Designers, Publishers & History

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1.In which country was Catan first published?
- A. France
- B. the United States
- C. Austria
- D. Germany
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Germany
Did you know? Catan debuted in Germany in 1995 and crossed the Atlantic a year later.
2.How many squares does a chessboard have?
- A. 81
- B. 100
- C. 64
- D. 49
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64
Did you know? A chessboard's eight-by-eight grid holds sixty-four squares.
3.Which board game designer built auctions, tiles, and civilizations from Ra to Tigris & Euphrates?
- A. Reiner Knizia
- B. Seiji Kanai
- C. Cole Wehrle
- D. Anthony Pratt
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Reiner Knizia
Did you know? Reiner Knizia holds a doctorate in mathematics and has designed hundreds of games.
4.Which board game publisher took over UNO and Skip-Bo into its card game line?
- A. Mattel
- B. Z-Man Games
- C. Ravensburger
- D. Rio Grande Games
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Mattel
Did you know? Mattel acquired UNO's publisher International Games in 1992.
5.Which ancient Indian game is widely regarded as the ancestor of chess?
- A. Go
- B. Chaturanga
- C. Senet
- D. Pachisi
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Chaturanga
Did you know? Chaturanga spread from Gupta-era India toward Persia, evolving into chess.
6.How many wooden blocks does a standard Jenga tower hold?
- A. 72
- B. 60
- C. 48
- D. 54
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54
Did you know? A standard Jenga set stacks fifty-four blocks eighteen layers high.
7.Which board game designer designed the tile-laying classic Carcassonne?
- A. Vlaada Chvátil
- B. Cole Wehrle
- C. Antoine Bauza
- D. Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
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Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
Did you know? Klaus-Jürgen Wrede released Carcassonne in 2000.
8.Which board game publisher printed The Game of Life and Battleship for over a century?
- A. Ravensburger
- B. Milton Bradley
- C. Mattel
- D. Days of Wonder
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Milton Bradley
Did you know? Milton Bradley founded his company in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1860.
9.Which 1904 board game planted the seed that grew into Monopoly?
- A. The Landlord's Game
- B. The Game of Life
- C. Candy Land
- D. Sorry!
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The Landlord's Game
Did you know? Elizabeth Magie patented The Landlord's Game in 1904 to teach land economics.
10.How many tiles does a standard double-six domino set contain?
- A. 24
- B. 28
- C. 36
- D. 32
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28
Did you know? A double-six domino set holds one tile for every pair of values from 0-0 to 6-6.
11.Which board game designer is commonly credited as the first board game millionaire?
- A. Charles Darrow
- B. Elizabeth Hargrave
- C. Alan R. Moon
- D. Alexander Pfister
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Charles Darrow
Did you know? Charles Darrow sold his Monopoly edition to Parker Brothers in 1935.
12.Which board game publisher launched Monopoly, Clue, and Risk into family closets?
- A. Parker Brothers
- B. Z-Man Games
- C. Fantasy Flight Games
- D. Hasbro
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Parker Brothers
Did you know? Parker Brothers was founded in 1883 by George S. Parker.
13.In which city did Bobby Fischer win the 1972 world chess championship?
- A. Helsinki
- B. Oslo
- C. Reykjavík
- D. Stockholm
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Reykjavík
Did you know? The 1972 Fischer–Spassky match was played in Reykjavík, Iceland.
14.Which game is commonly cited as the best-selling board game of all time?
- A. Checkers
- B. Backgammon
- C. Monopoly
- D. Chess
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Chess
Did you know? Chess is widely cited as the best-selling and most-played board game in history.
15.Which board game designer raised 7 Wonders and the fireworks of Hanabi?
- A. Uwe Rosenberg
- B. Cole Wehrle
- C. Antoine Bauza
- D. Charles Darrow
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Antoine Bauza
Did you know? Antoine Bauza is a French designer of 7 Wonders and Takenoko.
16.Which board game publisher absorbed Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley under one roof?
- A. Mattel
- B. GMT Games
- C. Parker Brothers
- D. Hasbro
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Hasbro
Did you know? Hasbro is headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
17.Which board game designer brought real bird data to the table in Wingspan?
- A. Charles Darrow
- B. Elizabeth Hargrave
- C. Wolfgang Kramer
- D. Anthony Pratt
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Elizabeth Hargrave
Did you know? Elizabeth Hargrave studied ornithology datasets while designing Wingspan.
18.Which board game publisher puzzles German families since the 1880s?
- A. Milton Bradley
- B. Mattel
- C. Parker Brothers
- D. Ravensburger
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Ravensburger
Did you know? Ravensburger was founded in Ravensburg, Germany, in 1883.
19.Which board game designer taught the world to cure diseases together in Pandemic?
- A. Matt Leacock
- B. Sid Sackson
- C. Alfred Butts
- D. Elizabeth Magie
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Matt Leacock
Did you know? Matt Leacock worked in user-experience design before his board game career.
20.Which board game designer created the island trading hit Catan in 1995?
- A. Leslie Scott
- B. Klaus Teuber
- C. Matt Leacock
- D. Phil Walker-Harding
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Klaus Teuber
Did you know? Klaus Teuber worked as a dental technician while designing Catan.
21.Which board game designer dealt the first trading card game, Magic: The Gathering?
- A. Antoine Bauza
- B. Elizabeth Magie
- C. Phil Walker-Harding
- D. Richard Garfield
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Richard Garfield
Did you know? Richard Garfield earned a doctorate in mathematics and later designed King of Tokyo.
22.Which board game designer launched deck-building with Dominion?
- A. Donald X. Vaccarino
- B. Uwe Rosenberg
- C. Reiner Knizia
- D. Bruno Cathala
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Donald X. Vaccarino
Did you know? Donald X. Vaccarino won the Spiel des Jahres in 2009 for Dominion.
23.Which board game designer plowed Agricola's fields and stitched Patchwork's quilts?
- A. Seiji Kanai
- B. Uwe Rosenberg
- C. Alan R. Moon
- D. Klaus-Jürgen Wrede
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Uwe Rosenberg
Did you know? Uwe Rosenberg first became known for the bean-trading card game Bohnanza.
24.Which board game designer laid out the railway routes of Ticket to Ride?
- A. Phil Walker-Harding
- B. Reiner Knizia
- C. Wolfgang Kramer
- D. Alan R. Moon
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Alan R. Moon
Did you know? Alan R. Moon also designed Elfenland, a Spiel des Jahres winner in 1998.
25.Which board game designer linked codewords on a grid and built civilizations too?
- A. Reiner Knizia
- B. Leslie Scott
- C. Vlaada Chvátil
- D. Bruno Cathala
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Vlaada Chvátil
Did you know? Vlaada Chvátil is a Czech designer of Codenames and Through the Ages.

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