# 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:** 413
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8248 "2024-01-04T18:15:07Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Someone bet Groucho Marx he couldn’t get President Coolidge to smile. When they were introduced, Groucho said, “Sorry, didn’t catch the name.” Coolidge grinned. I always heard that Will Rogers was the comic in question. In play: Alfred Noyes was born in Wolverhampton, England, but moved with his family at the age of four to Aberystwyth, Wales, where he was born and raised. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8249 "2024-01-04T18:42:32Z")
Wales is one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom, along with England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. The population of Wales is 3.1 million, and its capital is Cardiff. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8250 "2024-01-04T21:13:39Z")
The custom of granting the title of Prince of Wales to the heir apparent to the English throne began with Edward I, in 1301. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8251 "2024-01-04T22:51:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Alfred Noyes was born in Wolverhampton, England, but moved with his family at the age of four to Aberystwyth, Wales, where he was born and raised. D’oh! Not born a _second_ time, obviously. In play: His Royal Highness Prince William is the current Prince of Wales, succeeding his father, now King Charles III. The King held the title for the longest period of any man in British history, 64 years (from 1958 through 2022, although he did not have a formal investiture until 1969). ---
**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:** [January 5, 2024, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8252 "2024-01-05T03:34:54Z")
In 1925, the then-Prince of Wales (who later became King Edward VIII, and, later still, the Duke of Windsor) donated a trophy to the National Hockey League, which became known as the Prince of Wales Trophy. Initially, the Prince of Wales Trophy served as the league’s championship trophy – at the time, the Stanley Cup was awarded to the winner of a post-season tournament between the champions of the NHL and the Western Hockey League. After the Stanley Cup became the NHL championship trophy in 1926-27 season, the Prince of Wales Trophy served various other roles: at various times, it has been awarded to the winner of the American Division, to the league’s regular-season champion, to the East Division winner, to the Prince of Wales Conference winner, and (currently) to the Eastern Conference champion. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8253 "2024-01-05T03:58:45Z")
The Stanley Cup (French: La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion. It is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to a professional sports franchise in North America. The trophy was commissioned in 1892 as the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup and is named after Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor General of Canada, who donated it as an award to Canada’s top-ranking amateur ice hockey club. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8254 "2024-01-05T04:09:36Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Noyes was born in Wolverhampton, England, but moved with his family at the age of four to Aberystwyth, Wales, where he was born and raised. Being born twice? Neat trick if you can pull it off… _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [January 5, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8255 "2024-01-05T04:29:44Z")
Didn’t notice Elendil\_s\_Heir had caught his own mistake (see above). I tried to edit over it but ran out of time, In play – The team that wins the Stanley Cup gets its name and roster engraved on one of the bands that make up the barrel-like pedestal of the Cup. There are a total of nine bands, each capable of displaying thirteen winning teams, and when the ninth band is filled, the oldest band is removed and replaced with a fresh one, creating space for the next thirteen winners to be added. The bands that are removed are placed on display in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [January 5, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8256 "2024-01-05T14:51:00Z")
Toronto, Canada is the destination of a ragtag group of zombie apocalypse survivors in Isaac Marion’s novel _The Burning World_, a sequel to _Warm Bodies_, which was made into a well-reviewed 2013 zomromcom (zombie romantic comedy). ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8257 "2024-01-05T21:21:58Z")
> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#): > > > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > > Noyes was born in Wolverhampton, England, but moved with his family at the age of four to Aberystwyth, Wales, where he was born and raised. > > Being born twice? Neat trick if you can pull it off… I was born again, but that was a chapter of my life I’d rather have not happened. still in play: Toronto, Canada is the destination of a ragtag group of zombie apocalypse survivors in Isaac Marion’s novel _The Burning World_, a sequel to _Warm Bodies_, which was made into a well-reviewed 2013 zomromcom (zombie romantic comedy). ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8258 "2024-01-06T01:46:38Z")
Born again, one presumes. Toronto is home to 250 private streets, who pay for things like garbage and snow removal on their own dime. Canada has few “gated communities” so this is sort of the equivalent. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2024, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8259 "2024-01-06T04:21:01Z")
For 32 years, from 1975 to 2007, the CN Tower (1,815’) was the tallest freestanding structure in the world. Today it is still the tallest in the western hemisphere, but only 10th in the world. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2024, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8260 "2024-01-06T06:27:02Z")
Toronto is home to the largest Portuguese community in Canada, with 171,000 out of the 480,000 people of Portuguese origin in the country. “Little Portugal” is within sight of the CN Tower, and several other neighborhoods in the metropolitan area have significant populations. (I ate in a great Portuguese restaurant in the York/Eglington area of Toronto last week) ---
**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:** [January 6, 2024, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8261 "2024-01-06T08:40:54Z")
The RMS _Lusitania_, launched in 1906, was torpedoed and sunk less than 10 years later by a German U-boat. The ship was named after the region in Western Europe corresponding to modern-day Portugal. When launched, _Lusitania_ was the world’s largest ship. When sunk, of 1,962 passengers and crew aboard her, 1,199 lost their lives. _Lusitania_ had made 201 successful crossings of the Atlantic Ocean. _Lusitania_ in Western Europe, 27 BC to approx 410 AD — [![](https://i.imgur.com/7lXCYgn.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/7lXCYgn.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8262 "2024-01-06T16:23:04Z")
The Iberian Peninsula consists of Portugal and continental Spain in Europe. It is not to be confused with the Kingdom of Iberia, located in present-day Georgia in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. It has been argued that the name _Iberian_ was given by Ancient Greeks to two different peoples located at the extremities of their world (in the Iberian Peninsula and the Caucasus) due to the mythical wealth associated with them (Tartessos, along the southern part of Spain, and the Golden Fleece of Colchis). ---
**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:** [January 6, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8263 "2024-01-06T16:41:09Z")
“Portugal. The Man” is a rock group, originally from Wasilla, Alaska. The members of the band chose the name based on the idea of David Bowie’s “bigger than life” fame – they wanted a name which had a bigger-than-life feel, but did not want to name it after any of the band members. Portugal. The Man won a Grammy Award in 2018, for their song “Feel It Still.” The song uses the melody from the Marvelettes’ 1961 hit “Please Mr. Postman,” and Motown songwriter Brian Holland received a co-writing credit on the song. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8264 "2024-01-06T18:47:44Z")
“Please Mr. Postman” was the first number one single from a Motown act. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8265 "2024-01-06T21:20:33Z")
Kevin Costner turned down the lead in _Air Force One_ to star in _The Postman_; the role of the heroic President went instead to Harrison Ford. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8266 "2024-01-06T23:21:45Z")
Ford is a licensed pilot of both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. On several occasions, he has personally provided emergency helicopter services at the request of local authorities in Wyoming; once while rescuing a hiker, she was overcome by dehydration and vomited into one of Ford’s caps, unaware of who the pilot was. “I can’t believe I barfed in Harrison Ford’s helicopter!” she said later. ---
**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:** [January 6, 2024, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8267 "2024-01-06T23:41:25Z")
Bruce Dickinson, vocalist of the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, holds a commercial pilot license. He flew 757s for the now-defunct English charter airline Astraeus, as well as piloting Iron Maiden’s chartered 747 and 757 aircraft. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=412) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=414)