Friday 29 June 2012

Pursuit

Trivial Pursuit is a game in which progress is determined by a player's bility to answer general knowledge questions. Created in 1979 by a two Canadian chaps, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, after finding pieces of their Scrabble game were missing, they decided to create their own game. With the help of John Haney and Ed Werner, they completed development of the game, which was released in 1982.
    The board game became very popular and an online version was launched in September, 2003. Dozens of question sets have been released for this game. These cards are organised into themes; for instance, in the standard Genus, questions in green deal with Science and nature. Some question sets have been designed for younger players and others for a specific time period or as promotional tie-ins such as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings etc.           

Whatever pursuits you may find yourself involved in I pray that your main pursuit in Life is to know more of God.

10 comments:

  1. You just took me to school, Jack. I never knew how Trivial Pursuit came about. Just think, what would happen if we pursued God the same way those men purused their new game? The sky would be the limit, wouldn't it?

    God bless you, brother.

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  2. Thanks Jack - I never pursued Trivial Pursuit (figured I wouldn't do well) but it was interesting to hear how it came about. And, yes, may our main pursuit be God.

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  3. That's an awesome game. Great points there!

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  4. The first time I played Trivial Pursuit was in 1983 - it was ALL the rage. We bought the game soon afterwards and spent many nights playing it with friends. Fast forward 25 years. We dug the game out and played with our adult children. We cleaned up! :)
    Thanks for a fun post and continue looking to God for your dreams.

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  5. Ah yes, good old Trivial Pursuit...the one game where parents can beat their kids. Of course, they've probably changed all the questions in the newer versions. Still, there's nothing like nostalgia! Peace and Blessings.

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  6. I loved that game. Was horrible at playing it; but loved it nonetheless. In fact, although I haven't played it in over 30 years, it's still around here someplace. Your post gave me a smile. Thank you for tying it back to God.

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  7. So fun to read about Trivial Pursuit again. Haven't played it in years. Thanks for the background. And thanks for this!

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  8. A nice simple but thought-provoking message here Jack. So much of what we pursue in life is trivial, but we give those trivial pursuits more attention than our pursuit of a Godly life.

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  9. thanks for calling by
    blessings and a biiiiiig hug

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  10. Amen to that final thought, Jack.

    When we played Trivial Pursuit for the first time, my youngest brother commented, "So, whoever knows the most about nothing, wins." Pretty astute observation; he was maybe 10 or 11 at the time.

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