TRIVIA QUESTIONS - EPISODE 11 (BOARD GAMES)

 Warm it up

TABOO WORDS THAT WERE RANDOMLY CHOSEN - ONE FOR EACH PARTICIPANT

ROUND ONE

1.CRANIUM GNILLEPS – Teams to spell the word backwards one letter at a time. 

SENORITA TAILORED TRAINEES

2.CRANIUM MIND MELD – Pen and Paper needed. I will say a word or a category and all team members must write what comes to their mind first and circle it. Show it to the camera and see how many similar words or ideas come up. The team with maximum echoes wins ten points

CAMPING DENTISTS OFFICE DISNEY

3.In the standard UK edition of monopoly three of the railway stations are Marylebone, Fenchurch and Liverpool. What is the fourth station? (angry royal)

King Cross

ROUND TWO

1.Of all the weapons used in the game Cluedo or Clue depending on which side of the Atlantic you are playing the game, which one of them is non metallic?

Rope - Candle stick, Dagger, lead pipe, Revolver, Wrench

2. How many dice are part of a standard box of the game – Risk

5 – two white (defending) and three red (attacking)

3. The objective of which board game is to tread carefully through enemy territory with your army in order to capture the enemy flag?

Stratego

ROUND THREE - MIDPOINT

Name the five pieces that are part of a standard Battleships game.
4 points for a correct answer
2 bonus points per answer if you can guess the strike value

1.Aircraft Carrier – 5
2.Battleship – 4
3.Cruiser – 3
4.Submarine – 3
5.Destroyer - 2

ROUND FOUR

1.A Calcutta auction is held just before the start of what tournament, in which players bid on players or groups of players, and the money offered is pooled together and paid out at the end of the tournament to those “owning” the winning players.

Backgammon


2.Which board game features a board comprising a series of holes and a six pointed star

Chinese Checkers

3.You might find yourself in a downward dog
or someone’s rump may be in your face,
but try to hold your position no matter how strange
to win the game with grace.

What game am I talking about ?

Twister

ROUND FIVE

1.In the early 1970s, Leslie Scott created a game whose name is taken from a Swahili word meaning ‘to build’. For ten points what is the the name of the game?

The name jenga is derived from kujenga, a Swahili word which means 'to build’

2. What is the highest score one can roll in a game of Yahtzee?

50 – five of the same number – Yahtzee!

3. Scattegories – 2 min timer

National Capital, River, Board game– letter R

ROUND SIX 

1.Scatterbrains 1

Characters from ‘The Lord of the Rings’ or Characters from Simpsons

2.Scatterbrains 2

‘Types of Martial Arts’ or ‘Names of dinosaurs’

3.zelpuz

STAB IDOL – (celebrity rags) tabloids

SEEK A PHRASE – (playful fellow) shakespeare

I IS NO MULE – (bigwig rig) limousine

GAUNTLET - in pursuit of the pie

1.GEOGRAPHY – Which desert is considered the driest desert on Earth, never having recorded a single drop of rain? ATACAMA

2.ENTERTAINMENT - Which international pop sensation was the drummer for the band Breakfast Club before she broke out as a solo star? MADONNA

3.HISTORY - In Egyptian hieroglyphs, the symbol of a decorated eye most commonly represents the Eye of which god? HORUS

4.ART & LITERATURE – In 1842, who was the first major author to read his own work in public for profit? CHARLES DICKENS

5.SCIENCE AND NATURE – Edison's Electric Pen became the inspiration for which modern-day tool? TATTOO GUN

6.SPORTS AND LEISURE – What is the longest continuously held sporting event in the United States which is part of the triple crown ? KENTUCKY DERBY

Teams

#4dawin               Quizzington bears      Don't grab my community chest

Rohan George           Ruqshad                                        Anu

Shilpa                         Rohan Natarajan                         Ollie

Sridhar                       Xan                                              Ananth