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History Daily

Saturday Matinee: History This Week

History Daily

Airship | Noiser | Wondery

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4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Saturday Matinee, we test our knowledge on the origins of Trivial Pursuit.



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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:10.5

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0:31.1

InBisner. In business, when you alight upon a good idea and you prove that it's viable, it's popular, it's sustainable, it's profitable.

0:34.7

After a while, you begin to think, can I expand this idea?

0:37.6

So Coca-Cola comes out with Diet Coke.

0:40.3

Dyson is great at making sucking machines,

0:43.6

so they come out with fantastic blowing machines, hair dryers.

0:47.6

Rees has taken the peanut butter and chocolate combo in a thousand directions.

0:50.9

Businesses everywhere are looking for these growth opportunities.

0:53.8

Podcasting is a business, so I'm looking too. And with the success of

0:55.3

History Daily, thank you very much, dear listener, I thought, well, what about a history weekly?

1:01.5

Right? Yeah? Maybe we take an event that happened that same week in history and do a bit of a deeper dive.

1:08.1

Maybe get some experts on Mike to really dig in and truly understand

1:11.8

the context and significance. Seems like a good idea. It is a good idea, so good that someone's

1:18.5

already been doing it for a while now. On today's Saturday matinee, we're bringing you an episode

1:23.6

from the podcast History This Week, and it's a fun one. Jeopardy legend and now host, Ken Jennings,

1:30.3

joins in to help tell the story of the origins of Tribial Pursuit. I hope you enjoy. While you're

1:35.8

listening, be sure to search for and follow History This Week. We put a link in the show notes to make it easy for you.

1:45.5

What's better than finding quality candidates?

1:48.6

Finding them fast.

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