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  Trivial Pursuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trivial Pursuit is a board game where progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge or popular culture questions.
In 1984 he filed a $300 million lawsuit against the distributors of the board game Trivial Pursuit, claiming that they had sourced their questions from his books; even to the point of reproducing mis-prints and typographical errors.
Trivial Pursuit did not deny they sourced material from Fred's books (amongst others) and submitted that copying from a single source is plagiarism, but compiling information from several sources is called research.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trivial_Pursuit   (579 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit Unhinged for PlayStation 2 Review - PlayStation 2 Trivial Pursuit Unhinged Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The big missed opportunity in Trivial Pursuit Unhinged is in the multimedia question area, which is pretty limited in Unhinged to either tiny still images with lousy compression or short, tiny video clips with even worse compression.
Trivial Pursuit Unhinged tries to add a touch of glamour by having a different celebrity host read the question for each category.
If you want a multimedia Trivial Pursuit experience, pay a few bucks more for the Trivial Pursuit DVD Pop Culture Game, which is more dynamic, makes better use of the format, and, since it's a standard DVD, will still play on your PS2 or Xbox.
www.gamespot.com /ps2/puzzle/trivialpursuitunhinged/review.html   (1151 words)

  
 Mobile Gamer - Trivial Pursuit Game Review (Java™/J2ME)
Trivial Pursuit is one of the most popular board games in the entire world.
There are probably millions of Trivial Pursuit addicts in the world, and in recognition of this fact (and an attempt to cash in on it), Hasbro has given the go signal for European mobile game developer: Mr.
Trivial Pursuit is a good game to play alone, although where it really shines is in the multiplayer aspect.
www.midlet-review.com /?content=review&id=300&rel=j2me&mobile=&genre=Board   (619 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit Board Game, Questions &.Trivial Pursuit Online
The Trivial Pursuit board game has over 4,000 various questions that are divided into a number of categories.
The Trivial Pursuit board game is a quick moving trivia game with plenty of challenges and interesting information that is sure to keep you talking.
The Trivial Pursuit board game is indeed an educational game, which teaches you facts about history involving a number of different topics.
www.1st-in-games.com /trivial-pursuit-board-game.html   (595 words)

  
 TRIVIAL PURSUIT History - Invention of TRIVIAL PURSUIT
The origins of the TRIVIAL PURSUIT® game can be traced back to a blustery day in Montreal, December 15, 1979, when two friends, Scott Abbott, sports editor with the Canadian Press and Chris Haney, photo editor for the Montreal Gazette engaged in a friendly argument over who was the better game player.
The TRIVIAL PURSUIT® game was first shown in the U.S. at the American International Toy Fair in New York City in February 1982.
Trivial Pursuit is a party in a box, people talking to people, a revolt against television.
www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/trivialpursuit.htm   (1891 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary: Toys & Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary Edition scooped the prestigious title of British Association of Toy Retailers Game of the Year proving that after 20 years of brain teasing the old ones are still definitely the best.
The Trivial Pursuit game is a party in a box, people talking to people in a revolt against television.
Trival Pursuit 20th Anniversary is a hard game to judge, but one notable weaknesses of the game is questions dried down and if you played time and time again, you will become an expert in the game unfairly.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00028X3IG   (1197 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit
Trivial Pursuit meets the MTV generation in this new DVD game, which includes footage from Fight Club, Bridget Jones Diary, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Tomb Raider to name just a few and challenges youmates to dares, gross games, unbelievable facts and much more.
Featuring wild and wacky footage clips that break the traditional Trivial Pursuit mould, this DVD game is hosted by presenter Danann Breathnach well known from Hollyoaks & MTV who adds to the laughs with his cheeky comments on your answers.
Trivial Pursuit Family Edition comes with 2,400 questions split between adults and children, so test your knowledge against that of your kids!
www.gameslore.co.uk /acatalog/Products_Trivial_Pursuit_265.html   (717 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit - What classic board game, created in 1979, is on the decline? By Bryan Curtis
Trivial Pursuit still sells briskly, thanks to a 1990s edition and movie tie-ins, but the game seems to have receded as a cultural icon.
To compete at Trivial Pursuit, and maybe answer a question or two, was to secure a seat at the adult table.
Gone is the proud generalist of the original Trivial Pursuit, who knew the most common Russian surname (Ivanov) and the international radio code word for the letter O (Oscar).
www.slate.com /id/2116689   (1637 words)

  
 GameSpy: Trivial Pursuit Unhinged Review
Trivial Pursuit has been around for twenty years now, so I guess it's here for good.
Trivial Pursuit's strength has always been the amount of questions in each set.
However, Trivial Pursuit Unhinged ignores this and instead opts to focus on some peripheral features, and in doing so takes away the heart of the game.
ps2.gamespy.com /playstation-2/trivial-pursuit-unhinged/505122p1.html   (725 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Trivial Pursuit Genus IV Edition at Epinions.com
Trivial Pursuit is challenging board game produced by the folks at Hasbro, a company that has been making games and toys for many decades.
Trivial Pursuit Genus IV is for 2-6 players or teams and is mainly for adults but I believe the whole family could benefit from a game night with this.
My boyfriend brought the "old" Trivial Pursuit into our relationship and it caused nothing but frustration for me. Only after playing it numerous times trying to beat him, did I finally start memorizing some of the answers, and get close to...
www.epinions.com /kifm-Games-Trivia_Games-Trivial_Pursuit_Genus_IV_Edition/display_~reviews   (903 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary Edition by Hasbro Games/Parker Brothers.
In 1982, the TRIVIAL PURSUIT® game started a revolution, creating a phenomenon of adults playing games socially together.
In the TRIVIAL PURSUIT® 20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION game, players will be challenged to recall people, places and events that have made up the last 20 years.
www.boardgames.com /trivpur20ane.html   (156 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The concept was developed that afternoon, but it took them two years and two additional partners before the game was launched, at a loss to the inventors, in the fall of 1981.
The U.S. company agreed to manufacture and sell Trivial Pursuit in the United States and hired a PR consultant who launched an unusual direct mail promotion to 1,800 of the top buyers attending the 1983 New York Toy Fair and to Hollywood stars.
Horn Abbot continues to turn out new additions of Trivial Pursuit under the direction of President Jim Ware, a tax lawyer lured from a leading law firm in Toronto in 1984.
collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume4/216-219.htm   (757 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit
It's become the high praise of the day: "I'd sure like to have her on my Trivial Pursuit team." Life is never dull when there are people around who know what baking ingredient, sprayed at high pressure, the U.S. Air Force replaced its toxic paint stripper with.
The set's playing cards can be used with a master Trivial Pursuit game board or players can use the included dice and score sheets for a twist on the popular game.
The goal is to score a correct answer in every Trivial Pursuit category, which include People and Places, Arts and Entertainment, Sports and Leisure, and others.
www.dw-financial.com /Games/trivial_pursuit.htm   (1067 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary: Toys & Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As a person who's rumored to have been playing Trivial Pursuit since she was six years old, I have to admit that version 6 of this game has to be one of the better ones to come along in years.
Trivial Pursuit 6 has about half the number of question cards that Genus I (from 1979) had.
Like other versions of Trivial Pursuit, there were definitely favored authors/books that came up several times, which makes guessing a little easier.
amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005YXUM/ref=nosim/...&link_code=xm2   (1893 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit Genus, et brettspill fra Spillskrinet.no   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Trivial Pursuit er et klassisk spørrespill som vil overraske deg, og der du kanskje vil overraske familie og venner.
Trivial Pursuit er et perfekt spill for hele familien.
For at anmeldelsen skal være nyttig for andre bør den inneholde litt om spillmekanikk samt en oppsummering om hva du liker/ikke liker ved spillet.
www.spillskrinet.no /show.php?spillid=210   (479 words)

  
 trivial pursuit, gnome.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Trivial Pursuit DVD Pop Culture Edition Board Game:This version of Trivial Pursuit includes everything you love about the #1 adult trivia game plus an.
This edition is the follow-up to Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary edition with fresh trivia that is all about the 90s.
Trivial Pursuit was the 3rd event in the 2003 Druzgal Olympics.
www.gnome.com /gnome_results/q1=trivial_pursuit&q2=&q3=&q4=&q5=&u1=o1&u2=d2&u3=y3&u4=w4&u5=l5&f=searchemall&r=r&e=10&d=d&t=5&p=15&s=3&g=1&q6=&q7=&q8=&q9=&q10=&u6=s6&u7=h7&u8=m8&u9=r9&u10=g10&o=gnomesrch   (2220 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit - PC Game Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
May the force be with you in your hunt for cheese, with this new...
I love the Trivial Pursuit board game and was given this as a Christmas Present so was very pleased when i received this as a Christmas Present this year.
Each question has a video clip to go along with it and it has a 3D board to go with it, which is very similar (if not exactly like) the board in real life even down to the...
www.dooyoo.co.uk /pc-game/trivial-pursuit   (153 words)

  
 Trivial Net - Computer and Tech Trivia for Geeks
Anyway, after so many years the multiple-choice online game was due for an update, and some of the answers just weren’t accurate anymore because the technology has changed.
So I’ve pulled Trivial Net up by its roots, and we’re moving to this new, more interactive format.
Welcome to Trivial Net, the place to test your knowledge of high-tech and computer trivia.
www.trivial.net   (309 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit
Pursuit #4: When did people first hear the famous slogan, "The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand?"
Pursuit #7: What year did the packaging of the candies change from a cardboard tube to the brown pouch we buy today?
Pursuit #8: In 1995 Americans voted for a new color to appear in the traditional MandM's Chocolate Candy Mix.
www.harlan.k12.ia.us /mrsc/trivial_pursuit.htm   (226 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit - The House Of Cards
The objective of this game is the same as all other Trivial Pursuit games: to be the first to collect all the pie wedges.
Players answer questions from the cards just like traditional Trivial Pursuit games, but move to audio-visual questions from the DVD when going for the pie wedges.
Trivial Pursuit Genus 6 includes 4800 all-new questions in six catagories.
www.thehouseofcards.com /party/trivialpursuit.html   (1028 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit
"'Ere," said Ed, "We all know your favourite pursuit's Rachael, and you won't get more trivial than that, so cop a load of this!" Actually, I have a soft spot for this particular game, even if it is the numero uno yuppie pastime.
Of course it does make Trivial Pursuit ideal for group play but near useless for individual outings, despite the suggestion that you should play yourself against the clock.
At heart, Trivial Pursuit, the computer game, is still a chase round a wheel-shaped board, picking up wedges at the intersections before racing back to the centre.
www.ysrnry.co.uk /articles/trivialpursuit.htm   (741 words)

  
 trivial pursuit - Günstige Produkte im Preisvergleich bei Kelkoo
Trivial Pursuit 20 Jahre Jubiläum Neu OVP Parker
Trivial Pursuit 20 Jahre - das Spiel so lebendig wie das Leben.
Trivial Pursuit Kompakt jetzt mit Fragen rund um die Schönen und Reichen.
www.kelkoo.de /b/a/ss_trivial_pursuit.html   (298 words)

  
 msmobiles.com - Handmark Releases Official TRIVIAL PURSUIT Handheld Edition for Windows Mobile Handheld Devices
This is the first official release of the TRIVIAL PURSUIT game in North America for new mobile devices.
The TRIVIAL PURSUIT game is one of the best-selling adult games in history, with more than 70 million units sold worldwide since its introduction in 1982.
Availability of retail product The TRIVIAL PURSUIT Handheld Edition for the Palm OS PDAs and smartphones, and for Windows Mobile based Pocket PC, Pocket PC phone edition and smartphones is available as an online download now at www.handmark.com priced at $29.99 SRP.
www.msmobiles.com /news.php/1738.html   (492 words)

  
 The Trivial Pursuit Lawsuit
The game they created, Trivial Pursuit, generated sales volume of over $256 million by the end of 1984.
In 1987, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal, declaring that Trivial Pursuit was “substantially different” from “Super Trivia”.
The courts decided that the presentation of facts in an encyclopedia, where entries are listed alphabetically, was very different from the rewriting of those same facts as questions, and their division into categories randomly picked on a Trivial Pursuit card.
www.triviahalloffame.com /columbo.htm   (930 words)

  
 Science Fiction Game Reviews: Star Wars Trivial Pursuit
Each space on the board corresponds to one of the categories, and there are also six "category headquarters." The object of the game is to visit each of the headquarters spaces and correctly answer an appropriate trivia question.
The Star Wars version of Trivial Pursuit is played the same way as the regular game, but in this case all the trivia questions relate to the first three movies in the Star Wars film franchise.
Overall Star Wars Trivial Pursuit is fun to play, and it will definitely give Star Wars fans a chance to strut their stuff.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue76/games.html   (621 words)

  
 Handmark Software: TRIVIAL PURSUIT® Handheld Edition for Palm OS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Flash mode offers a ladder-style version of the TRIVIAL PURSUIT® game in which one to six players take turns answering questions.
Players move up the ladder with every correct answer and the first player to reach the top rung and answer the final questions is the winner.
Note: Trivial Pursuit requires 4MB of free memory on your handheld device.
www.handmark.com /products/detail.php?id=215   (523 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit (PC) - Read Reviews
Trivial Pursuit is one of my favourite board games, so I was really pleased to receive the CD-Rom as a present about a year ago.
...what is included and does trivial pursuit work on the computer.
Trivial pursuit Millenium Edition came bundled with my new PC and serves as an amusing diversion for myself and my family.
www.ciao.co.uk /Reviews/Trivial_Pursuit_PC__64120   (485 words)

  
 GameSpy: Trivial Pursuit Unhinged
The clever, speedy, and sneaky reap the rewards in a Trivial Pursuit game with ingenious new features (like betting and stealing), celebrity hosts, and big-time online showdowns.
Trivial Pursuit Unhinged (04/09/04) - Two new playing modes and celebrity questioners can't make up for the incredibly small catalog of questions.
By continuing past this page, and by your continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
xbox.gamespy.com /xbox/trivial-pursuit-unhinged   (181 words)

  
 Trivial Pursuit ® — The Most Popular Trivia Game in the World
First Trivial Pursuit® Game That Focuses Solely on a TV Show; First Licensed Saturday Night Live Game.
The writers and editors of the TRIVIAL PURSUIT game have released their first-ever year-end trivia list, "The TRIVIAL PURSUIT Top Ten Trivial Moments of 2003," in honor of National Trivia Day.
The registered trademarks TRIVIAL PURSUIT®, GENUS®, the game board and game cards and the trademark SILVER SCREEN, and related proprietary rights are owned by Horn Abbot Ltd. and Horn Abbot International Limited.
www.trivialpursuit.com   (410 words)

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