# 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:** 9
**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:** [May 7, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/161 "2025-05-07T22:12:51Z")
The Cleveland Spiders were a professional baseball team in the late 19th century; they played in the American Association from 1887-1888, then moved to the National League, where they played from 1889 through 1899. In 1899, the Spiders’ owners, brothers Frank and Stanley Robison, purchased another National League team, the St. Louis Browns, which had gone bankrupt. The Robisons renamed the franchise the St. Louis franchise as the Perfectos, and moved the Spiders’ best players to the Perfectos, while announcing that they would operate the Spiders as a “sideshow.” Cleveland fans refused to go to the ballpark to watch the pathetic Spiders, and by midseason, the other NL teams refused to travel to Cleveland to play them, as the visitors’ “cut” of the gate wouldn’t be sufficient to cover travel costs. Between their decimated talent, and having to play most of the second half of the season on the road, the Spiders finished the 1899 season with only 20 wins, versus 134 losses. Their winning percentage of .130 is, by far, the worst in MLB history, and after the season, the Spiders were disbanded by the National League. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/162 "2025-05-08T01:38:55Z")
When the Cleveland Indians baseball team changed its name in 2021, a fan favorite for a new name was the Spiders, despite the mixed record (to say the least) of the original team. Team leaders eventually chose the Guardians as the new name, and Tom Hanks narrated a short video announcing the change [(starting at 0:30 here).](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJVAxFbCEDA) ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/163 "2025-05-08T07:32:57Z")
Spencer Tracy was the first actor to consecutively win the Best Actor Oscar twice, for _Captains Courageous_ (1937) and _Boys Town_ (1938). It has only been done one other time. Tom Hanks is the only other actor ever to win consecutive Best Actor Oscars. He won it for _Philadelphia_ (1993) and _Forrest Gump_ (1994). ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/164 "2025-05-08T13:49:35Z")
British author, journalist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote _Captains Courageous_ at Naulakha, his house near Brattleboro, Vermont. The house is now owned by the Landmark Trust and is available for rent (and I spent a great weekend with some high school pals in it). > **[Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naulakha_(Rudyard_Kipling_House))** > > Naulakha, also known as the Rudyard Kipling House, is a historic Shingle Style house on Kipling Road in Dummerston, Vermont, a few miles outside Brattleboro. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 for its association with the author Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who had it built in 1893 and made it his home until 1896. It is in this house that Kipling wrote Captains Courageous, The Jungle Book, The Day's Work, and The Seven Seas, and did work on Kim and The Just So Stori... ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/165 "2025-05-08T14:52:29Z")
In 1903, Kipling gave permission to Elizabeth Ford Holt to borrow themes from the _Jungle Books_ to establish Camp Mowglis, a summer camp for boys on the shores of Newfound Lake in New Hampshire. Throughout their lives, Kipling and his wife Carrie maintained an active interest in Camp Mowglis, which still continues the traditions that Kipling inspired. Buildings at Mowglis have names such as Akela, Toomai, Baloo, and Panther. The campers are referred to as “the Pack”, from the youngest “Cubs” to the oldest living in “Den.” ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/166 "2025-05-08T18:19:26Z")
One of the best-selling postcards of the 20th century featured a racy pun, based on Rudyard Kipling’s name. The postcard, created by English graphic artist Donald McGill (likely during the 1930s), depicts a young couple under a tree; its humor comes from a double-entendre on Kipling’s name which was apparently coined several decades earlier. [![](https://whosoutthere.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/donaldmcgill-postcard-kipling.jpg?w=636) ](https://whosoutthere.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/donaldmcgill-postcard-kipling.jpg?w=636) ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/167 "2025-05-08T20:59:24Z")
Rudyard Kipling was played by Christopher Plummer in the 1975 film adaptation of his tale, _The Man Who Would Be King_, costarring Sean Connery and Michael Caine. The narrator is unnamed in the original 1888 novella. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/168 "2025-05-09T02:36:33Z")
Rudyard, Staffordshire is a village in central England and about 25 miles SSE of Manchester. It lies on the shore of the reservoir, Rudyard Lake. The parents of Rudyard Kipling met there and liked the place so much they named their son after it. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/169 "2025-05-10T03:45:39Z")
Kipling is the name of a small town in south-east Saskatchewan. Named after Rudyard Kipling, it is also notable for being the end-point of a series of trades by a Canadian blogger, Kyle MacDonald, that began with a red paper clip in 2005, and ended with MacDonald gaining a two-storey house in Kipling in 2006. > **[One red paperclip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip)** > > One red paperclip is a website created by Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald, who traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of fourteen online trades over the course of a year. MacDonald was inspired by the childhood game Bigger, Better. His site received a considerable amount of notice for tracking the transactions. "A lot of people have been asking how I've stirred up so much publicity around the project, and my simple answer is: 'I have no idea'", he told the BBC. Th Ma... ---
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Kipling SK is near some other towns with interesting names, including about 55 miles SSW of Stockholm SK and about 200 miles NE of Big Beaver SK and Big Muddy SK. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2025, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/171 "2025-05-10T07:56:09Z")
_Corner Gas_ was a Canadian situation comedy television series, set in the fictional small town of Dog River, Saskatchewan. The series, which originally ran from 2004-2009, was entirely filmed in Saskatchewan, and won six Gemini Awards (a Canadian analogue to the U.S. Emmy Awards) and nine Canadian Comedy Awards. ---
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Dog River is the nickname for Rouleau SK, a small town near Regina and about 125 miles W of Kipling SK. Rouleau is where filming for _Corner Gas_ was done, where it depicted the fictitious town of Dog River. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/173 "2025-05-10T18:06:05Z")
On March 19, 1992, alt-rock band Weezer played their first concert, closing for main act Dogstar. ---
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In 1992, on 01 February, US President George HW Bush met with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at Camp David and they formally declared that the Cold War was over. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/175 "2025-05-11T14:16:27Z")
Originally known as “Hi-Catoctin”, being part of the Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland, Camp David was built as a retreat for federal government agents and their families by the Works Progress Administration. It was renamed “Shangri-La” by FDR, then later renamed “Camp David” after Dwight David Eisenhower. ---
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> [@knoodler](#): > > then later renamed “Camp David” after Dwight David Eisenhower. Nitpick and not in play: President Dwight David Eisenhower renamed it after his only grandson, Dwight David Eisenhower II, who was called David. > **[Family of Dwight D. Eisenhower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower)** > > The family of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, and his wife, Mamie, consists predominantly of German and Pennsylvania Dutch background. They are related by marriage to the family of Richard Nixon, who was Eisenhower's vice-president, and was later the 37th president of the United States. > The Eisenhauer (German for "iron hewer/miner") family migrated to America from Karlsbrunn (Nassau-Saarbrücken) in 1741, first settling in York, Pennsylvania. They moved to Kansas ... In play: Dwight Eisenhower, who had two sons and no daughters, is the last serving US President to have fathered only sons. However, five of his successors have fathered only daughters: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barak Obama. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/177 "2025-05-12T02:17:14Z")
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former U.S. President Barack Obama are not believed to be related. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/178 "2025-05-12T05:20:04Z")
Barack Obama has traced his maternal roots to Moneygall in County Offaly, Ireland. ---
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Barack Obama’s parents were Barack Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham, whose first name at birth was actually Stanley. His father grew up in Kenya and in his teen years was a goatherd. Later he won a scholarship to study in the US and he eventually worked in the Kenyan government as a senior economist. His mother grew up in Kansas, Texas, and Washington state before her family settled in Honolulu. She and Barack Sr. met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii, and the couple married less than a year later. Their son Barack, jr was born in 1961. Neither parent lived long enough to see their son become the 44th President. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/180 "2025-05-12T14:17:17Z")
In 1964 the Obamas divorced, and Dunham later met and married Indonesian businessman Lolo Soetoro. They had one daughter, Maya Kasandra Soetoro, who was born in 1970 and is the only sibling of Barack, Jr. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=10)