# Trivia Dominoes III — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 12, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952 "2025-04-12T05:32:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 111
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2201 "2026-08-23T03:30:40Z")
In 1979 the _Voyager 1_ space probe sent back images of a faint set of rings around Jupiter, and in the 1990s the orbiter _Galileo_ revealed a main ring, two lighter sets called “Gossamer Rings” and an almost imperceptible set of inner “Halo Rings.” The rings are mostly comprised of dust and are likely results of cosmic collisions between several of Jupiter’s moons, and errant objects from outside of our solar system. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2026, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2202 "2026-08-23T03:57:13Z")
The 1979 movie _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ featured the _Voyager 6_ probe, but there were only ever two such probes, both launched in late 1977. _Voyager 1_ crossed the heliopause and entered interstellar space on August 25, 2012, making it the first spacecraft to do so; _Voyager 2_ followed suit on November 5, 2018. Both spacecraft are, remarkably, still providing scientific data to NASA. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2203 "2026-08-23T15:48:49Z")
Lots of important scientific equipment has had the letters “DEI” snuck onto it somewhere. That’s because a not-insignificant number of scientists are Caltech grads, and a famous bit of slang from Caltech is “DEI,” which means “Dabney Eats It,” and is a source of pride among Caltech grads who lived in the famed Dabney House. They tend to write (or engrave or whatever) it onto equipment that’s going into space, or doing some other Important Science Stuff, as a sort of ongoing prank. Therefore, it’s quite possible, nay almost certain, that “DEI” is engraved somewhere on some bit of one or both of the Voyager spacecraft. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2204 "2026-08-23T20:20:59Z")
The Phrase "Kilroy was Here’ along with a rough drawing of a bald dude with a big nose peeking over a wall, appeared mysteriously all over equipment and vehicles, not to mention landmarks. Like the “DEI” engraved on hidden panels, Kilroy appeared in places that seemed almost impossible to get to- like inside the double walls of ships. In one Bugs Bunny cartoon, Bugs has arrived on the moon, being apparently the very first creature every to get there, but finds “Kilroy was here” on a rock. The writers of MASH created a great in joke as BJ looks out of a dirty bus window, so Hawkeye writes “Kilroy” under him. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2026, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2205 "2026-08-24T00:47:44Z")
_MASH_ was developed from a novel by Richard Hooker about life in a surgical hospital. “Richard Hooker” is a pseudonym for Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr., who used it to describe his golf game. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2026, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2206 "2026-08-24T02:33:58Z")
In January 1863, after naming Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker to command the nation’s principal army, President Abraham Lincoln wrote him a remarkable letter: _I have placed you at the head of the Army of the Potomac. Of course I have done this upon what appear to me to be sufficient reasons. And yet I think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard to which, I am not quite satisfied with you. I believe you to be a brave and a skilful soldier, which, of course, I like. I also believe you do not mix politics with your profession, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself, which is a valuable, if not an indispensable quality. You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. But I think that during Gen. Burnside’s command of the Army, you have taken counsel of your ambition, and thwarted him as much as you could, in which you did a great wrong to the country, and to a most meritorious and honorable brother officer. I have heard, in such way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the Army and the Government needed a Dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes, can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship. The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for all commanders. I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the Army, of criticising their Commander, and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you. I shall assist you as far as I can, to put it down. Neither you, nor Napoleon, if he were alive again, could get any good out of an army, while such a spirit prevails in it._ _And now, beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories._ Hooker resoundingly lost the Battle of Chancellorsville by May 6, and soon also lost his command. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2207 "2026-08-24T03:20:22Z")
The Battle of Chancellorsville was a significant victory for Gen. Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy, but came at the cost of his friend and trusted commander, Lt. Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Jackson was wounded in the arm by friendly fire while performing a personal reconnaissance in advance of his line after dark. His arm was amputated, and he died of pneumonia eight days 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:** [August 24, 2026, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2208 "2026-08-24T03:36:31Z")
Tom Jackson was an American football linebacker, who starred for the University of Louisville Cardinals, and then the NFL’s Denver Broncos, for which he played 14 seasons. After retiring from the NFL, Jackson became a sports commentator and analyst for ESPN, serving for over 30 years as a host for several of that network’s NFL programs. In 2015, Jackson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award for broadcast excellence. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2209 "2026-08-24T14:21:40Z")
Tom Jackson is on the Denver Broncos Ring of Fame. He and Randy Gradishar are the two Broncos linebackers who have the most career interceptions with 20. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2210 "2026-08-24T14:47:39Z")
Despite being one of the most dominant players in both the NFL and MLB, and the only person to be named to the MLB All Star game and NFL Pro Bowl in consecutive years (1989 and 1990, respectively), Bo Jackson cannot earn a spot on either Hall of Fame voting ballots due to his short career. Jackson was forced to retire prematurely from the NFL after a suffering a career-ending hip injury; he played three more years in the MLB before being cut by the Angels. Jackson holds the NFL record for most seasons with 90+ rushing yards (2). ---
**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:** [August 24, 2026, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2211 "2026-08-24T15:24:03Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > Jackson holds the NFL record for most seasons with 90+ rushing yards (2). I believe this should be the NFL record for most career touchdowns of 90+ rushing yards, which is 2. In play: Bo Jackson is also the only individual to be named to both the NFL Pro Bowl game and the MLB All-Star game. He was the MVP of the 1989 MLB All-Star game, in which he led off the game with a mammoth home run and finished 2-4 with two RBIs and a stolen base. However, he did not play in the 1991 NFL Pro Bowl game because of a hip injury he suffered in a playoff game a few weeks earlier. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2026, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2212 "2026-08-24T17:11:42Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > Bo Jackson cannot earn a spot on either Hall of Fame voting ballots due to his short career. Not in play: This is true for Jackson’s eligibility (or lack thereof) for the Baseball Hall of Fame, which requires candidates to have played in the major leagues for at least ten seasons (Jackson only played in eight seasons). However, he is technically eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which has no such minimum career length requirement; as transcendent a running back as he was, he only played in 38 regular-season NFL games over four years (as he only would start playing for the Raiders once the Royals ended their season). He _could_ be voted into into the PFHoF, but even compared to players who made it into the Hall despite short careers (e.g., Gale Sayers, Terrell Davis), Jackson’s body of work in the NFL was much smaller still. In play: Bo Jackson’s football career ended due to a hip injury, suffered in a playoff game in 1991. He briefly played for the Chicago White Sox at the end of the 1991 season despite the injury, but the injury lead to avascular necrosis (tissue death) of the head of his femur, and Jackson had hip replacement surgery in 1992. He was able to return to baseball after recovering from the surgery, becoming the first person to play major league baseball with an artificial hip; he played for the White Sox in 1993, and the California Angels in 1994, before retiring from baseball. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2213 "2026-08-24T18:30:54Z")
I guess I need to brush up on my Bo Jackson lore. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2214 "2026-08-24T18:34:51Z")
Not in play: No discussion on Bo Jackson is complete without viewing this throw: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/eB9wi_zvMdM/maxresdefault.jpg "KC@SEA: Bo Jackson's cannon gets Reynolds at home") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9wi_zvMdM) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2215 "2026-08-25T00:10:05Z")
No one knows who actually “invented” baseball, except that it certainly was not Abner Doubleday. Baseball likely came from English games- Rounders and possibly even Cricket. Of course Rounders is not baseball, but one can see the resemblance, I am told it is kinda like “stickball”. Any way in 1845, some New Yorker founded the New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club.. A member- Alexander Joy Cartwright wrote a new set of rules that forms the basis for modern baseball. General Doubleday was a Union major general in the Civil War , later writing and practicing law. Abner _was_ interested in baseball- he provided bast, balls etc for the entertainment and exercise of his men. It is just possible, that since the General was a New Yorker also, that some of his ideas influenced the Knickerbocker Baseball Club. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2216 "2026-08-25T13:22:42Z")
The myth that Abner Doubleday invented baseball came about because Albert Spaulding, an intensely patriotic (nay, jingoistic) sporting goods manufacturer who was keen to see baseball regarded as an American game. To this end, he commissioned a committee to investigate the matter of who invented baseball, and here “investigate” means “wholly manufacture non-existent evidence to reach their foregone conclusion.” ---
**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:** [August 25, 2026, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2217 "2026-08-25T16:01:00Z")
Abner Doubleday Field in Cooperstown NY is just 2 village blocks from the Baseball Hall of Fame. No professional team has ever called the stadium home, although in 1996 the Northeast League considered placing a franchise in Cooperstown. This idea was rejected because Doubleday Field has no lights, a necessity for a team in a pro league. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2218 "2026-08-25T16:52:59Z")
The first MLB night game was played on May 24, 1935, at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2026, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2219 "2026-08-25T19:06:31Z")
Wrigley Field in Chicago, home of the Cubs, is well-known for being the last MLB stadium to install lights. The first night game in Wrigley was played on August 8, 1988, in which the Cubs hosted the Philadelphia Phillies. The game was rained out after 3 1/2 innings. The first official, complete night game was played the next day on August 9, 1988, in which the Cubs beat the New York Mets 6–4. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2026, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2220 "2026-08-26T16:24:14Z")
On August 4,1982, Joel Youngblood of the New York Mets lined a single in an afternoon game. Following the contest, Youngblood was informed that he’d been traded to the Montreal Expos, who were scheduled to play a night game in Philadelphia. Youngblood flew to Philadelphia, and later that night, singled for his new team, becoming the only player to record hits for two different teams on the same day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=110) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=112)