# 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:** 47
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/921 "2025-11-02T03:21:35Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > John Philip Sousa is a US Marine. Not since 1932. In play: The largest element on the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency is a [red, sixteen-pointed star on a white shield.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency#/media/File:Seal_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency.svg) ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/922 "2025-11-02T13:48:46Z")
The Central Intelligence Group (CIG) was a US governmental agency that existed from January of 1946 until September of 1947. It was the successor to the Office of Strategic Services and the predecessor of the CIA. Sidney Souers was the first director of the CIG. When President Harry Truman swore him into office, Truman handed Souers a black hat, black cloak, and wooden dagger and declared him, “Director of Centralized Snooping.” ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/923 "2025-11-02T14:16:23Z")
“If the Army and the Navy/Ever look on Heaven’s scenes/They will find the streets are guarded/By United States Marines.” Once a Marine, always a Marine. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/924 "2025-11-02T14:43:02Z")
Exactly. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/925 "2025-11-02T16:01:25Z")
In play: _The Snoop Sisters_ was a short-lived comedy-mystery television series, which aired in rotation as part of the _NBC Tuesday Mystery Movie_ anthology series in 1973-74. It starred veteran actresses Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as Ernesta and Gwendolyn Snoop, two mystery-writing sisters who became amateur sleuths. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/926 "2025-11-02T17:25:35Z")
_The NBC Mystery Movie_ was an anthology television series that aired on NBC from 1971 to 1977. It was a “wheel series” that rotated several programs within the same period throughout each of its seasons. Beginning with _The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie_ (and later adding _The Wednesday Mystery Movie_), it rotated three detective dramas: _Columbo, McCloud_, and _McMillan & Wife_. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/927 "2025-11-02T17:48:29Z")
Ellery Queen was the pseudonym of a pair of authors, Fredrick Dannay and Manfred Lee, who was featured in a series of mysteries with Ellery Queen as the detective. The earlier books were always in the format “_The [nationality] [word] Mystery”: The Roman Hat Mystery, the French Powder Mystery, The Dutch Shoe Mystery_ et al. They also included a “Challenge to the Reader,” where you were told you had all the evidence needed to solve the crime. _Halfway House_ in 1936 dropped the naming conceit and was the last one with the Challenge. Of note, _The Chinese Orange Mystery_, it’s not likely a modern reader would solve the challenge, since it depended on social assumptions of its time. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/928 "2025-11-02T17:56:48Z")
Actor Jim Hutton starred as detective Ellery Queen in an eponymous television mystery series in the 1970s. In the 2000s, Jim’s son Timothy Hutton starred as Nathan Ford in the television crime series _Leverage_; in the 2011 episode “The 10 Li’l Grifters Job,” Ford dressed as Ellery Queen, in an homage to Hutton’s father and his signature role. Jim as Ellery Queen: [![](https://readingelleryqueen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hutton-wayne.png) ](https://readingelleryqueen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hutton-wayne.png) Timothy as Ellery Queen: [![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTcxNjM0MTU3Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTk4MTU0NQ@@._V1_.jpg) ](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTcxNjM0MTU3Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTk4MTU0NQ@@._V1_.jpg) ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/929 "2025-11-02T23:17:13Z")
Filmmaker Queen Muhammad Ali attended school at Mt. San Jacinto community college in Riverside County, California. The school was formed in 1960 and has four campuses in California, in San Jacinto, Menifee, Banning, and Temecula. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/930 "2025-11-03T02:42:28Z")
_San Junipero_ is the fourth episode in the third series of the British science fiction anthology television series _Black Mirror_. San Junipero is revealed to be a simulated reality where the deceased can live, and the elderly can visit, all inhabiting their younger selves’ bodies in a time of their choice. It has been favorably received by critics, and has been described as one of the “best hours” and one of the “most beautiful, cinematic episodes” of television in 2016. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/931 "2025-11-03T03:02:41Z")
Junipero Serra founded many of the missions in the California region and planted the first vineyard in California to make sacramental wine. Because of this, his is one of the two statues that represent California in the National Statuary Hall in the US Capitol ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/932 "2025-11-03T04:40:05Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > “If the Army and the Navy/Ever look on Heaven’s scenes/They will find the streets are guarded/By United States Marines.” Once a Marine, always a Marine. > [@Bullitt](#): > > Exactly. Really? I know that those who once served in that uniform don’t like to be called “ex-Marines,” preferring “former [or retired] Marines.” But I have never, ever heard a dead person referred to as _still_ being a Marine, even by Marine friends of mine. In play: Ronald Reagan, late President of the United States, is the other person whose statue was selected by California to be honored in National Statuary Hall. Each state may have two statues; by 1933 there were too many statues to all fit into the space (the former chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives), so some statues were placed elsewhere in the Capitol. 38 out of 100 statues are now in the Hall. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/933 "2025-11-03T05:49:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Really? I know that those who once served in that uniform don’t like to be called “ex-Marines,” preferring “former [or retired] Marines.” But I have never, ever heard a dead person referred to as _still_ being a Marine, even by Marine friends of mine. Yes some of us do it. Apparently it’s not universal, but we do it. Once a Marine, always a Marine. Also, ‘Til Valhalla. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/934 "2025-11-03T05:52:25Z")
In play — The former meeting place of the US House of Representatives in the early 19th century was repurposed to be the National Statuary Hall in 1864, which is when the National Statuary Hall Collection was established. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/935 "2025-11-03T14:40:29Z")
The first statue in the National Statuary Hall was a marble one of Nathanael Greene made by Henry Kirke Brown and place there, by Rhode Island, in 1870. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/936 "2025-11-03T15:25:31Z")
Nathanael Greene was born near Warwick, Rhode Island. The main airport for Providence RI (PVD airport) is Green, but that’s for TF Green and is named for the former governor and senator. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/937 "2025-11-03T17:53:50Z")
Until 2020, the official name of Rhode Island was “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.” Despite how the term _plantations_ was used historically as a region of Rhode Island, it was felt that the word itself had connotations the state would rather distance itself from and so after a referendum that won 52.8% of the vote, the state became “The State of Rhode Island”. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/938 "2025-11-03T19:09:32Z")
Rhode Island has no county government. It is divided into 39 municipalities, with each having its own form of local government. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/939 "2025-11-03T21:16:38Z")
Ohio does have county governments, and has 88 of them. The most populous urbanized Ohio counties also tend to be Democratic in their politics: Franklin (greater Columbus), Cuyahoga (greater Cleveland), Hamilton (greater Cincinnati), Summit (greater Akron), Montgomery (greater Dayton) and Lucas (greater Toledo). ---
**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:** [November 4, 2025, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/940 "2025-11-04T10:29:36Z")
According to NRA-ILA, the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, Ohio does not regulate assault weapons or large capacity magazines, or bump stocks/forced reset triggers. ➜ [Ohio State Gun Laws and Regulations Explained | NRA-ILA](https://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-gun-laws/ohio) ■ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=46) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=48)