History of Board Games
Crayola Crayon Names
Love Every Body
Earth Science
Big Words
Talk Like Shakespeare
Potpourri
100
During the Great Depression, architect Alfred Mosher Butts created this game combining skill, strategy, chance, and luck. Its original names were Lexico and Criss Cross Words, and we play it here every Tuesday before happy hour.
What is Scrabble?
100
Crayola has a crayon named Purple Mountains Majesty, after a line in this patriotic song; originally a poem called Pikes Peak.
What is America The Beautiful?
100
The average adult has about 22 square feet (or about 8 pounds) of this organ, making it the largest in the human body.
What is skin?
100
A fjord is a narrow inlet with steep sided walls whose base has been eroded below sea level. Thanks to sharp glacial sediments, this nation has some of the longest and deepest in the world.
What is Norway?
100
Porky Pig, Mel Tillis and Joe Biden might be described as BLESILOQUENT, which means they have this speech impediment.
What is a stutter?
100
Having nothing to do with mass, Shakespeare used this H word to suggest a more emotional weight.
What is HEAVY?
100
Greek spanakopita is filled with feta and this leafy green
What is Spinach?
200
This children's game was designed in 1948 by a girl who was recovering from polio in a children's hospital; in it, you draw from a pile of cards with colored squares and may make stops in the Molasses Swamp or the Lollipop Forest.
What is Candyland?
200
This kid-favorite pasta dish was introduced as an orange-y crayon color in 1993, one of 16 new ones brought out for Crayola's 90th birthday
What is Macaroni and Cheese?
200
The Islets of Langerhans are groups of cells that produce insulin and glucagon located in this organ of the body
What is the pancreas?
200
The Catskills, in SE New York are normally classified as this mountain chain that runs an as far south as Central Alabama.
What are the Apalachian mountains?
200
Omphaloskepsis is the more elaborate name for this type of gazing, an often derogatory term referring to self-indulgent introspection
What is Navel?
200
When replacing second-person nouns with these in Elizabethan English, you'll likely find a lot of Thine and Thou.
What are pronouns?
200
A funambulist is a circus performer who wants on this.
What is a tightrope?
300
“The Landlord‘s Game,” originally patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie, was a critique of the injustices of unchecked capitalism and is the first version of this game.
What is Monopoly?
300
Named for the tartest one, this green shade resembles an apple originally cultivated by an Australian woman in 1870.
What is Granny Smith Apple?
300
This fibrous tissue connects the calf muscles to the calcaneus. It is named after the Greek hero who killed Hector outside of Troy.
What is the Achilles Tendon?
300
This geological process can be used to explain the creation of the Grand Canyon, as it was carved out by the Colorado River over several thousand years.
What is Erosion?
300
You surely are pulchritudinous, inside and out, which is swear is a compliment. It means this.
What is beautiful?
300
Though currently mainly used to denote fearlessness, this B word, in Shakespeare's parlance, actually meant Handsome.
What is Brave?
300
The US played this country in ice hockey in the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics; in 1999, Sports Illustrated called this "miracle on ice" the top sports moment of the 20th Century
What is the Soviet Union?
400
Senet, considered the oldest board game in history, consists of ten or more pawns on a 30-square playing board and was played by this ancient civilization in Northeast Africa.
Who are the Egyptians?
400
The 100 Billionth crayon was named this, reminiscent of a really good prize or an affordable Wisconsin-based American Lager
What is Blue Ribbon?
400
In the human body there are "pyloric," "ileocecal," and "urethral" types of these circular muscles, which maintain constriction of an orifice
What are sphincters?
400
A sinkhole most often occurs when this sedimentary rock dissolves and collapses. The world's deepest known sinkhole on earth is in China, dropping about 662 meters.
What is Limestone?
400
At 27 letters, Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word to appear in a Shakespeare play, it's used sarcastically by Costard to mock pretentious language in this 3-word alliterative title where they all start with L.
What is Love's Labors Lost?
400
We use the Q word now to mean attractive in an unusual or old-fashioned way. He meant it as beautiful or ornate.
What is QUAINT?
400
This southeast Asian country is the only country flag with more than 4 sides.
What is Nepal?
500
What started as a morality game about virtues and vices is now a race to the top. The snakes or chutes are a sure way to lose your progress, but these will help you get closer to the end.
What are ladders?
500
Packaged in a soup can similar to those he was famous painting, the collection of crayons bearing this artist's name include a sharpener and colors named for 5 different soups and two different shades for Marilyn Monroe.
Who is Andy Warhol?
500
An area called the "vermilion border" outlines a shape known as the "Cupid's bow" on this external feature of the human body
What are the lips?
500
According to the Great Impact Hypothesis, billions of years ago the Earth collided with another planet and this was formed from the debris
What is the moon?
500
A VALETUDINARIAN is similar to this similarly long H word; both are extra anxious about their health, but a valetudinarian may actually be ill.
What is a Hypochondriac?
500
When we see this E word, it usually describes a decoration that is molded or stamped onto another object. When Bill's characters did it. they actually stalked with the intention to kill.
What is EMBOSS?
500
This is the pasta shape used in goulash
What is Elbow macaroni?