Appearing just two years after the Genus III Edition, Genus IV was a response to the accusations that Trivial Pursuit is being "dumbed down." Genus IV is not considered quite as easy a set of questions as Genus III, but it's still the second-easiest Trivial Pursuit edition. Genus II also shortened the number of questions to just 4,800 questions on 800 Trivial Pursuit question cards. Genus III cards have a trademark black border. More "hard science" questions were added, in areas like physics and genetics, and fewer generic "who invented _" type questions. One strange feature of the third Genus Edition is that the Science & Nature questions got a lot tougher while all other categories eased up. This led to a big debate about whether or not Trivial Pursuit was getting "dumbed down" or not. Appearing in 1994, Genus III is considered the easiest Trivial Pursuit Genus Edition of all.
It took Parker Brothers, who then owned the Trivial Pursuit license, a decade to come up with a new set of Genus questions. Genus II has the distinction of having the hardest "Entertainment" category of all editions of the game, probably thanks to a wider scope of Entertainment questions from earlier in the last few centuries. These cards had a yellow or cornsilk border instead of dark blue, though all the original categories and colors were intact. The biggest difference with this edition's Trivial Pursuit cards is the look of the card.
Not the easiest and not the hardest edition of the basic Trivial Pursuit game, Genus II also came with 6,000 questions on 1,000 Trivial Pursuit cards. The front had just the thin blue border and the six color and category code markers along with the questions on the right side. The answer side had the word "Genus" in script on the left side of the card with answers on the right, next to the color code and symbol for each category. The cards for this edition set the standard for all future editions of the game-vaguely rectangular in shape with a dark blue border. It is considered the second-toughest edition of Trivial Pursuit. This is the first edition of Trivial Pursuit.
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