How Trivial Pursuit became a hit board game, 1982

Two ex-journalists, 6,000 trivia questions and millions of dollars: Chris Haney and Scott Abbott tell a CBC reporter about the humble beginnings and wild success of Trivial Pursuit in 1982.
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[@marktabla5434]

I got the 1980 edition for Christmas when I was 12 and played it with my younger brother on Sunday afternoons. This turned me on to watching Jeopardy with Alex Trabek that came on at 5:30 after school a few years later. I'd be curious to peruse the axact questions and answers as they appeared in the 1980 edition to see how much the world has changed since then.

[@pvinmen1612]

Thanks for the info-I first heard of the game from few passengers on my tour to the UK few years more than 3 decades-also memories for me

[@latrellmitchell348]

Hi i love board games and my favorite is rolling stones rock n roll party game. And chess and Checker set . And Monopoly

[@cathyridley3005]

I have 2 original Polaroid photos of the guys working on gathering the questions for the original game. They rented 2 ajoining rooms in the hotel in Malton/ mississauga ,my mom worked in at the time. There are stacks and stacks of books everywhere. I went on Wikipedia and it mentions nothing of this at all. I can't find anything online of this either.

[@bryancomeaux4961]

i invented this