# 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:** 117
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2321 "2010-03-26T15:48:27Z")
The “Six flags” of Texas are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2322 "2010-03-26T16:06:58Z")
Six Flags, Inc., which originally owned just the Dallas-area amusement park in the state which gave it its name, now operates 21 theme parks throughout the US and Canada. Six Flags has sold off its former European properties. It is currently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. ---
**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 26, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2323 "2010-03-26T16:11:58Z")
Notwithstanding recent changes, U.S. bankruptcy laws are much more lenient than those of most other Western democracies, and have been credited by some economists with playing an important role in general American economic dynamism over the years. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2324 "2010-03-26T16:22:49Z")
English bankruptcy law originally permitted debtors to be jailed, forcing their friends and families to pay their debts so their loved one could be released. Many released debtors relocated to the American colonies, especially Georgia and Texas, to rebuild their lives. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2325 "2010-03-26T16:32:44Z")
Of course the debtor system is self perpetuating and England soon ran out of space in its jails so turned old ships into floating prisons. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2326 "2010-03-26T16:40:37Z")
Prison hulks were also convenient places to stash convicts scheduled to be transported to Australia. Previously, during the American Revolution, more rebel POW’s died aboard British hulks than in all battles combined. In New York’s East River alone, approximately 11,500 prisoners died on board, and are commemmorated by the Prison Ship Martyr’s Monument in Fort Greene Park. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2327 "2010-03-26T16:41:02Z")
The Vernon C. Bain Center is an 800-bed jail barge used to hold inmates for New York City as part of the vast Rikers Island jail complex. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2328 "2010-03-26T16:51:08Z")
Jonathan Frakes, playing William T. Riker, grew a beard between the first and second seasons of _Star Trek: The Next Generation_, giving rise to the term “growing the beard,” meaning a TV show has become good after a rocky start. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2329 "2010-03-26T16:52:02Z")
Jonathan Frakes is married to Genie Francis who was soap opera royalty in the 1980s as the female half of Luke & Laura (Tony Geary playing Luke) on _General Hospital_; they were an odd romantic duo as their first sex occurred when Luke raped her in a bowling alley. ---
**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 26, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2330 "2010-03-26T16:54:33Z")
Conrad Bain (who co-starred in the 1970’s sitcom _Maude_) and Jonathan Frakes (who played Commander Will Riker in _Star Trek: The Next Generation_) both acted with Burgess Meredith in different movies. _ETA:_ For that matter, Conrad Bain and Genie Francis both acted with Jerry Stiller. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2331 "2010-03-26T16:58:03Z")
Todd Bridges, one of Conrad Bain’s TV children on _Diff’rent Strokes_ (and who remains close to Bain) is the author of a new bestselling memoir entitled _Killing Willis_. (On talk shows where he’s promoting it he comes across as very level headed and hysterically funny when talking about the media’s refusal to let him live down his troubled-child-star past.) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2332 "2010-03-26T17:01:57Z")
“Diff’rent Strokes” is notable for the number of its stars who have had criminal troubles. Dana Plato, a drug addict, moved into the porn industry. ---
**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 26, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2333 "2010-03-26T17:12:19Z")
Plato’s Retreat was the name of a famous “swingers’ club” for heterosexual couples in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2334 "2010-03-26T17:12:40Z")
According to (disputed but ancient) tradition, a Greek wrestling coach twenty-four centuries ago gave his student Ariston a nickname which translates loosely into English as “broad shoulders”; to this day Ariston is better known by that nickname, Plato. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2335 "2010-03-26T17:14:57Z")
According to Carl Sandburg, Chicago is the “Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation’s freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the big shoulders.” ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2336 "2010-03-26T17:16:06Z")
Argh too slow. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2337 "2010-03-26T17:19:06Z")
Pyrithione zinc is the active ingredient in Head and Shoulders brand anti-dandruff shampoo. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2338 "2010-03-26T17:22:36Z")
To be galvanized is to be coated with zinc. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2339 "2010-03-26T17:43:36Z")
Aside from Starscream and several Sweeps, there are virtually no Decepticon deaths in 1986’s _Transformers: the Movie_, and even those who die are not killed by Autobots. Several of the injured Decepticons are reanimated and reformatted by **Unicron** , including **Megatron** becoming **Galvatron**. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2340 "2010-03-26T19:06:00Z")
\*Transformers: the Movie \*was among the last credits of Orson Welles, Scatman Crothers, and Roger C. Carmel (who was best known as Harry F. Mudd in _Star Trek_), all of whom died within a year one side or the other of its release. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=116) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=118)