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Brian Highley

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Brian Highley was born in Halifax, Yorkshire. He was a UK TV scriptwriter for Spitting Image, and feature writer for national magazines.

In 1984 Brian Highley became the UK question writer for Trivial Pursuit. During this period he helped establish the UK game as the lead edition of this product with his questions being circulated around the world for use in overseas editions where appropriate. He researched and wrote all of the questions for the 1990 BBC 1 Trivial Pursuit game show[1].

Brian was the face of trivia in the UK and has appeared on almost every TV and radio chat show.

Brian Highley also produced the questions for the UK edition of the Swedish game Insikt, for UBI, which was the follow-up to Trivial Pursuit and for the American games Been There Done That and TimeTripper.

His most recent project has been the Trivial Pursuit Rolling Stones Collectors Edition for the US market on which his editor was former Rolling Stones bass guitarist Bill Wyman.

References

  1. ^ "Diary". The Independent. Friday, 9 April 1993. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)