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Trivial Pursuit, the Glossary

Index Trivial Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which winning is determined by a player's ability to answer trivia and popular culture questions.[1]

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  1. 100 relations: ABC News (Australia), Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel), Atari Interactive, BBC Television, Board game, Broadcast syndication, Buzz!, Cape Breton Regional Municipality, CBC News, Certiorari, Challenge (TV channel), Cheese spread, Chris Haney (Trivial Pursuit), Christopher Knight (actor), Columbo (character), Copyright infringement, Daybreak Game Company, Dice, Dorset, Dumbing down, Eidos Interactive, Elroy, Wisconsin, Entertainment, ESPN, Evening Independent, EverQuest, Fictitious entry, Freeform (TV channel), Game show, GamePro, Games 100, Games World of Puzzles, Geography, Germany, Google Stadia, Gordon Clapp, Hasbro, History, IGN, International Data Group, Internet Archive, Jay Wolpert, Jimmy Buffett, LeVar Burton, Literature, Malcolm Stewart (actor), Mike Shenk, Nature, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Nintendo Switch, ... Expand index (50 more) »

  2. Canadian board games
  3. Cross and circle games
  4. Party board games
  5. Sports originating in Canada
  6. Trivia

ABC News (Australia)

ABC News, also known as ABC News and Current Affairs and overseas as ABC Australia, is a public news service produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel)

Antena 3 (Antena Tres) is a Spanish terrestrial television channel part of Atresmedia, of which it is the flagship station.

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Atari Interactive

Atari Interactive, Inc. (formerly known as Infogrames Interactive, Inc. and Hasbro Interactive, Inc.) is an American subsidiary of Atari SA, formerly known as Infogrames Entertainment SA.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the BBC.

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Board game

Board games are tabletop games that typically use.

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Broadcast syndication

Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.

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Buzz!

Buzz! is a series of video games originated by Sleepydog Ltd., developed by Relentless Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles.

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Cape Breton Regional Municipality

Cape Breton Regional Municipality (often referred to as simply "CBRM") is the Canadian province of Nova Scotia's second largest municipality and the economic heart of Cape Breton Island.

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CBC News

CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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Certiorari

In law, certiorari is a court process to seek judicial review of a decision of a lower court or government agency.

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Challenge (TV channel)

Challenge is a British free-to-air television channel owned by Sky Group's Sky UK subsidiary, themselves owned by American conglomerate Comcast.

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Cheese spread

Cheese spread is a soft spreadable cheese or processed cheese product.

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Chris Haney (Trivial Pursuit)

Chris Haney (August 9, 1950 – May 31, 2010) was a Canadian journalist and co-creator of the Trivial Pursuit board game with Scott Abbott.

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Christopher Knight (actor)

Christopher Anton Knight (born November 7, 1957).

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Columbo (character)

Lieutenant Columbo is the main character in the American detective crime drama television series Columbo created by Richard Levinson and William Link.

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Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to produce derivative works.

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Daybreak Game Company

Daybreak Game Company LLC is an American video game developer based in San Diego.

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Dice

Dice (die or dice) are small, throwable objects with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Dumbing down

Dumbing down is the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, cinema, news, video games, and culture.

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Eidos Interactive

Eidos Interactive Limited (formerly Domark Limited) was a British video game publisher based in Wimbledon, London.

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Elroy, Wisconsin

Elroy is a city in Juneau County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Baraboo River and at the east end of the Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail.

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Entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight.

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ESPN

ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.

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Evening Independent

The Evening Independent was St. Petersburg, Florida's first daily newspaper.

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EverQuest

EverQuest is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) originally developed by Verant Interactive and 989 Studios for Windows PCs.

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Fictitious entry

Fictitious or fake entries are deliberately incorrect entries in reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, and directories, added by the editors as copyright traps to reveal subsequent plagiarism or copyright infringement.

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Freeform (TV channel)

Freeform is an American basic cable channel owned and operated by ABC Family Worldwide, a sub-division of the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Game show

A game show (or gameshow) is a genre of broadcast viewing entertainment where contestants compete in a game for rewards.

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GamePro

GamePro was an American multiplatform video game magazine media company that published online and print content covering the video game industry, video game hardware and video game software.

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Games 100

The Games 100 is an annual feature of ''Games'' magazine, a United States magazine devoted to games and puzzles.

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Games World of Puzzles

Games World of Puzzles is an American games and puzzle magazine.

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Geography

Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφία; combining 'Earth' and 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Google Stadia

Stadia was a cloud gaming service developed and operated by Google.

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Gordon Clapp

Gordon Clapp (born September 24, 1948) is an American actor best known for playing Det. Greg Medavoy for all 12 seasons of the television series NYPD Blue, winning an Emmy Award in 1998.

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Hasbro

Hasbro, Inc. (a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment holding company founded on December 6, 1923 by Henry, Hillel and Herman Hassenfeld and is incorporated and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

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History

History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.

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International Data Group

International Data Group (IDG, Inc.) is a market intelligence and demand generation company focused on the technology industry.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Jay Wolpert

Jay Sheldon Wolpert (January 29, 1942 – January 3, 2022) was an American television producer and screenwriter.

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Jimmy Buffett

James William Buffett (December 25, 1946 – September 1, 2023) was an American singer-songwriter.

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LeVar Burton

Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr.

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Literature

Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.

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Malcolm Stewart (actor)

Malcolm Stewart (born May 15, 1948) is a Canadian film actor.

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Mike Shenk

Mike Shenk (born 1958) is an American crossword puzzle creator and editor.

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Nature

Nature is an inherent character or constitution, particularly of the ecosphere or the universe as a whole.

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Niagara-on-the-Lake

Niagara-on-the-Lake is a town in Ontario, Canada.

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Nintendo Switch

The is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017.

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Nova Scotia Supreme Court

The Nova Scotia Supreme Court is a superior court in the province of Nova Scotia.

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NTN Buzztime

NTN Buzztime is a company that produces interactive entertainment across many different platforms. Trivial Pursuit and NTN Buzztime are quiz games.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Parker Brothers

Parker Brothers (known by Parker outside of North America) was an American toy and game manufacturer which in 1991 became a brand of Hasbro.

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PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia.

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PlayStation 4

The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.

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Prescott, Arizona

Prescott is a city in and the county seat of Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.

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In marketing, promotion refers to any type of marketing communication used to inform target audiences of the relative merits of a product, service, brand or issue, persuasively.

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Roger Lodge

Roger Lodge (born March 12, 1960) is an American TV game show and sports radio host and actor.

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Rory McGrath

Patrick Rory McGrath (born 17 March 1956) is a British comedian, television personality, and writer.

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Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and streams on Peacock.

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Science

Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.

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Scott Abbott

Charles Scott Abbott is the co-inventor of the board game Trivial Pursuit along with Chris Haney.

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Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble are Parker Brothers games.

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Sega CD

The Sega CD, known as in most regions outside North America and Brazil, is a CD-ROM accessory for the Sega Genesis produced by Sega as part of the fourth generation of video game consoles.

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Selchow and Righter

Selchow and Righter was a 19th- and 20th-century game manufacturer best known for the games Parcheesi and Scrabble.

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Sente Technologies

Sente Technologies (also known as Bally Sente, Inc.) was an arcade game company.

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Soviet Central Television

The Central Television of the USSR (translit; abbr. CT USSR) was the state television broadcaster of the Soviet Union.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Sport

Sport is a form of physical activity or game.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Sydney, Nova Scotia

Sydney is a former city and urban community on the east coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

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The Canadian Press

The Canadian Press (CP; La Presse canadienne, PC) is a Canadian national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

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The CW

The CW Television Network (commonly referred to as the CW or simply CW) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is controlled by Nexstar Media Group through a 75-percent ownership interest.

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The Daily Courier (Arizona)

The Daily Courier is a newspaper for Yavapai County, Arizona, owned by Western News & Info.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Futon Critic

The Futon Critic is a website that provides articles and information regarding prime time programming on broadcast and cable networks in the United States.

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The Gazette (Montreal)

The Gazette, also known as the Montreal Gazette, is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network.

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The Lord of the Rings (film series)

The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by British author J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Trivia Encyclopedia

The Trivia Encyclopedia is a 1974 book written by Fred L. Worth.

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Tony Slattery

Tony Declan James Slattery (born 9 November 1959) is an English actor and comedian.

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Trivia

Trivia is information and data that are considered to be of little value.

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Trivia Crack

Trivia Crack (original Spanish language name: Preguntados) is a trivia-based video game and one of the most successful brands in the Etermax gaming division.

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Trivial Pursuit: America Plays

Trivial Pursuit: America Plays is an American syndicated game show loosely based on the board game of the same name.

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Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (in case citations, 9th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts.

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Virgin Group

Virgin Group is a British multinational venture capital conglomerate founded by Richard Branson and Nik Powell in February 1970.

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VOX (German TV channel)

Vox is a German free-to-air television channel launched on 25 January 1993 and owned by RTL Group.

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Weymouth, Dorset

Weymouth is a sea-side town and civil parish in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, on the English Channel coast of England.

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Wii

The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.

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Windows Phone

Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune.

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Wink Martindale

Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale (born December 4, 1933) is an American disc jockey, radio personality, game show host, and television producer.

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Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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Xbox One

The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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See also

Canadian board games

Cross and circle games

Party board games

Sports originating in Canada

Trivia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_Pursuit

Also known as Chris Haney(Trivial Pursuit), Trivial Pursuit Turbo, Trivial Pursuits.

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