Chris Haney, 59, co-creator of the board game Trivial Pursuit, died last Monday in Toronto after a long illness.

On the evening of Dec. 15, 1979, Haney and fellow Canadian journalist Scott Abbott were playing Scrabble in Montreal when Haney wondered aloud whether the two of them could invent a game as good. Haney then suggested a game based on trivia, and the rest is history.

Trivial Pursuit was introduced in Canada in 1981. The original game involved answering 6,000 trivia questions on 1,000 cards, coded by categories such as history and entertainment. Eventually, an estimated one in five American households bought the game. Hasbro eventually bought the intellectual rights to the game in 2008 for $80 million.

Artist Louise Bourgeois, whose sculptures exploring women's deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death were highly influential on younger artists, died May 31 at a New York City hospital. She was 98.

Working in a variety of materials, she tackled themes relating to male and female bodies, anger, betrayal and even murder. Her work reflected influences of surrealism, primitivism and the early modernist sculptors such as Alberto Giacometti and Constantin Brancusi.

Bourgeois' work was mostly unknown to the wider art world until she was 70, when New York's Museum of Modern Art presented a solo show of her career in 1982.

In his book "American Visions," Robert Hughes, art critic for Time, called her "the mother of American feminist identity art."

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