Ed Goodgold

Edwin "Ed" Goodgold (died May 7, 2021) was an American writer, music industry executive, academic administrator. He is known for coining the term "trivia" in 1965. He was also the first manager of Sha Na Na.

Biography Goodgold was born in Israel and grew up in Brooklyn. He and Carlinsky also produced the nation's first trivia contest at Columbia on March 1, 1965, and, later, the first intercollegiate Quiz bowls, open to the Ivy League and the Seven Sisters colleges, in October 1965 and February 1967. Goodgold and Carlinsky co-wrote the 1966 book,Trivia, introducing the subject to a national audience.

In 1992, Goodgold retired from his music industry career and took up an administrative position in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University as assistant to the associate dean.

Goodgold died on May 7, 2021, in New York City.