Trivial Pursuit

Pie-piece quiz game

Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which players answer questions from various categories to advance around the board and collect wedge-shaped pieces.

Released in 1981, it became a cultural phenomenon and spawned countless editions on specialized topics.

The name has become shorthand for the pursuit of obscure, useless knowledge: His mind is full of Trivial Pursuit facts.

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Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G