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) Jay Wolpert also produced at least one pilot in 1987 with Worldvision Enterprises that was not picked up; Martindale posted both pilots to his YouTube channel in 2014). This was the second home version that was based on a board game itself, the first was "TV Scrabble" by Selchow & Righter in 1987 and then "Celebrity Name Game" (based on the board game "Identity Crisis") by PlayMonster (formerly Patch) in 2016. 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