There's a running complaint in #reddittrivia that people are using Google to cheat, so here's a simple proof of concept using the Yahoo search API to even the playing field a little.

IRCTriviaHelper.py

import re
import string
import readline
import textwrap
from yahoo.search.web import WebSearch

APP_ID = "IRCTriviaHelper"

def bullet(lines):
  return ["\n".join(textwrap.wrap(line, 77, initial_indent=" - ", subsequent_indent="   ")) for line in lines]
  
def highlight(terms, text):
  """Highlight individual words, allowing for case differences in the highlighted string."""
  stripchars = string.whitespace+string.punctuation
  termpatterns = (r"\b%s\b" % term.strip(stripchars) for term in terms.strip().split(" "))
  return re.sub("(?i)(%s)" % ("|".join(termpatterns)),
                "\x1b[1m\x1b[36m\g<0>\x1b[0m",
                text)

def get_summaries(query, exact=False):
  search = WebSearch(APP_ID, query=query, type=("phrase" if exact else "all"), results=12)
  resultxml = search.get_results()
  
  results = resultxml.getElementsByTagName("Result")
  
  summaries = []
  for r in results:
    summary = r.getElementsByTagName("Summary")[0]
    if summary.hasChildNodes():
      summaries.append(summary.firstChild.nodeValue)
  
  return summaries
  
def main():
  while True:
    query = raw_input("Search query: ")
    if not query: continue
    exact = query.startswith("=")
    if exact: query = query[1:]
    
    print "-"*80
    output = "\n".join(bullet(get_summaries(query, exact)))
    print highlight(query, output)
    print "-"*80
    print
    
if __name__=="__main__": main()