1. What event marked the start of World War II?

a. Invasion of Russia 1942

b. Invasion of Normandy 1944
c. Battle of Britain 1940
d. !Invasion of Poland 1939

2. The collapse of the Soviet Union took place in which year?

a. 1992
b. !1991
c. 1891
d. 1990

3. Which of these countries was NOT a part of the Soviet Union?

a. Kazakhstan
b. Turkmenistan
c. Uzbekistan
d. !Afghanistan

4. Former United States Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within
hours of each other.
a. !True
b. False

5. Bohdan Khmelnytsky was which of the following?

a. !Leader of the Ukrainian Cossacks
b. Prince of Wallachia
c. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR
d. Grand Prince of Novgorod

6. Against which country did the Dutch Republic fight the Eighty Years039; War?
a. Portugal
b. England
c. France
d. !Spain

7. What were the first states to break away from Yugoslavia?

a. Macedonia, Montenegro
b. Montenegro, Slovenia
c. !Slovenia, Croatia
d. Slovenia, Macedonia

8. What was the bloodiest singleday battle during the American Civil War?
a. The Siege of Vicksburg
b. The Battles of Chancellorsville
c. The Battle of Gettysburg
d. !The Battle of Antietam

9. What was the unofficial name for Germany between 1919 and 1933?
a. Oesterreich
b. Federal Republic of Germany
c. German Democratic Republic
 d. !Weimar Republic

10. Which U.S. president took part in the Potsdam Conference, where the Allies
reached a peace settlement with Germany?
a. Herbert Hoover
b. !Harry S. Truman
c. Dwight D. Eisenhower
d. Franklin D. Roosevelt

11. Which U.S. president was said to have been too honest to lie to his father
about chopping down a cherry tree?
a. Thomas Jefferson
b. !George Washington
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. James Monroe

12. The son of which pope supposedly held a lecherous fecirc;te involving 50
courtesans in the papal palace?
a. Urban II
b. !Alexander VI
c. Innocent V
d. Pius III

13. The Panama Canal was finished under the administration of which U.S. president?
a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. !Woodrow Wilson
c. Herbert Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1. Who painted the Mona Lisa?

a. !Leonardo da Vinci
b. Vincent van Gogh
c. Claude Monet
d. Pablo Picasso

2. Which time signature is commonly known as ldquo;Cut Time?rdquo;

a. !22
b. 68
c. 34
d. 44

3. What French sculptor designed the Statue of Liberty?

a. !Freacute;deacute;ric Auguste Bartholdi
b. JeanLeacute;on Geacute;rocirc;me
c. Auguste Rodin
d. Henri Matisse

4. Leonardo da Vinci039;s Mona Lisa does not have eyebrows.

a. !True
 b. False

5. What nationality was the surrealist painter Salvador Dali?

a. Portuguese
b. Italian
c. !Spanish
d. French

6. Albrecht Duuml;rer039;s birthplace and place of death were in...

a. Bamberg
b. !Nuuml;rnberg
c. Augsburg
d. Berlin

7. Pablo Picasso is one of the founding fathers of quot;Cubism.quot;

a. False
b. !True

8. Which artist039;s style was to use small different colored dots to create a
picture?
a. Henri Rousseau
b. Paul Ceacute;zanne
c. !Georges Seurat
d. Vincent Van Gogh

9. Venus of Willendorf is one of the earliest works of art, depicting the planets
Mars and Venus embrace in the heavens at night.
a. !False
b. True

10. The Statue of Liberty039;s official name is ldquo;Liberty Enlightening the

Worldrdquo;.
a. False
b. !True

11. The painting quot;The Starry Nightquot; by Vincent van Gogh was part of which
art movement?
a. Impressionism
b. !PostImpressionism
c. Neoclassical
d. Romanticism

1. Carcassonne is based on which French town?

a. Marseille
b. ClermontFerrand
c. !Carcassonne
d. Paris
2. At the start of a standard game of the Monopoly, if you throw a double six,
which square would you land on?
a. Community Chest
b. Water Works
c. !Electric Company
d. Chance

3. Which board game was first released on February 6th, 1935?

a. !Monopoly
b. Clue
c. Risk
d. Candy Land

4. What do you declare in Rchi Mahjong when you039;ve drawn your winning tile?
a. Ron
b. Rchi
c. !Tsumo
d. Kan

5. Which of the following tabletop games is the oldest?

a. Shogi
b. Mahjong
c. !Go
d. Chess

6. quot;Rich Uncle Pennybagsquot; from the board game quot;Monopolyquot; wears a

monocle.
a. True
b. !False

7. The Dice Tower network of board game podcasts and videos is run by which
individual?
a. Jason LeVine
b. Borth Sampson
c. Uncle Pennybags
d. !Tom Vasel

8. Which of these cards from quot;Magic: The Gatheringquot; has a flavor text that
begins with quot;Oi oi oiquot;?
a. Lotleth Troll
b. Albino Troll
c. !Uthden Troll
d. Harvester Troll

9. In Magic: The Gathering, what was a tribute card to Jamie Wakefield039;s late
wife Marilyn, who loved horses?
a. !Timbermare
b. Vryn Wingmare
c. Sungrace Pegasus
d. Loyal Pegasus
10. When was the board game Twister, released to the public?
a. September 1965
b. !April 1966
c. January 1969
d. February 1966

11. In what year was the card game Magic: the Gathering first introduced?
a. 2003
b. !1993
c. 1998
d. 1987

12. In board games, an additional or ammended rule that applies to a certain group
or place is informally known as a quot;whatquot; rule?
a. Change
b. !House
c. Custom
d. Extra