# 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:** 158
**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 29, 2021, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3147 "2021-01-29T06:25:26Z")
In _The Front Runner_, Sara Paxton plays Donna Rice who was ‘the other woman’ for Gary Hart. To this day there has not been any evidence that Hart and Rice had any sexual relations, although this photo certainly did not help Hart’s cause: [https://www.google.com/search?q=gary+hart+donna+rice+photo&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=FeXNmGMdji00TM](https://www.google.com/search?q=gary+hart+donna+rice+photo&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=FeXNmGMdji00TM) > **[‘Monkey Business’ revisited: Gary Hart/Donna Rice movie debuts at Telluride fest](https://gazette.com/news/monkey-business-revisited-gary-hart-donna-rice-movie-debuts-at-telluride-fest/article_b130999a-bd2e-11e8-bdb8-b7f51575e795.html)** > > Too much monkey business? Evidently Hollywood doesn’t think so. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3148 "2021-01-29T14:23:10Z")
Robert Paxton McCulloch (1911 – 1977) was an American entrepreneur from Missouri, best known for the McCulloch chainsaw brand and for purchasing the “New” London Bridge, which he moved to one of the cities he founded, Lake Havasu City, Arizona. ---
**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 29, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3149 "2021-01-29T16:32:11Z")
Arizona was admitted to the Union in 1912, becoming the 48th state. At the time of statehood, the population was 217,000. In 2020, the population of the state was 7.4 million. Phoenix, with a population of about 1.7 million, is the nation’s fifth-largest city. ---
**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 29, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3150 "2021-01-29T16:43:21Z")
A “union suit” is a form of long underwear, consisting of a single garment which covers the torso, arms, and legs. Such a suit typically buttons up the front, and also has a buttoned flap in the rear, covering the buttocks. Union suits were developed in the 19th century, and in the U.S., were commonly worn by men in the late 19th and early 20th century. Such suits eventually became seen as old-fashioned, and associated with unsophisticated rural wearers; the “access hatch” in the rear was often the subject of humor. ---
**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 29, 2021, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3151 "2021-01-29T18:58:36Z")
Union Clubs were established in many northern cities during the American Civil War as gathering places for those who supported the Lincoln Administration in its political and military efforts to defeat the Confederacy. After the war, the clubs persisted as watering holes for the Republican political establishment, businessmen and the very wealthy. Cities which still have Union Clubs include New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago, among others. ---
**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 30, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3152 "2021-01-30T00:49:03Z")
Cleveland OH was named after its founder, Moses Cleaveland (1754-1806) who was surveying the Connecticut Western Reserve. The Connecticut Western Reserve was an area of what is today northeastern Ohio that was claimed by the colony, and later the state, of Connecticut. That area was originally called New Connecticut, until later when the Connecticut Western Reserve became the favored name. Moses Cleaveland, born in Canterbury in the Connecticut Colony, conducted his survey in 1796. Cleaveland’s survey party, sailing along the south shore of Lake Erie, landed at the mouth of Conneaut Creek on the 4th of July 1796. They named that place Port Independence. On the 22nd of July 1796, Cleaveland’s party landed at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. There, on the east side of the river, Cleaveland decided the area would be an ideal location for a city. He surveyed the area into town lots, and his crew named the place Cleaveland in his honor. That first year, four settlers lived there. By 1820 there were 150 settlers living there. The city of “Cleaveland” became “Cleveland”, although the reason is not exactly known. One theory is that someone wrote the name on a map incorrectly. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3153 "2021-01-30T00:57:37Z")
Western Reserve Academy was established on February 7, 1826 as the Western Reserve College and Preparatory School in Hudson, Ohio. The institution’s name comes from the area in which it was built, the Connecticut Western Reserve, as it was the first of its kind in Northern Ohio. The settlers from Connecticut wanted to build a school of the same caliber as Yale College and the same design, with brick buildings and the same motto, Lux Et Veritas. People called it “the Yale of the West.” The first class of the school included eleven students at the college level and eight at the preparatory level. In 1882, the college section moved north to Cleveland and became Western Reserve University, later merging with the Case Institute of Technology to become Case Western Reserve University. Western Reserve Academy is the 27th oldest preparatory boarding school in the United States, and the oldest outside of the Northeast. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3154 "2021-01-30T03:04:09Z")
Case was one of the biggest heavy industry names dating back to 1842, when J, I. Case founded a steam engine company in Racine, when Wisconsin was still a territory. Case shifted largely to farm machinery, and the name still exists today as part of Case New Holland merger. ---
**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 30, 2021, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3155 "2021-01-30T03:39:22Z")
Racine is a city in southeastern Wisconsin, about 20 miles south of Milwaukee. The city is (or has been) the home of a number of notable companies, including S.C. Johnson & Son (household products), Case Corporation (farm and construction equipment), Reliance Controls Corporation (electrical equipment), Modine Manufacturing (heat management equipment), In-Sink-Erator (food waste disposal devices), and Western Publishing (book publishing, including Little Golden Books). ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3156 "2021-01-30T12:22:24Z")
Moe Racine was a Canadian Football League player who was actually fron Canada, unlike many of the CFL stars. He was a big offensive lineman from Cornwall ON who also did the place-kicking, and played 16 years for Ottawa Roughriders, winning four Grey Cups. ---
**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 30, 2021, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3157 "2021-01-30T13:09:17Z")
The AAGPBL, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, existed from 1943 to 1954 and had a team in Racine WI. Over 600 women played in the league, which consisted of eventually 10 teams located in the American Midwest. The most successful team, the Rockford Peaches, won a league-best four championships. The 1992 motion picture _A League of Their Own_ is a mostly fictionalized account of the early days of the league and its stars. The 10 AAGPBL teams: WI — Kenosha Comets (1943–1951) WI — Racine Belles (1943–1950) IL — Rockford Peaches (1943–1954) IN — South Bend Blue Sox (1943–1954) WI — Milwaukee Chicks (1944) MN — Minneapolis Millerettes (1944) IN — Fort Wayne Daisies (1945–1954) MI — Grand Rapids Chicks (1945–1954) MI — Muskegon Lassies (1946–1949) IL — Peoria Redwings (1946–1951) IL — Chicago Colleens (1948) IL — Springfield Sallies (1948) MI — Kalamazoo Lassies (1950–1954) MI — Battle Creek Belles (1951–1952) MI — Muskegon Belles (1953) The 12 AAGPBL League Champions: 1943 – Racine Belles 1944 – Milwaukee Chicks 1945 – Rockford Peaches 1946 – Racine Belles 1947 – Grand Rapids Chicks 1948 – Rockford Peaches 1949 – Rockford Peaches 1950 – Rockford Peaches 1951 – South Bend Blue Sox 1952 – South Bend Blue Sox 1953 – Grand Rapids Chicks 1954 – Kalamazoo Lassies ---
**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:** [January 30, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3158 "2021-01-30T14:37:41Z")
Abraham Lincoln, then a Congressional Representative from Illinois, came to Kalamazoo, Michigan, on August 27, 1856 on the invitation of Kalamazoo attorney, Hezekiah G. Wells. Wells asked Lincoln to speak at a Republican Rally (“Fremont mass meeting”) in Bronson Park. Lincoln was one of many speakers in the park that summer day. His speech was given in front of thousands of people and was recorded, by hand, by a newspaper reporter from Detroit. The speech was re-discovered in 1930 and published in 1941. ---
**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 30, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3159 "2021-01-30T17:45:44Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Abraham Lincoln, then a Congressional Representative from Illinois, came to Kalamazoo, Michigan, on August 27, 1856 Nitpick: Abraham Lincoln served one term as a US Congressman; he served from 1847-1849 as a member of the Whig Party. He was a practicing attorney at the time of the 1856 speech. In play: The midterm Congressional election of 1854-1855 was among the most disruptive in American history. The Democratic Party, then the majority party, lost 69 of 150 seats. The Whig Party lost 17 of 71 seats. The Free Soil Party lost 3 of 4 seats, while the Independent Party lost 2 of 3 seats. Four parties, which previously had held no seats between them, were the victors in the election. The Know-Nothing Party won 51 seats; the Anti-Nebraska Party won 22 seats; the newly-formed Republican Party won 13 seats; and the People’s Party won 9 seats. ---
**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 30, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3160 "2021-01-30T17:46:45Z")
Please forgive — I’m essentially repeating my previous play, but I’ve added more information to make it a little more complete. Thanks, people. In play: The AAGPBL, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, existed from 1943 to 1954. Over 600 women played in the league, which consisted of eventually 10 teams located in the five Great Lakes states of IL IN MI MN and WI. The most successful team, the Rockford Peaches, won a league-best four championships. The 1992 motion picture _A League of Their Own_ is a mostly fictionalized account of the early days of the league and its stars. The 10 AAGPBL teams in 5 states, IL IN MI MN WI: IL — Rockford Peaches (1943–1954) IN — South Bend Blue Sox (1943–1954) WI — Kenosha Comets (1943–1951) WI — Racine Belles (1943–1950) WI — Milwaukee Chicks (1944) MN — Minneapolis Millerettes (1944) IN — Fort Wayne Daisies (1945–1954) MI — Grand Rapids Chicks (1945–1954) IL — Peoria Redwings (1946–1951) MI — Muskegon Lassies (1946–1949) IL — Chicago Colleens (1948) IL — Springfield Sallies (1948) MI — Kalamazoo Lassies (1950–1954) MI — Battle Creek Belles (1951–1952) MI — Muskegon Belles (1953) The 12 AAGPBL League Champions: 1943 – Racine Belles 3-0 d. Kenosha Comets 1944 – Milwaukee Chicks 4-3 d. Kenosha Comets 1945 – Rockford Peaches 4-1 d. Fort Wayne Daisies 1946 – Racine Belles 4-2 d. Rockford Peaches 1947 – Grand Rapids Chicks 4-3 d. Racine Belles 1948 – Rockford Peaches 4-2 d. Fort Wayne Daisies 1949 – Rockford Peaches 3-1 d. Grand Rapids Chicks 1950 – Rockford Peaches 4-3 d. Fort Wayne Daisies 1951 – South Bend Blue Sox 4-3 d. Rockford Peaches 1952 – South Bend Blue Sox 3-2 d. Rockford Peaches 1953 – Grand Rapids Chicks 2-0 d. Kalamazoo Lassies 1954 – Kalamazoo Lassies 3-2 d. Fort Wayne Daisies ---
**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:** [January 30, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3161 "2021-01-30T20:59:32Z")
@railer13, you are right, I goofed up. @Bullit, I think you posted for completeness sake, I don’t see anything from Railer’s post, so I’ll play off his and apologies. The Whig Party had four presidents during it’s time as an important American political party: William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. Only two (Harrison and Taylor) were elected, the other two became president after the deaths of Harrison and Taylor in office. Moreover, a year after becoming President, Tyler was kicked out of the Whig party. (and to cover Bullitt’s) IL, IN, MI, and WI became states when there were no Whig Party presidents. ---
**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 31, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3162 "2021-01-31T05:32:41Z")
A Federalist supporter wrote George Washington a letter in December 1799, imploring him to run a third time for President, as the writer was convinced - correctly, as it turned out - that John Adams would be defeated in his reelection bid the following year. Washington had earlier and repeatedly insisted he would not run again, and had turned down two members of the Adams Cabinet who had both also asked him to try for a third term. He did not respond to his December 1799 correspondent, however, as the letter arrived at Mount Vernon a few days after he died. ---
**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 31, 2021, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3163 "2021-01-31T07:29:59Z")
@The_Stainless_Steel_Rat, yeah, I missed that I was ninja’d by @Railer13. DUH, and, no apologies necessary! In play: In 1799, Pierre-Simon Laplace begins his publication of _Méchanique céleste_, his analytical discussion of the Solar System. His first two volumes, of a total of five, were published in 1799. They provided, among other methods, the ability to calculate tidal effects. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3164 "2021-01-31T12:00:13Z")
LaPlace (pron la-PLAHSS) is a Louisiana city near New Orleans, best known as the highway junction once of US 51 and 61, and later, Inteerstates 10 to Los Angeles and 55 to Chicago. It in St. John the Baptist Parish and lies 10 feet above sea level. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3165 "2021-01-31T13:17:28Z")
Interstate 10 (or I-10) is a transcontinental Interstate Highway which the west side ends at Santa Monica, California (near Los Angeles), and the other side ends at Jacksonville, Florida. In the state of Texas, it is one of the routes where the speed limit is 80 miles per hour. The route is 2,460.34 miles long and travels through 8 states (CA, AZ, NM, TX, LA, MS, AL FL). ---
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“Santa Monica” (subtitled “Watch the World Die” in Europe) is a song by American rock band Everclear, from their 1995 album _Sparkle and Fade_. The song was written by the band’s lead singer, Art Alexakis. Though it was not officially released as a single in the United States, American radio stations played “Santa Monica” enough for it to reach number 29 on the _Billboard_ Hot 100 Airplay chart and top the _Billboard_ Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for three weeks in 1996. It became a top-forty hit in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom; it is the band’s highest-charting single in Australia. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=157) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=159)