# Trivia Dominoes II — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia — continued! (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 25, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950 "2020-01-25T08:18:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1 "2020-01-25T08:18:03Z")
. {Note: all links are safe. I created them and shortened some using [https://is.gd](https://is.gd).} Thank you to **Sampiro** for starting the original **Trivia Dominoes** thread game ten years ago! That thread grew to 46,188 posts. Let it continue here. I will ask the mods to close that thread. [https://is.gd/xJXuHZ](https://is.gd/xJXuHZ) \>\> the original **Trivia Dominoes** thread OP by **Sampiro**. Full URL here \>\> [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12075694#post12075694](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12075694#post12075694). [https://is.gd/F1pRPL](https://is.gd/F1pRPL) \>\> the explanation at the end of that thread, for this continuation game. Full URL here \>\> [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22099515#post22099515](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22099515#post22099515). **Sampiro** ’s OP is quoted here. These are the game’s rules: > [@Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1): > > It’s a game of my own devising and I expect the thread to sink beneath the horizon, but just in case, here’s how it works: I’ll post a piece of trivia, somebody will “play” off my trivia, then the next person tags onto that, etc., and let’s see how we can keep it going. > > Simple rules: > > 1- You should make sure it’s true before using it to avoid “Cite?” > > 2- It should have something that can be played off both sides > > 3- You can decide what’s trivia or factoid or whatever- it basically just means it should be blip sized information. > > Here’s how to play- imagine this is posted by several posters: > > > [@](#): > > > > Poster 1: Mickey Rooney has the longest film career in history- 84 years to date with several projects in development. > > > > Poster 2: Mickey Rooney was the original choice to play Archie Bunker. > > > > Poster 3: Archie Bunker’s chair is in the Smithsonian Institution. > > > > Poster 4: The Smithsonian was founded with money willed to the U.S. by the illegitimate son of a British nobleman. > > > > Poster 5: Omer Bhatti, the Norwegian rapper, is rumored to be the illegitimate son of Michael Jackson. > > > > Poster 6: Michael Jackson’s THRILLER was the best selling album of all time. > > > > Poster 7: Enrico Caruso was the first singer to become a millionaire from recordings. > > > > Poster 8: Enrico Caruso was in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake. > > Hopefully you get the idea- you can play off any part of the preceding piece of trivia. You can make a statement that is not necessarily true so long as you qualify it (i.e. I didn’t say Bhatti is Jackson’s son, just that he’s rumored to be, which is true) or you can go for a “not exactly but really close” connection (Thriller setting records and Caruso’s recording earnings are not exact matches but both have to do with distinctions in recording success, if that makes sense). > > So, ready to play? I doubt it, but I’ve started threads that strangled on the cord before. I’ll be back with a piece of trivia: play off any part of it so long as you keep the thread going. [https://is.gd/U0Wc7D](https://is.gd/U0Wc7D) \>\> the last play there was mine, at post #46,185 (Full URL here \>\> [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550730&page=231](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550730&page=231)) > [@Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/46178): > > I loved that movie (we’re talking about the movie, _Heaven Can Wait_ (1978)). Imagine back then — the LA Rams go to the Super Bowl!! _ **And they win it!!!** _ In the movie, the Rams beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, > > And of course, the beautiful Julie Christie (image, [https://is.gd/T8N9Tj](https://is.gd/T8N9Tj)). I was in love! 🥰 > > Okay, in play — the following year, 1979, the year after _Heaven Can Wait_ was released, the Rams and the Steelers did in fact get to the Super Bowl!! The same two teams in the movie. That was Super Bowl XIV, and at halftime the heavy underdog Rams actually had the lead, 13-10! Going into the 4th quarter the Rams (still!!) led, 19-17. Alas, in the 4th quarter the Steelers scored two touchdowns to take the lead and put the game away. They won, 31-19. Play on! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2 "2020-01-25T09:03:45Z")
This is in play: > [@Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/46177): > > I loved that movie (speaking of _Heaven Can Wait_ (1978). Imagine back then — the LA Rams go to the Super Bowl!! _ **And they win it!!!** _ In the movie, the Rams beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, > > And of course, the beautiful Julie Christie (image, [https://is.gd/T8N9Tj](https://is.gd/T8N9Tj)). I was in love! > > Okay, in play — the following year, 1979, the year after _Heaven Can Wait_ was released, the Rams and the Steelers did in fact get to the Super Bowl!! The same two teams in the movie. That was Super Bowl XIV, and at halftime the heavy underdog Rams actually had the lead, 13-10! Going into the 4th quarter the Rams (still!!) led, 19-17. Alas, in the 4th quarter the Steelers scored two touchdowns to take the lead and put the game away. They won, 31-19. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3 "2020-01-25T13:06:49Z")
The Pittsburgh Steelers are the only team in the NFL to feature their Logo on only one side of the helmet. Their current logo was originally used as an advertisement for the American Iron and Steel Institute in 1962. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4 "2020-01-25T14:38:04Z")
The Pittsburgh Steelers were (are)… - the 3rd team to win 2 Super Bowls. The Packers were first. The Dolphins were 2nd. - the 1st team to win 3 Super Bowls - the 1st team to win 4 Super Bowls - the 1st team to win 5 Super Bowls - the 1st team to win 6 Super Bowls ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5 "2020-01-25T15:07:59Z")
The 2003 book Bound for Glory discusses the author’s picks of sports players who are found for glory in the future. The back of the book mentions their names, including Michael Vick. I haven’t laugh so hard since I read the 1993 1st edition of Chicken Soup for the Soul, which mentioned the poor boy who stood outside a Chicago sports stadium to meet his hero Jim Brown. When Brown asks the kid his name, he replies “Orenthal James. My friends call me OJ.” ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6 "2020-01-25T16:21:26Z")
Thank you, **Bullitt** , for creating this new thread. Hopefully the 502 and 504 timeouts will be a thing of the past! In play: According to [Urban Dictionary](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Orenthal), the word ‘orenthal’ is a slang term for somebody who murders their ex-spouse. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7 "2020-01-25T16:46:51Z")
Yes, thank you, Bullitt! In play: Spouses and actors Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell have been together as a couple since 2007, though they chose to not marry until the legalization of same-sex marriage (they married in 2013). ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8 "2020-01-26T00:51:24Z")
The best-known Bells in English literature were Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. The Brontë sisters adopted these names as pseudonyms for publication, keeping their initials: Charlotte was “Currer Bell”, Emily was “Ellis Bell” and Anne was “Acton Bell”. Charlotte wrote in the ‘Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell’ that their “ambiguous choice” was “dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because… we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice”. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9 "2020-01-26T01:16:01Z")
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, better known as George Sand, not only assumed a male pseudonym for writing, but wore men’s clothing without a license to do so (which was technically illegal in 19th Century France). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/10 "2020-01-26T04:19:36Z")
Martha Washington affectionately referred to her husband George as “Old Man.” ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/11 "2020-01-26T16:30:44Z")
Martha Washington’s first marriage was to Daniel Parke Custis. They had four children together, two of whom survived to adulthood. Custis died in 1757, when Martha was 25 years old. George and Martha Washington had no children. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/12 "2020-01-26T19:47:32Z")
Actor Fess Parker was known for playing two historical American frontiersmen on television series in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1955-56, Parker played Davy Crockett in a five-part serial which appeared on the _Disneyland_ television show, and which spawned a brief fad for coonskin caps (as Crockett wore one in the serial). Then, in 1964-70, Parker starred as as the title character in the _Daniel Boone_ series. Ironically, Parker wore a coonskin cap in that series, as well. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/13 "2020-01-26T22:05:27Z")
The American Library Association awarded its first John Newbery Medal for most distinguished contribution to American children’s literature in 1922; Briton Hugh Lofting won in 1923 with _The Voyages of Dr. Doolitle_, which was first published by J. Lippincott in Philadelphia. Almost all the winning titles are still in print; one exception is the 1940 winner, _Daniel Boone_ by James Daugherty, in which native Americans are described in terms such as “savage demons”, “rats in the night”, and “infesting the woods”. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/14 "2020-01-26T22:50:29Z")
The USS _Daniel Boone_, the only United States Navy ship to bear the name, was a _James Madison_-class Poseidon (later Trident) ballistic missile submarine or SSBN, in service from 1964-1994. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/15 "2020-01-27T03:56:26Z")
Madison, Wisconsin, is one of four state capitals that is named after a US president. The others are Lincoln, Nebraska; Jackson, Mississippi; and Jefferson City, Missouri. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/16 "2020-01-27T04:00:16Z")
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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/17 "2020-01-27T04:13:02Z")
Lincoln’s Sparrow, a common but secretive bird widespread in North America, was not named after Abraham Lincoln. Audubun discovered the species 30 years before there was a President Lincoln, and named the species after his field companion, Thomas Lincoln, who shot the bird in Nova Scotia. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/18 "2020-01-27T04:50:33Z")
Naturalist John James Audubon was born in what is now Haiti; he was the illegitimate son of French sailor and plantation owner Jean Audubon and his mistress, and was named Jean Rabin at birth. When he was six years old, Jean was brought to France to live with his father, where he was formally adopted by his father and his father’s wife; he was then renamed Jean-Jacques Fourgere Audubon. Jean emigrated from France to the United States at age 18, and Anglicized his name to John James Audubon. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/19 "2020-01-27T10:21:07Z")
Haiti, slightly smaller than the US state of Maryland and the third largest country in the Caribbean, With a per capita GNI of $1,664 and a GDP in 2017 of $18.2 billion, is among the poorest of countries in the Western Hemisphere, and the world. [Poorest Countries in the World – 24/7 Wall St.](https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/06/28/poorest-countries-in-the-world-2) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/20 "2020-01-27T11:35:52Z")
Haiti was the first country in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery. It had already been abolished, when it attained sovereignty. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=2)