Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Category: games created by the rich and famous. Question: What do the makers of Trivial Pursuit offer as a follow-up to their wildly popular parlor pastime? Answer: the World According to UBI, a Q&A treasure-hunt game played on a geographical map, which went on sale last week in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston and Philadelphia for $35. This time Trivial Masterminds Scott & Abbott and Chris and John Haney wanted to come up with something too complicated to copy. Says Chris: "We got kind of cheesed off by the Trivial Pursuit knockoffs appearing all over the world...
...schools perform a seemingly trivial service in teaching kindergarteners that there are 100 pennies in a dollar and 12 inches in a foot. These lessons are vital, however, because currency and measurement systems are useful only to the extent that they are universal...
...know all of this is sort of trivial, but it's heartfelt nonetheless. I've always believed that if you're going to talk like a surfer, you have to surf, and if you're going to talk dirty, you have to talk dirty right. Besides, I like always get really pissed out when I hear people talk like that...
...evidence that they pick up precious little in four years from some of the school's world-class scholars. Many top Harvard faculty, say critics, tend to be too engrossed in their own research, too busy with outside consulting or just too lordly to bother with anything so trivial as an undergraduate. One eager junior, preparing to write a paper on relations between the U.S. and China, asked for an appointment with Ross Terrill, then director of Harvard's East Asian Studies programs. After a long delay (standard heel cooling for an interview, claims one source, is two weeks...
...there is one gap in the Arizonian's learning, though, it is in the intricacies of poultry production. Blackmun said one of his rare trivial triumphs occurred when Rehnquist could not name the top five poultry producing states. That was a bit of arcania only Blackmun could answer correctly because of a case he presided over as a judge on the Eighth Circuit Court...