Q 01/05

In London Monopoly, which property occupies the Boardwalk slot as the most expensive square?

A) Mayfair

B) Trafalgar Square

C) Park Lane

D) Oxford Street

Answer · why

A) Mayfair

Mayfair, a district and not a street, sits beside Park Lane in the dark-blue set; Waddingtons boss Victor Watson and his secretary Marjory Phillips pi...

Q 02/05

In Catan, which resource do pasture hexes produce?

A) Ore

B) Grain

C) Brick

D) Wool

Answer · why

D) Wool

Wool comes from Catan's pasture hexes and helps pay for settlements and development cards, but roads and cities never need it, so a player rich in pas...

Q 03/05

How many squares are on a standard chessboard?

A) 16

B) 32

C) 64

D) 128

Answer · why

C) 64

64 squares make up the 8x8 board; in the old wheat-and-chessboard puzzle, one grain on the first square, doubled on each square after, adds up to more...

Q 04/05

Which letter shares the top tile value of 10 points with Z in English-language Scrabble?

A) Q

B) X

C) J

D) K

Answer · why

A) Q

Q and Z are the only 10-point tiles; inventor Alfred Butts set the values by counting how often each letter turned up in newspapers such as The New Yo...

Q 05/05

Sir Leonard Woolley unearthed boards for which ancient pastime while excavating a Sumerian cemetery?

A) The Royal Game of Ur

B) Senet

C) Nine Men's Morris

D) Hounds and Jackals

Answer · why

A) The Royal Game of Ur

The Royal Game of Ur: Woolley unearthed five boards in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, and Irving Finkel later reconstructed its rules from a Babylonian tab...