# 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:** 390
**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:** [September 27, 2023, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7788 "2023-09-27T23:24:18Z")
William is the third-most common first name of US Presidents, with four, as noted by @Elendil_s_Heir. The most common first name is James, with six, and the second-most common is John, with five. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7789 "2023-09-27T23:25:36Z")
By contrast, there has only been one Canadian prime minister named William, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. However, he made up for it by being Canada’s most successful prime minister, serving in office for over 20 years. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7790 "2023-09-27T23:30:16Z")
The current Prime Minister of Canada is Justin Trudeau, whose father, Pierre, also twice held the post. Both served during the reign of the late Queen of Canada, Elizabeth II; the incumbent is now serving during the reign of the King of Canada, Charles III. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7791 "2023-09-27T23:56:32Z")
Since 1867, Canada has had two queens and four kings, but the queens have reigned for two-thirds of that time. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7792 "2023-09-28T02:56:45Z")
In 1867, not only was Johann Strauss II’s waltz The Blue Danube (_An der schönen blauen Donau_) first performed, but also Alaska was purchased for about 2 cents/acre or about 42 cents per acre in 2022 dollars from Russia. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7793 "2023-09-28T03:33:25Z")
The phrase “Seward’s Folly” was not coined until several years after Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the U.S. purchase of Alaska. The proposal had generally broad public support at the time. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2023, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7794 "2023-09-28T04:08:22Z")
In _Dead Man’s Folly_, Ariadne Oliver is hired to organise a Murder Hunt at a party at a country estate. She gradually becomes worried that there really will be a murder, and asks Hercule Poirot to come help her prevent a murder. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7795 "2023-09-28T14:14:06Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Since 1867, Canada has had two queens and four kings, but the queens have reigned for two-thirds of that time. Actually there were five kings: Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI, Charles III. In play: The Murder Mystery Game, a type of parlor game, began back in the early nineteen hundreds. One of the players secretly plays a murderer, whilst other players must determine who among them is the criminal. Murder mystery games often involve the actual ‘murders’ of guests throughout the game, or open with a ‘death’ and have the rest of the time devoted to investigation. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7796 "2023-09-29T01:58:46Z")
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was quoting from Shakespeare when Sherlock Holmes exclaimed “The game’s afoot”. The line is from the play _Henry V_, at the end of the young king’s “Once more into the breach” speech to the troops before the Battle of Agincourt: I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot: Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’ ---
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7797 "2023-09-29T02:15:38Z")
The last true Stuart pretender to the English throne was Henry Benedict Stuart aka Henry IX for the Jacobites. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7798 "2023-09-29T02:32:29Z")
Queen Victoria took personal satisfaction from the fact that she was not descended from Henry VIII, whom she regarded as a monster, offensive to her good Whig sensibilities. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7799 "2023-09-29T13:27:39Z")
Queen Victoria was baptized Alexandrina Victoria. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7800 "2023-09-29T13:53:39Z")
Victoria Falls, on the Zambezi River, is located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. One of the native names for the Falls is _Mosi-oa-Tunya_, which means “Thundering Smoke”. Another native name is _Shungu Namutitima_, which means “Boiling Water”. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7801 "2023-09-29T14:39:46Z")
Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake by area, the world’s largest tropical lake, and the world’s second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7802 "2023-09-29T15:40:07Z")
Prince Andrew’s and Sarah Ferguson’s younger daughter, HRH the Princess Eugenie, was born in 1990 and baptized Eugenie Victoria Helena. She married Jack Brooksbank, a brand ambassador for Casamigos Tequila, in 2018. They have two sons, August and Ernest. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7803 "2023-09-29T19:06:33Z")
Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank are third cousins. They are both descended (on her mother’s side) from the Earls of Leicester. One of their ancestors, Thomas Coke of Norfolk, was well known for his influence in agricultural reform. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2023, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7804 "2023-09-30T16:00:11Z")
The second _USS Norfolk (DL-1)_, commissioned in May 1953, was the first destroyer leader of the United States Navy. Originally projected as a hunter-killer cruiser, she was in service until 1970, and was scrapped in 1974. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7805 "2023-09-30T16:14:35Z")
Old Dominion University is a public research university, based in Norfolk, Virginia. It was founded in 1930 as the “Norfolk Division,” or extension, of the College of William and Mary, and became known colloquially as “the Division.” In 1962, the school became independent from William and Mary, and adopted the name of Old Dominion College; it became Old Dominion University in 1969. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7806 "2023-09-30T16:31:38Z")
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, or AIAW, was founded in 1971 for the purpose of governing women’s collegiate sports in the United States. It rapidly gained influence throughout the 70s, due in large part to the enactment of Title IX in 1972. The organization held a basketball tournament from 1972 through 1982, crowning a national champion each year. Immaculata won the first three championships, while Delta State won the next three. The only other multiple championship winner was Old Dominion, which won in 1979 and 1980. The AIAW ceased operations following the 1982 season, as the NCAA finally took the necessary steps to oversee women’s collegiate sports. ---
**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:** [September 30, 2023, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7807 "2023-09-30T19:06:19Z")
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