Q 01/05

Before the war, Cluedo's inventor Anthony Pratt earned his living doing what?

A) Working as a chemist

B) Teaching schoolboys

C) Clerking for a solicitor

D) Playing the piano

Answer · why

D) Playing the piano

He played recitals in country hotels and on cruise ships, and the murder-mystery parlour games staged at those hotels seeded the idea for the game.

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

Managing director Norman Watson bought the game on the spot in 1945 after Pratt demonstrated it, but post-war shortages held up production for four ye...

Q 03/05

The name Cluedo is a play on the word 'clue' and which board game?

A) Halma

B) Backgammon

C) Snakes and Ladders

D) Ludo

Answer · why

D) Ludo

The name was the publisher's idea; Pratt had called his invention Murder!, and it was renamed Clue in North America because the pun would not land the...

Q 04/05

Which American company licensed the game for the US market in 1949, renaming it Clue?

A) Milton Bradley

B) Selchow & Righter

C) Ideal Toy Company

D) Parker Brothers

Answer · why

D) Parker Brothers

Its first American slogan was 'The Great New Detective Game', and early advertising even licensed Sherlock Holmes from the Conan Doyle estate.

Q 05/05

In which year did Anthony Pratt file his original patent application for the game?

A) 1947

B) 1946

C) 1944

D) 1949

Answer · why

C) 1944

The application went in on 1 December, in the middle of the war; the patent itself was granted on 1 April 1947 as 'Improvements in Board Games'.