# 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:** 426
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8508 "2024-03-13T21:33:20Z")
The Milwaukee Brewers were formally located in Seattle, WA, and called the Seattle Pilots. They played one season (1969) in the American League West Division before being bought by Bud Selig and moved to Milwaukee, WI. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2024, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8509 "2024-03-13T22:09:13Z")
The Milwaukee Brewers are one of five major-league baseball clubs which have never won a world series. They have appeared in one Series, losing to the St. Louis Cardinals in 7 games in 1982. The other four clubs who haven’t won the Series are the San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Rays, Colorado Rockies, and Seattle Mariners. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8510 "2024-03-14T17:03:37Z")
Tawny Newsome voices the character of Beckett Mariner on the cartoon _Star Trek: Lower Decks._ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8511 "2024-03-14T18:00:50Z")
Gene Roddenberry envisioned _Star Trek_ as a western set in space — a “_Wagon Train_ to the stars” — and he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift’s _Gulliver’s Travels_, intending each episode to act on two levels: as a suspenseful adventure story and as a morality tale. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2024, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8512 "2024-03-14T20:51:03Z")
Jonathan Swift had the manuscript of _Gulliver’s Travels_, an anti-government satire, copied by a scribe when it was completed, so that his handwriting could not be used as evidence if a prosecution should arise. This had happened with his satirical pamphlets, _The Drapier’s Letters_, published in 1725. The original printing of the _Drapier’s Letters_ resulted in the arrest of the publisher, Harding and a bounty placed upon Swift’s head. Swift’s actions in defending Ireland in the _Drapier’s Letters_ were deemed heroic among the Irish citizenry. He was titled the “Hibernian patriot” for his actions. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2024, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8513 "2024-03-15T05:11:32Z")
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) represents the Japanese soldiers’s perspectives of the Battle of Iwo Jima of February and March 1945. Operation Detachment was the name of the American amphibious assault mission to capture the island which lies east of Okinawa and northwest of the Mariana Islands. Marine Corps General Holland “Howlin’ Mad” Smith led the Marines in the attack. Smith is considered to be the “father” of modern US amphibious warfare. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8514 "2024-03-15T14:57:05Z")
The Mariana Islands include Guam, a US territory, and the Northern Marianas, which are a commonwealth of the US. Named after Spanish Queen Mariana after being claimed in 1667 as a Spanish territory and ceded to the US following the Spanish-American War 0f 1898. The Marianas are part of Micronesia, which along with Melanesia and Polynesia make up the greater area of Oceania. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8515 "2024-03-16T00:41:48Z")
The Island Hopping strategy used by Douglas MacArthur, Chester Nimitz, and William “Bull” Halsey in the Pacific Theater of World War II included Nimitz taking the Gilberts, Marshalls, and Marianas and MacArthur taking the Solomons, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Philippines. Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida Island in the southern Solomon Islands were the Marines’ 1st-ever major amphib assaults in that strategy. Other islands taken during the Island Hopping included, in chronological order after Guadalcanal, Rennell, Tarawa, New Britain, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Truk, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Peleliu, Leyte, Samar, Mindoro, Luzon, Corregidor, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8516 "2024-03-16T18:59:48Z")
The Island Hopping strategy was supported by information on tides, etc., provided by the U. S. Navy’s Oceanographic Unit, run by Mary Sears. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8517 "2024-03-16T19:13:22Z")
NOAA – the National **Oceanic** and Atmospheric Administration – is an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce. NOAA was established in 1970, though the various departments which now are housed within NOAA can trace their history back as far as 1807. The agency’s charter includes forecasting weather, monitoring atmospheric and oceanic conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and the protection of marine animals. NOAA’s offices include the National Weather Service (NWS), the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the National Ocean Service (NOS), the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), and the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO). ---
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NOAA was established in 1970 during the Nixon administration. As was the EPA, also established in 1970. NOAA is a part of the Department of Commerce rather than the Department of Interior. This is because of a feud between Richard Nixon and interior secretary Wally Hickel over the Nixon Administration’s Vietnam War policy. Nixon did not like Hickel’s letter urging Nixon to listen to the Vietnam War demonstrators, and thus punished Hickel by not putting NOAA in the Interior Department. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8519 "2024-03-20T15:48:27Z")
The United States Department of the Interior was formed on March 3, 1849. It was formed to assume oversight of certain agencies which did not fit within the parameters of other established departments of the Executive branch. It assumed jurisdiction of The US General Land Office from the Department of the Treasury; The Bureau of Indian Affairs from the Department of War (now Defense); and the Patent Office from the State Department. ---
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Deb Haaland is the first Native American to be named as Secretary of the Interior, or as head of any cabinet post, for that matter. She is a member of the Pueblo Nation. Her father was a 30-year combat Marine veteran and her mother was a Navy veteran who spent 25 years at the Bureau of Indian Affairs. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8521 "2024-03-20T18:21:28Z")
The ‘newest’ cabinet-level department is the Department of Homeland Security, which was created by Congressional action in 2002, in response to the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks. The first leader of this department was Tom Ridge, a native of Pennsylvania who served as US Representative and Governor of that state before taking the cabinet position. He held the position for two years before being succeeded by John Gordon. ---
**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:** [March 20, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8522 "2024-03-20T18:31:32Z")
**Gordon** Johncock beat Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds in the 1982 Indianapolis 500. It was the closest margin of victory at the time but as of today it is only the 6th closest. ---
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The Tracy brothers from Thunderbirds Are Go! are named after the Mercury program astronauts: Scott Tracy after Scott Carpenter, Virgil Tracy after Gus Grissom whose real first name was Virgil, Alan Tracy after Alan Shepard, Gordon Tracy after Gordon Cooper, and John Tracy after John Glenn. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8524 "2024-03-20T23:09:22Z")
ThunderCats was an American science fantasy animated television series that featured cat-like humanoid characters. From its launch in 1985 it was nationally syndicated and ran four seasons before being canceled in 1988. ---
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President Ronald W. Reagan, Republican of California, and Vice President George H.W. Bush, Republican of Texas, were sworn in for their second terms on Jan. 20, 1985. The ceremony was planned for the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, but was moved indoors to the Rotunda due to the intense cold that day. I was in Washington for a college political-science program that month, and all of us had tickets for the outdoor ceremony. Like many others, however, we were disinvited due to limited space in the Rotunda. I ended up watching the ceremony from my hotel room, across the river in Rosslyn, Va. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8526 "2024-03-22T18:56:02Z")
The Constitution does not say what the swearing-in must include. While most Presidents-elect chose a Bible, as George Washington did, John Quincy Adams used a book of law, and Teddy Roosevelt did not use any book. ---
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George Washington served as Worshipful Master of his masonic lodge while serving as President. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=425) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=427)