Scott Abbott

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Scott Abbott
Born
Charles Scott Abbott

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
EducationBishop's College School, McGill University, University of Tennessee, master’s degree, journalism, 1978[1][2]
OccupationsSports journalist
Board game inventor
Racehorse owner
Known forTrivial 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] Abbott is the owner of the North Bay Battalion hockey team of the Ontario Hockey League.[7][8][9][10][11][12] For his work in building this hockey club, he was inducted into the Brampton Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.[13]

Born in Montreal, Quebec,[1] Abbott was a sports journalist for Canadian Press before creating Trivial Pursuit.[14] 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.[15] He owns C. Scott Abbott Racing Stable Ltd.[16] Its horse Smart Sky finished seventh in the 2010 Queen's Plate.[17][18][19]

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  13. ^ Scott Abbott's Page in the Brampton Sports Hall of Fame Archived May 7, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
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