Q 01/05

Which pinball table came bundled with Windows from the mid-1990s until Windows XP?

A) Space Cadet

B) Skulduggery

C) Dragon's Keep

D) Big Race USA

Answer · why

A) Space Cadet

Space Cadet. It shipped with Windows from the Windows 95 era to XP, and a Microsoft engineer wrote that it was cut after a 64-bit port left the ball p...

Q 02/05

Which French table game is the direct ancestor of pinball?

A) Carambole

B) Bagatelle

C) Roulette

D) Baccarat

Answer · why

B) Bagatelle

Bagatelle. French soldiers fighting in the American Revolution brought their tables with them, and the game spread so widely that a Civil War cartoon ...

Q 03/05

Which Japanese game is pinball's upright cousin, thought to derive from a Western pin table?

A) Shogi

B) Kendama

C) Pachinko

D) Hanafuda

Answer · why

C) Pachinko

Pachinko. It is thought to have started in 1920s Japan as a children's toy copied from an American pin table, before growing into an adult gambling pa...

Q 04/05

Which pinball part features in Montague Redgrave's 1871 patent?

A) The pop bumper

B) The flipper

C) The tilt sensor

D) The spring plunger

Answer · why

D) The spring plunger

The spring plunger. Redgrave's table fired the ball with a spring-loaded piston in place of a cue, more than seven decades before the first flippers.

Q 05/05

Which 1931 game, selling for $17.50, became pinball's first major coin-operated hit?

A) Baffle Ball

B) Ballyhoo

C) Juggle Ball

D) Contact

Answer · why

A) Baffle Ball

Baffle Ball. David Gottlieb couldn't build the penny-a-play countertop game fast enough to fill his orders, so one frustrated distributor went off and...