# 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:** 241
**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 10, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4808 "2021-12-10T16:07:10Z")
In February of 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to execute author Salman Rushdie over the publication of _The Satanic Verses_. The book was considered blasphemous towards Islam. A six million dollar bounty was placed on Rushdie’s head, which still exists today. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4809 "2021-12-10T16:10:38Z")
The last non-Muslim dynasty in Iran (then Persia) was the Sasanian Dynasty. The last king was Yazdgerd III who died in AD 651. ---
**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 11, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4810 "2021-12-11T02:46:07Z")
The religions of the Sasanian Empire are, according to wiki, Zoroastrianism (official), Christianity, Judaism, Manichaeism, Mazdakism, and Buddhism. ---
**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 11, 2021, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4811 "2021-12-11T04:21:18Z")
I want to thank everyone here. After work tonight we had a trivia competition at work and our team won. Thanks to you fine folks, in teams of four I was able to contribute to my team’s success. Have a good weekend, all! ---
**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 11, 2021, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4812 "2021-12-11T05:29:02Z")
Standup comedian Judy Tenuta’s act revolves around her over-the-top persona of “The Love Goddess,” and her encouraging of her audience to convert to a religion of her own making, “ **Judyism** ,” which she says will “help you forget about your problems and think about mine for a change.” ---
**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 11, 2021, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4813 "2021-12-11T06:33:48Z")
Julia “Judy” Bonds (1952-2011) was an anti-mountaintop removal activist from the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. In 2010 she organized a “thousand hillbilly march” on Washington DC to protest against the issuance of valley fill and other types of permits that allow companies to completely remove a mountain top in the search for coal. ---
**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 11, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4814 "2021-12-11T14:48:06Z")
In 2020, coal supplied about a quarter of the world’s primary energy and over a third of its electricity. The largest consumer and importer of coal is China, which mines almost half the world’s coal. Australia accounts for about a third of world coal exports, followed by Indonesia and Russia. ---
**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 11, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4815 "2021-12-11T19:18:18Z")
For Yearly Coal Consumption, the top five countries are: Yearly Coal Consumption (MMcf) 1 China 4,319,921,826,000 2 India 966,288,692,600 3 United States 731,071,000,000 4 Germany 257,488,592,900 5 Russia 230,392,143,100 ETA — according to worldometers.info ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2021, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4816 "2021-12-12T04:58:31Z")
Each person in the U.S uses 3.4 tons of coal annually. ---
**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 12, 2021, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4817 "2021-12-12T05:21:41Z")
“Coke” is a high-carbon fuel, with a low level of impurities, made by heating coal (or petroleum) in the absence of air. Coke which has been derived from coal is commonly used in blast furnaces, and was, in the past, commonly used for home heating, as the low level of impurities means that it gives off far less smoke than coal. ---
**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 12, 2021, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4818 "2021-12-12T05:56:21Z")
Interesting, I would have expected Russia to be higher on that coal consumption list. So I looked it up, and… While Russia is the world’s #5 consumer of coal, it is the world’s #2 consumer of natural gas; the U.S. is the world’s #1 consumer. Russia has the world’s largest reserves of natural gas. Other top consumers of natural gas are China, Iran, Japan and Canada. Other countries with large reserves of natural gas are Iran, Qatar, the US, Saudi Arabia and Turkmenistan. ---
**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 13, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4819 "2021-12-13T02:22:46Z")
Liquefied petroleum gas, or LP gas, is a fuel gas created during the refinement process of crude oil. The most common of these types of gases is propane. Because the boiling point of LP gas is less than room temperature, it is delivered in pressurized steel containers. Among other usages, LP gas can be used as a fuel for cooking, heating, and powering internal-combustion engines. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4820 "2021-12-13T07:47:32Z")
Perhaps the most famous LP records in the universe are the two copies of the Golden Record placed aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts. They feature musical selections from different cultures and eras, spoken in fifty-five languages, and other messages. Each record is encased in a protective aluminum jacket, together with a cartridge and a needle. Instructions, in symbolic language, explain the origin of the spacecraft and how the record is to be played. Today, Voyager is nearly 12 billion miles away from Earth. [https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov](https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov) › whats-… What’s on the Golden Record ---
**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 13, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4821 "2021-12-13T18:49:22Z")
The national 55 MPH speed limit was signed into law by President Nixon in January 1974, and became effective in April 1974. In April 1987, Congress permitted states to raise this limit. ---
**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 14, 2021, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4822 "2021-12-14T03:45:10Z")
The first speed limit law in the US was enacted on May 21, 1901, when the state of Connecticut limited the speed of motor vehicles to 12 MPH in cities, and 15 MPH on country roads. The new law also required drivers to slow down upon approaching or passing horse-drawn vehicles, and come to a complete stop if necessary to avoid scaring the animals. ---
**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 14, 2021, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4823 "2021-12-14T03:54:38Z")
The song, “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” was written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver; the song became a hit for Denver (with Danoff and Nivert providing backing vocals) in 1971, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Five years later, Danoff and Nivert scored an even bigger hit as members of the Starland Vocal Band, when their song, “Afternoon Delight” (also written by Danoff) reached #1 on the Billboard chart ---
**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 14, 2021, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4824 "2021-12-14T06:59:44Z")
The Starland Vocal Band won the 1977 Grammy award for Best New Artist. They beat the band, Boston, to win that award. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4825 "2021-12-14T07:04:06Z")
The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences stripped the 1989 Best New Artist Grammy from Milli Vanilli because Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan didn’t actually sing on their debut album, “Girl You Know It’s True.” It was the first time a Grammy has ever been revoked. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4826 "2021-12-14T14:49:59Z")
Two people have won the Grammy Categories: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist all in the same year - Christopher Cross and Billie Eilish. ---
**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 14, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4827 "2021-12-14T20:25:32Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > In February of 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to execute author Salman Rushdie over the publication of _The Satanic Verses_. The book was considered blasphemous towards Islam. A six million dollar bounty was placed on Rushdie’s head, which still exists today. Worth a read, if you’d like to learn more from the man himself about the controversy: [Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Anton:_A_Memoir) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=240) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=242)