These are the first twenty questions, and answers, from the original 100-question quiz published on December 31, 2006. Some of these are about places, others are random.

Trivia Quiz For Fun

Answers below.

1. What is the capital of Saskatchewan?

2. What does Ph. D. stand for?

3. How many ounces are there in a pound?

4. Name all four Beatles.

5. Where is Karl Marx buried?

6. Which of these is NOT another word for a shovel or digging implement: spade, cratchett, trowel, stick.

7. Who wrote The Maltese Falcon?

8. What country is Casablanca in?

9. What is the name of Othello's wife in the Shakespeare play, Othello?

10. In what state is Disneyland located?

11. In what country is the original LEGOland located?

12. How many known living species of the genus Elephas (in the family Elephantidae) are there?

13. What does CITES stand for (in relation to elephants, for example)?

14. How do you calculate the value of pi?

15. Which of these foods is not a fruit: apple, tomato, orange, potato.

16. What is the population of Canada, to the nearest 1 million, according to the 2001 census? million

17. Who was the eighth President of the United States of America?

18. Who was the eighth Prime Minister of Canada?

19. Who was the eighth Prime Minister of Australia or New Zealand?

20. How many of the United States of America have names beginning with "N"?

BONUS: There is a picture of an elephant on this page. Where is it?

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Answers to the Trivia Questions

1. What is the capital of Saskatchewan? Regina

2. What does Ph. D. stand for? In Latin, Philosophiae Doctor, or in English, Doctor of Philosophy

3. How many ounces are there in a pound? 16

4. Name all four Beatles. Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr (born Richard Starkey), George Harrison.

5. Where is Karl Marx buried? Highgate Cemetery, London, England

6. Which of these is NOT another word for a shovel or digging implement: spade, cratchett, trowel, stick. Cratchett. (In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the clerk's name is Bob Cratchit).

7. Who wrote The Maltese Falcon? Dashiell Hammett.

8. What country is Casablanca in? The Kingdom of Morocco.

9. What is the name of Othello's wife in the Shakespeare play, Othello? Desdemona.

10. In what state is Disneyland located? California, USA.

11. In what country is the original LEGOland located? Denmark.

12. How many known living species of the genus Elephas (in the family Elephantidae) are there? One, the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus. However, after a long time of classifying all African elephants as one species, scientists have found evidence that there are actually two species of the African elephant (genus Loxodonta).

13. What does CITES stand for (in relation to elephants, for example)? Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

14. How do you calculate the value of pi? Divide the circumference of a circle by the diameter.

15. Which of these foods is not a fruit: apple, tomato, orange, potato. Potato. The fruit is the part of the plant containing the seeds. It develops from the mature flower.

16. What is the population of Canada, to the nearest 1 million, according to the 2001 census? 30 million

17. Who was the eighth President of the United States of America? Martin van Buren

18. Who was the eighth Prime Minister of Canada? Robert L. Borden

19. Who was the eighth Prime Minister of Australia or New Zealand? Australia – Stanley Melbourne Bruce; New Zealand – Julius Vogel.

20. How many of the United States of America have names beginning with "N"? 8

BONUS: There is a picture of an elephant on this page. Where is it? Calgary International Airport

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This quiz was originally published as a Christmas holiday treat for readers of Accessible Travel on Suite101.com. Copyright Jill Browne.