Trivial Pursuit Flashcards
Which is Scotland’s second largest city?
Edinburgh
What H-word means designing, displaying and describing coats of arms and badges?
Heraldry
What is the Internet top-level domain for Sweden?
.se
Which U.S. state’s official motto is “North to the future?”
Alaska
What part of the body does an Orthopedic doctor treat?
Bones
What shape is the piston in a Wankel engine.
Triangle.
What element did Pierre and Marie Curie discover in 1898?
Radium
Which State flag has the British Union Jack as part of its design?
Hawaii
What note is the highest string on a violin usually tuned to?
E.
What did Disney drop from the name of Winnie-the-Pooh?
The hyphens
What book about little creatures was Roald Dahl’s first work for children?
The Gremlins
What gymnastics event often sees men performing the Iron Cross or Crucifix?
Rings
What city and its surroundings is the basis for standard U.S. monopoly board
Atlantic city
What city had grown to be the fourth largest in America when a devastating fire broke out in October of 1871?
Chicago
How many dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic?
2
Who was the first left-hander to serve two terms as U.S. president?
Bill Clinton
What year did the maple leaf design officially become Canada’s flag?
1965
What country left the European Union following a 1985 referendum?
Greenland.
What is E.T.’s job in the Spielberg movie?
Botanist
Chicken is the meat often found in this traditional Columbian dish
Ajiaco Stew
1965 is an important year for Canadians why?
It was the year that the maple leaf design officially became Canada’s flag.
What country’s name means land of the Afghans?
Afghanistan
What is the better known name for the Hellenic Republic?
Greece
What city boasts Antoni Gaudi’s spectacular, yet unfinished Sagrada Familia church?
Barcelona
Which Indian prime minister was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards?
Indira Ghandi
What Queen hit did Sylvester Stallone nearly use for the Rocky III theme song?
Another one bites the dust.
What decade sticks out as the one in which the first self adhesive U.S. postage stamp appeared?
1960’s
What’s the sport if the equipment includes an arm guard and a tab to protect the fingers of the drawing hand?
Archery.
What valuable product is obtained from the sturgeon?
Caviar
What do weather watchers use to measure relative humidity?
Psychrometer or Hygrometer
What is Latin Americas northernmost nation?
Mexico
Whose tomb did Howard Carter discover in 1922?
Tutankhamen
Who discovered Tutankhamen’s tomb?
Howard Carter
How many stars are in Alaska’s state flag?
8
Which of the twelve apostles is said to be buried in North West Spain and is that country’s patron saint?
St. James
What country is known as the cradle of civilization?
Iraq
What are stolen in Amsterdam at a rate of 80,000 a year with around 25,000 ending up in the Canals?
Bicycles
What’s the collective name for Italian-made western movies?
Spaghetti westerns
What is Shawshank in the movie Shawshank redemption.
The prison.
St Petersburg, former capital of the Russian empire in 1703, lost its distinction as capital when it was moved to what city?
Moscow
What is the longest serving capital?
Paris, which has held its role since 486.
What is the capital of Italy?
Rome since 1870.
What country gave the Statue of Liberty to the U.S. ?
France.
Which structure in Rome is the best preserved Roman building and the oldest important building in the world with its roof intact?
The Pantheon.
How were Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt related?
They were fifth cousins.
What format was The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy first produced?
Radio play
What Canadian Island was the setting for Anne of Green Gables?
Prince Edward Island.
How many spikes are on The Statue of Liberty’s crown?
Seven.
What was the main method of food preservation used by the Incas to store their potatoes?
Freeze drying.
What do the British call gasoline?
Petrol.
What is the common name for the main vent at the top of a volcano?
Crater.
How many carats is pure gold?
24
What disease takes its name from medieval Italian words for “bad air”?
Malaria.
What rare bird species was sighted in Arkansas in 2005, launching an enormous search for confirmation?
Ivory-billed woodpecker
