Q 01/05

Which Roman general is said to have declared that the die is cast as he crossed the Rubicon?

A) Mark Antony

B) Julius Caesar

C) Pompey the Great

D) Scipio Africanus

Answer · why

B) Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar was starting a civil war: leading his soldiers over that river in 49 BC defied a direct order from the Roman Senate.

Q 02/05

Which physicist rejected quantum randomness with a famous remark about God not playing dice?

A) Werner Heisenberg

B) Niels Bohr

C) Albert Einstein

D) Max Planck

Answer · why

C) Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein made the remark in a 1926 letter to Max Born, convinced that a deeper, fully predictable theory lay beneath quantum chance.

Q 03/05

In Monopoly, what does a player earn by throwing doubles, unless it happens three times in a row?

A) An extra turn

B) A free house

C) A Get Out of Jail card

D) A cash bonus

Answer · why

A) An extra turn

An extra turn follows each of the first two doubles, but a third in a row is punished: the player goes straight to jail without finishing the move.

Q 04/05

Which five-dice game, marketed by Edwin S. Lowe, scores 50 points for five of a kind?

A) Generala

B) Kismet

C) Tenzi

D) Yahtzee

Answer · why

D) Yahtzee

Yahtzee began as the Yacht Game, which Hasbro says an anonymous Canadian couple invented to play with friends aboard their boat.

Q 05/05

Which nickname do gamblers give to a roll of double ones, the lowest total two dice can show?

A) Jimmie Hicks

B) Snake eyes

C) Little Joe

D) Ace deuce

Answer · why

B) Snake eyes

Snake eyes is named for the way the two single spots look like a pair of beady eyes. The opposite roll, a pair of sixes, is known as boxcars.