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1. Which of the following Avalon Hill games is considered to mark the beginning of the modern wargame hobby?
2. While not a boardgame, Avalon Hill produced a "Squad Leader card game" of World War II strategy in which the terrian cards effectively served as the playing board. Which one of the following is it?
3. Which Steve Jackson designed 1977 minigame had a sequel called "GEV"?
4. While previous generations of wargamers were typically introduced to the hobby by "Tactics II", today's future grognards are likely to begin with an 2000 Avalon Hill game based on the American Civil War that uses a card system. Which one of the following is it?
5. Which of the following games from GMT Games is part of their Card-Driven Games series?
6. What company is the largest publisher of military information in the world?
7. Canadian customs officials seized sample copies of what company's "Canadian Civil War" game at the American border as "seditious material"? They also published "Napoleon at Waterloo" and "The Creature That Ate Sheboygan".
8. H.G. Wells is credited with writing the first system of miniature wargame rules for civilians in 1912. What was the title?
9. "Eastfront", a World War II game published by Columbia Games and designed by Craig Besinque and Tom Dalgliesh, uses what system to help track changing unit strength and simulate the fog of war?
10. Which game company publishes "Panzer Grenadier", "Grenada: The Fall of Moslem Spain", and "Great War at Sea"?
11. Which company is the current publisher of the "Advanced Squad Leader" system and has includes Curt Schilling, a starting pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks, as a member of its five-person staff?
12. What board game released in 2002 was based on a highly-successful computer game that was partly based on a game originally published by Hartland Trefoil LTD?
13. Which of these "Risk"-like or -based games came out first?
14. Which of the following Avalon Hill games did not involve a randomizer? That is, no dice, no spinners, or anything of the sort.
15. Which of the following games was highly successful, selling over 300,000 copies and spawning the follow-up games "Panzer Leader" and "Arab-Israeli Wars"?
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