The World famous trivia game, Trivial Pursuit, is thought to have sparked people’s fascination with trivia and competing to see who knows more odd facts about geography, history, art, science, sports and entertainment. Trivial Pursuit was first created in in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1979 by two men named Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, who had become frustrated to find pieces of their Scrabble game had gone missing, thus inspiring them to create their own game. Trivial Pursuit became an almost instant hit and worldwide phenomenon, and the trivia craze began. Here is some In the Victorian era, special teacups were produced to protect the moustache from being inadvertently dipped in tea. Hallmark now produces cards for those whom have been made redundant. On Venus, it snows metal. Dr Dre has made more money from the “Beats” headphones franchise than he made over his entire musical career. Cuba is the only Caribbean Island with a railway 19 of the 25 of the highest peak in the world are in the Himalayas 99% of Glaciers are in the Arctic and Antarctic There are 17 active volcanoes in Japan Several building in New York have their own zip code There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia Ethiopia has never been a European colony In 2006, over 2 billion people lived on less than $2 a day The country Brazil was named after the Brazil nut, and not the other way around Spain means “the land of rabbits” Rome was the first city to reach a million people The entire population of the Earth would fit in Texas Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can, and when he died in 2008, his ashes were buried in one Only female mosquitoes bite Captain Morgan rum was named after a Welsh pirate who later became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica The Vatican Bank is the world’s only bank that allows ATM users to perform their transactions in Latin Jacuzzi is a brand name, and the company also produces toilets and mattresses Failed PEZ flavours include coffee, eucalyptus, menthol, and flower
My mother always said that if there was a professorship in Trivia I'd have a job for life, Ms.T was ( and still is ) in total agreement. A friend of mine has been the Australian editor of Trivial Pursuit since it was released in Australia.
I had a friend in college - name of John Happs - he was always coming out with snippets of "facts" - he always said he would write a book called "The Happs Book of Useless Information" - it could have the first Trivia book
I always thought I was quite good at trivia. I usually do quite well with tv quiz shows even mastermind and university challenge, but when I’ve entered pub quizzes I’m pants?
My teenage son would be a good ‘phone a friend’, on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire,as he thinks he knows everything.
I do at least a couple of pub quizzes a week with a group of friends one of whom is a professional quiz setter, he writes for a number of TV shows such as 15 to 1 and Mastermind. He wrote the 2019 British Quiz Championship questions which I took part in and came 111th which probably doesn't sound that impressive but I was buzzing https://quest.quizzing.com/competition/100001
