Peace Out (Famous Last Words)
This famous musicians last reported words were: “I’m going to the bathroom to read”
Who is Elvis?
The small plastic wedges players collect during a game of Trivial Pursuit are commonly nicknamed this dairy product, due to their shape.
What are cheeses? (or pies / pie pieces)
At the 1990 Academy Awards, this rapper accepted his Best Rap Performance Grammy for "Parents Just Don't Understand," but the real "shut the front door" moment was that the Grammys initially refused to televise the rap category that year, prompting a boycott.
Who is Will Smith? (Fresh Prince / DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)
This yellow Electric-type mouse Pokémon, the franchise's mascot, became the starter Pokémon in the 1998 game Pokémon Yellow.
What is Pikachu?
James Bond famously orders his vodka martinis prepared this way — using a phrase that violates the actual best practice for clear cocktails.
What is "shaken, not stirred"?
On her deathbed, this Tudor queen — daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn — reportedly said, "All my possessions for a moment of time."
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
This Reading Rainbow and Star Trek: The Next Generation actor began hosting a Trivial Pursuit revival on The CW in October 2024, getting his long-awaited game show after losing the Jeopardy! hosting gig to Mike Richards.
Who is Lavar Burton
At the 89th Academy Awards in 2017, this film was incorrectly announced as Best Picture for nearly two minutes before the real winner, Moonlight, was announced.
What is La La Land?
In Pokémon Red and Blue, the player chooses one of three starter Pokémon at Professor Oak's lab: Bulbasaur, Squirtle, or this orange Fire-type lizard.
What is Charmander?
Made with vodka, coffee liqueur, and cream, this cocktail is the signature drink of Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski; he drinks nine of them over the course of the movie.
What is a White Russian?
This Irish playwright, dying in a shabby Paris hotel in 1900, is famously credited with the witticism, "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
Who is Oscar Wilde?
The original 1981 "Genus Edition" of Trivial Pursuit had this many categories of questions, each represented by a different color.
What is six?
daily double
"During the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII in February 2004, this singer suffered what Justin Timberlake infamously called a 'wardrobe malfunction,' leading to a $550,000 FCC fine and the eventual creation of YouTube."
Who is Janet Jackson
This Generation 1 Psychic-type Pokémon was created through genetic experimentation on its mythical predecessor and is one of the most powerful Pokémon in the original 151.
Who is Mewtwo?
In the Harry Potter series, this warm, frothy beverage — described as tasting "a bit like less-sickly butterscotch" — is the favorite drink of Hogwarts students at the Three Broomsticks pub in Hogsmeade.
What is butterbeer?
These were the final words attributed to Civil War General John Sedgwick at the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864, just before he was shot dead by a Confederate sniper: "They couldn't hit an elephant at this _____."
What is "distance"?
Trivial Pursuit was created in 1979 by two journalists from this country, where it was first sold in 1981 before reaching the U.S. in 1982-83.
What is Canada?
On June 17, 1994, an estimated 95 million Americans interrupted their viewing of the NBA Finals to watch this athlete being chased down a Los Angeles freeway in a white Ford Bronco.
Who is O.J. Simpson?
This is the exact total number of original Pokémon introduced in Generation 1 (Pokémon Red and Blue).
What is 151?
Don Draper, the chain-smoking ad executive on AMC's Mad Men, has this whiskey-based cocktail as his signature drink — made with bourbon, sugar, bitters, and an orange peel.
What is an Old Fashioned?
This reggae legend's final words to his son Ziggy, before dying of cancer at age 36 in 1981, were 'Money can't buy life.'
Who is Bob Marley?
In 2008, this American toy and game company purchased the full rights to Trivial Pursuit and all its iterations for $80 million.
What is Hasbro?
In 1938, Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells's novel about this event, sending some listeners into a panic because they thought the news bulletins were real.
What is The War of the Worlds? (or a Martian invasion)
In the Pokémon anime, this villainous duo from Team Rocket — accompanied by a talking Meowth — appears in nearly every episode trying (and failing) to capture Ash's Pikachu.
Who are Jessie and James?
In Star Trek: The Next Generation, this synthetic non-alcoholic substitute for alcohol is what Starfleet officers typically drink while on duty; it provides similar effects but can be neutralized at will.
What is synthehol?