The general election game plays out the polling battle on a computer controlled board that is part-Monopoly, part-Trivial Pursuit.

BBC: Playing the politics game

Unless you were one of those privileged few, then getting access to that warehoused stuff was a highly non-trivial pursuit.

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Seeing entries for Monopoly, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit (three Parker Brothers' board games), I was immediately struck by the absence of chess and backgammon.

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Last year for a Trivial Pursuit ad, Corbis had to find Tonya Harding in a trailer park in rural Washington to clear rights to her old skating footage.

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