# 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:** 100
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1981 "2010-03-15T14:24:01Z")
When John Madden resigned as head coach of the Raiders, he had the best winning percentage of any head coach in NFL history. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1982 "2010-03-15T17:00:46Z")
The fighter ships used by the Cylons in both versions of “Battlestar Galactica” were called Raiders. In the remade series, the Raiders had organic, quasi-intelligent components that made them near living beings. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1983 "2010-03-15T17:19:41Z")
John Colicos, who played the traitorous Count Baltar in the original _Battlestar Galactica_ series, played Klingon Commander Kor in an episode of the original _Star Trek_, a role he reprised on three episodes of _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1984 "2010-03-15T18:17:01Z")
There has only been one King John of England, the son of Henry II and the brother of Richard the Lionheart. He signed the Magna Carta very unwillingly, and otherwise did so poorly as king (although recent scholarship is a bit more favorable to him) that no one has taken his regnal name since. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1985 "2010-03-15T18:22:51Z")
Shortly before signing the Magna Charta King John of England raised revenue for the crown by auctioning off the hands in marriage of unmarried heiresses, one of who was his ex-wife Avisa (or Isabella) of Gloucester. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1986 "2010-03-15T18:57:46Z")
John ‘Toom Tabard’ de Baliol was the King of Scots during whose reign William Wallace rebelled. This King John was also so despised that when King Robert II’s son John assumed the throne of Scotland in 1390, he changed his name and reigned as Robert III. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1987 "2010-03-15T19:05:34Z")
Balliol College is the oldest of the colleges of Oxford University, dating to 1263. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1988 "2010-03-15T19:26:24Z")
Despite its name, Boston College is a full university, complete with a business school, a nursing school and a law school. The only reason they haven’t chnaged their name to reflect that is… there’s already a Boston Unversity. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1989 "2010-03-15T19:46:25Z")
On _The White Shadow_, the title character (a high school basketball coach) and the school’s principal had been roommates at Boston College. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1990 "2010-03-15T19:47:17Z")
_White Shadow_ star Ken Howard played Thomas Jefferson in _1776_ on Broadway and in the film, while William Daniels co-starred with him in both as obnoxious and disliked Bostonian John Adams. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1991 "2010-03-15T20:21:03Z")
John Adams (a different man than the U.S. President) was one of the _Bounty_ mutineers who settled Pitcairn Island. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1992 "2010-03-15T20:44:23Z")
Brooke Adams, an actress who is married to Tony Shalhoub and who has guest starred on _Monk_, is a descendant of John and John Quincy Adams. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1993 "2010-03-15T21:09:10Z")
Cartoonist Charles Addams was also a distant relative of John and John Quincy Adams (despite the different spellings) and also a relative of social reformer Jane Addams. ---
**Author:** ![CircleofWillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@CircleofWillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircleofWillis)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1994 "2010-03-15T21:19:43Z")
John and John Quincy Adams are part of the John and Priscilla Alden lineage… which also includes Frank Nelson Doubleday, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Martha Graham amongst many others (including the CircleofWillis children) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1995 "2010-03-16T01:13:45Z")
While Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a professor at Harvard, he lived in Cambridge at the Craigie House, which had served as George Washington’s headquarters during the Siege of Boston in 1775 (the year in which Longfellow’s _Paul Revere’s Ride_ was set). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1996 "2010-03-16T01:25:12Z")
Wadsworth’s bushy white beard was not due to the fashion of the day. When his wife’s dress caught on fire (1861) he tried to smother the flames with his body and burned his face bad enough to leave scars and make shaving very painful. His wife died of her burns; she was his second, his first wife, Mary Potter, having died a few years after their marriage. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1997 "2010-03-16T01:40:52Z")
The Great Chicago fire was not the worst fire in US history (in terms of lives lost and amount of damage). That “honor” goes to the Great Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, which took place at the same day and about the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1998 "2010-03-16T02:00:16Z")
The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history (not in world history) was the unnamed hurricane that hit Galveston on September 8, 1900. The number of fatalities is not known for certain but definitely more than 6,000 and possibly as many twice that were killed; most accounts give an estimate of 8,000. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2010, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1999 "2010-03-16T02:58:46Z")
Glen Campbell’s hit song, “Galveston”, was written by Jimmy Webb, and was widely regarded as a protest song against the Vietnam War (though Webb indicated that this was not his intent). ---
**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:** [March 16, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2000 "2010-03-16T03:14:27Z")
Bill Clinton was, in December 2000, the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since Lyndon Johnson. The visit got relatively little attention back home because of the _Bush v. Gore_ lawsuit then making its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=99) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=101)