# 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:** 165
**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:** [February 18, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3287 "2021-02-18T16:39:27Z")
Lithium was said to be a vital element of power systems aboard the starship USS _Enterprise_ in early episodes of _Star Trek_, but it was changed to the fictional “dilithium” in later episodes, and has remained so ever since, to give the writers greater leeway in describing how it works: [Lithium | Memory Alpha | Fandom](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Lithium) ---
**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:** [February 18, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3288 "2021-02-18T17:18:16Z")
Lithium is the third lightest element, with an atomic number of three. It is in the same period as sodium (atomic number 11) which similarly reacts violently with water and is typically stored in oil. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3289 "2021-02-19T01:11:03Z")
Dmitri Mendeleev created the first periodic table of elements in 1869. The first publication of the table contained 28 elements. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3290 "2021-02-19T01:19:26Z")
_The Elements_ is a song, written by musical humorist (and mathematician) Tom Lehrer in 1959, which he recorded and released on several albums. The song, which is set to the tune of _The Major-General’s Song_ from Gilbert and Sullivan’s _The Pirates of Penzance_, has lyrics which almost entirely consist of Lehrer naming every one of the elements which were known and named at that time – however, in order to make the meter work, he did not list them in the order in which they appear on the periodic table. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zGM-wSKFBpo/hqdefault.jpg "Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" animated") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM-wSKFBpo) ---
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3291 "2021-02-19T01:35:12Z")
_Meet the Elements_ is a song by They Might Be Giants from their song collection _Here Comes Science_. The song describes how the elements are like a box of paints that are mixed to create all the different items in the world. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uy0m7jnyv6U/hqdefault.jpg "They Might Be Giants - Meet the Elements (official TMBG video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy0m7jnyv6U) The collection is a follow up to the other song collections _Here Comes the ABCs_ and _Here Comes the 123s_. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3292 "2021-02-19T15:42:41Z")
In 1876, millionaire John B. Day founded a baseball club based in New York City. Known originally as the Gothams, the franchise entered the National League in 1883. Two years later, the name was changed to the New York Giants, and it remained as such until the team relocated to San Francisco after the 1957 season. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3293 "2021-02-19T15:49:51Z")
There was a minor trend of naming football teams in New York City the same as their baseball franchises. The New York Giants (NFL) are the only really successful team using that name, but there were also three New York Yankees teams (plus a New York Yanks) and two Brooklyn Dodgers. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3294 "2021-02-19T19:52:53Z")
Jerry Ross was a lyricist and composer in the 1950s. Ross and his writing partner, Richard Adler, won Tony Awards in two consecutive years (1955 and 1956), for their work on _The Pajama Game_ and _Damn Yankees_. Ross died suddenly in 1955, at the age of 29, from the lung disease bronchiectasis, just a few months after _Damn Yankees_ had premiered on Broadway. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3295 "2021-02-19T19:55:41Z")
_Hamilton_ (2016) holds the record as the most-nominated production in Tony Awards history, with 16. In second place are _The Producers, the new Mel Brooks musical_ (2001), _Billy Elliot, The Musical_ (2009), and _Jagged Little Pill_ (2020) with 15 each. _The Producers_ is the most-winning production, triumphing in 12 categories including Best Musical. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2021, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3296 "2021-02-19T21:32:52Z")
Actor and singer Christopher Jackson, who played George Washington in the original cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical _Hamilton_, came to admire the First President and has participated in several programs at Mount Vernon, Washington’s historic Virginia home. > **[Members-Only Livestream: Christopher Jackson](https://www.mountvernon.org/plan-your-visit/calendar/events/members-only-livestream-christopher-jackson)** > > Mount Vernon members can join this exclusive livestream with Actor Christopher Jackson. > **[Be Washington: It's Your Turn to Lead](https://www.mountvernon.org/plan-your-visit/calendar/be-washington-its-your-turn-to-lead/)** > > Free event! Be Washington: It's Your Turn to Lead! > **[George Washington Never Mentions Slavery in Hamilton, but the Actor Who Plays...](https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/04/christopher-jackson-hamilton-interview)** > > Christopher Jackson had to reconcile playing a slaveowning founding father as a black man, but still can’t help geeking out over history. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3297 "2021-02-20T04:11:06Z")
Chuck Jackson’s hit recording of “Any Day Now” was the first high position for a young song-writer Burt Bacharach in 1962. From there, Bacharach’s career went up, but Jackson never had another hit, although he had 30 singles that charted. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2021, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3298 "2021-02-20T04:52:02Z")
1962 was the only complete calendar year of John F. Kennedy’s Presidency. The Massachusetts Democrat was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 1961 and assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2021, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3299 "2021-02-20T05:04:08Z")
There is no contemporary evidence of the so-called « calendar riots » in Britain following the introduction of the grégorien calendar. The idea that there were riots appears to be a misunderstanding of a satirical cartoon by Hogarth, where a crumpled pamphlet entitled « Give us back our eleven days » is seen on the floor of a room. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3300 "2021-02-20T14:07:32Z")
William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called “modern moral subjects”, and he is perhaps best known for his series _A Harlot’s Progress, A Rake’s Progress_ and _Marriage A-la-Mode_ . Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as “Hogarthian”. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3301 "2021-02-20T17:44:11Z")
Several of the scenes in Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 period drama, _Barry Lyndon_, were based on William Hogarth’s scabrously satirical illustrations. The movie won four Oscars at the 48th Academy Awards, including Best Original Score, Costume Design, Art Direction and Cinematography. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3302 "2021-02-20T20:07:15Z")
Stanley Kubrick also directed the 1971 dystopian film _A Clockwork Orange_. That movie also garnered four Academy Award nominations, but won no Oscars. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3303 "2021-02-20T20:10:05Z")
The book was written by Anthony Burgess. He was a keen language student, and the Nadsat spoken in the film and book is an odd mixture of Russian, armed forces jargon, criminal slang and Shakespearean drama. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3304 "2021-02-20T20:23:08Z")
Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film _A Clockwork Orange_, based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, received substantial criticism, and in some cases censorship, due to its explicit depictions of violence, including rape. In the United States, the film initially received an “X” rating; Kubrick later removed 30 seconds of sexually explicit footage, which led to the film being re-rated “R.” In some countries, the film was banned for decades due to its content – it wasn’t released in Ireland until 2000, and it finally premiered in Singapore in 2011. ---
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The Night Safari is the world’s first nocturnal zoo and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Singapore. The concept of a nocturnal park in was first suggested in the 1980s by the former executive chairman of the Singapore Zoo, Dr Ong Swee Law. The Night Safari currently houses over 900 animals representing over 100 species, of which 41% are threatened species. The park has about 1.3 million visitors per year. I had the privilege of visiting the Night Safari in 2002 during a vacation. It was quite memorable (try walking through a dark enclosure-the only lights are the moon and nearby buildings-filled with _very_ large bats). ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3306 "2021-02-21T05:08:17Z")
When DDT was introduced as a pesticide in 1940, it took only 30 years to kill every iconic brown pelican in Louisiana, and the bitd was declared extinct in the state. In 1970, DDT was banned, pelicans were re-introduced, ant there are now 12,000 breeding pairs of the once-endangered bird in the state. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=164) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=166)