# 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:** 400
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7988 "2023-11-15T19:42:02Z")
More specifically, they denied him his seat and SCOTUS said that the House could not prevent anyone duly elected and meets the constitutional requirements to be seated . ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7989 "2023-11-15T19:42:33Z")
Per Wiki, the reason the House had its nose out of joint against Congressman Adam Clayton Powell were “allegations that he had refused to pay a judgment ordered by a New York court, misappropriated congressional travel funds, and paid his wife a congressional staff salary for work she had not done.” Powell was known for his flamboyant style and his catchphrase, “Keep the faith, baby.” ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7990 "2023-11-15T19:47:25Z")
Clayton State College in Morrow, GA list their school colors as Laker Blue and Georgia Clay. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7991 "2023-11-15T22:52:35Z")
The Los Angeles Lakers team colors are Lakers purple, gold, and black. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2023, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7992 "2023-11-15T23:35:10Z")
The backup singers/dancers to The Lady of the Lake in the Broadway musical _Spamalot_ are called The Laker Girls. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2023, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7993 "2023-11-16T00:27:10Z")
The title of the stage musical _Spamalot_ comes from a line in the song “Knights of the Round Table” in the original hit movie, _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_: “We eat ham and jam and Spam a lot.” ---
**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:** [November 16, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7994 "2023-11-16T00:40:07Z")
“Spam” is one of Monty Python’s best-known sketches, originally airing during the second series of _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ in 1970. The sketch features a husband and wife, attempting to order breakfast at a diner, only to discover that nearly every dish on the menu features the canned meat product Spam. The term “spam,” referring to unsolicited electronic communications, takes its name in reference to the “Spam” sketch. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7995 "2023-11-16T00:49:59Z")
According to the Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota, the name SPAM comes from its ingredients, **S** houlder of **P** ork and h **AM**. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [November 16, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7996 "2023-11-16T17:29:53Z")
Austin, Minnesota was named for Austin R. Nichols, the area’s first European settler. George A. Hormel, the founder of Hormel Foods, hails from Austin. So, too, do football player Larry Kramer, and John Madden, former Oakland Raiders head coach and NFL Hall of Farmer. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7997 "2023-11-16T18:17:56Z")
Madden agreed to lend his name to _Madden NFL_ following a meeting with EA executives in 1984. He considered the game an educational tool, and a way for people to learn the game and participate in the game at a pretty sophisticated level. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2023, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7998 "2023-11-16T19:09:38Z")
When John Madden was a child, his family moved to Daly City, California. One of his childhood friends there was John Robinson, who would later gain fame as head football coach at USC and the Los Angeles Rams. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2023, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7999 "2023-11-16T20:47:07Z")
It is commonly thought that John Madden got his fear of flying from the 1960 Cal Poly plane crash that occurred two years after he graduated and killed many of his friends. The truth is that his fear of flying comes from his claustrophobia and predated the crash. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8000 "2023-11-16T21:55:46Z")
That 1960 Cal Poly plane crash was a Curtiss C-46 that crashed in late October shortly after takeoff near Toledo, Ohio. Of the 48 on board, 22 were killed, including both pilots, 16 players, a student manager, and a Cal Poly football booster. 26 other passengers survived — 19 players, all four coaches, the team physician and the flight attendant. The crash grabbed national headlines as it was the first crash of a chartered plane carrying an entire athletic team and, at the time, it was the worst sports air disaster in history. On campus at Alex G. Spanos Stadium there is a Cal Poly Football Team memorial. The plane had seen action during World War II. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2023, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8001 "2023-11-17T04:34:59Z")
On March 31, 1931, a Fokker F-10 belonging to Transcontinental and Western Air crashed near Bazaar, Kansas after taking off from Kansas City Municipal Airport, Kansas City, Missouri. All eight people on board were killed, including Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2023, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8002 "2023-11-17T05:04:09Z")
Namche Bazaar in Nepal is a town located between Everest Base Camp and the Lukla airport. For trekkers to EBC, Namche Bazaar provides the first view of Mount Everest. Namche Bazaar is about a 6-hr hike from the Lukla airport. The elevation of Namche Bazaar is 11,250’. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2023, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8003 "2023-11-17T07:20:15Z")
In the _Bazaar of the Bizarre_, Fafhrd has to rescue the Grey Mouser and defeat an otherworldly group called the Devourers who have opened a strange bazaar in Lankhmar. Aided by the Blindfold of True Seeing and a Cloak of Invisibility given to him by Ningauble of the Seven Eyes and Sheelba of the Eyeless Face, Fafhrd achieves his quest. He then tries to use the Blindfold of True Seeing against Sheelba and Ninguable, but they have anticipated his move and snatch the Blindfold away. He catches only a glimpse of the two Wizards. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8004 "2023-11-17T17:55:53Z")
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser were characters in a fantasy series written by Fritz Leiber. Fafhrd was a giant barbarian similar to Conan, while his friend, the much smaller Gray Mouser, was a talented thief. Leiber wrote about them between 1939 and 1991. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8005 "2023-11-18T16:52:54Z")
Conan O’Brien’s most famous writing credit for _The Simpsons_ is probably the episode “Marge vs. the Monorail,” where the City of Springfield is tricked by a dashing con-man into purchasing an expensive and dangerous monorail. O’Brien first conceived of the concept of the episode when he saw a billboard in L.A. with the word “Monorail” on it with no other details or explanation. O’Brien has stated that the episode is his favorite of all episodes he wrote for the show. The episode frequently ranks among the top episodes the iconic show has ever made. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8006 "2023-11-18T19:39:08Z")
The plot of “Marge vs. the Monorail” has some points in common with the hit Broadway musical _The Music Man_ by Meredith Wilson. Robert Preston and Shirley Jones costarred in the 1962 movie based on the original stage version. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8007 "2023-11-18T22:12:03Z")
_Marge v the Monorail_ gave Homer one of his most iconic lines: “Doughnuts - Is there anything they can’t do?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=399) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=401)