Short answers, pulled from the story.
Trivial Pursuit was created on the 15th of December, 1979, by Chris Haney, a photo editor for Montreal's The Gazette, and Scott Abbott, a sports editor for The Canadian Press. The game's basic design was worked out in 45 minutes on the back of a cigarette carton in Montreal, Quebec.
More than 100 million games have been sold in 26 countries and 17 languages. Between 1983 and 1988 alone, 30 million copies of the original version sold in the United States, generating retail sales of $750 million.
The six categories in the classic Trivial Pursuit Genus edition are Geography (blue), Entertainment (pink), History (yellow), Art and Literature (originally brown, later purple), Science and Nature (green), and Sports and Leisure (orange).
In October 1984, Fred L. Worth filed a $300 million lawsuit claiming that more than a quarter of the Genus Edition questions were taken from his books, including deliberately planted misinformation. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a ruling in favor of Trivial Pursuit's inventors in September 1987, and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case in March 1988.
Hasbro purchased the full rights to Trivial Pursuit in 2008 for US$80 million. The company had previously held the game through Parker Brothers, which acquired the license in 1988.
Trivial Pursuit was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong National Museum of Play in 2025. Games magazine had previously named it to its Games Hall of Fame in December 1993.