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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Chess Special

Posted in Trivia, Who wants to be a millionaire chess special, tagged on October 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Unlike the popular gameshow, features such as ‘ask the audience, phone a friend, and 50/50‘ are inapplicable here -sincere apologies. Unfortunately, there’s no money to be made from this also. 😦 However, do your best but do it alone please -no googling!

Question 1 £100

The term Stalemate refers to which piece?

A: The Bishop

B: The Queen

C: The King

D: The Rook

Question 2 £200

Which of these is usually the smallest in size when placed on a chessboard?

A: The Knight

B: The Queen

C: The Rook

D: The Pawn

Question 3 £300

Which chess piece has a numerical value above +4?

A: The Rook

B: The Knight

C: The Pawn

D: The Bishop

Question 4 £400

How many chess pieces can only move one square at a time, however, they are allowed to move two squares once only?

A: 1

B: 2

C: 3

D: 4

Question 5 £500

In which decade was FIDE formed?

A: 1910’s

B: 1920’s

C: 1930’s

D: 1940’s

Question 6 £1,000

Who was the world champion at the turn of the 20th century?

A: Rubinstein

B: Lasker

C: Steinitz

D: Capablanca

Question 7 £2,000

Magnus Carlsen had his 125 game unbeaten streak ended by who in the fifth round of the 2020 Norway Chess Classic?

A: GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda

B: GM Fabiano Caruana

C: GM Levon Aronian

D: GM Alireza Firouzja 

Question 8 £4,000

In which country was the first official Chess Olympiad held in 1927?

A: France

B: Hungary

C: The Netherlands

D: England

Question 9 £8,000

Which famous player once said ‘Chess is a fairytale of 1001 blunders?’

A: Savielly Tartakower

B: Max Euwe

C: Siegbert Tarrasch

D: Vasily Smyslov

Question 10 £16,000

The Anglo-American cable matches were first held in which year?

A: 1894

B: 1896

C: 1898

D: 1900

Question 11 £32,000

The Soviet Chess Championships was won the most times by who of the following?

A: Anatoly Karpov

B: Tigran Petrosian

C: Leonard Stein

D: Paul Keres

Question 12 £64,000

In which German city did the 2008 World Championship Match between Anand v Kramnik take place?

A: Bonn

B: Berlin

C: Hamburg

D: Cologne

Question 13 £125,000

How many times has Hou Yifan been the Women’s World Champion?

A: 1

B: 2

C: 3

D: 4

Question 14 £250,000

Which prominent 19th century player spent many years playing chess in India, and made a large financial contribution to the famous 1851 London Chess Tournament, making him a major benefactor?

A: Alexander McDonnell

B: John Jacob Löwenthal

C: Hugh Alexander Kennedy

D: John Cochrane

Question 15 £500,000

FIDE recognized and inaugurated the World Blitz Championships in 2006, who was the first champion?

A: Alexander Grischuk

B: Vasyl Ivanchuk

C: Peter Svidler 

D: Viswanathan Anand

Question 16 £1,000,000

Which of the following openings does not have a defence, an attack, a gambit or a variation named after former world champion Wilhelm Steinitz?

A: The Petrov Defence

B: The Bishop’s Opening

C: The Philidor’s Defence

D: The Vienna Game

Answers may be found in the post below, and yes they have all been carefully researched.

Mark. J. McCready

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Answers to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Chess Special

Posted in Trivia, Who wants to be a millionaire chess special on October 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »

  1. C
  2. D
  3. A
  4. B
  5. B
  6. B
  7. A
  8. D
  9. A
  10. B
  11. B
  12. A
  13. C
  14. D
  15. A
  16. B

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Fastest Finger

Posted in Who wants to be a millionaire chess special on July 6, 2022| Leave a Comment »

It comes at the beginning with 10 contestants eager to score fastest, to qualify for a place in the show by putting the following in the correct order. Fastest finger question: put these in order from easy to difficult to play chess with.

A: Opening an email from the hospital confirming you are HIV+ 5 minutes before your match begins.
B: A massive hangover from an all night-drinking session.
C: Doing a huge line of cocaine just before the game, to perk you up from a 5-day bender.
D: Learning you have to default a board as a team member was just run over by a steamroller in the car park and killed instantly.

Answer order: C, B, D, A

If there is a tie for first, then a second fastest finger question will be asked. Place the answers in the order that Tal said were easy to difficult to play chess with.

A: cuts in the head after being bottled at an Olympiad.
B: a black eye after an altercation in a knocking shop.
C: a fat lip after an off-hand remark made towards Petrosian.
D: a thick ear after drunken debauchery was cut short by the handbag of an unimpressed tranny.

Answer order: B, A, C, D

Come on admit it, I do have a sense of humour do I not!

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