Cornhole Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers
What is cornhole?
A: Cornhole is a lawn game popular in
North America in which players or
teams take turns throwing fabric bean bags at a raised, angled board with a
hole in its far end.
What is the goal of the game?
A: To score points by either landing a bag on the board (one point) or
putting a bag through the hole (three points).
What are some regional names for cornhole?
A: Sack toss, or bags.
Where was the game first described?
A: In Heyliger de Windt's 1883
patent for "Parlor Quoits" .
It displays most of the features of modern cornhole,
but with what?
A: A square hole instead of a round one.
Quoits is a game similar to what?
A: Horseshoes, played by throwing steel discs at a metal spike.
De Windt's patent followed several earlier "parlor
quoits" patents that sought to recreate quoit gameplay in what?
A: An indoor environment.
His was the first to use what?
A: Bean bags and a slanted board with a hole as the target.
He sold the rights to the game to a Massachusetts toy
manufacturer that marketed a version of it under what name?
A: "Faba Baga."
Unlike modern cornhole, which has one hole and one size
of bags, a Faba Baga board had what?
A: Two different-sized holes, worth different point values.
In September 1974, Popular Mechanics magazine published
an article written by Carolyn Farrell about what?
A: A similar game called "Bean-bag Bull's-eye."
Bean-bag bull's-eye was played on a board the same
width of modern cornhole boards (24"), but only how long?
A: 36" long as opposed to the 48" length used in cornhole.
The hole was the same diameter (6") but was centered
where?
A: 8" (rather than 9") from the back of the board.
How much did the bags weigh?
A: Eight ounces each.
The boards in bean-bag bull's-eye were placed "about 30
ft. apart for adults, and how far for kids?
A: 10 ft.
In the Chicago area, a similar game is referred to as
"bags," but uses what?
A: Rectangular bags.
The game spread in Chicago, Illinois, and the Northwest
region of Indiana in the late 1970s and early 1980s, perhaps due to what?
A: The Popular Mechanics article mentioned above.
Where did cornhole as it is now known originate?
A: On Cincinnati's west side (near Ferguson Avenue) in the 1980s and spread
to surrounding areas in Kentucky and Southeast Indiana.
Where is the Collier Cornhole Tournament held?
A: On the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
When was the American Cornhole League (ACL) founded?
A: In 2015 by Stacey Moore.
According to the ACL's website, it promotes and
develops cornhole as a sport on every level, and created software and apps
to do what?
A: To manage cornhole leagues, tournaments, special events, and player
development.
The American Cornhole Organization (ACO) was
established in 2005 and is headquartered where?
A: In Milford, Ohio.
As of August 1, 2019, the ACO claimed on its website to
be what?
A: The "governing body for the sport of cornhole."