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Trivial Pursuit Flashcards

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Which is Scotland’s second largest city?

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Edinburgh

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What H-word means designing, displaying and describing coats of arms and badges?

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Heraldry

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What is the Internet top-level domain for Sweden?

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.se

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Which U.S. state’s official motto is “North to the future?”

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Alaska

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4
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What part of the body does an Orthopedic doctor treat?

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Bones

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What shape is the piston in a Wankel engine.

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Triangle.

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What element did Pierre and Marie Curie discover in 1898?

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Radium

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Which State flag has the British Union Jack as part of its design?

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Hawaii

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8
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What note is the highest string on a violin usually tuned to?

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E.

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What did Disney drop from the name of Winnie-the-Pooh?

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The hyphens

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What book about little creatures was Roald Dahl’s first work for children?

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The Gremlins

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What gymnastics event often sees men performing the Iron Cross or Crucifix?

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Rings

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What city and its surroundings is the basis for standard U.S. monopoly board

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Atlantic city

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What city had grown to be the fourth largest in America when a devastating fire broke out in October of 1871?

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Chicago

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14
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How many dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic?

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2

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Who was the first left-hander to serve two terms as U.S. president?

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Bill Clinton

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What year did the maple leaf design officially become Canada’s flag?

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1965

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What country left the European Union following a 1985 referendum?

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Greenland.

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18
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What is E.T.’s job in the Spielberg movie?

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Botanist

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19
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Chicken is the meat often found in this traditional Columbian dish

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Ajiaco Stew

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20
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1965 is an important year for Canadians why?

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It was the year that the maple leaf design officially became Canada’s flag.

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21
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What country’s name means land of the Afghans?

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Afghanistan

22
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What is the better known name for the Hellenic Republic?

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Greece

23
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What city boasts Antoni Gaudi’s spectacular, yet unfinished Sagrada Familia church?

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Barcelona

24
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Which Indian prime minister was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards?

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Indira Ghandi

25
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What Queen hit did Sylvester Stallone nearly use for the Rocky III theme song?

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Another one bites the dust.

26
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What decade sticks out as the one in which the first self adhesive U.S. postage stamp appeared?

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1960’s

27
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What’s the sport if the equipment includes an arm guard and a tab to protect the fingers of the drawing hand?

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Archery.

28
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What valuable product is obtained from the sturgeon?

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Caviar

29
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What do weather watchers use to measure relative humidity?

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Psychrometer or Hygrometer

30
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What is Latin Americas northernmost nation?

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Mexico

62
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Whose tomb did Howard Carter discover in 1922?

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Tutankhamen

63
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Who discovered Tutankhamen’s tomb?

A

Howard Carter

64
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How many stars are in Alaska’s state flag?

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8

68
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Which of the twelve apostles is said to be buried in North West Spain and is that country’s patron saint?

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St. James

69
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What country is known as the cradle of civilization?

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Iraq

70
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What are stolen in Amsterdam at a rate of 80,000 a year with around 25,000 ending up in the Canals?

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Bicycles

71
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What’s the collective name for Italian-made western movies?

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Spaghetti westerns

72
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What is Shawshank in the movie Shawshank redemption.

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The prison.

73
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St Petersburg, former capital of the Russian empire in 1703, lost its distinction as capital when it was moved to what city?

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Moscow

74
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What is the longest serving capital?

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Paris, which has held its role since 486.

75
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What is the capital of Italy?

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Rome since 1870.

76
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What country gave the Statue of Liberty to the U.S. ?

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France.

77
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Which structure in Rome is the best preserved Roman building and the oldest important building in the world with its roof intact?

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The Pantheon.

78
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How were Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt related?

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They were fifth cousins.

79
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What format was The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy first produced?

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Radio play

80
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What Canadian Island was the setting for Anne of Green Gables?

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Prince Edward Island.

81
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How many spikes are on The Statue of Liberty’s crown?

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Seven.

82
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What was the main method of food preservation used by the Incas to store their potatoes?

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Freeze drying.

83
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What do the British call gasoline?

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Petrol.

84
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What is the common name for the main vent at the top of a volcano?

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Crater.

85
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How many carats is pure gold?

A

24

86
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What disease takes its name from medieval Italian words for “bad air”?

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Malaria.

87
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What rare bird species was sighted in Arkansas in 2005, launching an enormous search for confirmation?

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Ivory-billed woodpecker

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