I grew up playing (and mostly losing!) Trivial Pursuit Genus Edition. I loved it even though I was mostly clueless — the game itself was made before I was born and the trivia is pretty obscure for me. In the past I tried newer, more up-to-date versions, but they weren’t as fun to play. Until the Master Edition.
While staying with my parents recently we played the Master Edition and, for the first time ever, I managed to win on my own. I even took a photo as evidence:
Fast forward to a few days ago, when I decided to order the Master Edition for myself. We tried it out this evening and made a startling discovery: the version I ordered here in the UK is localized (er, localised) for a British audience. It makes perfect sense, but the packaging makes no mention of it and I didn’t even think about it while ordering.
The online reviews are a mix of complaints that the questions are too America-centric and reassurances that it is made for Brits. As an American who has played both this and the US version I can confidently say that (for better or worse) there’s no way an American version would include so much British trivia! I guess I’ll have a chance to learn more British history and culture, settle back into my losing streak, and perhaps (ok, most likely) try to get myself a set of the US Master Edition questions. Lesson learned!
Expat Linguist 
I play on a quiz team at a pub in Tenby. The quizmaster takes pity on my and throws in a few American questions every week. I was a star one evening when they asked what a Zamboni was and I knew it was the machine that cleaned the ice after a hockey inning.
Haha, that’s great! I have thought about trying out a pub quiz night but if tonight is any indication I’d probably crash and burn. 😉
I heard about a very local (think village) monthly quiz that used to be won every time by a serious quizzing team from a nearby town that went around mopping up the prizes at all these supposed -to-be fun local quizzes. So the quiz master got their revenge by setting a proper local quiz – who lives at number 10, what is displayed in the butcher’s window etc. Funnily enough the serious quizzers didn’t win that one!
I grew up in New Zealand and I struggle here in Wales at pub quizzes, especially the sports round! I played Trivial Pursuit with friends at Christmas and it was hysterical. I could answer lots of other people’s questions but every time it came to my turn it was a really British question and impossible. We were in tears of laughter by the end, with me threatening to buy a Kiwi version online to get my revenge. I did learn a bit of interesting British history though.