Where Do The Children Play? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Blind Man's Bluff

Blind Man's Bluff, or Blind Man's Buff, is thought to have been played in Tudor times and was popular in Victorian times as a parlour game. The object of the game is for the blindfolded person, 'It', to catch or tag another person who either then is out of the game or becomes the new 'It'.

Answer: Winks

Tiddlywinks is a game for up to four players but is most often played by two people. Each player uses a disc called a squidge to move their winks. Whilst some may consider this to be purely a children's game, some adults take this game very seriously with there being National Tiddlywinks Associations in both England and North America.

Answer: French Cricket

Despite the name, French Cricket was not invented by the French. Some suggest that the name has similar origins to the cricketing term "French cut" which means a poorly played shot. The object of the game is to get the single batter out by either catching the ball or hitting them leg before wicket.

As there are no wickets used in French Cricket, this actually means hitting the batter's legs. The player who gets the batter out is the next to bat.

Answer: Marbles

Marbles are usually made of glass and come in varying sizes. Tom bowlers and taws are larger marbles whilst the peawees are usually the smallest size marble. The game of marbles was widely played in my childhood at primary school. The version we played involved marking out a circle in the sand or dirt and then using your own marble to hit another player's marble out of that circle.

In the cut-throat world of our playground, you got to keep the marbles you knocked out. I usually went home with fewer marbles than I started with.

Answer: Snakes and Ladders

Ophidiophobia is the fear of snakes and perhaps those with a severe enough phobia might refuse to play Snakes and Ladders. Snakes and Ladders originated in India and is thought to have been invented to teach children the consequences of good and bad deeds. It came to England in Victorian times and is still popular today.

Answer: Lamb

Knucklebones is played with five knuckles and involves throwing one up in the air and then trying to pick up one, then two and so on knuckles. The game becomes more complex as you try and pick up more knuckles while doing more intricate throws with the first knuckle (also called jack), such as catching it on the back of your hand.

There are records of the ancient Greeks playing versions of this game.

Answer: Hopscotch

The first record of the game is in the 17th century in England and was referred to as scotch-hoppers. There are no clear indication as to how the name of hopscotch or scotch-hoppers was derived. Hopscotch involves a series of ten squares laid out first in a line of three, followed by a row of two, another single square, another row of two and finally topped by a single square.

A marker is tossed into the first square and the player must then hop/jump through all the other squares except the one with the marker in it.

The marker must land wholly in the designated square; if it doesn't, the player misses their turn. The game continues as the players move up and down all ten squares with the first one to complete the sequence being the winner.

Answer: Rock beats Paper

Paper beats rock because it can cover the rock. Scissors beats paper because it can cut the paper. Rock beats scissors because it can break/smash the scissors. If both players come up with the same shape, it is a draw and they try again. Sometimes this game is played to help decide who does or doesn't do something in the same way you might toss a coin and call heads or tails.

Answer: Charades

In charades, tugging your ear means "it sounds like"; the camera indicates a movie; and the book reading obviously a book. Some other common non-verbal clues in charades are: You can indicate you are a person by standing with your hands on your hips and a TV show is signified by drawing a rectangle to outline the TV screen. To indicate a quote or phrase, you would make quotation marks with your fingers. The game is usually played in teams and the game is usually finished when each team member has acted out one charade. The team that gets the most right wins.

Answer: Skipping Ropes

Double Dutch involves two skipping ropes, which is much harder than a single rope. The speeds and direction of each individual rope can be varied, making it complex for the skipper in the middle to keep pace with each rope.