Abstract: A trivia game includes a game board having a plurality of linear playing paths extending from one end of the board to the other, and a plurality of question and response cards each having a series of questions of differing levels of difficulty and corresponding answers. Players may select whichever level of difficulty they may wish, with advance of that player's position marker along the corresponding playing path, depending upon the degree of difficulty of the question correctly answered. The position marker of a player incorrectly answering a question, is set back a number of positions corresponding to the degree of difficulty of the question. The game also allows players to set back the progress of an opposing player, if desired. A player correctly responding to a question at a predetermined level (e. g., the highest level) may advance his/her own position marker accordingly, or may elect to set back an opponent's marker some number of spaces (e. g.