"Civilization II" Still Rocks! Quiz

Answer: Hannibal

This is the default leader for that civilization, and is the spokesperson you see when that civilization wants to talk to you. If you are playing as that civilization, you have the option to choose your own name for your leader.

Answer: Chieftain

This difficulty setting gets annoying very quickly because of all the "help boxes" that keep popping up during gameplay. They are useful for your first couple of games, but after that you should want to move up in difficulty level anyway.

Answer: University

I always wondered why they had superhighways increase happiness. In real life, they are usually a scene of total aggravation! Coliseums also raise happiness level. Happiness level is always a problem, so it's important to try and build the Wonders of the World "Michelangelo's Chapel" and "J. S. Bach's Cathedral" as soon as you can. These raise happiness levels the best.

Answer: sewer system

You would think a sewer system would reduce a LOT of pollution, wouldn't you? But in "Civilization II" it simply allows a city to grow beyond level 12 population. All the other choices listed reduce pollution considerably. If you let pollution get out of hand, you end up with global warming that totally alters the terrain (for the worse).

Answer: supermarket

There is no "agriculture" improvement in the game. You gotta have stores to sell all that product, don't you? You must discover refrigeration before you can build supermarkets.

Answer: battleship

Hey, you sunk my battleship! Oh wait... that's another game! The battleship has an attack rating of 12. The carrier only has an attack rating of one by itself, but of course the planes it can carry deliver huge attack capability.

Answer: Attitude Advisor

It was funny enough that you can convert some of your citizens into "Elvises" (or should it be "Elvii"?) to help remove unhappy citizens. But I think they took the joke a bit too far with this horribly bad impersonation they have the Attitude Advisor doing! It's so bad it's almost funny. Almost.

Answer: Rome

The game comes with Rome and WWII as pre-made scenarios. I think they made other scenarios available online, but these are the only two that come with the game.

Answer: 32

It doesn't seem like that many at first glance, does it? Pretty imaginative of them to come up with so many. Learning the different terrain types is very important to proper placement of your cities. You want as many special terrain types as you can in your city radius for maximum growth.

Answer: howitzer

I know there are lots of Marines out there that would dispute this! But in the game, howitzers have an attack rating of 12, whiles Marines only have an attack rating of 8. Marines have a better defensive rating, though.

Answer: Pyramids

Don't know why they chose them for that capability, since the pyramids actually had nothing to do with food storage! But nonetheless, this is a very important Wonder to have because it effectively allows your cities to grow twice as fast. You must first discover masonry before you can begin work on the pyramids.

Answer: explosives

All good engineers love to play with dynamite, right? Engineers are a big improvement over settler units because they can move two spaces per turn instead of one. They also complete their improvements twice as fast as settlers, and can build railroads, farmland and modify terrain.

Answer: fish

You can also get 3 food units per square from the "whales" ocean square if you also have a harbor built in your city, but by itself it only produces 2. Accordingly, if you have a harbor in your city, then the "fish" square would produce 4 food units. Harbor is a city improvement, not an ocean terrain type. There is no "barrier reef" terrain type in the game.

Answer: Twelve

The stealth bomber can move twelve spaces each square, and must return to a city, airport or carrier by the end of its second turn. A regular bomber can only move eight spaces per turn.

Answer: 2020

After the year 2020, you can choose to continue playing, but no further score will be tabulated. Of course, the beginning year for the game is 4000 B.C.