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

Park Lane is the second-priciest London property, and in real life a 2016 estimate put the average Mayfair house at around £3.15 million.

Q 02/05

Which resource is represented by sheep in the board game Catan?

A) Ore

B) Grain

C) Brick

D) Wool

Answer · why

D) Wool

In Catan, players collect various resources to build settlements, cities, and roads. Sheep provide wool, which is used for certain building costs and ...

Q 03/05

How many squares are on a standard chessboard?

A) 32

B) 48

C) 64

D) 100

Answer · why

C) 64

A standard chessboard is an 8x8 grid, resulting in 64 squares of alternating colors.

Q 04/05

What is the highest-scoring letter in a standard English Scrabble set?

A) Q

B) X

C) J

D) K

Answer · why

A) Q

Q and Z are the only 10-point tiles; X and J come next at 8, and the two blanks are worth nothing at all.

Q 05/05

Sir Leonard Woolley found five boards of which ancient pastime in a Sumerian cemetery in the 1920s?

A) The Royal Game of Ur

B) The Egyptian Game of Senet

C) Mehen

D) Hounds and Jackals

Answer · why

A) The Royal Game of Ur

British Museum curator Irving Finkel reconstructed its rules from a Babylonian clay tablet written in the second century BC.