I’ve been playing a lot of Trivial Pursuit with the family lately. I love Trivial Pursuit, which shouldn’t be a surprise to those who know of me and my legendary reservoir of trivial, useless information. Trivial Pursuit is an excellent game, and you can learn a lot more than just useless facts. For example, I’ve learned that my dad likes to complain a lot. He complains about everything in the game. He complains that the questions have answers that no one would ever know; he complains that the questions don’t represent common knowledge (that’s why it’s Trivial Pursuit and not High School Diploma Pursuit, Dad); and he even complains that the question was bogus when he gets the answer right! In our current game, all that complaining must be paying off, because he is only one question away from winning the game. However, it’s going to be hard for him to win when I keep asking him Arts & Entertainment questions all the time…

The edition of Trivial Pursuit that I own is Genus IV. It’s a great edition, but some of the questions are pretty tough. My favorite version of Trivial Pursuit is easily 90s Trivial Pursuit. It’s a perfect edition for a 90s-obsessed Trivial Pursuit fan such as me. In retrospect, it would’ve been a good idea to ask for 90s Trivial Pursuit for Christmas. However, while I can easily hold my own in Trivial Pursuit, I’m not quite smart enough to ask Santa for 90s Trivial Pursuit. Go figure.