Q 01/05

In which country was Trivial Pursuit invented?

A) Australia

B) Canada

C) United Kingdom

D) United States

Answer · why

B) Canada

Canada: word of mouth sold 100,000 copies there by the end of 1982, before a US licence turned the game into a worldwide craze.

Q 02/05

Which sitcom's 'Bubble Boy' episode turns on a Trivial Pursuit card that misprints 'Moors' as 'Moops'?

A) Friends

B) Seinfeld

C) Frasier

D) Cheers

Answer · why

B) Seinfeld

Seinfeld: George denies the Bubble Boy his winning answer because the card says 'Moops', and the row ends with the boy throttling him until the bubble...

Q 03/05

Trivial Pursuit's inventors, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, shared which profession when they dreamed up the game?

A) Teaching

B) Journalism

C) Advertising

D) Law

Answer · why

B) Journalism

Journalism: Haney was a picture editor and Abbott a sportswriter, and they turned up at a toy fair as a reporter-photographer team to quiz games exper...

Q 04/05

Chris Haney talked which would-be Trivial Pursuit investor out of buying shares, fearing the money would be lost?

A) His bank manager

B) His landlord

C) His mother

D) His father-in-law

Answer · why

C) His mother

His mother: Haney feared she would lose her money, so she missed out when the 32 friends and colleagues who put in $40,000 grew rich on the royalties.

Q 05/05

Trivial Pursuit's inventors dreamed up the game in 1979 while playing which other board game?

A) Clue

B) Monopoly

C) Scrabble

D) Risk

Answer · why

C) Scrabble

Scrabble: by most accounts some tiles were missing, and Chris Haney, grumbling at what he had spent on sets over the years, wondered aloud whether the...