# 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:** 104
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2061 "2010-03-18T01:54:14Z")
David Ginsburg’s imminent post-Bork nomination to the Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1987 was withdrawn when reports of his pot-puffing past became public. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2062 "2010-03-18T02:07:28Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > David Ginsburg’s imminent post-Bork nomination to the Supreme Court by President Reagan in 1987 was withdrawn when reports of his pot-puffing past became public. Nitpick: Ginsburg’s first name is Douglas. He once served as a law clerk for then-Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. ---
**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 18, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2063 "2010-03-18T02:26:37Z")
The Marshall Tucker Band, best known for their hit “Heard it in a Love Song,” had no one named “Marshall” or “Tucker” in it. The name was that of a piano tuner whose name was on a key to a warehouse where they were rehearsing. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2064 "2010-03-18T02:48:01Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > The Marshall Tucker Band, best known for their hit “Heard it in a Love Song,” had no one named “Marshall” or “Tucker” in it. The name was that of a piano tuner whose name was on a key to a warehouse where they were rehearsing. A Friar Tuck with Robin Hood’s band in the historical period of Richard the Lion-Hearted would have been impossible, because the period predates friars in England. However, the association of the Robin Hood with Richard I was not made until the 16th century; the early ballad “A Gest of Robin Hood” names his king as “Edward”. ---
**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 18, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2065 "2010-03-18T02:52:34Z")
King Richard the Lionheart, son of Henry II and Catherine of Aragon, has long been thought to have been gay; some contemporaries believed he might have had a fling with the King of France. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2066 "2010-03-18T03:23:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Catherine of Aragon (psssst, Eleanor of Aquitaine) “Dieu et mon droit”, supposedly first uttered by England’s Richard I, Coeur de Lion, is an anagram of “motto I die under”. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2067 "2010-03-18T03:58:47Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > (psssst, Eleanor of Aquitaine) > > “Dieu et mon droit”, supposedly first uttered by England’s Richard I, Coeur de Lion, is an anagram of “motto I die under”. George Plimpton spent a month at the Detroit Lions’ summer training camp, working out with real players like Alex Karras and Night Train Lane. He documented the experience in the novel _ **Paper Lion,** _ which was later made into a movie featuring Alan Alda as Plimpton (plus Karras and Lane as themselves). ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2068 "2010-03-18T10:03:13Z")
The lion in Bob Marley’s _Iron Lion Zion_ represents Haïlé Selassié I, king of Ethiopia and Messiah to the Rastafarians. It refers to the Lion of Judah, which appeared on the royal flag of Ethiopia. ---
**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 18, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2069 "2010-03-18T12:36:56Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > George Plimpton spent a month at the Detroit Lions’ summer training camp, working out with real players like Alex Karras and Night Train Lane. He documented the experience in the novel _ **Paper Lion,** _ which was later made into a movie featuring Alan Alda as Plimpton (plus Karras and Lane as themselves). Actually, Karras wasn’t on the team with Plimpton – he had been suspended for gambling on games, though Plimpton did tell some Karras stories he heard from other players. Back to the game: Haïlé Selassié is the only world leader to address both the League of Nations and the United Nations. ---
**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 18, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2070 "2010-03-18T13:43:08Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > (psssst, Eleanor of Aquitaine)… :smack: :smack: :smack: Of course you’re right. After World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge of Mass. clashed over whether and under what circumstances the U.S. would join the League of Nations. Wilson became physically disabled while touring the country in support of the League, was unable to secure Senate approval for League membership, and left office a broken man. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2071 "2010-03-18T14:07:42Z")
The Archies featured Archie Andrews on guitar, Reggie Mantle on guitar or bass, Veronica Lodge on keyboards, Jughead Jones on drums, and Betty Cooper on the tambourine. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2072 "2010-03-18T16:39:42Z")
The 1968 pop hit “Sugar, Sugar”, under the name of The Archies, was recorded by studio musicians assembled by Don Kirshner. It was the only time a fictional band has reached a real #1 on the Billboard Top 100. ---
**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 18, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2073 "2010-03-18T17:14:32Z")
The actual lead singer for The Archies was a session singer named Ron Dante. Dante was also the lead singer for the parody group The Detergents, who had a hit song with _Leader of the Laundromat._ While recording music for The Archies, Dante was also lead singer for the group the Cuff Links, which had a top ten hit with _Tracy_. ---
**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 18, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2074 "2010-03-18T17:19:57Z")
The two turtles owned by Rocky Balboa in the original **Rocky** were named Cuff and Link. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2075 "2010-03-18T18:07:05Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The 1968 pop hit “Sugar, Sugar”, under the name of The Archies, was recorded by studio musicians assembled by Don Kirshner. **It was the only time a fictional band has reached a real #1 on the Billboard Top 100.** Except for the #1 hits produced by the Chipmunks, the Partridge Family, and The Heights (and arguably the Monkees), that is. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2076 "2010-03-18T18:18:31Z")
You mean I can’t trust Wiki? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2077 "2010-03-18T18:26:00Z")
According to lore, Ancient Greek poet and playwright Aeschylus was killed by a ballistic turtle, when an eagle mistook his shiny bald head for a rock (on which eagles drop turtles in order to break their shells). The fate of the turtle is unknown. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2078 "2010-03-18T18:30:35Z")
In William Shakespeare’s poem, _The Phoenix and the Turtle_, the final word of the title refers not to a reptile, but to the turtle dove. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2079 "2010-03-18T18:43:18Z")
In the King James Bible, the 46th word of the 46th Psalm is “shake,” while the 46th word from the end is “spear,” While this is probably coincidental, it has led to widespread speculation that William Sharkespeare was the translator. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2080 "2010-03-18T18:54:19Z")
The general editor of the King James Bible (which was a massive undertaking) was Lancelot Andrewes, a scholar and poet who it is believed took a great role in the prose of the scripture. He is also on the ever growing list of suspects for “people who wrote Shakespeare’s plays and poems” though a very large number of scholars still believe Shakespeare’s plays were written by Shakespeare. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=103) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=105)