# 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:** 140
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2785 "2020-12-17T14:19:11Z")
Sebring is a city in Highlands County, Florida that is nicknamed “The City on the Circle”, in reference to Circle Drive and the general city layout, which was the brainchild of the city’s founder, George Sebring, a pottery manufacturer from Ohio. not part of answer: you can see the ‘circle’ city layout in this picture: [https://www.mysebring.com/ImageRepository/Path?filePath=%2Fdocuments\Intranet%2FPicture\_5\_201503191032004565.jpg](https://www.mysebring.com/ImageRepository/Path?filePath=%2Fdocuments%5CIntranet%2FPicture_5_201503191032004565.jpg) ---
**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:** [December 17, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2786 "2020-12-17T14:37:40Z")
Sebring, Ohio, is a village in Mahoning County, also named after the pottery-making Sebring family. Rose Mary Woods, personal secretary to President Richard M. Nixon, notorious for an 18 1/2-minute gap on one of her boss’s White House audiotapes, was from Sebring. > **[Rose Mary Woods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Mary_Woods)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Rose Mary Woods (December 26, 1917 – January 22, 2005) was Richard Nixon's secretary from his days in Congress in 1951 through the end of his political career. Before H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman became the operators of Nixon's presidential campaign, Woods was Nixon's gatekeeper. > Rose Mary Woods was born in northeastern Ohio in the small pottery town of Sebring on December 26, 1917. Her brother was Joseph I. Woods, a sheriff of Cook County,... ---
**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:** [December 17, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2787 "2020-12-17T15:05:57Z")
Before being elected President, Richard Nixon served as a Representative, Senator, and Vice-President, one of the few people to hold all four positions. John Tyler, Andrew Johnson, Millard Fillmore, and Lyndon Johnson are also on this list. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2788 "2020-12-17T16:24:50Z")
Two U.S. presidents were members of the Religious Society of Friends, a.k.a. the Quakers: Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon. Both men were raised as Quakers, and Nixon attended Whittier College (a Quaker-influenced liberal arts college), but it appears that neither man was strongly involved in the Quakers as adults. ---
**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:** [December 17, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2789 "2020-12-17T17:50:31Z")
Shakers are known for their devotion to values including Celibacy, Pacifism, Spiritualism, and Equality of men and women. Their belief in celibacy is one of the key features which distinguishes them from Quakers. Since they believed in celibacy, they sometimes depended on orphans as means to gain new members. Quakers are members of a group with Christian roots that began in England in the 1650s. The formal title of the movement is the Society of Friends or the Religious Society of Friends. There are about 210,000 Quakers across the world. In Britain there are 17,000 Quakers, and 400 Quaker meetings for worship each week. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2790 "2020-12-17T23:41:07Z")
**Shaker Heights** is a city in Ohio. In July 1911, a petition by property owners was successful in detaching a long strip of land from the south of Cleveland Heights, to be named Shaker Village. In November 1911, the voters of Shaker Village formed Shaker Heights Village, which was incorporated in January 1912. Shaker Heights was a planned community developed by the Van Sweringen brothers, railroad moguls who envisioned the community as a suburban retreat from the industrial inner city of Cleveland. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2791 "2020-12-18T02:30:03Z")
If I stayed in my hometown in Upstate New York, the town of Latham NY, I would have gone to Shaker High School. Their team mascot is the Blue Bison. And for any NBA fans out there, Sam Perkins was an alum. He played with the Dallas Mavs, LA Lakers, Seattle, and Indiana Pacers over a 17 year career. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2792 "2020-12-18T03:24:16Z")
The Toronto Argonauts of the CFL, which date back to Victorian days, chose the colours of Oxford and Cambridge as their uniform colours: dark Oxford blue, and light Cambridge blue, leading to one of their nicknames, the “double blue”. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2793 "2020-12-18T07:24:49Z")
The “Mathematical Bridge” in Cambridge, England, appears to be an arch, but it is made entirely of straight timbers built to a sophisticated engineering design. A popular fable is that the bridge was designed and built by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts. However, it does use bolts, and it was built 27 years after Newton’s death, following a design by William Etheridge. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2794 "2020-12-18T09:34:36Z")
Thomas Newton was the Congressman for Arkansas’ Second District, and must have been a good shot. The member for that district 20 years before (Henry Conway) and 20 years later (James Hids) were both shot and killed in office. Only ten US Congressmen suffered such a fate. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2795 "2020-12-18T14:22:42Z")
The **Conway Cabal** was a group of senior Continental Army officers in late 1777 and early 1778 who aimed to have George Washington replaced as commander-in-chief of the Army during the American Revolutionary War. It was named after Brigadier General Thomas Conway, whose letters criticizing Washington were forwarded to the Second Continental Congress. No formal requests were ever made asking for Washington’s removal as commander in chief. There was no sign of any formal conspiracy among the various malcontents, although Washington was concerned that there might be one. It was the only major political threat to Washington’s command during the war. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2796 "2020-12-18T14:35:46Z")
George Washington was elected to four different offices over the course of his career: the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Continental Congress, president of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and President of the United States. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2797 "2020-12-18T15:01:53Z")
According to [Bestlife](https://bestlifeonline.com/most-common-town-names/#:~:text=But%20on%20the%20other%20hand,the%20Unoriginal%20States%20of%20America.), there are 676 locales in the United States that have “Washington” in their name. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2798 "2020-12-18T16:31:02Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > The “Mathematical Bridge” in Cambridge, England, appears to be an arch, but it is made entirely of straight timbers built to a sophisticated engineering design. A popular fable is that the bridge was designed and built by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts. However, it does use bolts, and it was built 27 years after Newton’s death, following a design by William Etheridge. Fascinating! Thank you. I’ve marked my map with this as a Want To Go place. Very cool. In play: The number of US Presidents who were only children is… zero. Every single president has had at least a half-sibling. There were only four who had only half-siblings: Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. The POTUS with the most siblings was James Buchanan, #15, who had six sisters and four brothers. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2799 "2020-12-18T16:38:07Z")
Gerald Ford’s full legal name was Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.; however, his birth name was Leslie Lynch King Jr. Ford’s parents separated when he was days old, and divorced in late 1913, before his first birthday. His mother, Dorothy Gardner, remarried in 1917, to a man named Gerald Rudolff Ford. Leslie’s mother and stepfather renamed him Gerald Rudolff Ford Jr., though he was never formally adopted by his stepfather. Ford did not legally change his name until 1935, when he was 22 years old; when he did so, he used a different spelling of his middle name than his stepfather’s. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2800 "2020-12-18T18:19:33Z")
Gerald Ford’s mother left his biological father due to his alcoholism and violent tempers. Within days of the future President’s birth, a drunken Leslie Lynch King Sr. threatened his wife, the baby and a nurse with a knife. His wife left him within days. Gerald Ford had only sporadic contact with his biological father over the rest of his life. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2801 "2020-12-18T19:05:54Z")
Gerald Ford is a Michigan grad, and of course MI is one of our 50 states. Of all the 50 states, and their counties, parishes, or burroughs, only 12 of those counties/parishes/burroughs have 3 words in their names: 1. Fairbanks North Star AK 2. Lake and Peninsula AK 3. San Luis Obispo CA 4. East Baton Rouge LA 5. St. John the Baptist LA 6. West Baton Rouge LA 7. Lac qui Parle MN 8. Lake of the Woods MN 9. Lewis and Clark MT 10. Isle of Wight VA 11. King and Queen VA 12. Fond du Lac WI If Quebec is included then there are a few more. Here is the entire list (by my quick inspection): Counties, 3+ words, USA alphabetical by state AL: none Fairbanks North Star AK Lake and Peninsula AK AZ: none AR: none San Luis Obispo CA CO: none CT: none DE: none FL: none GA: none HI: none ID: none IL: none IN: none IA: none KS: none KY: none East Baton Rouge LA St. John the Baptist LA West Baton Rouge LA ME: none MD: none MA: none MI: none Lac qui Parle MN Lake of the Woods MN MS: none MO: none Lewis and Clark MT NE: none NV: none NH: none NJ: none NM: none NY: none NC: none ND: none OH: none OK: none OR: none PA: none RI: none SC: none SD: none TN: none TX: none UT: none VT: none Isle of Wight VA King and Queen VA WA: none WV: none Fond du Lac WI WY: none 13 Provinces + 3 Territories The list: AB BC MB NB has counties NL NS has counties NT NU ON has counties PE has counties QC has counties SK YT NB: none NS: none ON: none PE: none Ile-de-Montréal QC Iles-de-la-Madeleine QC Lac-Saint-Jean-Est QC Lac-Saint-Jean-Ouest QC Rivière-du-Loup QC ---
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That last one seems like quite a stretch to link to the previous trivium. However since every state is listed, this should play: Leslie Lynch King Sr. was able to escape a Nebraskan court order to pay child support since he lived out of state in Wyoming. That was until he moved to Nebraska in 1939 and was arrested for failure to pay child support. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2803 "2020-12-18T20:41:50Z")
Seven states, plus the District of Columbia, are tied for having the fewest electors in the U.S. Electoral College, with three electors each. As the number of electors a state has is a function of its number of seats in Congress (and, thus, of its population), these are also the states which had the smallest populations in the 2010 Census. Although the District of Columbia has no representation in Congress, the Twenty-third Amendment gives the District the same number of electors as the least-populous state. The states with three electoral votes are: - Alaska - Delaware - Montana - North Dakota - South Dakota - Vermont - Wyoming ---
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The eight states with the lowest population are, from highest to lowest: Montana Rhode Island Delaware South Dakota North Dakota Alaska Vermont Wyoming Rhode Island has a lower population than Montana does. And yet, Rhode Island has two seats in the House while Montana only has one. The other six states on that list also only have one. Why? The distribution of seats in the House is based on the census taken every 10 years. In the 2010 census, Rhode Island had a higher population than Montana did. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=139) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=141)