The instructions enclosed with the original Trivial Pursuit board game advise you to keep the plastic trees that the game pieces are attached to in shipment because “they make excellent swizzle sticks.”
And it was all about the swizzle sticks. Those and the players who twirled them in their cocktails as they informed you with studied insouciance — or maybe artless pedantry — that triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13, or that it takes seven minutes for the typical person to fall asleep, or that most American car horns beep in the key of F, or that it was Vidkun Quisling who betrayed Norway to the Nazis, or Nietzsche who first proposed the idea of superman (Nietzsche being the know-it-all’s go-to guy for trivia).
The game was also about the players who chewed nervously on their swizzle sticks and hoped that they drew questions like “Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?” (seriously) or “What means never having to say you’re sorry?” (yep) and “What’s the main vegetable in vichyssoise?” (if you didn’t know you could always say “I surrender” and kind of smirk).
Source : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/weekinreview/06murphy.html?scp=1&sq=game&st=cseVisits : play free online games, online flash games, social games
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