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Chuck Bryant

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Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

What was one of them authorized to do so? Or are they just like, come over here, buddy, sign this thing?

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

Like they bore witness or something.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

Like they bore witness or something.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

Like they bore witness or something.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

I'm glad I complicated that very clean and cool story. Another fun little trivial factoid, and yes, I'm saying factoid, was that QE2, Queen Elizabeth II, hosted the first nerd cruise, it sounds like, because she hosted an eight-day Trivial Pursuit tournament cruise in, I guess, 85.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

I'm glad I complicated that very clean and cool story. Another fun little trivial factoid, and yes, I'm saying factoid, was that QE2, Queen Elizabeth II, hosted the first nerd cruise, it sounds like, because she hosted an eight-day Trivial Pursuit tournament cruise in, I guess, 85.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

I'm glad I complicated that very clean and cool story. Another fun little trivial factoid, and yes, I'm saying factoid, was that QE2, Queen Elizabeth II, hosted the first nerd cruise, it sounds like, because she hosted an eight-day Trivial Pursuit tournament cruise in, I guess, 85.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

Yeah, I think they're at about 80 million to date.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

Yeah, I think they're at about 80 million to date.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

Yeah, I think they're at about 80 million to date.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

That's just a staggering amount of games. I mean, you talked about how well it was made. My mom still has the OG from whatever 48 beers ago.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

That's just a staggering amount of games. I mean, you talked about how well it was made. My mom still has the OG from whatever 48 beers ago.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

That's just a staggering amount of games. I mean, you talked about how well it was made. My mom still has the OG from whatever 48 beers ago.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

No, you can still read Richard Nixon on a third of those cards.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

No, you can still read Richard Nixon on a third of those cards.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

No, you can still read Richard Nixon on a third of those cards.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

Oh, not in my family, pal. So Trivial Pursuit is selling gangbusters. Abbott and Haney are rich dudes and also weirdly kind of celebrities. They were not shy. They love to be on TV and to do interviews. They were in TV commercials. They were pitchmen for other brands like Amex and Diet Coke. And they would put that Trivial Pursuit branding on anything they thought they could make money of.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

Oh, not in my family, pal. So Trivial Pursuit is selling gangbusters. Abbott and Haney are rich dudes and also weirdly kind of celebrities. They were not shy. They love to be on TV and to do interviews. They were in TV commercials. They were pitchmen for other brands like Amex and Diet Coke. And they would put that Trivial Pursuit branding on anything they thought they could make money of.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

Oh, not in my family, pal. So Trivial Pursuit is selling gangbusters. Abbott and Haney are rich dudes and also weirdly kind of celebrities. They were not shy. They love to be on TV and to do interviews. They were in TV commercials. They were pitchmen for other brands like Amex and Diet Coke. And they would put that Trivial Pursuit branding on anything they thought they could make money of.

Stuff You Should Know
The Trivial Pursuit Trivia Edition

And like you mentioned, those original investors did really, really well. There was an entertainment writer at the Toronto Globe and Mail named Susan, Susan Farrier McKay, who took out a bank loan to buy 10 shares early on. And in 1984, she bought a house and then she retired not too long after that.