trivial pursuit

US Answers
1: Walt Disney
2: Thankgiving Day’s
3: Duke Ellington
4: Billy Carter
5: Sherlock Holmes
6: Robert Frost
7: F. Scott Fitzgerald
8: Jesse Owens
9: Two
10: The public
11: Louis Armstrong
12: Thank You
13: Jennifer Warnes
14: Ronald Reagan
15: Mikhail Gorbachev
16: Lurleen Wallace
17: Alan Alda
18: Richard Nixon
19: All Those Years Ago
20: Mary Decker

UK Answers
1: Alec Guinness
2: Russian
3: Sherlock Holmes
4: Alfred Hitchcock’s
5: Writing
6: Fantasia
7: The transistor
8: Thank You
9: Mikhail Gorbachev
10: All Those Years Ago
11: Bob Hope’s
12: Listerine
13: Portuguese
14: Muhammad Ali’s
15: Noel Coward
16: Elizabeth Taylor
17: Hymn
18: Hungary
19: Automobile
20: Compass

US Answers
1: Calvin Coolidge
2: New Orleans’
3: Adolf Hitler
4: Al Smith
5: Jane Addams
6: One
7: The Mustang
8: John Hume
9: The U.S. Civil War
10: The Pulitzer Prize
11: Fifteen thousand dollars
12: William Westmoreland
13: Paul Robeson
14: Greg Louganis
15: Gone With the Wind
16: Bette Davis
17: The Medal of Honor
18: The Beach Boys
19: A palm tree
20: Bob Geldof

UK Answers
1: An album selling a million copies
2: Billie Elliot
3: Danny Kaye
4: Bob Geldof
5: Nelson Mandela
6: Marie Curie
7: United Nations
8: Mother Teresa
9: The Beach Boys
10: Jamelia
11: William Golding
12: FC Barcelona
13: Laurence Olivier Awards
14: Elton John
15: Badly Drawn Boy
16: Marlene Dietrich
17: Jonathan Ross
18: Eric Bristow
19: Two
20: Nelson Mandela

US Answers
1: A kangaroo
2: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3: Svetlana Alliluyeva
4: Toronto
5: Alcatraz’s
6: The Weathermen
7: East Berlin
8: Jesse James
9: Albert Einstein
10: Bolivia
11: London
12: Switzerland
13: Feral
14: One
15: Harrison Ford
16: Spiro Agnew
17: Boris and Natasha
18: Skidoo
19: Gang Busters
20: Sneeze

UK Answers
1: The owl
2: Runaway
3: Anastasia
4: A kangaroo
5: One
6: Hannibal Brooks
7: East Berlin
8: Cry Freedom
9: Timothy Leary
10: Seventy-six
11: Royal Yacht Britannia
12: Austria
13: Earth
14: Liberia
15: Jawaharlal Nehru
16: Bastille Day
17: It was first liberated on D-Day
18: The dish
19: Their underpants
20: Iran’s

US Answers
1: Peacocks
2: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
3: Four
4: Thanksgiving
5: Plymouth Rock
6: Three
7: Popcorn
8: Squanto
9: Provincetown, Massachusetts
10: The Puritan religion
11: Feng Shui
12: No
13: In his stocking
14: The diner
15: 1620
16: Batman
17: Cranberries
18: Creole
19: Thanksgiving
20: Auld Lang Syne

UK Answers
1: Mardi gras
2: Martin Luther King’s birthday
3: Ireland
4: Shrove Tuesday
5: Rembrandt’s
6: Thanksgiving
7: Three times
8: Yom Kippur
9: Cinco de Mayo
10: New Year’s Day
11: Labour Day
12: Mother’s Day
13: Easter
14: Centenarian’s Day
15: New Year’s
16: St. Patricks Day (March 17)
17: St. Valentine
18: Brigitte Bardot
19: Mardi Gras
20: All Saints Day

US Answers
1: Princess Diana
2: Bruce Springsteen
3: Richard Nixon
4: Spiro Agnew
5: Martin Luther King, Jr.
6: Doonesbury
7: Wayne Gretzky
8: Fourteen
9: Johnny Appleseed
10: Carl Sandburg
11: Judy Blume
12: Mickey Mantle
13: Elvis Presley
14: The Apollo 11 astronauts
15: Clint Eastwood
16: Jack Benny
17: Johnny Carson
18: Economics
19: David Crosby
20: Dan Rather

UK Answers
1: United Nations
2: Earth Day II
3: First non-stop flight around the world
4: The Treaty of Versailles
5: A supernova
6: Woodstock
7: The Berlin wall
8: The big bang theory
9: One giant leap for mankind
10: Asia
11: Live Aid
12: Oxford
13: Nelson Mandela’s
14: 40th
15: Tungsten
16: Dr. Christiaan Barnard
17: Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA
18: Slavery
19: Football
20: Penicillin

US Answers
1: Jane Russell
2: The ’60s
3: John F. Kennedy
4: William Proxmire
5: Webster
6: The Rolling Stones
7: The four-minute mile
8: One million dollars
9: Howdy Doody
10: 100000
11: The 1950’s
12: Two hundred million people
13: First non-stop flight around the world
14: Two hundred
15: 2000
16: Asia
17: Artificial snow
18: Puerto Rico
19: Television
20: The Big Bang Theory

UK Answers
1: Thomas Edison
2: Martin Luther King, Jr.
3: The Dalai Lama
4: The Tour de France
5: Bishop Desmond Tutu
6: Twenty-six
7: Slavery
8: Albert Schweitzer
9: Benjamin Franklin
10: John Glenn
11: Galileo
12: Evolution
13: William Shakespeare’s
14: Desmond Tutu
15: Rosa Parks
16: Anne Frank’s
17: An apple
18: Confucius
19: Hippocrates
20: Neil Armstrong

US Answers
1: It was the first liberated on D-Day
2: The International Red Cross
3: Pollution
4: Edward H. White II
5: The Dead Sea Scrolls
6: The Treaty of Versailles
7: The Berlin Wall
8: The lunar landing
9: A supernova
10: London Marathon
11: Woodstock
12: Greece
13: One giant leap for mankind
14: That Girl
15: Prague
16: 1944
17: Gloria Steinem
18: A Trans Am
19: Seven
20: The People’s Republic of China

UK Answers
1: The shopping trolley
2: Teflon
3: Converse
4: Penguin paperback books
5: Mum
6: Forty-eight
7: Levi Strauss
8: Tea bag
9: Galileo
10: The paint roller
11: The brassiere
12: Tampons
13: The ‘Slinky’
14: Velcro
15: Catseyes
16: The Sundae
17: Bicycle
18: Headlights
19: Les Paul
20: Post-it Notes

US Answers
1: The Civil War
2: Africa and Asia
3: World War I
4: Friday
5: Adolf Hitler
6: Richard Nixon
7: One
8: Oils
9: The Berlin Philharmonic
10: Paul Revere
11: Benito Mussolini
12: The Crusades
13: Franklin D. Roosevelt
14: The tank
15: The War of 1812
16: William Westmoreland
17: Theodore Roosevelt
18: World War II’s
19: Coca-Cola
20: The bazooka

UK Answers
1: Trafalgar Square
2: Davy Crockett
3: Crossed swords
4: Godzilla
5: Ernest Stravro Blofeld
6: Napoleon
7: The right
8: The Potemkin’s
9: Waterloo
10: Two
11: Flash Gordon
12: Greenpeace
13: Swampy
14: Scud
15: Busy Running the Falkland War
16: Yomping
17: It blew him up
18: Chad
19: The Gulf War
20: A girl

US Answers
1: Chelsea
2: England
3: The Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns
4: They were killed in a plane crash
5: Football
6: 13
7: Hungary
8: Yale’s
9: The Baltimore Colts
10: Sweden
11: Rugby
12: Gatorade
13: The National Football League
14: Boston College
15: Six
16: Soccer
17: The Super Bowl
18: Two
19: Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
20: Rugby

UK Answers
1: The head
2: Billy Jean King
3: Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky
4: Hungary
5: Sumo wrestling’s
6: Rugby
7: Football
8: Harvard and Yale
9: Sugar Ray Leonard
10: Muhammad Ali
11: Jake LaMotta
12: Manuel Benitez Perez
13: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney
14: Judo
15: Gladatorial Combats
16: The sabre
17: Black or red
18: Catherine Zeta Jones
19: Headbutting the referee
20: Archery