Aficionados of the game Angry Birds, developed by a small Finnish company to play on mobile phones during idle moments, took to the streets in dozens of cities around the world on Saturday. Dressed as characters from the game, they were celebrating the first anniversary of the launch of what has become one of the most unlikely popular cultural crazes of all time. Angry Birds, which features, well, disgruntled avians seeking revenge on evil egg stealing pigs, attracts 200 million minutes of game play each day around the world according to figures issued by it's developers. Having missed out on this element of the digital entertainment zeitgeist, the out of touch team at Highly Questionable have opted to take traditional games as the theme of today's quiz.
Traditional Games Quiz
1 How many squares are on the board used to play chess?
2 Shogi is a variant of chess played in which country?
3 Which traditional game requires players to combine dice generated luck with strategy to seek to safely move counters around a board consisting of twenty-four spike shaped triangles?
4 The children's board game Ludo has it's origin's in which ancient Indian game?
5 The tile game Mahjong originated in which country?
Answers will be published along with tomorrow's quiz questions.
Contemporary Arts Quiz Answers
The answers to our previous quiz which had contemporary art as the theme were:-
1 Ai Weiwei.
2 Ants crawling on a crucifix.
3 Susan Philipsz.
4 Damien Hirst.
5 Graffiti.
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