Scott Abbott

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Scott Abbott
Born
Charles Scott Abbott

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Education Bishop's College School, McGill University, University of Tennessee, master’s degree, journalism, 1978 [1] [2]
Occupation(s)Sports journalist
Board game inventor
Racehorse owner
Known for Trivial Pursuit
Owner of the North Bay Battalion franchise

Charles Scott Abbott is the co-inventor of the board game Trivial Pursuit along with Chris Haney. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Abbott is the owner of the North Bay Battalion hockey team of the Ontario Hockey League. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] For his work in building this hockey club, he was inducted into the Brampton Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. [14]

Born in Montreal, Quebec, [1] Abbott was a sports journalist for Canadian Press before creating Trivial Pursuit. [15] After his success in board games, he acquired a taste for horse racing. He named one of his star horses, Charlie Barley, after his son Charlie, who was of a similar age to the horse. [16] He owns C. Scott Abbott Racing Stable Ltd. [17] Its horse Smart Sky finished seventh in the 2010 Queen's Plate. [18] [19] [20]

References

  1. 1 2 "Quickfacts about Brampton Battalion owner Scott Abbott". The Mississauga News . 6 November 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "9 People You Didn't Know Have a UT Connection". utk.edu. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Hasbro. "Hasbro Board Games - Hasbro Games - Hasbro Gaming". trivialpursuit.com. Archived from the original on January 10, 2010. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "The History of Trivial Pursuit". About.com Inventors. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "Trivial Pursuit's co-inventor never outpaced his demons". The Globe and Mail . 4 June 2010. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Trivial Pursuit: 10 facts about the game". The Daily Telegraph . 15 December 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  7. ↑ Curtis, Bryan (14 April 2005). "The decline of Trivial Pursuit". Slate . Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  8. ↑ "Battalion owner Scott Abbott glad relocation hasn't been messy; now the hard work begins in North Bay". Yahoo! Sports . Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Two teams, two dreams". Toronto Star . 14 March 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  10. ↑ "North Bay". North Bay Nugget . Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  11. ↑ "North Bay Fans Cheer On The Battalion". 101.9 The Fox . Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  12. ↑ "OHL's Brampton Battalion move to North Bay approved". Toronto Sun . Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  13. ↑ "The Official North Bay Battalion Website". North Bay Battalion . Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  14. ↑ Scott Abbott's Page in the Brampton Sports Hall of Fame Archived May 7, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  15. ↑ "Trivial Pursuit co-creator dies at 59 - CTV News". CTV News . 31 May 2010. Archived from the original on January 16, 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  16. ↑ "Just trivial for Charley Barley". Montreal Gazette. Montreal. May 29, 1990.
  17. ↑ "NHL returnees add spark". The London Free Press. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  18. ↑ The 2010 Queen's Plate at Woodbine Entertainment Archived 2011-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ↑ "Nothing trivial in this pursuit". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  20. ↑ "Smart Sky Horse Pedigree". pedigreequery.com. Retrieved 9 September 2015.


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