# 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:** 128
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2545 "2020-11-19T03:26:35Z")
Two notable fictional gentlemen’s clubs are the Pelican and the Drones, both in the PG Wodhouseverse. The Pelican was active during Gally’s youth, while the Drones is currently active during the setting of the Jeeves and Wooster stories and the Blandings stories. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2020, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2546 "2020-11-19T05:20:32Z")
Blanding, Utah, population 3,400, in the southeast corner of the state, is closer to Farmington NM, Grand Junction CO, Flagstaff AZ, and Albuquerque NM than it is to Salt Lake City UT. It was settled in the 1800s by Mormons. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2547 "2020-11-19T15:48:58Z")
In Utah, the percentage of the population who are Mormons is currently slightly less than 62%. In Salt Lake County, the state’s largest, fewer than half the people are on the rolls of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2548 "2020-11-19T15:57:59Z")
Mitt Romney and his father George, both Republicans, are the only two prominent Mormon candidates for President of the United States in the past half-century. Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon faith, ran for President as an independent in 1844, but he was attacked and killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill. in late June of that year. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2549 "2020-11-20T15:42:13Z")
On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden will be sworn in as President of the United States. He will then become just the second Catholic to hold that office. John F. Kennedy, who served from 1961-1963, was the first. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2550 "2020-11-20T15:49:49Z")
Joe Biden always takes December 18th off from work. It is the anniversary of the death of his first wife and daughter. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2551 "2020-11-20T16:05:21Z")
December 18th are National Answer the Phone Like Buddy the Elf Day and Arabic Language Day. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2552 "2020-11-20T17:09:24Z")
Arabic is a Semitic language that first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE. Semitic derives its name from Shem, one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis. Noah’s three sons in the Bible were Ham, Shem, and Japheth. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2553 "2020-11-20T20:40:36Z")
The world’s oldest edible ham is in the Isle of Wight County Museum, in Smithfield, Virginia. The ham was cured on July 7, 1902, by a local pork processor, Pembroke D. Gwaltney Jr. Then the ham was misplaced and forgotten. When it was rediscovered, decades later, Pembroke knew he had a ham worth its weight in gold. He outfitted the ham with a brass collar, called it his “pet ham,” and showed it to customers as proof of his ability to preserve meat without refrigeration. It made his company famous enough to eventually merge into the pork behemoth Smithfield Foods. The ham outlasted its tireless promoter and, in 1985, it was donated to the museum by one of Pembroke’s grandchildren. One of the jobs of the curator of the Isle of Wight County Museum is to keep the ham edible by keeping it free of bugs and mold. The ham – which now somewhat resembles a shriveled human arm – shares a special climate-controlled case with two other famous hams, one of them said to be the world’s largest. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2020, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2554 "2020-11-21T01:44:08Z")
Bitto Storico PDO cheese is a fatty cheese with a semi-hard consistency, produced in the province of Sondrio, Valtellina in north-central Italy. Bitto Storico may not be an ancient cheese, but it is promoted as being the world’s oldest edible cheese. It can be aged for up to 18 years. Not nearly as old as Pembroke D. Gwaltney Jr’s old ham! ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2555 "2020-11-21T02:05:24Z")
Some of the oldest cheeses in the world exist in Grimentz, Switzerland. Located high in the Swiss mountains of Val d’Anniviers, it is one of the last places you’ll find evidence of the peculiar practice of keeping a wheel of cheese to be eaten at your funeral. These so-called “funeral cheeses” are left-overs from a time when funeral guests were told, _“Come to the meal, because the dead man has left enough.”_ ‘Leaving enough’, however, required advance planning. “Everyone had a wheel of cheese so that they had something to serve at their funeral,” according to Jean-Jacques Zufferey, Zufferey has turned his basement into a makeshift museum, where some of these “cheeses of the dead” still sit waiting. One set, discovered in 1944, bears engraved evidence that one of the wheels was originally produced in 1870. Now 150 years old, it can still be touched — “like a relic in the church,” according to Zuffere. Rock hard and leathery with a glossy brown surface reminiscent of a bog body, it’s still a bit oily, but sapped of moisture. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [November 21, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2556 "2020-11-21T02:20:24Z")
Wikipedia’s page of cheeses lists over 350 different kinds of cheeses from at least 76 countries. Additionally, Wikipedia has dedicated pages to the following cheese topics where more cheeses are, no doubt, mentioned: Main article: List of French cheeses Main article: List of Irish cheeses Main articles: List of Italian cheeses and List of Italian PDO cheeses Main article: List of Dutch cheeses Main article: List of Polish cheeses List of Portuguese cheeses with protected status Main article: Serbian cheeses Main article: List of Spanish cheeses Main article: List of Swiss cheeses Main article: List of British cheeses See also: List of Syrian Cheeses Main article: Cheeses of Mexico Main article: List of American cheeses One cheese that caught my eye is named Stinking Bishop Cheese. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2557 "2020-11-21T02:29:15Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > One cheese that caught my eye is named Stinking Bishop Cheese. I believe best paired with Bishop’s Finger Kentish Ale. > **[Bishops Finger Kentish Strong Ale by Shepherd Neame](https://www.shepherdneame.co.uk/beer/bishops-finger)** > > Bishops Finger Kentish Strong Ale is a connoisseur's beer with excellent credentials and pedigree and is a silver medal-winner in the Daily Telegraph Taste of Britain awards. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2558 "2020-11-21T02:35:10Z")
The “Cheesehead” hat, which looks like a wedge of Swiss cheese (though it is typically bright yellow) has come to symbolize fans of the Green Bay Packers, and Wisconsinites in general – “Cheesehead” having long been a nickname for people from Wisconsin, particularly used by people from Illinois. The hat was first created by a Milwaukeean, Ralph Bruno, in 1987, when he crafted one out of a foam rubber cushion from his mother’s sofa. Edit: Wisconsinites are also known for their love of beers and ales. 😃 [![](https://onmilwaukee.com/images/articles/ch/cheeseheads10things/cheeseheads10things_fullsize_story1.jpg) ](https://onmilwaukee.com/images/articles/ch/cheeseheads10things/cheeseheads10things_fullsize_story1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2559 "2020-11-21T02:46:06Z")
Fans of the Saskatchewan Roughriders share much with the fans of the Packers: cheering for a community - owned team, in the smallest market in their respective leagues; and of course a fondness for beers, particularly pilsner. However, in place of fake cheese hats, Rider fans wear watermelon helmets, lovingly carved before each game from real watermelons. When the Riders played in the Grey Cup in 2009 in Calgary, Loblaws in Calgary put in a special order of between 6,000 and 10,000 watermelons (in November!), to ensure Rider fans would be able to get their special headgear. > **[Why the watermelons?](https://montrealgazette.com/sports/why-the-watermelons)** > > Why do Saskatchewan Roughriders fans wear watermelons on their heads, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2560 "2020-11-21T03:14:07Z")
Yhe world record for spittimg a watermelon seed has endured for 25 years. Jacob Schatot set the record in DeLeon, Texas, in 1995, reachung a mark of 75-feet-2-inches. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2020, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2561 "2020-11-21T08:31:07Z")
Seventy-five percent of the world’s Snickers bars are made at the M&M/Mars plant in Waco TX. ---
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Snickers was the only product in the traditional Mars line that did not contain a capital-M The others were M&Ms, Mars, Milky Way and 3 Musketeers. ---
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Olympus Mons is a shield volcano that is 13 miles high and 350 miles in diameter. Its height of 13 miles equates to over 68,000 feet high. Mount Everest is 29,000 feet high. Olympus Mons, on the planet Mars and more than twice the height of Everest, is the highest mountain of any planet in our solar system. ---
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Mars was named after the Roman god of war. The Greeks called the planet Ares, after _their_ god of war. Both the Romans and Greeks associated the planet with war because its color resembles the color of blood. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=127) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=129)