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Charles Scott Abbott is the co-inventor of the board game Trivial Pursuit along with Chris Haney. Abbott is the owner of the North Bay Battalion hockey team of the Ontario Hockey League. For his work in building this hockey club, he was inducted into the Brampton Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
- From McGill to UT
- The Birth of Trivial Pursuit
- Life After Trivial Pursuit
Abbott was born in Montreal and grew up in the suburb of Hudson Heights, Quebec. Like any good Canadian, young Abbott loved hockey and figured out a way to be a part of it. “I wanted to be a sportswriter from the age of eight,” he says. While he was a student at the McGill University, he would sneak into Canadiens’ practices to watch. After he grad...
Just a year later, in December 1979, Abbott and his friend Chris Haney, a photo editor at the Montreal Gazette,stumbled upon an idea that would secure their spot in board game history. At the time, Abbott was sharing rent on a house in Montreal with Haney and his wife and son. “We were always bragging about playing Scrabble. We decided to have a be...
After the big payday, Abbott recalls talking with Chris Haney’s brother, John, about their finances. “He said, ‘We’re going to be OK, as long as we don’t do anything stupid like invest in racehorses.’” In fact, Abbott did just that, and in 1987 had the rare good fortune to spend $50,000 on a yearling named Charlie Barley, a son of Triple Crown winn...
- Brooks Clark
Jan 23, 2020 · Trivial Pursuit was first conceived of on December 15, 1979, by Chris Haney and Scott Abbott. At the time, Haney worked as a photo editor at the Montreal Gazette and Abbott was a sports journalist for The Canadian Press.
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May 23, 2024 · 10,000 Questions. A Trivial Phenomenon. Legal Trivia. 10,000 Questions. Chris Haney and Scott Abbott were journalists: Haney was a photo editor for the Montreal Gazette, while Abbott...
Jun 5, 2010 · Chris Haney, who died last week at 59, and his fellow Canadian Scott Abbott invented Trivial Pursuit in 1979 and soon afterward propelled it into the American parlor, where it thrived at...
Jun 3, 2010 · Haney, a rumpled Canadian high school dropout, joined with a fellow journeyman journalist, Scott Abbott, to create a phenomenon a board game that tests a player’s grasp of wickedly...
May 2, 2024 · Within ten years of the sale of Trivial Pursuit to Selchow & Righter, Trivial Pursuit was named to the "Games Hall of Fame" by Games magazine and was the most popular board game in North America. The story of the creation of Trivial Pursuit is charged with mystery--the legend of the missing Scrabble pieces and "the little trivia game that could ...
