38 Board Game and Card Game Trivia Questions and Answers
Trivia about board games and card games: chess, Scrabble, Monopoly, backgammon, poker and others. The questions cover rules, origins and a few numbers every player should know. Answers are shown under each question.
There are 38 questions on this page. They are free to use for quiz nights, classrooms and pub quizzes, and each one links to its own page.
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1.Which game is played on a marked board divided into two halves, each side containing 12 alternately colored points?
Answer: BACKGAMMON
Open this question2.What is the name of the five-dice game where players try to create different combinations similar to poker hands?
Answer: YAHTZEE
Open this question3.Around the middle of the 18th century, this Englishman wrote a book of rules and instructions for indoor games, especially card games. Who was he?
Answer: EDMOND HOYLE
Open this question4.In this card game played with a special deck of 48 cards, the combination of the queen of spades and jack of diamonds is very important. The name of the game might have come from the Latin, meaning two eyes. What game is this?
Answer: PINOCHLE
Open this question5.The name of which game originates from the Persian word for king or ruler?
Answer: CHESS word was Shah
Open this question6.In how many different ways can the opening pair of moves be made in a game of chess - one white move followed by one black move.
Answer: 400 - white can make any of 20, black also
Open this question7.Which two letters have the highest point value in the game of Scrabble?
Answer: Q / Z 10 points
Open this question8.What game uses a deck of cards, a board with holes in it, and small wooden pegs?
Answer: CRIBBAGE
Open this question9.How many pieces does each player have when starting a game of backgammon?
Answer: 15
Open this question10.The British call a certain game draughts. What do the Americans call it?
Answer: CHECKERS
Open this question11.What card game's objective is to reach a hand value of 21 without going over?
Answer: Blackjack
Open this question12.How many dominoes are in a standard double-six set?
Answer: 28
Open this question13.What collectible card game created by Wizards of the Coast became a massive fad after its 1993 release?
Answer: Magic: The Gathering
Open this question14.In the board game Clue, what are the possible murder weapons?
Answer: Knife, candlestick, revolver, rope, lead pipe, wrench
Open this question15.How many tiles does each player start with in Scrabble?
Answer: Seven
Open this question16.What strategy board game, originating in China, involves capturing territory by placing stones?
Answer: Go
Open this question17.In chess, what piece can only move diagonally?
Answer: Bishop
Open this question18.What classic board game involves players buying and trading properties?
Answer: Monopoly
Open this question19.How many squares are on a standard chess board?
Answer: 64
Open this question20.What card game, also known as Patience, is typically played by a single player?
Answer: Solitaire
Open this question21.What word game involves rearranging letters to form words on a board with premium squares?
Answer: Scrabble
Open this question22.In poker, what hand consists of five cards of the same suit in sequence?
Answer: Straight flush
Open this question23.In backgammon, how many points are on the board?
Answer: 24
Open this question24.Which company first published the board game Monopoly in 1935?
Answer: Parker Brothers
Open this question25.Monopoly was derived from "The Landlord's Game", created in 1903 by which American woman?
Answer: Lizzie Magie
Open this question26.Which architect invented the word game Scrabble in the 1930s?
Answer: Alfred Mosher Butts
Open this question27.In chess, which piece moves two squares in one direction and one square at a right angle, jumping over any pieces in its way?
Answer: The knight
Open this question28.In which country was the game Trivial Pursuit created in 1979?
Answer: Canada
Open this question29.Which French film director invented the board game Risk, first released in 1957?
Answer: Albert Lamorisse
Open this question30.In which country did the board game Go originate?
Answer: China
Open this question31.How many lines run in each direction on a full-size Go board?
Answer: 19
Open this question32.Which German designer created the board game The Settlers of Catan, first published in 1995?
Answer: Klaus Teuber
Open this question33.In the British edition of the murder-mystery game Cluedo, what is the name of the victim?
Answer: Dr. Black
Open this question34.In the North American edition of the board game Clue, what is the name of the murder victim?
Answer: Mr. Boddy
Open this question35.Which games maker created The Checkered Game of Life in 1860?
Answer: Milton Bradley
Open this question36.In which children's racing board game, first published in 1949, does the track pass places such as Candy Cane Forest and Gumdrop Mountain?
Answer: Candy Land
Open this question37.Which charades-inspired word-guessing game, in which players draw pictures, was first published in 1985?
Answer: Pictionary
Open this question38.Two Englishmen, Lewis Waterman and John W. Mollett, each claimed to have invented which disc-flipping board game in 1883?
Answer: Reversi
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