# 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:** 24
**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:** [March 2, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/461 "2020-03-02T02:35:56Z")
Harley Street in London is the traditional location for medical specialists to have their surgeries (or offices, North American parlance). ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/462 "2020-03-02T03:40:29Z")
A state psychiatric hospital has beeen in Medical Lake, Washington, for 130 years, but the town with that name already existed. The town grew on the shores of eponymous lake, whose waters and mud were thought to have curative properties. A belief that still prevailed when the site for the hospital was selected. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2020, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/463 "2020-03-02T04:56:31Z")
The Washington Monument was destroyed by an alien ship in _Earth vs. the Flying Saucers_, badly damaged in a North Korean commando assault in _Olympus Has Fallen_, and topped with an unexplained hightech ring in the recent HBO miniseries _Watchmen_. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2020, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/464 "2020-03-02T05:13:01Z")
A mnemonic phrase used by medical students for the 12 cranial nerves is “On Old Olympus’ Towering Top A Finn And German Vault And Hop”, or variants, such as “On Old Olympus’ Towering Tops, A Fine Victorian Gentleman Viewed A Hawk”. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/465 "2020-03-02T09:12:03Z")
Astronomers remember Classes of Stars using the mnemonic Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now. Smack! ---
**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:** [March 2, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/466 "2020-03-02T14:26:21Z")
A useful mnemonic for remembering the name of the planets in order out from the Sun (back in the good ol’ days when Pluto was still recognized as a planet) was “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/467 "2020-03-02T15:30:42Z")
The mnemonic taught to us for resistors in electrical school was Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly; Get Some Now :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [March 2, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/468 "2020-03-02T15:37:05Z")
And for biological taxonomy below Kingdom Please Come Over For Good Sex phylum, class, order, genus, species. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2020, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/469 "2020-03-02T20:31:22Z")
The notes on the lines of the treble clef are E, G, B, D, F. The mnemonic used by some music students to remember it (like me) was Every Good Boy Does Fine. Another one was Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. The latter mnemonic was also the title of a 1971 album by the Moody Blues. This album featured the single “The Story in Your Eyes”. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/470 "2020-03-02T21:29:04Z")
_Every Good Boy Deserves Favour_ is also a stage play by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn, first performed in 1977. Per Wiki, the play criticizes the former Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/471 "2020-03-02T22:42:43Z")
Tom Stoppard once described himself as a “bounced Czech”. He was born Tomáš Straussler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, a city dominated by the Bata manufacturing company. His parents, both Jewish, worked for Bata; his father, Eugen, was a company doctor. Jan Antonín Baťa, the company’s owner, transferred his Jewish employees to branches of his firm outside Europe. In March 1939, when the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, the Straussler family, including 1 year old Tomáš, fled to Singapore, where Baťa had a factory. All four of Stoppard’s grandparents died in the Holocaust. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/472 "2020-03-03T00:04:32Z")
In November,-December 1989, the “Velvet Revolution” led to the end of one-party Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, and transition to a liberal democracy. This, in turn, led to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, and the formation of the separate countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. Vaclav Havel, a playwright, poet, and political dissident, became the final president of Czechoslovakia in December 1989, and later became the Czech Republic’s first president in 1993. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/473 "2020-03-03T02:28:01Z")
What is now the Czech Republic was a part of Austria-Hungary until the 20th century, with several parts forming into Czechoslovakia after WWI. Two of them. Bohemia and Moravia, then later remained together as Czech. When Hitler overran the country, he restored the names Bohmen und Mahren as a unified entity. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/474 "2020-03-03T05:00:19Z")
The Austrian Parliament is composed of two houses: the National Council and the Federal Council. While the Federal Council is referred to as the upper house, it has far less power than the National Council. Although the Federal Council has to approve each law passed by the lower chamber, the latter can overrule most refusals by a simple majority vote. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/475 "2020-03-03T05:02:21Z")
Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are trained to present their credentials with their non-favored hand, so as to keep their favored hand available to pull their sidearm if needed. (Hollywood often gets this wrong). ---
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/476 "2020-03-03T06:57:52Z")
The Sig Sauer P226 is one of the most common guns of the FBI, in 9mm and . 40 Smith. Agents have carried their own as a supplemental pistol, and the bureau has issued this pistol to special units and as a general sidearm since the 1990s. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/477 "2020-03-03T10:03:01Z")
When the St. Louis Browns played their only World Series, 13-game winner Sig Jackucki won the pennant-clinching game over the Yankees. He had had a brief stint with the Browns 8 years earlier, but had quit baseball and worked as a paper hanger until a WWII shortage of players gave him another shot. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/478 "2020-03-03T13:06:03Z")
In 1904, St. Louis became the first USA city to host the Summer Olympics. At this 1904 Olympics, the sports of boxing and the decathlon made their debuts. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/479 "2020-03-03T15:51:20Z")
The unofficial title of “The World’s Greatest Athlete” is traditionally given to the winner of the men’s decathalon at the Olympic Games. This tradition began in 1912, when American Jim Thorpe won the event at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, and King Gustav V of Sweden told Thorpe, “You, sir, are the world’s greatest athlete.” ---
**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:** [March 3, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/480 "2020-03-03T16:01:18Z")
Jim Thorpe allegedly replied to this fulsome royal compliment, “Thanks, King.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=25)