This old Parker Brothers game was designed to teach players the capitals of the world. On a turn, you simply draw a card and read the question to the player to your left, such as "Of what country is Vienna the capital?" If the question is answered correctly, the player keeps the card. Each card has a point value depending on how obscure the country is. The...
The Game of Catholic Trivia has a very fitting title as it is just that, a trivia game about Catholicism. However, the creators have added some extra elements by splitting the questions into categories, rating the difficulty of the questions and tracking game progress using "Bingo" cards (they are referred to as such). When a player rolls the game die, the...
This is a question and answer card game about cities around the world. The deck includes 100 cards, and each card has 6 questions with that card's city as the answer. Each card also shows the date the city was founded and its population as of 1889. Former cities like Sparta, Troy and Pompeii have no population shown. When used as an education aid, the...
From the back of the box: "A perfect formula: The Game of EARTH + family, friends, or classmates = fun and excitement! The toss of a die determines whether you'll be quizzed about Earth's Environment, Atmosphere, Rocks, Tectonics, or Hydrosphere. Four challenging levels permit players of like and different ages and abilities to join together in unraveling...
Game consisting of 80 cards. 36 cards represent monarchs. These show a woodcut portrait in an octagonal frame, and list numerous facts such as dates, names of parents and spouses, major events and people of their reign, and manner of death. 43 represent nobility close to the crown, and list facts without portraits. The 80th card gives the rules of the...
Similar to the game Authors, each card features 5 quotations from a single author. Quotations are read until someone guesses the author correctly. From the New-York Times of August 22, 1863: "Mr. John H. Tingley, of No. 152 Fulton-street, advertises a new game for the social circle, called the "Game of Familiar Quotations." It affords a very pleasant way...
From the Game Rules: "A player should have a basic or fundamental knowledge of golf. The object of the game is for a player to advance his "ball" over the golf course in the fewest number of strokes. The "ball" is advanced by [b]correctly[/b] answering questions based on the U.S.G.A. (R) Rules of Golf. The game may be played by 1, 2, 3, or 4 players - age...
Under the banner of "Our Town Trivia", then this version has the almost similar layout as with what you would have for the 'trivia' genre. Unlike some others with the closely related naming sort, then those have their depiction of another nearby region superimposed upon a "M~onopoly" 'clone'. They've taken another approach for it all here, with such as...
From the back of the box: Players travel the board collecting Works and Travel cards necessary for acquiring Composer and Period Cards. Active interaction between players allow for frequent exchanges. The goal is to acquire Composer Cards and Period Cards for three historical periods. On a second level of play, the winner is the one who can correctly...
The purpose of the game is to educate players about the most up to date inventions (of the time) and their inventors. Up to 10 can play. Each player gets a card with 5 inventors listed on it. There is a pile of cards with inventions listed on them, and the goal of the game is to claim inventions that belong to the inventors shown on your card. The winner...