Mythology Quiz

Though Charles Darrow is often credited as the creator of the popular board game Monopoly, an earlier version of the game was created by Lizzie Magie. In Magie’s version, players moved around a board buying properties and paying rent. In 1933, Darrow made a few small changes to Magie’s idea and sold the game to Parker Brothers two years later!

It took a mere three weeks for Microsoft to sell its first one million units of Xbox after the console’s release. Did you know that it would take about 485 billion Xbox 360’s, laid side-by-side, to construct a bridge to the sun? A pretty useless fact, but interesting nonetheless!

Bob Barker, the show’s host in 1987, went prematurely grey almost overnight! Actually, two shows aired two days in a row: one was before he went grey, and the other, when he turned grey. A fellow fan wrote into the show saying: ‘Bob, you must have had one hell of a night.’