• • WHO: Two Montreal moms Joanna Broadhurst and Odette McCarthy conceived the game. Artist Gina Raposo mid-wifed the concept, and graphic designers Angelica Hardy and Lydia Moscato nursed along the playful packaging.
• • WHAT: About 1,000 questions focus on facts about female accomplishment in the arts, sports, politics, onscreen, pop culture, etc. From Mother Teresa to Mother Goose, Mae West to Marilyn Monroe, Barbie to Body Shop, PMS to Title IX, Queen Latifah to Queen Victoria, the EVE's Quest board game will keep you laughing while teaching you amazing details about women. Up to six players use trivia, charades (try acting out a placenta!), songs, sketch pads, and intuition to move along the board and collect letters to spell out five winning titles including Diva, Goddess, Mother, Sister, and Woman.
• • WHAT ELSE: While EVE’s Quest celebrates women in all their diversity, the game is designed for everyone from ages 14 to 114. The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation benefits by receiving $2 from each game sold.
• • WHY: Joanna Broadhurst: “We noticed that women’s issues and accomplishments were missing from many of the popular trivia or charades-type games available on the market. Such a small, almost invisible percentage of questions or activities ever relate to women’s lives. We decided to change that by making women the focus.” Can one game help correct the imbalance of predominating male role models populating our collective conscience? Who knows? But it sounds like this might be a fun one to spend an evening.
• • WIT: If you think you know everything about women, answer these:
• • What year did Kotex introduce sanitary napkins?
• • True or false? From 1964 to 1983, the Playboy Foundation donated over $2-million, or more than 25 per cent of its budget, to American organizations defending women's rights. [True!]
• • Which much-imitated 1930s actress (Mae West, Ava Gardner, or Marlene Dietrich) said the famous line: "It's not the man in your life but the life in your man"? [Mae West wrote this quip and others for her film I'm No Angel.]
• • AND HOW: Mae West called life a man's game and added, "I just happen to be smart enough to play it their way."
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• • Photo: Mae West (born in Brooklyn, NY in 1893)
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