Answers to the quiz themed around playing cards. Questions are repeated, so that you can use this page for a read-out quiz if you like.
- Playing cards were most likely invented in which modern-day country? An early type were known as “wine cards”, used to playing drinking games involving rice wine.
- China
- Which card is known as “the curse of Scotland”?
- Nine of diamonds
- The jacks of which two suits are known as the “one-eyed jacks”?
- Spades and hearts
- Which Leeds-based playing-card maker introduced the game Monopoly to the UK market? Although it no longer exists as a separate company, its “Number 1” playing cards are still sold.
- Waddingtons
- Which of the four suits in a standard 52-card pack is also a suit of traditional German playing cards? For a bonus point, name the other three German ones.
- Heart; others are acorns, leaves and bells
- Uno is a card game, but Uno Stacko is not. It’s a cross between Uno and which other game, which is played with 54 wooden blocks?
- Jenga
- In the Rider–Waite–Smith tarot card deck, Death carries a black flag with what symbol on it? It’s also the symbol of the largest historic county of England.
- White rose
- What name is shared by political drama series set in both the UK and the US? The character of Frank Underwood in the American version is an adaptation of Francis Urquhart in the British original.
- House of Cards
- Which 1965 film stars Steve McQueen as Eric Stoner, a poker star on the rise? It’s set in New Orleans, but its name includes a city in Ohio.
- The Cincinnati Kid
- Which are there the most of: orderings of a 52-card pack, positions of a standard Rubik’s cube, or legal positions in chess?
- Card orderings, by a long way