How Many Miles to Babylon? In the 1824 edition of "The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia" there's a description of the rhyme and the game, giving the distance as "six, seven or a lang eight". The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. In literature In film In music How Many Miles to Babylon?
Trivial Pursuit (U.S. game show) Trivial Pursuit (U.S. game show) Trivial Pursuit is an American game show that ran on The Family Channel from June 7, 1993 to December 30, 1994. Loosely based on the board game of the same name, it was hosted by Wink Martindale with Randy West announcing. The show was played in two halves. The first half was an interactive game show, while the other half was a traditional game show. Nine players (originally twelve) competed for three spots in the second half of the show. Five questions with four multiple-choice answers were asked by the host. The players had 10