a) Baron
b) Earl
c) Marquis
d) Viscount

After 314 days, activists were found guilty of libel for passing out six-page flyers titled "What's Wrong With McDonald's" in 1989.

a) Kentucky Fried Chicken
b) McDonald's
c) Pizza Hut
d) Taco Bell

• A1) Candy Land. Locations like Molasses Swamp and Gumdrop Mountains were in the original game in 1949, but the characters were added later.
• A2) Chutes and Ladders (or Snakes and Ladders). The current Milton Bradley game actually replaces the die with a spinner. Presumably, it's too easy to lose the die, but our spinner broke, so we're using a die from another game anyway.
• A3) Trouble. Each player has four plastic peg pieces that they move around the board, sending opponents back to the start square by landing on them. The game is also known as Frustration and Kimble, with variations called Headache and Double Trouble.
• A4) Stay Alive. Milton Bradley introduced this game in 1971 and spiked its popularity with the television ad featuring the quote in the description seven years later.
• A5) Battleship. In addition to the namesake ship (four units long), each player has an aircraft carrier (5), a submarine (3), a cruiser (3), and a destroyer (2). Finding the destroyer is usually the key to winning.
• A6) Easy Money. My friend Nelson dubbed this Milton Bradley game "Measly Money". We liked it more than Monopoly because it didn't take nearly as long to play. Confusingly, Milton Bradley released an unrelated game called Easy Money in 1988.
• A7) The Game of Life. This Milton Bradley game dates all the way back to an 1861 version called The Checkered Game of Life featuring a spinning top and a checkerboard playing field. The game was redesigned into essentially its modern form on its 100th anniversary.
• A8) Masterpiece. This 1970 Parker Brothers game could have helped me learn about some famous paintings (St. John the Baptist, Still Life, and American Gothic are among its two dozen pictures), but I'm sure it didn't.
• A9) Risk. French movie director Albert Lamorisse, who won the 1957 Best Director Oscar for Le Ballon rouge, introduced this war game as La Conquete du Monde (The Conquest of the World) in the same year.
• A10) Connect Four. Both quotes are from Milton Bradley's late 1970s television commercial showing a brother and sister playing two games.
• A11) Stratego. The lower-numbered piece wins when a battle takes place (both are removed if they're equal), except that the Spy defeats the Marshal if it attacks first. The highest piece, the Scout, has the special ability to travel multiple spaces in one turn. Besides the flag, each side also has bombs which can only be defused by the Miners.
• A12) Othello (also called Reversi). Mattel named its version of the game for the Shakespeare character and marketed it with the catchphrase in the description.

Board Games Questions

• D1)
  Queen Frostine has been demoted, and Plumpy is no more;
  She's just a Princess, and he is now Mama Ginger Tree.
  This colorful game can be played by two, three, or four;
  It requires only counting from kids as young as three.
• D2)
  One, two, three, count with me as you obey the die;
  Although the board goes to a hundred, there's no math.
  Bad luck, you slide down low; good luck, you climb up high;
  Or just zig-zag your way up the checkerboard path.
• D3)
  Which Pachisi version do you like? There are so many;
  This one's got the Pop-o-matic, so you don't have to roll.
  You don't even have to count the pips; there aren't any;
  Be the first to race your pieces from the start to your goal.
• D4)
  "I'm the sole survivor", pre-reality show;
  Place your marbles on the seven by seven grid.
  Slide one of the fourteen levers and down they go;
  If you're the last one standing, you're the winning kid.
• D5)
  Somewhere in this ten by ten sea,
  I carefully place my five boats.
  In turn, I bomb the enemy,
  Until there's nothing left that floats.
• D6)
  A blatant '50s Milton Bradley Monopoly clone;
  You can rent, build houses, and mortgage (but not refinance).
  It's all about money and the properties that you own;
  Give or Take cards instead of Community Chest and Chance.
• D7)
  You're a blue or pink peg person in a small, plastic car,
  Traveling on a long and windy road through plastic hills.
  Spin the spinner, make the right decisions, and you'll go far;
  Get married, have kids, and earn hundred thousand dollar bills.
• D8)
  Is the painting a Monet, Rembrandt, or Van Gogh,
  Or a cheap forgery by an unknown artist?
  Bid wisely, for it may cost you a lot of dough;
  To discern if you're the cleverest and smartest.
• D9)
  Kamchatka to Alaska, North Africa to Brazil;
  Odd geographical connections on a weird world map.
  A test of your diplomacy and military skill;
  Taking over the planet has never been such a snap.
• D10)
  "The vertical checkers game from Milton Bradley";
  Sometimes it's not just what you see, it's what you miss.
  Spot your opponent's plan, and you won't do badly;
  Otherwise you can just whine, "Pretty sneaky, sis".
• D11)
  The army in red attacks the army in blue,
  Around and between two small bodies of water.
  The General's a one and the Marshal's a two;
  Capture the flag while avoiding total slaughter.
• D12)
  "A minute to learn, a lifetime to master";
  Place your piece and turn the white pieces to black.
  Losing the corners could be a disaster;
  When your opponent moves and flips them all back.