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
Trivial Pursuit (U.S. game show) Game" was cancelled on March 4, 1994 to make way for "Boggle" and "Shuffle", only to return on September 7 and be cancelled again on December 30, along with the entire interactive game block. However, reruns of "Trivial Pursuit: The Classic Game" continued with no interactive playbreaks until July 21, 1995. A home version of the game was released by Parker Brothers in 1993 as "Trivial Pursuit Game Show". Some question material was taken directly from the show, and the box cover featured Martindale on the slightly different set of the show's 1993 pilot (which was intended for syndication; producer