# 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:** 493
**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:** [February 25, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9848 "2025-02-25T15:29:46Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Ahem. > > > [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > > > whether by **accident** of suicide. > > > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > > > serious burn on his arm and shoulder from the **accident**. It had been unanswered for four days, so thanks for finally pointing that out. Still in play — > [@Railer13](#): > > **John Foster** Dulles was the US Secretary of State during the Eisenhower administration. While SOS, Dulles was strongly anti-communist and anti-Soviet. In 1953, he was instrumental in instigating a coup d’état in Iran, and he did the same thing in Guatemala the next year. Suffering from cancer, he resigned in 1959 and died shortly thereafter. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9849 "2025-02-25T19:49:24Z")
Following the Bay of Pigs fiasco, both Congress and President John F Kennedy were unhappy with the CIA, and director Allen Welsh Dulles in particular. Kennedy wanted to splinter the agency into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds; Instead, he transferred the CIA’s command of foreign paramilitaries to the Department of Defense under the close supervision and control of the Joint Chiefs of Staff which would also report on CIA plans and operations to the President. On November 28, 1961, Kennedy presented Dulles with the National Security Medal at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The next day, November 29, the White House released a resignation letter signed by Dulles. He was replaced by John McCone. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9850 "2025-02-25T19:59:07Z")
If you are in the Bahamas, there are places where you can swim with pigs. The most famous spot for this is Big Major Cay ---
**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:** [February 25, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9851 "2025-02-25T23:32:15Z")
Dr. Frank Burns and Head Nurse Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan, RN, both held the US Army rank of major on _MASH._ ---
**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:** [February 25, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9852 "2025-02-25T23:38:59Z")
Only four members of the main cast of _MASH_ appeared in all eleven seasons of the series: Alan Alda (Captain Hawkeye Pierce), Loretta Swit (Major Margaret Houlihan), William Christopher (Father Francis Mulcahey), and Jamie Farr (Corporal Max Klinger). Alda and Swit appeared in every one of the series’ 251 episodes. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9853 "2025-02-26T20:14:31Z")
Alan Alda’s father, Robert Alda, originated the role of Sky Masterson in _Guys and Dolls_ on Broadway in 1950, for which he won a Tony. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9854 "2025-02-27T06:10:22Z")
Tony Curtis appeared briefly in _Rosemary’s Baby_ (1968). He was the voice on the phone of the actor who lost his role to Guy, Rosemary’s husband. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9855 "2025-02-27T12:32:32Z")
The name “Curtis” is of Anglo-Norman / Old French origins, meaning someone who is polite. Same roots as “courteous”. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9856 "2025-02-27T15:10:20Z")
Charles Curtis was born in the Kaw Nation in 1860 in Kansas Territory, a year before Kansas became a state. In 1892, he was elected to the US House and thus became the first Native American to serve in the US Congress. After serving in the House for 14 years, he was subsequently elected to the Senate four times and was chosen by Herbert Hoover to be the vice-presidential candidate in 1928. Their ticket won by a landslide that year but was soundly defeated in the 1932 election. Curtis died in 1936 at the age of 76. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9857 "2025-02-27T18:59:29Z")
J.D. Vance, the Vice President of the United States, a Republican of Ohio, is the first bearded man to hold the job since Charles W. Fairbanks, Theodore Roosevelt’s Vice President, who left office in 1909. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9858 "2025-02-27T19:11:38Z")
University of Alaska, Fairbanks was the first university in the University of Alaska system. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9859 "2025-02-27T19:34:19Z")
The Alaska Railway is a Class II U.S. railroad, owned by the State of Alaska. Its mainline runs from the city of Seward, at its southern terminus, to the city of Fairbanks, at its northern terminus. The railroad’s trackage is entirely within the state of Alaska, and does not have a rail connection to Canada, nor to the contiguous United States. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9860 "2025-02-28T01:17:37Z")
The city of Juneau, Alaska, is the only US capitol on the North American continent that can only be reach by air or sea. There are no connecting roads leading out of the city. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9861 "2025-02-28T01:25:53Z")
“Capitol” designates the building. “Capital” designates the city. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9862 "2025-02-28T01:35:56Z")
I was thinking of “money versus seat of government.” ---
**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:** [February 28, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9863 "2025-02-28T16:38:07Z")
At 3,255 square miles, Juneau, Alaska, is one of the largest municipalities in the United States and the largest capital by area. The municipality is larger than Rhode Island and encompasses part of a glacier field. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9864 "2025-02-28T19:19:39Z")
Despite being the largest capital city by area, Juneau is only the fifth smallest by population, with 31,555 residents as of 2023. The smallest state capital by population is Montpelier, VT, with a population of 7991 souls. _ **-“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:** [February 28, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9865 "2025-02-28T20:07:45Z")
Three warships named USS _Montpelier_ have served in the United States Navy over the years. The current one, a _Los Angeles_-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, was commissioned in 1993. The sub appeared in several works by Tom Clancy. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9866 "2025-02-28T22:21:19Z")
In 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette visited Montpelier, VT, on a triumphal tour of the United States, 50 years after the Revolutionary War. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9867 "2025-02-28T23:00:01Z")
Mary Miller created the town of Lafayette, CO and named it after her dead husband. She then created the Lafayette Bank and at the time was the only female bank president in the world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=492) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=494)