acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone) (10/26/84)
*** REPLACE YOUR MESSAGE WITH THIS LINE *** :-) Yesterday (10/25) I heard that the inventors of Trivial Pursuit, Horn Abbot Ltd. (of Ontario, Canada) were being sued by someone who had written two trivia books a few years ago. The man's name escapes me now, but I believe he lives around the Los Angeles area. He claims that he had an intentionally wrong answer in the book, along with some misspellings, which had appeared in the game. The lawsuit amount, if I remember correctly, was $300 million. (Sigh....everyone wants to get in on the action.) I'm sorry if this has been posted already by someone else; news of this hasn't reached gort (the informal name of sunybcs) yet. (i.e. I may not have a scoop.) -- From under the smogberry trees.... Jim Poltrone (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters) uucp: [decvax,watmath,rocksvax]!sunybcs!acsgjjp ARPAnet, CSnet: acsgjjp%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY Don't forget to STAY DEMENTED!
kmo@ptsfa.UUCP (Ken Olsen) (10/29/84)
> *** REPLACE YOUR MESSAGE WITH THIS LINE *** :-) > > Yesterday (10/25) I heard that the inventors of Trivial Pursuit, Horn Abbot > Ltd. (of Ontario, Canada) were being sued by someone who had written two > trivia books a few years ago. The man's name escapes me now, but I believe > he lives around the Los Angeles area. He claims that he had an intentionally > wrong answer in the book, along with some misspellings, which had appeared > in the game. The lawsuit amount, if I remember correctly, was $300 million. > (Sigh....everyone wants to get in on the action.) > The man sueing the Trivial Pursuit people is Fred L. Worth, author of two of the most popular trivia books written. The first was written around 1972, and the second, 1979-80. There were misspellings and inaccuracies in his books which he claims made it into Trivial Pursuit. I respect Mr. Worth for his books (in school, when only the first book was around, we often spent bus/car trips asking each other questions from it), but I've played Trivial Pursuit *many* times (all but the Sports Edition), and I have only seen *maybe* a half a dozen questions which made me think of his books. (For example, "What is a triskadecaphobic?".***) I find it hard to believe that the makers of Trivial Pursuit used them as a *major* source. I guess we wait to see how far the suit goes... Ken Olsen {ihnp4,ucbvax,cbosgd,decwrl,amd70,fortune,zehntel}!dual!ptsfa!kmo (***triskadecaphobic: Someone with an irrational fear of the number 13.)