Trivial Pursuit Board Game
- Created 1979 is a game in which progress is determined by a player’s ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions
- The object of the game was to answer a correct question in each of 6 categories such as Geography, Sports and Leisure, History, and Science and Nature
- Peaking in 1984 selling 20 million games
- As of 2004 nearly 88 million games sold
- Sold in 26 countries
In 17 languages
- 55 different editions
- Questions are pretty obscure. For example,
- What does a heliologist study?
- (The sun)
- What U.S. city was once know as Federal City?
- (Washington, D.C.)
- What is the crystal anniversary?
- (A couple celebrating their 15th anniversary)
- Exactly what it is Trivial knowledge
From a sermon by Ralph Andrus, Life’s Major Pursuit, 2/24/2010