STORY:
Trivial Pursuit Unveils Millennium Edition

Popular game takes a legacy approach to trivia

By Elizabeth Scott

1. “What did 40 million Chinese people die of in Mao’s Great Leap Forward?”
2. “If a man receives an accolade, what is he receiving?”
3. “Which Shakespeare play opens with a storm at sea?”
4. “What type of seeds can cause drug tests to trigger false positives for opium?”

These are just a few of the questions in this year’s release of Trivial Pursuit Millennium Edition. Hasbro Games makers of Monopoly and other family favorites recently announced the introduction of this new edition to celebrate the millennium.

The game includes 3,600 questions about history, people and places, arts, sports, and science from the last 1000 years. The game also boasts 105 color cards and a new futuristic design. The new design features edge glow pie wedges and card holder as well as a “pie-wedge” shape tin collectors box.

“Trivial Pursuit Millennium Edition is very popular with people of all ages,” said Dale Siswick, general manager of Marketing for the company. A game that brings families together, Trivial Pursuit can be played by two to six teams or individual players.

According to Hasbro officials Chris Haney and Scott Abbott developed the game in 1979. As the two sat down to play scrabble they talked about their interest in current events. Soon they had developed a game called Trivia Pursuit. But Chris’ wife renamed it Trivial Pursuit.

After initially small sales, by 1984 over 20 million copies of the game were sold. Today the game is offered in 19 different languages and sold in 33 nations around the world. It can be purchased at most major toy retailers for around $40.00.

Oh and the answers to the questions above?
1. Starvation, 2. A Knighthood, 3. The Tempest, 4. Poppy seeds.

DATE: 07/20/99

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