Scott Abbott | |
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Born | Charles Scott Abbott |
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]
Scott Abbott | |
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Born | Charles Scott Abbott |
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]