Classic Games Trivia Questions and Answers

Board Games Trivia

1. What is the maximum number of players allowed in a standard game of Monopoly?
   Answer: 8 players.

2. In which game would you find “Colonel Mustard” as a character?
   Answer: Clue (Cluedo).

3. Which board game uses tiles with letters on them to create words?
   Answer: Scrabble.

4. What is the object of the game in Chess?
   Answer: To checkmate the opponent’s king.

5. How many ships are used in a standard game of Battleship?
   Answer: 5 ships.

6. What color are the squares on a standard Checkerboard?
   Answer: Red and black.

7. What is the starting number of pieces each player has in Backgammon?
   Answer: 15 pieces.

8. In the game Risk, which continent is worth the most reinforcement troops?
   Answer: Asia.

9. What game involves moving four pieces around a board to get them all to the “Home” space?
   Answer: Sorry!

10. How many points is the letter “Q” worth in Scrabble?
    Answer: 10 points.

11. In Monopoly, what are the names of the four railroads?
    Answer: Reading Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, B&O Railroad, and Short Line.

12. Which game features a board with the layout of a snake and ladders?
    Answer: Snakes and Ladders.

13. What is the main objective of the game Operation?
    Answer: To remove various ailments from the patient without setting off the buzzer.

14. In the game of Life, what is the highest salary you can earn?
    Answer: $100,000.

15. What board game requires players to guess words based on their teammates’ drawings?
    Answer: Pictionary.

16. Which board game is known for its pop-o-matic die roller?
    Answer: Trouble.

17. How many categories are there in a standard game of Trivial Pursuit?
    Answer: 6 categories.

18. What is the name of the jail space in Monopoly?
    Answer: Just Visiting/Jail.

19. In Scrabble, which two letters are worth the most points?
    Answer: Q and Z.

20. How many rows of checkers are set up at the beginning of a Checkers game?
    Answer: 3 rows.

Card Games Trivia

1. In Poker, what hand is considered the highest possible?
   Answer: Royal Flush.

2. What is the total value of face cards (J, Q, K) in a deck of cards?
   Answer: 30 (10 each).

3. In Blackjack, what number must you reach without going over to win?
   Answer: 21.

4. How many cards are dealt to each player in a game of Texas Hold’em?
   Answer: 2 cards.

5. What is the joker card typically used for in card games?
   Answer: It is often used as a wild card.

6. What card game involves taking tricks to avoid penalty points, particularly the Queen of Spades?
   Answer: Hearts.

7. In Rummy, what is the goal of the game?
   Answer: To form sets and runs of cards.

8. How many cards are in a standard deck, including jokers?
   Answer: 54 cards.

9. Which card game is also known as “Patience” in British English?
   Answer: Solitaire.

10. In Bridge, how many players are there in a standard game?
    Answer: 4 players.

11. What card game’s objective is to capture the highest number of cards with specific face values?
    Answer: War.

12. How many cards does each player start with in the game of Uno?
    Answer: 7 cards.

13. What is the trump suit in a game of Spades?
    Answer: Spades.

14. In Euchre, how many points are needed to win the game?
    Answer: 10 points.

15. What is the primary objective of the card game Go Fish?
    Answer: To collect sets of four matching cards.

16. In which card game do players try to avoid ending up with the “Old Maid”?
    Answer: Old Maid.

17. What is the common name for the combination of a Jack and an Ace of Spades in the game of Cribbage?
    Answer: Nobs.

18. In the game of Hearts, what happens when a player successfully “shoots the moon”?
    Answer: They score zero points, and all other players score 26 points.

19. In Poker, what is the term for the first three community cards dealt in Texas Hold’em?
    Answer: The Flop.

20. What is the highest-ranking card in the game of War?
    Answer: Ace.

Video Games Trivia

1. What year was the original Pac-Man arcade game released?
   Answer: 1980.

2. In which video game series would you encounter characters like Link and Zelda?
   Answer: The Legend of Zelda.

3. What is the name of the plumber who stars in his own video game series created by Nintendo?
   Answer: Mario.

4. What is the highest possible score in a game of Pac-Man?
   Answer: 3,333,360 points.

5. In the game Tetris, what shape is the “T-Tetrimino”?
   Answer: T-shaped.

6. Which video game franchise features the character Master Chief?
   Answer: Halo.

7. What is the name of the princess in the Super Mario series?
   Answer: Princess Peach.

8. Which video game character is known for collecting rings?
   Answer: Sonic the Hedgehog.

9. In what game do players battle creatures known as Pokémon?
   Answer: Pokémon.

10. What was the first video game to be played in space?
    Answer: Tetris.

11. What video game series features the battle between the Covenant and humanity?
    Answer: Halo.

12. Which game popularized the phrase “Finish Him!”?
    Answer: Mortal Kombat.

13. In the video game series “The Legend of Zelda,” what is the name of Link’s horse?
    Answer: Epona.

14. What type of animal is Donkey Kong?
    Answer: Gorilla.

15. Which classic video game takes place in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom?
    Answer: Super Mario Bros.

16. In which game would you find the character “Big Daddy”?
    Answer: BioShock.

17. What is the name of the world where the game “Minecraft” takes place?
    Answer: Overworld.

18. In “Street Fighter,” what is the name of the character with a red bandana and a dragon punch move?
    Answer: Ryu.

19. Which game features a plumber who battles turtles and rescues a princess?
    Answer: Super Mario Bros.

20. What is the main objective of the game “Space Invaders”?
    Answer: To destroy the alien invaders.

Tabletop Games Trivia

1. In Dungeons & Dragons, what type of dice is used most often?
   Answer: 20-sided die (d20).

2. What is the name of the game where players flick discs to knock others off a board?
   Answer: Crokinole.

3. In Warhammer 40K, what are the genetically modified super soldiers called?
   Answer: Space Marines.

4. Which tabletop game involves building railway routes across North America?
   Answer: Ticket to Ride.

5. What is the maximum number of players in a standard game of Settlers of Catan?
   Answer: 4 players.

6. In Magic: The Gathering, what are the five colors of mana?
   Answer: White, blue, black, red, and green.

7. What is the name of the tower that players build and remove blocks from in the game Jenga?
   Answer: Jenga tower.

8. What tabletop game features a world of diplomacy and strategic warfare, often played on a map of Europe?
   Answer: Diplomacy.

9. What game requires players to guess the identity of a hidden spy?
   Answer: Spyfall.

10. In the game Risk, how many armies do players start with?
    Answer: It varies by the number of players, typically between 20-40 armies.

11. In the game “Axis & Allies,” what event marks the beginning of the game?
    Answer: The outbreak of World War II.

12. In Settlers of Catan, what is required to build a settlement?
    Answer: 1 brick, 1 wood, 1 wheat, and 1 sheep.

13. What game involves surviving in a zombie apocalypse by collecting resources and building defenses?
    Answer: Dead of Winter.

14. In the game Carcassonne, what are the tiles representing cities, roads, and fields called?
    Answer: Landscape tiles.

15. What is the goal of the game Dominion?
    Answer: To collect the most victory points through deck-building.

16. In the game Pandemic, what role allows a player to treat disease more effectively?
    Answer: The Medic.

17. In the game “Twilight Struggle,” what are the two superpowers players can control?
    Answer: The United States and the Soviet Union.

18. What tabletop game uses miniatures to simulate battles in Middle-earth?
    Answer: The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

19. In the game “Ticket to Ride,” what are the colored cards used to claim routes called?
    Answer: Train cards.

20. In the game “Betrayal at House on the Hill,” what event triggers the second phase of the game?
    Answer: The Haunt.

Classic Puzzles and Logic Games Trivia

1. What is the goal in a game of Sudoku?
   Answer: To fill the grid so that every row, column, and 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9.

2. What game involves matching pairs of tiles, traditionally with Chinese characters and symbols?
   Answer: Mahjong.

3. What is the cube called that consists of a 3x3x3 grid of colored squares, which must be aligned by color?
   Answer: Rubik’s Cube.

4. How many pieces are in a traditional jigsaw puzzle?
   Answer: 1000 pieces (standard, but can vary).

5. What type of puzzle involves figuring out the truth of statements to solve a problem?
   Answer: Logic puzzle.

6. In crossword puzzles, what is a “clue” that is typically made up of an anagram called?
   Answer: Anagram clue.

7. What is the term for a puzzle where you move tiles around to form a picture or sequence of numbers?
   Answer: Sliding puzzle.

8. What classic puzzle requires you to transfer disks between pegs following specific rules?
   Answer: Tower of Hanoi.

9. What type of puzzle involves words hidden in a grid of letters?
   Answer: Word search.

10. What is the puzzle called where you must arrange numbers in a 3x3 grid so that each row, column, and diagonal adds up to the same number?
    Answer: Magic square.

11. What is a puzzle called that involves untangling or removing parts without breaking them?
    Answer: Disentanglement puzzle.

12. What is the name of the classic wooden puzzle that involves fitting different shaped pieces into a tray?
    Answer: Tangram.

13. What logic puzzle requires you to fill in a grid based on the clues to reveal a picture?
    Answer: Nonogram (also known as Picross or Griddlers).

14. What puzzle involves moving blocks to free a specific piece from the board?
    Answer: Sliding block puzzle (example: Rush Hour).

15. What is the classic brain teaser involving three knights, two of whom always lie and one who always tells the truth?
    Answer: Knights and Knaves.

16. What is a traditional puzzle that often involves balancing equations or finding a hidden number in a sequence?
    Answer: Mathematical puzzle.

17. What is the term for a puzzle where you must find the correct route through a series of connected paths?
    Answer: Maze.

18. In which puzzle are clues given as numbers indicating the length of consecutive blocks of filled-in squares in a grid?
    Answer: Nonogram.

19. What type of puzzle involves reconstructing a sentence or phrase after the words have been scrambled?
    Answer: Word jumble.

20. What is a puzzle called where you must figure out the order of events based on a set of clues?
    Answer: Logic grid puzzle.

Trivia on Classic Childhood Games

1. What is the name of the game where children take turns spinning around and falling to the ground when the music stops?
   Answer: Musical Chairs.

2. In “Hide and Seek,” what phrase is typically shouted when the seeker begins searching?
   Answer: “Ready or not, here I come!”

3. What is the objective in the game “Tag”?
   Answer: To avoid being “it” by not getting tagged.

4. What classic playground game involves jumping between squares on the ground?
   Answer: Hopscotch.

5. What game involves players joining hands and forming a circle, then singing and falling to the ground?
   Answer: Ring Around the Rosie.

6. What game involves throwing a ball against a wall and catching it?
   Answer: Wall Ball.

7. In which game do players try to dodge a ball thrown by the opposing team?
   Answer: Dodgeball.

8. What classic game involves passing a ball between players in a circle, trying to avoid being tagged by the “monkey” in the middle?
   Answer: Monkey in the Middle.

9. What game involves players racing with an egg balanced on a spoon?
   Answer: Egg and Spoon Race.

10. What playground game involves jumping over a rope that is swung in a circle?
    Answer: Jump rope (or Skipping).

11. What classic outdoor game involves hitting a ball with a bat and running between bases?
    Answer: Baseball.

12. What game is played by two teams trying to capture the opposing team’s flag and return it to their base?
    Answer: Capture the Flag.

13. What childhood game involves one player being blindfolded and trying to catch others?
    Answer: Blind Man’s Bluff.

14. What game involves players standing in a line and following instructions like “Simon says”?
    Answer: Simon Says.

15. What game involves trying to steal bases while another player guards them?
    Answer: Steal the Bacon.

16. In what game do children count to a certain number before searching for hidden players?
    Answer: Hide and Seek.

17. What game involves chasing and trying to touch another player, who then becomes the chaser?
    Answer: Tag.

18. What game involves passing an object while music plays, with the person holding it when the music stops being out?
    Answer: Hot Potato.

19. What game involves hitting a ball that is pitched underhand, usually with a big, soft ball?
    Answer: Softball.

20. What playground game involves trying to knock over pins with a ball?
    Answer: Bowling.

Trivia on Classic Table Games

1. In the game of Billiards, what is the target ball called that players try to pocket?
   Answer: The 8-ball.

2. What is the name of the game where players roll balls to get as close as possible to a smaller ball called the “jack”?
   Answer: Bocce.

3. In the game of Table Tennis, what is the common name for the small ball used?
   Answer: Ping-pong ball.

4. What is the standard number of points needed to win a game of darts?
   Answer: 501 points (in standard games).

5. What is the maximum score in a single turn of Bowling?
   Answer: 300 points.

6. In the game of Foosball, how many players are there on each team?
   Answer: 4 players.

7. What is the term used in Air Hockey for the round object players try to hit into the opponent’s goal?
   Answer: Puck.

8. In Pool, what is the name of the white ball used to strike other balls?
   Answer: Cue ball.

9. What is the name of the wooden sticks used to knock over skittles in the game of Ninepins?
   Answer: Pins.

10. What is the maximum number of points you can score with a single dart in standard darts?
    Answer: 60 points (triple 20).

11. In the game of Shuffleboard, what is the term for the area players try to land their pucks in?
    Answer: Scoring zone.

12. What is the name of the game where players use a stick to hit balls into holes on a table?
    Answer: Billiards or Pool.

13. What is the term for three strikes in a row in Bowling?
    Answer: Turkey.

14. In Table Tennis, what is the maximum number of points in a standard game?
    Answer: 11 points (since 2001, win by 2).

15. In Pool, what is the penalty for pocketing the cue ball?
    Answer: Scratch, giving ball-in-hand to the opponent.

16. What is the name of the game where players try to get horseshoes closest to a stake?
    Answer: Horseshoes.

17. In the game of Darts, what is the highest value area on the dartboard?
    Answer: Bullseye (inner).

18. What is the name of the curved sticks used in the game of Croquet?
    Answer: Mallets.

19. What table game involves players trying to hit a ball back and forth across a net using paddles?
    Answer: Table Tennis (Ping Pong).

20. In the game of Billiards, how many balls are used, including the cue ball?
    Answer: 16 balls.

Classic Word Games Trivia

1. What word game involves players guessing a word one letter at a time to avoid a stick figure being drawn?
   Answer: Hangman.

2. What is the objective of the game Boggle?
   Answer: To find as many words as possible in a grid of letters within a time limit.

3. What word game involves rearranging scrambled letters to form a word?
   Answer: Anagram.

4. In Scrabble, what is the value of the blank tile?
   Answer: 0 points.

5. What word game involves forming a chain of words by changing one letter at a time?
   Answer: Word ladder.

6. In the game of Hangman, what part of the body is typically drawn first?
   Answer: The head.

7. What word game involves players forming words from a set of random letters and placing them on a board?
   Answer: Scrabble.

8. What word game is played by guessing words from definitions read aloud?
   Answer: Taboo.

9. What is the objective of the game Crossword?
   Answer: To fill in the grid with words based on clues.

10. In Scrabble, what is the maximum number of tiles a player can have on their rack at one time?
    Answer: 7 tiles.

11. What word game involves guessing words based on a list of synonyms?
    Answer: Thesaurus game.

12. What is the name of the game where players try to form words using letter tiles that intersect with existing words on a board?
    Answer: Scrabble.

13. In the game Scattergories, what is the objective?
    Answer: To list words in specific categories that start with a given letter.

14. What word game involves creating as many words as possible from a set of letters before time runs out?
    Answer: Boggle.

15. What word game involves using a grid of letters to form words by connecting adjacent letters?
    Answer: Word search.

16. In Scrabble, what is the value of the letter “X”?
    Answer: 8 points.

17. What word game involves solving clues to complete a grid?
    Answer: Crossword.

18. In the game of Hangman, what happens when the figure is completely drawn?
    Answer: The game ends, and the word is revealed.

19. What word game involves guessing a word based on a set of given letters and the length of the word?
    Answer: Wheel of Fortune (inspired game).

20. In Scrabble, what is the term for using all seven tiles in a single play?
    Answer: Bingo.

Classic Strategy Games Trivia

1. In Chess, what is the only piece that can jump over others?
   Answer: The knight.

2. In Risk, what is the primary objective?
   Answer: To conquer the world by capturing all territories.

3. In Checkers, how many pieces does each player start with?
   Answer: 12 pieces.

4. In the game Stratego, what is the most powerful piece?
   Answer: The Marshal (rank 1).

5. What strategy game involves placing different shaped blocks to complete lines?
   Answer: Tetris.

6. In Chess, which piece can move any number of squares in any direction?
   Answer: The queen.

7. In Go, what is the primary objective?
   Answer: To control the most territory on the board.

8. In the game Risk, which continent is the hardest to hold due to the number of access points?
   Answer: Asia.

9. What strategy game involves capturing your opponent’s king?
   Answer: Chess.

10. In the game of Connect Four, how many discs must a player line up to win?
    Answer: 4 discs.

11. In the game Mancala, what is the objective?
    Answer: To collect the most stones in your mancala (store).

12. What strategy game involves moving pieces around a board to “checkmate” your opponent?
    Answer: Chess.

13. In the game Battleship, what is the smallest ship called?
    Answer: The patrol boat.

14. In Chess, what is it called when a king is in a position to be captured and cannot escape?
    Answer: Checkmate.

15. In the game Reversi (Othello), what color are the pieces?
    Answer: Black and white.

16. What is the primary goal in the game Axis & Allies?
    Answer: To control key cities or destroy the opponent’s forces.

17. What strategy game involves dropping discs into a vertical grid to connect four in a row?
    Answer: Connect Four.

18. In the game Risk, what happens when you conquer a territory?
    Answer: You draw a Risk card.

19. In Chess, what is the term for a move where a pawn reaches the opposite end of the board?
    Answer: Promotion.

20. What is the classic game where players move pieces according to rolls of dice to get them home?
    Answer: Ludo.

Classic Outdoor Games Trivia

1. In the game of Hopscotch, what is the object used to mark squares?
   Answer: A stone or a marker.

2. What game involves two teams pulling on opposite ends of a rope?
   Answer: Tug of War.

3. What is the objective of the game “Red Rover”?
   Answer: To break through the opposing team’s linked hands.

4. In the game of Four Square, what is the main objective?
   Answer: To eliminate other players and advance to the highest square.

5. What outdoor game involves hitting a shuttlecock back and forth over a net?
   Answer: Badminton.

6. What game involves tossing bean bags into a hole on a raised platform?
   Answer: Cornhole.

7. What game is played by kicking a ball to score goals?
   Answer: Soccer.

8. What classic outdoor game involves hiding and trying not to be caught?
   Answer: Hide and Seek.

9. What game involves a player standing still as others try to sneak up on them, moving when they aren’t looking?
   Answer: Red Light, Green Light.

10. What game involves players trying to avoid being tagged by someone who is “it”?
    Answer: Tag.

11. What outdoor game involves throwing a flying disc?
    Answer: Frisbee.

12. What game involves hitting a ball with a paddle over a low net on the ground?
    Answer: Pickleball.

13. What game is played with a bat and ball where players try to hit the ball and run bases?
    Answer: Baseball.

14. What game involves two teams trying to capture the other’s flag?
    Answer: Capture the Flag.

15. In the game “Mother May I,” what phrase must players say before taking a move?
    Answer: “Mother, may I?”

16. What outdoor game involves throwing horseshoes around a stake in the ground?
    Answer: Horseshoes.

17. What game is similar to baseball but uses a larger ball and underhand pitching?
    Answer: Softball.

18. What game involves a player hiding and other players seeking them out?
    Answer: Hide and Seek.

19. What game involves spinning around a bat and then trying to run straight?
    Answer: Dizzy Bat Race.

20. What outdoor game involves a net and a ball, often played on the beach?
    Answer: Volleyball.