Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ptsfb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!qumix!amd!dual!ptsfa!ptsfb!drp From: drp@ptsfb.UUCP (Dale Pederson) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Trivial Pursuit Wrong? Message-ID: <116@ptsfb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 14:03:54 EDT Article-I.D.: ptsfb.116 Posted: Mon Oct 8 14:03:54 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 04:27:06 EDT References: <391@amd.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco Lines: 23 > I just played a game of Trivial Pursuit in which I think one of the > answers was wrong. > > Q. Who's last words were "My God, I'm hit."? > > Their answer was John Kennedy. I thought he was hit in the brain and > died instantly. Other members of my team thought the person who said > those words was sitting next to Kennedy and survived. > > Comments? > -- > > Phil Ngai (408) 982-6554 > UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd!phil > ARPAnet: amd!phil@decwrl.ARPA There was an interesting article on trivial pursuit in the September 1984 issue of "The Atlantic". It talked about all the wrong answers which the author and his friends and relatives ran into while playing the game. If I remember right, he blamed many of the errors on the fact that the game and its questions were formulated in Canada with less rigor towards History of the USA than he would have liked.