# 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:** 121
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2401 "2010-03-29T06:22:25Z")
Original plans for the District of Columbia contained three separate cities: Georgetown, Washington, and Alexandria. Virginia ultimately refused to yield Alexandria (though it was used as base of operations for building D.C.) while Georgetown has long since been incorporated into Washington D.C… ---
**Author:** ![cucuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@cucuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cucuy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2402 "2010-03-29T06:51:14Z")
_The District_ is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show starred Craig T Nelson as the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department. It was during the show’s run that DC was terrorized by the Beltway sniper attacks which killed 10 people and wounded at least five. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2403 "2010-03-29T12:12:07Z")
Craig T Nelson is best known for starring in the series _Coach_, which aired for nine seasons on ABC. He played the football coach for the fictional university, Minnesota State University. ---
**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 29, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2404 "2010-03-29T12:42:06Z")
The “school colors” for Minnesota State University in the show were the same as for the Minnesota Vikings. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2405 "2010-03-29T13:26:52Z")
The top assistant coach for the Minnesota State Screaming Eagles was played by Jerry Van Dyke, brother of Dick and previously the star of “My Mother the Car”. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2406 "2010-03-29T14:14:18Z")
Edward Everett Horton played an Indian Chief named Screaming Chicken on “Batman,” just as he’d played the Hekawi tribe’s medicine man, Roaring Chicken, on “F Troop.” The tribe’s name came from a sanitized version of an old dirty joke about a hopelessly lost Indian tribe wandering around the wilderness. In the joke, the tribe meets a frontiersman, who asks, “What tribe are you?” The exasperated chief answers, “Where the heck are we?” (which sounded like 'We’re the Hekawi.") ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2407 "2010-03-29T14:44:40Z")
In an early Yosemite Sam cartoon he referred to himself as the “the rip-snortin’-est, Edward Everett Horton-est he-man of 'em all”, which was a joke as Horton most often played effete snobs- it would be similar to a cowboy character today saying “I’m the fiercest David Hyde Piercist he-man of 'em all”. ---
**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 29, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2408 "2010-03-29T15:12:00Z")
Edward Everett Hale, a descendent of Nathan Hale, anti-slavery advocate and author of _Man Without a Country_, is sometimes said to be the grandfather of Edward Everett Horton. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2409 "2010-03-29T15:14:02Z")
Edward Everett Horton narrated the “Fractured Fairy Tales” segments on “Rocky and Bullwinkle”. Other favorite features on the show were “Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties”, “Peabody’s Improbable History”, “Aesop and Son”, “Bullwinkle’s Corner”, “Mr. Know It All”, and “The World of Commander McBragg”. ---
**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 29, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2410 "2010-03-29T15:30:53Z")
In 1837, the Brothers Grimm joined five of their colleague professors at the University of Göttingen to protest against the abolition of the liberal constitution of the state of Hanover by King Ernest Augustus I, a reactionary son of King George III. This group came to be known in the German states as _Die Göttinger Sieben_. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2411 "2010-03-29T15:44:01Z")
The University of Göttingen has long been a center of mathematical study. Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann and David Hilbert were all professors there. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2412 "2010-03-29T16:47:55Z")
Bernhard Langer is the only German who’s ever won golf’s Masters tournament. So far, he’s put on the green jacket twice. ---
**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 29, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2413 "2010-03-29T17:31:35Z")
Gene Sarazen, whose double eagle won the 1935 Masters and is one only six golfers to win a career grand slam, invented the sand wedge. ---
**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 29, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2414 "2010-03-29T18:09:00Z")
Astronaut Gene Cernan, commander of the Apollo 17 mission, was the last man to set foot on the moon. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2415 "2010-03-29T18:37:46Z")
Martin Landau and his then-wife Barbara Bain were the stars of the sci-fi show _Space 1999_ set on a lunar colony after the moon was cast out of Earth’s orbit. Landau and Bain had previously worked together on _Mission Impossible_ and would later appear together in the instant movie classic _The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island_ (which would probably have won them Oscars had it not been a TV movie, but Martin had to wait for _Ed Wood_ for that). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2416 "2010-03-29T18:54:17Z")
_Space: 1999_ was the most notable live-action production of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, who were best known for “Supermarionation” series such as _Thunderbirds, Supercar,_ and _Fireball XL5_. The genre was revived, for the purposes of mocking it, by _South Park’s_ Trey Parker and Matt Stone in _Team America: World Police_. ---
**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 29, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2417 "2010-03-29T19:34:35Z")
The Thunderbirds is the name of the U.S. Air Force precision flight team, the equivalent of the Navy’s Blue Angels. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2418 "2010-03-29T19:41:34Z")
The Tracy brothers, on the \*\*\*Thunderbirds \*\*\*series, were named after American Project Mercuriy astronauts: Scott (as in Carpenter) flew Thunderbird 1, Virgil (as in Grissom) flew Thunderbird 2, Alan (as in Shepard) flew Thunderbird 3, Gordon (as in Cooper) piloted the submarine Thunderbird 4, and John (as in Glenn) worked in the space station called Thunderbird 5. ---
**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 29, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2419 "2010-03-29T19:49:35Z")
Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s film **Team America: World Police** was primarily inspired by **Thunderbirds** , though Stone and Parker were not fans of the show. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2420 "2010-03-29T19:53:57Z")
Drummer Stewart Copeland was the son of a high ranking official in the CIA, America’s secret police. It was his idea to name his most successful band The Police, in his dad’s “honor.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=120) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=122)