# 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:** 428
**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 28, 2024, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8548 "2024-03-28T17:20:54Z")
Jim Abbott, born in 1968, was a major league pitcher from 1989 to 1999. He pitched for the Angels, Yankees, White Sox, and Brewers. As a member of the Yankees, he threw a no-hitter against the Indians in 1993. His career record was 87 wins and 108 losses. Abbott was born without a right hand. When he was ready to pitch the ball, Abbott would rest his glove on the end of his right forearm. After releasing the ball, he would quickly slip his left hand into the glove, usually in time to field any ball hit his way. Opposing teams often tried to exploit his handicap by bunting to him. Abbott currently works as a motivational speaker. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8549 "2024-03-28T18:37:11Z")
John Abbott was the third prime minister of Canada. He was one of two PMs who sat in the Senate. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8550 "2024-03-28T19:38:52Z")
_Abbott Elementary_ is a US TV comedy series that follows the same format set forth by _The Office_, a UK series that combined comedy with “reality television” in a mockumentary genre. ---
**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 29, 2024, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8551 "2024-03-29T01:10:12Z")
_Elementary_ was a U.S. crime procedural TV series: a contemporary update of Sherlock Holmes. Set primarily in New York, the series starred Jonny Lee Miller as Holmes, and Lucy Liu as his professional partner, Dr. Joan Watson. ---
**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 29, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8552 "2024-03-29T17:42:07Z")
Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternated the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature in Nick Dear’s staged production of _Frankenstein_, based on Mary Shelley’s novel. ---
**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 29, 2024, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8553 "2024-03-29T18:05:41Z")
Leo VIII deposed the sitting Pope John XII with the support of Otto I. The Roman people declared John XII the true pope and after his death they elected **Benedict** V as pope who was overthrown by Leo VIII and Otto I. Today Leo VIII is considered both an anti-pope because of disposing of John XII and pope as Benedict V’s successor. ---
**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 29, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8554 "2024-03-29T18:53:19Z")
In 1977, animation studio Rankin/Bass released a made-for-television movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s _The Hobbit_. The film featured a number of well-known actors providing the voices of the major characters, including John Huston (Gandalf), Orson Bean (Bilbo), Richard Boone (Smaug), **Otto** Preminger (“The Elvenking” (Thranduil)), Hans Conried (Thorin), Brother Theodore (Gollum), and Cyril Ritchard (Elrond). ---
**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:** [March 29, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8555 "2024-03-29T19:43:26Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > … (In Tolkien’s fictional Middle-Earth, Gondor is, in fact, “Elendil’s Heir.” 😉 ) Nitpick: Gondor is the realm of Elendil’s Heir (beginning with Isildur), but is not the heir itself. In play: “Orson Bean” is a running gag in this Doper thread, as are Tami, Blawnox, quokkas, stoats and spleens, among others: [Revenge of Made-Up Band Names A-Z (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/revenge-of-made-up-band-names-a-z-part-2/975744) ---
**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 29, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8556 "2024-03-29T20:02:44Z")
Stoats will mate in the summer but the egg does not implant until the following spring. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8557 "2024-03-30T22:03:49Z")
Per Wiki, stoats were “introduced into New Zealand in the late 19th century to control rabbits, but had a devastating effect on native bird populations and [were later] nominated as one of the world’s top 100 ‘worst invaders.’” ---
**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 30, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8558 "2024-03-30T23:50:40Z")
While rabbits were first brought to Australia in 1788 as a food source, it wasn’t until 1859 that several species were introduced to the wild for sport. 10 years later, two million individuals were shot or trapped, with no noticeable effect on the population. It was the fastest spread ever recorded of any mammal anywhere in the world. ---
**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 31, 2024, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8559 "2024-03-31T01:37:02Z")
The South Syndey Rabbitohs are a rugby league football club, which compete in Australia’s National Rugby League. The team’s traditional area was a working-class enclave, and the team’s nickname is believed to have originated by the “Rabbit-oh” call of street merchants in the area, peddling rabbits for use as meat in the early 20th century. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8560 "2024-04-01T15:36:03Z")
The actor Russell Crowe is a shareholder of the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby team, and the incumbent Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, is a longtime fan. The team’s colors are cardinal red and myrtle green. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8561 "2024-04-01T16:04:30Z")
There are two myths in which either Athena or Aphrodite changed a young woman into a myrtle. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8562 "2024-04-01T19:57:04Z")
A myth about the Trojan War was that a Trojan prince named Paris judged a contest between three Olympic goddesses: Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite. The latter promised Paris the most beautiful woman in the world would be his; he chose Aphrodite as the winner, and the goddess of love delivered to him Helen, queen of Sparta. Helen’s husband, King Menelaus of Sparta demanded Helen’s return, and when Paris refused the king declared war on Troy. Paris dies in combat, and Menelaus retrieves his wife and returns to Sparta. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2024, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8563 "2024-04-01T20:03:35Z")
“Athena” is a song by the rock band The Who, from their 1982 album _It’s Hard_. The song was originally written by Pete Townshend in 1980, with the working title “Theresa,” and was inspired by Townshend’s unrequited crush on actress Theresa Russell. Russell had rebuffed Townshend’s advances, as she was, at that time, engaged to director Nic Roeg. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8564 "2024-04-01T22:25:31Z")
Surprisingly (to me, anyway) The Who has never had a #1 single on the Billboard charts in the US. Their highest-rated single “I Can See for Miles” reached #9 on the list. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8565 "2024-04-02T04:13:42Z")
The longest-running number one single on the Billboard singles chart is “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X (and feat. Billy Ray Cyrus), which spent 19 weeks at that position. The Beatles have the most number one hits on the chart, with 20 songs having reached that position. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2024, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8566 "2024-04-02T12:35:05Z")
Ragged Ass Road is a road in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8567 "2024-04-03T20:39:36Z")
Straight Street in Damascus, Syria, is one of the few roads mentioned by name in the Bible. It still exists and is in use even now. > **[Straight Street](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_Street)** > > Straight Street, from the Latin Via Recta (Arabic: الشارع المستقيم al-Shāriʿ al-Mustaqīm), known as the Street called Straight (Greek: τὴν ῥύμην τὴν καλουμένην εὐθεῖαν) in the New Testament, is the old decumanus maximus, the main Roman road, of Damascus, Syria. It runs from east to west through the old city. According to the Acts of the Apostles (9:11), Paul the Apostle stayed in a house on Straight Street. > The western half of the street, including the Midhat Pasha Souq, is today also known as ... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=427) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=429)