Games Flashcards
The Global Defence Initiative and the Brotherhood of Nod are two rival factions
competing for control of the substance Tiberium in the alternate history Earth of
which 1995 military real time strategy video game that began a franchise?
Command and Conquer
The Terrans, the Protoss and the Zerg are the three species competing for
dominance in a distant part of the Milky Way in which 1998 military science fiction
real-time strategy video game that began a franchise?
Starcraft
Because of its diagonal moves, which type of chess piece always remains on
squares of a single colour?
Bishop
Because of its L-shaped moves, which type of chess piece always moves from
one colour square to the opposite colour?
Knight
The best-selling games console of all time that is made by neither Nintendo nor
Sony is the XBox 360, first released in 2005, and made by which American
company?
Microsoft
Which Japanese company in 1988 released the Genesis console, also known as
the Megadrive? It remains the best-selling console in the world not made by
Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft.
Sega
What two words follow Jedi in the title of a 2019 Star Wars video game published by EA?
Fallen Order
What single word follows Jedi in the title of the 2023 Star Wars video game published by EA that is a sequel to Fallen Order?
Survivor
Which type of puzzle expresses a word or phrase as a combination of pictures,
and has a name that is a Latin ablative plural meaning ‘things’?
Rebus
Which type of dinosaur was one of the three new tokens introduced to the
standard Monopoly set after a public poll in 2017?
Tyrannosaurus Rex/T-Rex
Which type of flightless bird was one of the three new tokens introduced to the
standard Monopoly set after a public poll in 2017?
Penguin
Which type of puzzle involves decoding a short piece of text in a simple
substitution cipher, and has a name derived from two Greek roots meaning
‘hidden’ and ‘letter’?
Cryptogram
Which game, that was included with every release of Microsoft Windows from
Windows 3.1 to Windows 7, was played on a grid ranging in size from 8x8 for the
Beginner level up to 30x16 for Expert?
Minesweeper
The Solitaire Collection bundled with Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 combines
Solitaire, Spider Solitaire, and which other patience game that has been included
with every release of the Windows operating system since 1995?
FreeCell
