When I was a kid in the 80s I loved playing Trivial Pursuit. Proper genus edition, mind. Proper questions, and they actually taught me something.

However, the modern editions are an absolute shower of shit. Example question “In 2003, what was voted Britain’s favourite sandwich?”. That appeared as a Science and Nature question. SCIENCE AND F-ING NATURE!! Clearly this is a metaphor for our crumbling national values, and what if there was a war tomorrow?

Other than trying to find a 1987 version of Trivial Pursuit, are there any modern board games that are the modern equivalent with proper questions?

BLT? Tuna Mayo? Cheese and Pickle?

FFS. I need to know!

Coronation Chicken?

You’re right though. I used to play TP when I was a kid and learned a lot from it.

DirtyLyle – Member

When I was a kid in the 80s I loved playing Trivial Pursuit. Proper genus edition, mind. Proper questions, and they actually taught me something.

Shame they didn’t teach you to use the correct forum……. 😆

well in the pursuit of triviality I’d say they finally got there

We had the original. Genuine question from the S&N cat:

What does a person suffering from Diphallic Terata have?

Cracked me up as an 8 year old kid.

really? thats a genuine TP question!

Sure they didn’t just seem harderer coz you woz a kid?

To be fair, that’s a lot easier to work out than the sandwich one. Di=two, phallic…you got it.

Mind you, most diseases are just the greek or latin for whatever symptoms you tell the doctor you’ve got. You get a diagnosis, they get to sound clever, everyone’s happy 🙂

Coronation chicken? Raisin-based deviant.

I think the answer was cheese and ham, though I was banging my head against the table at the time so my memory may have been adversely effected.

So is there no modern ‘proper’ general knowledge board game?

Our set has this:

Q: who set a new 100m record of 9.78 seconds in 2002?
A: Rebecca Loos.

Coronation Chicken is a wonderful thing.

Was that the same year Usain Bolt ‘pleasured’ a pig on National TV?

The fact that Rebecca Loos appears in any set proves my point.

I honestly have no idea who Rebecca Loos is.

She invented Coronation Chicken. While pleasuring a pig. On telly.

Ah, she was that person.