# 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:** 297
**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:** [August 15, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5928 "2022-08-15T21:14:16Z")
Hunter Pence is a former MLB baseball player who played in the outfield from 2007 to 2020 for four teams: the Houston Astros (2007–2011), Philadelphia Phillies (2011–2012), San Francisco Giants (2012–2018), Texas Rangers (2019), and San Francisco Giants (2020). He won two World Series championships with the Giants, in 2012 and 2014. His first home run in the majors was a grand slam against the St. Louis Cardinals on 05 May 2007. ---
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There have been three major-league baseball teams which have operated as the Washington Senators: - The first Senators played in the American Association in 1891, then in the National League from 1892-1899. The team ceased to exist when the National League contracted after the 1899 season. - The second Senators played in the American League from 1901 until 1960 (though they used the name “Washington Nationals” from 1905 through 1955). The team moved to Minnesota after the 1960 season, and was renamed the Minnesota Twins. - The third Senators also played in the American League, as an expansion team, from 1961 until 1971. This team moved to the Dallas/Fort Worth area after the 1971 season, and became the Texas Rangers. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2022, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5930 "2022-08-16T03:18:27Z")
On 29 March 1971, 2nd Lieutenant William Calley of the US Army was found guilty of 22 murders at the Mỹ-Lai massacre of 16 March 1968, when over 300 unarmed people were killed. 26 soldiers were charged but only Calley was found guilty. Calley was originally given a life sentence, but he served three-and-a-half years under house arrest after President Richard Nixon commuted his sentence. Mỹ Lai was the largest publicized massacre of civilians by US forces in the 20th century. ---
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William Seward of New York fully expected to be chosen as the GOP’s nominee for President in the election of 1860. His advisors were outmaneuvered at the Republican National Convention in Chicago by those of Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, however. Somewhat begrudgingly, Seward accepted the post of Secretary of State after Lincoln’s election that fall, and went on to become Lincoln’s friend and one of his closest advisors. He also continued to serve in the Cabinet of Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee. Although his acquisition of Alaska from Russia was not universally popular at the time, the phrase “Seward’s Folly” did not appear until later. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5932 "2022-08-16T18:17:17Z")
Russia had offered to sell Alaska to the US in 1859, but the onset of the American Civil War delayed the negotiations. William Seward accepted a new Russian offer on March 30, 1867; the Senate approved the treaty of purchase on April 9; President Andrew Johnson signed the treaty on May 28; and the formal transfer took place on October 18. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5933 "2022-08-16T18:24:53Z")
The United States has had five sets of presidents with the same surname: - Adams (John and John Quincy) - Harrison (William and Benjamin) - Johnson (Andrew and Lyndon) - Roosevelt (Theodore and Franklin) - Bush (George and George W.) The Adamses and Bushes were father-and-son, the Harrisons were grandfather and grandson, and the Roosevelts were fifth cousins. As far as is known, Andrew Johnson and Lyndon Johnson were not directly related. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2022, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5934 "2022-08-17T17:46:12Z")
President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democrat of Texas, was performed by Scottish actor Brian Cox in a recent Broadway production of _All the Way_, although, as Cox conceded in his memoir _Putting the Rabbit in the Hat_, he was not nearly tall enough for the role. Cox had only three weeks to learn the part and, when the show opened in previews, knew all but the last 20% of his lines by heart. For the first and so far only time in his theatrical career, going back to 1961, he agreed to wear a small radio earpiece so that his assistant could feed him lines as needed. By opening night of the regular theatrical run, Cox had the part entirely memorized. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5935 "2022-08-18T21:42:43Z")
Brian Cox is a particle physicist at the University of Manchester. He worked on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. In July 2012, ATLAS helped to find the God Particle, the Higgs boson. It is called the God Particle because it’s said to be what caused the Big Bang that created the universe. ---
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Rand McNally was a printing company founded in Chicago in the 1850s. It originally produced railroad timetables, but later expanded to publish railroad guides, textbooks, and globes. In 1904, it produced its first automobile road map. As the maps grew in popularity, in April of 1924 the company produced a compilation of its maps, known as the Rand McNally Auto Chum. This was later renamed to the well-known Rand McNally Road Atlas. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5937 "2022-08-19T13:31:15Z")
After the market for road maps and atlases dried up, Rand McNally diversified into developing technology specifically for the trucking industry. The products include vehicle trackers, Android tablets and headphones, while also providing route planners to international truckers. ---
**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:** [August 19, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5938 "2022-08-19T21:42:15Z")
Pat McInally was a punter and wide receiver for Harvard University, and for the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL. McInally is the only player known to have achieved a perfect score on the Wonderlic Test, an intelligence test which the NFL administers to prospective draftees. As his football career wound down, McInally worked with Kenner Toys to develop “[Starting Lineup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starting_Lineup_(toy_line)),” a line of action figures based on professional athletes. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5939 "2022-08-20T14:56:42Z")
According to [pro-football-reference](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/schools/harvard/index.htm), there have been 38 players who played football for Harvard University and also played in the National Football League. The recently-retired Ryan Fitzpatrick is the only quarterback on this list. Currently, there are five active NFL players from Harvard: Cameron Brate, Anthony Firkser, Kyle Juszczyk, Tyler Ott, and Aaron Shampklin. ---
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Aaron Sorkin, creator and initial showrunner of the acclaimed TV political drama _The West Wing,_ wrote or rewrote virtually every line of the first season, and later admitted that he was going through a lot of cocaine at the time. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2022, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5941 "2022-08-20T22:26:09Z")
Television writer and showrunner Aaron Sorkin dated actress/singer Kristin Chenoweth for several years. Chenoweth was a recurring character on _The West Wing_ for two seasons, though she joined that series after Sorkin’s departure from it. In his later TV series, _Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip_, Sorkin loosely based the character of Harriet Hayes on Chenoweth; Sorkin also based the relationship between Hayes and another character, Matt Albie, on the relationship between himself and Chenoweth. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5942 "2022-08-21T18:57:00Z")
Edward Albee earned more from his playwriting than any other dramatist in America at one time. The 3-time Pulitzer, 2-time Tony winner earned $1.5 million on original plays (not counting royalties or film adaptations) during his career. Neil Simon was a close second place at $1.38 million during his career. They were both eclipsed years later by a young man named Tyler Perry. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/5943 "2022-08-22T04:44:02Z")
There are ten counties in the US named Perry County. There is one in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. All are named after Oliver Hazard Perry. ---
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After his heroics in the War of 1812, Oliver Hazard Perry took command of a ship named _Java_. While the ship was moored in Naples in 1815, Perry had a physical altercation with John Heath, the commander of the ship’s Marines. After a court-martial hearing, both men were found guilty but were levied only small fines. Upon returning to America, Heath challenged Perry to a duel on the same field where Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton. Heath fired first but missed, whereupon Perry declined to return fire, which effectively ended the duel. ---
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Oliver Hazard Perry also had a long-running dispute with a subordinate, Master Commandant Jesse Elliott, commanding USS _Niagara_, for allegedly holding back and not fighting aggressively enough in Perry’s Sept. 10, 1813 triumph at the Battle of Lake Erie. ---
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The Niagara Escarpment is the most prominent of the escarpments in the Great Lakes Basin. It stretches from near the eastern end of Lake Ontario and runs west to the western end of that lake, and through Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. The escarpment is a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. It has the oldest forest ecosystem and trees in eastern North America. ---
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The western end of the Niagara Escarpment runs through eastern Wisconsin. The “Door Peninsula” in northeastern Wisconsin (i.e., the “thumb” of Wisconsin’s “mitten”), which extends into Lake Michigan, is formed by the escarpment. Limestone formations and outcroppings can be found throughout the peninsula, particularly on its western shore, where it borders Green Bay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=296) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=298)