Trivial Pursuit

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When you were little and watching your mum and dad host another soiree from the sanctity of the top of the stairs, that heady mix of prawn cocktail, Babysham and Trivial Pursuit seemed like the height of sophistication. In years to come, we all realized neither prawn cocktail or Babysham were this, but, well, Trivial Pursuit has won many of us over. Maybe it's something to do with the board games classy racing-green packaging - the same as the iconic MG sports cars, no less. And the 'Trivial Pursuit' logo emblazoned across the front like it's been written with a quill probably helped. But actually, this is one game that isn't shallow by any means and actually has shown enough to keep generations playing - and learning since it arrived on the scene in 1981. It was one of the first trivia-based games to really flex our grey matter and give dear old uncle Geoff a chance to shine in the sports and leisure round. As well as sports and leisure which was signified by the orange places on the board, there were also questions on geography (blue spaces), nature (green), history (yellow), entertainment (pink) and arts and culture (brown). When you landed on a square, another player would then ask you a question corresponding to the colour space you're on. Get it right and you keep going; get it wrong and the quizzer takes their go. A correct answer bags you what is affectionately known as 'a piece of pie'. Since each player has a plastic holder in which to place a segment of a circle - one for each trivia category - making it look like a pie. One you've filled your pie it's then a race to the centre of the board to answer one final question and be crowned king or queen braniac! As you might imagine, the traditional Trivial Pursuit has diversified over the years, and now young players have their own version of the game, as well as a Silver Screen version and All Star Sports version - and even a Lord Of The rings version. Along with the likes of Scrabble, Monopoly and Snakes and Ladders, Trivial Puruit can be found collecting dust in most households, until it's Christmas and everyone gets a yearning to prove their sportsmanship (or not!).

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[Richard1978]

Re: Trivial Pursuit

My parents still have their set, though many of the questions are now out of date.

At one time you could buy additional boxes of questions, sometimes on a certain theme, so you didn't have to buy a new game.

[darren]

Re: Trivial Pursuit

i remember they had trivial pursuit in a green box.
but wan.'t there a 2nd one think it was all sports questions

[zip55]

Re: Trivial Pursuit

i remember they had trivial pursuit in a green box.
but wan.'t there a 2nd one think it was all sports questions

I had the all music version ...

[Richard1978]

Re: Trivial Pursuit

My parents' set came with something with all the other version then available on it.

Ones I remember were, music, sport, entertainment, baby boomer, & family which might have had children & adult standards of questions.

[Emettman]

Re: Trivial Pursuit

We had the standard verion (blue-grey) for a while, then one evening opened a new set of questions, the Genus II edition (yellow)
Perhaps we should have shuffled them: we got four questions on the Live-aid concert at Wembley in that one game.
First Band at...?
First Song at...?
Who was dancing in the street with David Bowie at...?
Who appeared in both the British and American Live-aid concerts?

[Richard1978]

Re: Trivial Pursuit

My Aunt got a version around the millenium, which has lots of questions that have dated even worse than the original, there's 3-4 about the dome, & quite a few on Craig David & some other stars who's high points were at least 10 years ago.