Trivial Pursuit (U.S. game show) answering questions from categories that match the colored wedge. Unlike the board game, however, it took two questions to complete a wedge, and no board or die was used. Red replaced the brown-colored wedge. In the first three rounds, each player received two turns consisting of a category choice followed by a question posed by host Martindale. A correct answer lit up a wedge but an incorrect answer gave the two opponents a chance to buzz-in and steal the wedge. In the first round, the six traditional Trivial Pursuit categories were used. This round used either the categories from the
The Trivia Encyclopedia million lawsuit against the distributors of the board game "Trivial Pursuit", claiming that they had stolen their questions from his books. The apparent ace up his sleeve was a "Trivial Pursuit" reference to the TV character of "Philip Columbo" -- despite the first name "Philip" being an invention of Worth's. The makers of "Trivial Pursuit" did not deny that they sourced material from Worth's book. Instead, they argued that a) facts themselves are not copyrightable, and b) there was nothing improper about using Worth's book simply as one of the many sources from which the game's fact-based material originated. The