Things You Can Learn While Gaming Quiz

Answer: France

This game was meant for the taxpayers of France and they had to try to balance a budget of approximately 300 billion euros. The players had to make decisions about spending revenue and cutting taxes. In addition to facing national and international restrictions, they also had to negotiate with other ministers and present a draft budget to the parliament.

Answer: Israeli - Palestine

"Peacemaker" is based on real events that took place in the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Players can opt for the role of the Israeli Prime Minister or the Palestinian President. For the game to be won, the player has to come up with a two-state solution. Also, one of the basic assumptions of this game is that both the sides want peace.

Answer: False

The game is based on the issue of global warming. Players take on the role of the President of Europe and have to lead Europe from the year 2000 to 2100. The decisions they make could either save or destroy humanity. Some of the tasks include trying to propagate the use of clean energy sources and controlling emission levels. If the player chooses extremely environment friendly solutions, then he may be voted out of power by the people. Thus, the player must try to strike a balance between different issues.

Answer: Africa

The game is set in Africa where the player has to maintain his farm and try to keep his family alive through all sorts of conditions including civil wars, droughts and diseases. It was first developed as a students' project at the IT-University in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2005.

Answer: Sudan

The conflict in Darfur is between the Janjaweed militia group and the non-Baggara people, a nomadic Bedouin tribe. The player has to choose a character and try to run the tribal camp for a week. The tasks include bringing water from a well while dodging the militant patrols and then using the water to grow crops and build huts. The game also has an 'action area' where players can send e-mail messages to politicians and demand action on Darfur.
This game won the Darfur Digital Activist Contest sponsored by mtvU, a division of MTV Networks.

Answer: Yes

Players can choose the city of their birth and even their gender or they can go along with the random selection of the computer. There are more than a thousand different identities and players make decisions regarding their education, job, marriage and other things. Every choice made by the player affects him later including things like smoking and not studying.

Answer: Sheylan

Sheylan is a fictional island located in the Indian Ocean which is affected by droughts and civil wars. The player joins a team of experts and has to complete six different missions including air surveillance and future farming. The six missions are time limited.

Answer: World War II

In this game, players have to assume the role of the leader of any one of the main countries involved in World War II like the United States, Britain, France, Germany etc. The players have to deal with scientific, military, economic and diplomatic issues.

They have to run their own country while trying to come up with different strategies and also carry on negotiations with the other countries.

Answer: No

Though Gandhi does feature in one of the ten different scenarios, the game is not based on him. In one of the scenarios called "Corruption is Stealing", the player is a part of a group known as "Freedom from Corruption" which tries to bring about the downfall of the corrupt government in the fictional eastern European city of Grbac.
The name of this video game was inspired by one of Mahatma Gandhi's quotes when he said nonviolence was the greatest force in the world.

Answer: Romeo and Juliet

The game was devised for children studying in Grade 6. In order to retrieve the stolen text, players had to memorize lines from the play, learn facts about Shakespeare's life and find synonyms and homonyms for parts of the text.