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I had doubts that Mind Pursuit would turn out to be very American in its choice of questions, you know, name the wife of the fourth president - that sort of thing. But during the time I played I was unable to find any truly outrageous bias, toward the other side of the Atlantic.

For example, under the History and Geography section one question asked: The Roman name for the Greek goddess Aphrodite was Diana, true or false? Now everybody should stand a reasonable chance at that one. Shouldn't they?

In Mind Pursuit, up to four players or teams can compete. Subjects - Science and Nature, History and Geography, TV and Film, Sport and Games, Culture and, finally, Grab Bag - are chosen with the role of a computerised dice.

There are three types of question, ranging from True or False to Multiple Choice and finally where you have to fill in the blank space.

Points are awarded for correct answers and taken away for incorrect ones. There is also a game board mode which can be played as an alternative to the straightforward text game.

Mind Pursuit contains thousands of questions and none are apparently repeated while each particular game is in progress.

Quite good fun to play but it is rather slow and laborious.