Party Games

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1.Which 1999 party game's matching format inspired Cards Against Humanity?
- A. Taboo
- B. Apples to Apples
- C. Scattergories
- D. Cranium
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Apples to Apples
Did you know? Cards Against Humanity's creators credit Apples to Apples as their template.
2.Which party game passes an object around until the signal says stop?
- A. Sardines
- B. Hot Potato
- C. Bingo
- D. Musical Chairs
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Hot Potato
Did you know? In Hot Potato, the holder when the music stops is out.
3.In which country was Trivial Pursuit created?
- A. England
- B. Australia
- C. Canada
- D. the United States
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Canada
Did you know? Trivial Pursuit was created in Montreal, Canada, in 1979.
4.Which party game obeys only commands that begin with a magic phrase?
- A. Simon Says
- B. I Spy
- C. Scattergories
- D. Balderdash
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Simon Says
Did you know? Simon Says is a children's elimination game of careful listening.
5.Which party game mixes sketching, humming, clay, and trivia on one path?
- A. Wink Murder
- B. Two Truths and a Lie
- C. Cranium
- D. Karuta
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Cranium
Did you know? Cranium (1998) bills itself as a whole-brain party game.
6.Which party game marks called numbers on a card toward a full row?
- A. Limbo
- B. Bingo
- C. Musical Chairs
- D. Tombola
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Bingo
Did you know? Bingo's American name grew out of the fairground game Beano.
7.Which party game sketches clues against a sand-timer for teammates to guess?
- A. Wink Murder
- B. Pictionary
- C. Bingo
- D. Pass the Parcel
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Pictionary
Did you know? Pictionary was invented in the 1980s by Robert Angel.
8.Which party game narrows a mystery with yes-or-no questions in twenty tries?
- A. I Spy
- B. Twenty Questions
- C. Fruits Basket
- D. Telestrations
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Twenty Questions
Did you know? Twenty Questions was a popular radio quiz before it was a parlor staple.
9.Which party game leaves one player standing when the music stops?
- A. Charades
- B. Cranium
- C. Fruits Basket
- D. Musical Chairs
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Musical Chairs
Did you know? Musical Chairs is a party staple at children's celebrations worldwide.
10.Which party game unwraps one layer of a bundle per music stop?
- A. Charades
- B. Limbo
- C. Pass the Parcel
- D. Time's Up!
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Pass the Parcel
Did you know? Pass the Parcel is a British party favorite with a prize in the center layer.
11.Which party game pins a tail on a wall donkey while blindfolded?
- A. Pin the Tail on the Donkey
- B. Pass the Parcel
- C. Duck Duck Goose
- D. Cranium
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Pin the Tail on the Donkey
Did you know? Pin the Tail on the Donkey has been a children's party game for over a century.
12.Which party game mimes words and phrases for a team to guess with no speaking?
- A. Charades
- B. Musical Chairs
- C. Twenty Questions
- D. Tombola
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Charades
Did you know? Charades took its modern parlor form in eighteenth-century France.
13.Which party game describes a word while avoiding its five forbidden words?
- A. Taboo
- B. Pass the Parcel
- C. Duck Duck Goose
- D. Pictionary
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Taboo
Did you know? In Taboo, saying a forbidden word makes the buzzer sound and skips the card.
14.Which party game bends backward under a bar that drops after every pass?
- A. Hot Potato
- B. Limbo
- C. Apples to Apples
- D. Cranium
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Limbo
Did you know? Limbo spread from Trinidad and Tobago carnival celebrations.
15.Which party game matches noun cards to a rotating adjective judge?
- A. Bingo
- B. Time's Up!
- C. Apples to Apples
- D. Tombola
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Apples to Apples
Did you know? Apples to Apples (1999) inspired later matching-and-judging party games.
16.Who invented Pictionary in the 1980s?
- A. Merle Robbins
- B. Leslie Scott
- C. Klaus Teuber
- D. Robert Angel
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Robert Angel
Did you know? Robert Angel sketched the first Pictionary clues for party friends in 1985.
17.Which party game chases a runner around a seated circle?
- A. Simon Says
- B. Bingo
- C. Two Truths and a Lie
- D. Duck Duck Goose
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Duck Duck Goose
Did you know? Duck Duck Goose is a circle game played at schools across North America.
18.Which party game bluffs fake definitions for obscure words?
- A. Pictionary
- B. Twenty Questions
- C. Balderdash
- D. Limbo
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Balderdash
Did you know? Balderdash rounds include fake movie plots and acronyms as well as words.
19.Which party game passes drawings and guesses down the line like a sketchy telephone?
- A. Charades
- B. Duck Duck Goose
- C. Taboo
- D. Telestrations
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Telestrations
Did you know? Telestrations combines the parlor game telephone with sketching.
20.Which party game lets a secret winker eliminate players while a detective watches?
- A. Time's Up!
- B. Pin the Tail on the Donkey
- C. Wink Murder
- D. Pass the Parcel
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Wink Murder
Did you know? Wink Murder needs no equipment beyond a dealt role card.
21.Which party game hides one player whom everyone else must seek by crowding in?
- A. Pin the Tail on the Donkey
- B. Balderdash
- C. Taboo
- D. Sardines
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Sardines
Did you know? Sardines reverses hide-and-seek: the found players hide with the hider.
22.Which party game races to list words matching a letter and a category?
- A. Pictionary
- B. Two Truths and a Lie
- C. Scattergories
- D. Cranium
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Scattergories
Did you know? In Scattergories, duplicate answers score nothing for anyone.
23.Which party game hides a fib among two real personal claims?
- A. Two Truths and a Lie
- B. Musical Chairs
- C. Time's Up!
- D. Limbo
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Two Truths and a Lie
Did you know? Two Truths and a Lie needs no equipment at all.
24.Which party game spots an object by clueing only its color?
- A. Karuta
- B. Limbo
- C. I Spy
- D. Twenty Questions
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I Spy
Did you know? I Spy works anywhere with the chant "I spy with my little eye."
25.Which party game swaps seats when a fruit's name is called?
- A. Fruits Basket
- B. Duck Duck Goose
- C. Taboo
- D. Hot Potato
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Fruits Basket
Did you know? Fruits Basket is a circle game popular at Japanese school parties.
26.Which party game guesses names across three rounds of describing, miming, and one word?
- A. Time's Up!
- B. Charades
- C. I Spy
- D. Limbo
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Time's Up!
Did you know? Time's Up! reuses the same set of cards for each escalating round.
27.In what year did Twister become a national sensation after a Tonight Show demonstration?
- A. 1966
- B. 1958
- C. 1981
- D. 1974
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1966
Did you know? Eva Gabor's 1966 Tonight Show demonstration made Twister a sellout.
28.Which party game snatches matching cards at the reader's cue?
- A. Karuta
- B. I Spy
- C. Time's Up!
- D. Fruits Basket
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Karuta
Did you know? Karuta card sets pair classical Japanese poems with matching picture cards.
29.In which country did charades take its modern parlor form?
- A. Italy
- B. France
- C. England
- D. Germany
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France
Did you know? Charades developed in eighteenth-century French salons.
30.Which party game draws numbered barrels at Italian family gatherings?
- A. Tombola
- B. Twenty Questions
- C. Pictionary
- D. Duck Duck Goose
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Tombola
Did you know? Tombola cards form classic shapes such as "ambo" and "terna".
31.Which toy salesman popularized Bingo after renaming the fairground game Beano?
- A. Charles Darrow
- B. Milton Bradley
- C. George S. Parker
- D. Edwin Lowe
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Edwin Lowe
Did you know? Edwin Lowe heard "beano!" at a carnival and launched Bingo in 1929.
32.Who co-created the party game Cranium in 1998 after working at Microsoft?
- A. Whit Alexander
- B. Leslie Scott
- C. Richard Tait
- D. Vlaada Chvátil
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Whit Alexander
Did you know? Whit Alexander and Richard Tait, both Microsoft alumni, launched Cranium in 1998.

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