Trivial Pursuit (U.S. game show) seconds to answer by pressing a number from 1-4 on a keypad in front of them. They scored points based on how fast they answered the question correctly, with a maximum of 1,000 points available. After five questions, the six players with the highest scores played round two and the other players were eliminated. This round was played in the same way as Round 1, except the three highest-scoring players won a prize and a chance to play "Trivial Pursuit" in the next half-hour show. As in the board game, three contestants raced to complete their game pie first by
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