1.8m) after coming second with his teammate in the Fortnite World Cup finals.

He started playing the game on the day it came out and spent as many as eight hours daily practising in his room.

400

Which band made more money from 'Guitar Hero' than from any one of its albums?

A. Rush

B. The Rolling Stones

C. Aerosmith

D. Slayer

A. Aerosmith

Back in 2007, Aerosmith licensed 29 of its songs to Activision, the American video game publisher behind the uber-successful franchise Guitar Hero. One year later, in June 2008, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith went on sale and brought in over $25 million (almost 600,000 copies) in its first market week alone. To date, the video game has sold over 4 million copies.

500

In 2012, students at MIT hacked the lighting system of an entire building to play which game?

Tetris

500

In the game Minecraft, the world is huge! Which planet in our solar system would be the size of the Minecraft world, if it were real?

Neptune

500

He is a Japanese video game director who is famous for producing difficult role-play games. People specifically name his genre by Soulsborne games.

Fun fact: he is also an ex-Oracler

Hidetaka Miyazaki

500

What ELO rating must a chess player have to be considered a grandmaster?

A. 1800

B. 2100

C. 2500

D. 2800

C. 2500

Before FIDE will give the Grandmaster title to a player, the player must have an Elo chess rating of at least 2500 at one time and three favorable results (called norms) in tournaments involving other Grandmasters

500

What year was the first world series of poker?

A. 1970

B. 1980

C. 1990

D. 2000

A. 1970. There was no tournament, just several days of mixed cash games, after which all of the players were all invited to choose the best all-round player.