Haney used the money to indulge his two passions — golf he had a handicap of 13 and wine. He built two courses, and invested in dozens of vineyards. He began spending his winters in Spain. More trivia: Haney twice ended up in court for the game, in and Once a hitchhiker Haney picked up claimed he'd outlined the game during the car trip and Haney had stolen it. Another time an author alleged the makers of Trivial Pursuit had lifted questions from his quiz book.
The courts rejected both claims, the second by the Supreme Court in Haney, who was known as "Horn," was born on August 9, in Welland, Ontario. He went to high school in Hamilton, but he left in 12th grade.
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One lawsuit came early on when the author of The Trivia Encyclopedia , Fred Worth, sued the company for copyright infringement. That erroneous bit of trivia was included in Trivial Pursuit. Unfortunately for Worth, although Haney and Abbott had relied on his book for some of their questions, they also used other sources, and regardless, the facts even made up ones in those books could not be copyrighted, at least according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
A second suit was raised by a person who claimed that he invented the game, and explained it to Haney. The litigation dragged on for years , but ultimately Haney and Abbott prevailed there as well. If you liked this article and the Bonus Facts below, you might also enjoy:. They spent their time in the town's bars looking for investors to start up their project. Abbott and Haney managed to find someone who was interested; a South African who had grown up in Canada and had been living in Nerja from the early seventies.
Despite knowing very little about Abbott and Haney, it would appear that he liked the sound of their idea and agreed to lend them a thousand dollars.
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