# Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 4, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657 "2010-02-04T08:12:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1 "2010-02-04T08:12:06Z")
It’s a game of my own devising and I expect the thread to sink beneath the horizon, but just in case, here’s how it works: I’ll post a piece of trivia, somebody will “play” off my trivia, then the next person tags onto that, etc., and let’s see how we can keep it going. Simple rules: 1- You should make sure it’s true before using it to avoid “Cite?” 2- It should have something that can be played off both sides 3- You can decide what’s trivia or factoid or whatever- it basically just means it should be blip sized information. Here’s how to play- imagine this is posted by several posters: > [@](#): > > Poster 1: Mickey Rooney has the longest film career in history- 84 years to date with several projects in development. > > Poster 2: Mickey Rooney was the original choice to play Archie Bunker. > > Poster 3: Archie Bunker’s chair is in the Smithsonian Institution. > > Poster 4: The Smithsonian was founded with money willed to the U.S. by the illegitimate son of a British nobleman. > > Poster 5: Omer Bhatti, the Norwegian rapper, is rumored to be the illegitimate son of Michael Jackson. > > Poster 6: Michael Jackson’s THRILLER was the best selling album of all time. > > Poster 7: Enrico Caruso was the first singer to become a millionaire from recordings. > > Poster 8: Enrico Caruso was in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake. Hopefully you get the idea- you can play off any part of the preceding piece of trivia. You can make a statement that is not necessarily true so long as you qualify it (i.e. I didn’t say Bhatti is Jackson’s son, just that he’s rumored to be, which is true) or you can go for a “not exactly but really close” connection (Thriller setting records and Caruso’s recording earnings are not exact matches but both have to do with distinctions in recording success, if that makes sense). So, ready to play? I doubt it, but I’ve started threads that strangled on the cord before. I’ll be back with a piece of trivia: play off any part of it so long as you keep the thread going. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2 "2010-02-04T08:13:07Z")
TRIVIA: Presidents Andrew Jackson, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Bill Clinton were all born after the death of their biological fathers. reminder: you can play off Jackson, Hayes, Clinton, biological fathers, etc. ---
**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 4, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/3 "2010-02-04T13:37:54Z")
Rutherford B. Hayes is the only US president to have an entire province named after him in a country outside the US – the Presidente Hayes Province in Paraguay. ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/4 "2010-02-04T13:50:30Z")
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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/5 "2010-02-04T14:01:49Z")
Paraguay is one of only two landlocked countries in South America, the other is Bolivia. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/6 "2010-02-04T14:49:13Z")
The Bolivian national football (soccer) team has never advanced beyond the first round of the World Cup. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/7 "2010-02-04T15:11:55Z")
In _Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_, our heroes want to escape to Bolivia, but it doesn’t really work out. ---
**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 4, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/8 "2010-02-04T15:13:11Z")
No European team has ever won a world cup contested outside of Europe. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/9 "2010-02-04T15:25:37Z")
The first video honored at the MTV Europe awards was “Hobo Humpin’ Slobo Babe” by Whale. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/10 "2010-02-04T15:30:25Z")
The first video played on MTV was the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/11 "2010-02-04T15:39:17Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > The first video played on MTV was the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Buggles Geoff Downes and Trevor Horne joined Yes in 1981. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/12 "2010-02-04T16:36:11Z")
One of the members of Yes was Steve Howe. A different Steve Howe pitched for the Los Angeles Dodgers. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/13 "2010-02-04T16:49:51Z")
Elias Howe invented the first practical sewing machine. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/14 "2010-02-04T16:56:17Z")
The Beatles’ movie “Help!” is dedicated to Elias Howe. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/15 "2010-02-04T17:01:38Z")
Like “Help!,” the TV show “Jeopardy!” has an exclamation point as part of the title. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/16 "2010-02-04T17:10:24Z")
Like “Help!” and “Jeopardy!”, the TV series “Combat!” has an exclamation point as part of the title. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/17 "2010-02-04T17:11:31Z")
The punctuation mark combining an exclamation point with a question mark is called an interrobang. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18 "2010-02-04T17:12:27Z")
Combat! star Vic Morrow was tragically killed on set of the movie The Twilight Zone when a helicopter crashed on top of him. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19 "2010-02-04T17:20:46Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Combat! star Vic Morrow was tragically killed on set of the movie The Twilight Zone when a helicopter crashed on top of him. Harrison Ford is a licensed helicopter pilot. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/20 "2010-02-04T17:27:21Z")
Harrison Ford’s SO is Callista Flockhart. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2)