1. Bluff!
A Game and Study Guide All In One!

2. Rules
• In turn, each team will be asked a question.
• Team members who know the answer will stand
up.
• The other team will select ONE person standing
up to answer the question.
• If that person gives a correct answer, the team
will receive as many points as there are people
standing up. If the answer is wrong, that many
points will be subtracted.

3. Rules Continued
• Each team will select one scorekeeper.
• If no one from the team stands up, the other
team will be awarded 5 points.
• If you do not stand up, or if you would not have if
it was your team’s turn, then write the question
and answer down to create your own study
guide.
• A team may not call on the same person from
the opposing team until they have called on all
the other members of the opposing team.

4. Question #1
•What word means the
belief in many gods?

5. Answer #1
•Polytheism

6. Question #2
•Why was the Fertile
Crescent a good place
for developing
civilizations?

7. Answer #2
•The rivers created
very rich farmland

8. Question #3
•What word
means a story
about gods that
explains people’s
beliefs?

9. Answer #3
•myth

10. Question #4
•Why was Babylon an
important center of trade?

11. Answer #4
• Because it was located between cities to the south
and north

12. Question #5
•What word means
many territories and
people who are
controlled by one
government?

13. Answer #5
•empire

14. Question #6
•Mesopotamia was
located between what
two rivers?

15. Answer #6
•The Tigris and
Euphrates rivers

16. Question #7
•Why did separate city-
states develop in
Sumer?

17. Answer #7
•Because the cities
were separated by long
distances

18. Question #8
What word means
symbols for writing
that represent sounds?

19. Answer #8
•alphabet

20. Question #9
•Why did Phoenicia
become a thriving and
wealthy region?

21. Answer #9
•Phoenicians sold
valuable wood and
purple dye to
neighboring peoples.

22. Question #10
•How were the Israelites
different in their religious
beliefs than many other
peoples at this time?

23. Answer #10
•They worshipped one
god.

24. BLIND QUESTION
•A blind question is
when players must
commit to standing up
before the question is
asked.

25. Question #11
•What word means a
group of traders
traveling together?

26. •caravan

27. BLIND QUESTION #12
• Why was the Phoenician alphabet so
important to people in the ancient
world?

28. Answer
• It made it easier to learn to read and
write.

29. Question #13
•What word means a
time when people
starve because there is
so little food?

30. Answer #13
•famine

31. Question #14
•What was one of the
major events in the
history of the Israelites?

32. Answer #14
•The conquest of Canaan

33. Question #15
•What word means the
belief in one god?

34. Answer #15
•monotheism

35. Question #16
•What is one of the main
reasons why Hammurabi’s
Code was significant?

36. Answer #16
•For the first time, laws
were written down

37. Question #17
What word means
professional writer?

38. Answer #17
• scribe

39. Question #18
Why did the Sumerians make their
ziggurats with terraces, one on top of
the other?

40. Answer #18
• They believed the gods could use it to
descend to Earth.

41. Question #19
• What word means the area good for
agriculture that stretched from the
Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf?

42. Answer #19
• Fertile Crescent

43. Question #20
• What was one military innovation of
the Assyrians?

44. Answer #20
• Battering ram

45. Question #21
• What is the writing in Mesopotamia
that combined symbols to make groups
of wedges and lines?

46. Answer #21
• cuneiform

47. Question #22
• Who developed the first alphabet?

48. Question #22
• The Phoenicians