The History of TRIVIAL PURSUIT: 45 Minutes & a Beer

The original TP made me feel really stupid in the early 80s. Yeah I was about 7, but what adult would ever know any of this unless they were going on Jeopardy?

I loved Trivial Pursuit when I was younger, but there have always been errors, much as with any trivia product, and of course there's the problem that cards, being printed, don't auto-update. There's an infamous meme about a card asking which of these actors has never played Batman…which became obsolete in 2008.

I remember trying to play it later on when I was at least a teenager and I SUCKED! lol I have never been all that great at the game but yes I do remember wanting to play it too at a young age.

My main Trivial Pursuit memory was growing up with an old edition bought at a yard sale and half the comic questions were about the Legion of Superheroes. It was the early 90s when they'd been essentially wiped from continuity and I was a kid so all the questions about Saturn Girl? and Lightning Lad? were genuinely baffling.

Eventually we got a then-current Entertainment Edition and I dominated that thing so hard we stopped playing after a few months lol

My dad had all the different cards and stuff they came out with. He had a photographic memory and he would read every single one

I'll never forget the first time I won this game. My brother-in-law thought he had me, and then I dropped the answer: Ear Ring Magic Ken. He demanded to know how I knew the answer, and it all had to do with a school project where I had to pore over a huge stack of random magazines. So the lesson is: do your stupid projects because they'll let you own your brother-in-law.

Sir did you just say hi def on dvd?

Smh

12:15 The author put in a mountweasel! The name for putting in small mistake in a work to prevent a copy being made. The term is from a dictionary who added mountweasel to catch people who copied them. This entire video helps explain why I thought I needed to know everything. Trivia got popular when I turned 8! Thanks for another great video.

I was so terrible at these questions growing up. Now I feel like all I know is trivial knowledge. Maybe I should give it another go?

It was I.Q. 2000 for me – parents had the TP

Re: the ad read.

They would make a T-shirt with Enemy on it?

Digging the hair in this episode, Dan. You most definitely could have been an extra in The Rocketeer, or Indiana Jones? Cheers 💯💰🍻

As a Star Wars geek, one of my proudest moments was beating all my high school friends in the Star Wars edition of *Trivial Pursuit*.

Wow anybody can make a game!
"He quit his job and moved to a villa in Spain"
Oh.

As a kid in the 80s, with little other entertainment, I spent untold hours just reading the cards without realizing how much information would stick with me.

Fast forward to the holidays and our annual games, my family was quietly convinced I was a savant. I was answering the most obscure questions that no ten year old in the 80s had any right knowing. To this day my family thinks I’m smart. I am not.

I used trivial pursuit pieces to teach my sister fractions for school 🙂 contrary to schoolhouse rock, three isn’t a magic number – 6 is. 😂

My favorite board game along with chess.

Man. They already owned a villa and had money to invest into this game… but still. Rather than be mad about that, I'll choose to hope for a world where we all could have the funds to just research and create a multi-million selling board game. A pity he died so young, but at least he gave something to the world that's given joy to so many. It seems to have been a life well-lived.

Those are the most Canadian guys since the McKenzie brothers.

I played this against two highschoolers and they were in shock as to how i got so many right in a row. I won the game in like 10 minutes.

I remember when my local game shop got a copy of Star Wars Trivial Pursuit. This was in the days just prior to the release of The Phantom Menace and the game had a deck of cards with Episode 1 questions. A handful of us decided to play a round. We'd save the Episode 1 questions for the Final Question. I was the first to complete my pie, but the dice wouldn't cooperate and the others were catching up while I went for the center. I had only managed to try (and fail) at 2 questions before 2 other players finished their pies. In moments it would come down to who got the final question right. I circled the center for several rolls before finally landing in the center again. I drew the question "What planet is the capitol of the galaxy?" I was an avid reader of Star Wars EU novels, so I knew the answer, but it just wasn't coming to me. I hemmed and hawed the seconds away but I just couldn't shake the answer loose. With a few seconds to go, I resigned myself to missing the question and probably losing the game to another player. I sighed and said "Oh, I give u…CORUSCANT!!!!" It had come to me at the last possible instant. It was one of the most thrilling gaming wins of my life.