Q 01/05

Cluedo's inventor Anthony Pratt toured country hotels and cruise ships before the war, earning his living doing what?

A) Performing conjuring tricks

B) Waiting at tables

C) Leading dance classes

D) Playing the piano

Answer · why

D) Playing the piano

Playing the piano took him to hotels where murder-mystery games were part of the evening's entertainment, and he devised a game of his own to fill the...

Q 02/05

Which company first manufactured Cluedo in the United Kingdom in 1949?

A) Parker Brothers

B) Spear's Games

C) Waddingtons

D) Chad Valley

Answer · why

C) Waddingtons

Waddingtons agreed to take the game after a demonstration in Leeds in 1945, but a post-war shortage of materials kept it out of the shops until 1949.

Q 03/05

Cluedo's name blends 'clue' with 'ludo', a Latin word meaning what?

A) I guess

B) I play

C) I seek

D) I hide

Answer · why

B) I play

I play is the meaning; Ludo was also a familiar British board game, but it was little played in America, so the game went on sale there simply as Clue...

Q 04/05

Which American company licensed Cluedo for the US market in 1949 and renamed it Clue?

A) Milton Bradley

B) Selchow & Righter

C) Ideal Toy Company

D) Parker Brothers

Answer · why

D) Parker Brothers

Parker Brothers dropped the pun because Ludo, the British board game hidden in the name, meant little to Americans, who knew the similar Parcheesi ins...

Q 05/05

Colonel Mustard went by which name in Anthony Pratt's original design for Cluedo?

A) Colonel Amber

B) Colonel Gold

C) Colonel Yellow

D) Colonel Saffron

Answer · why

C) Colonel Yellow

Colonel Yellow stood beside plain-coloured suspects such as Mr Brown and Miss Grey in Pratt's wartime design; he was renamed before the game went on s...