Trivial Pursuit is the gift that keeps on giving for North Bay Battalion owner Scott Abbott. Trivial Pursuit was just inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. The formal announcement came with this week from an organization called based in Rochester, New York. Trivial Pursuit (and its creators) were inducted into the 25-years-ago according to Abbott in a interview in late summer.

The iconic board game, invented by Abbott and his friend Chris Haney, became a world-wide sensation in the early 1980’s

It all started with a trip to grocery store in Montreal, in December 1979. Abbott was a reporter at the time and Haney was a photo editor and the duo met and became fast friends in the mid-1970’s. That fateful day in 1979 started the ball rolling and a couple of years later Trivial

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