# 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:** 122
**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, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2421 "2010-03-29T19:57:21Z")
In 2000, Stewart Copeland joined with Les Claypool of Primus and Trey Anastasio of Phish to create the band **Oysterhead** ---
**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, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2422 "2010-03-29T20:11:44Z")
Betsy Ross was the name the seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first U.S. flag is best known by to history but it was only her name for less than three years (1774-1777). She was widowed and remarried twice during the Revolution and by late 1783 her full name was Elizabeth Griscom Ross Ashburn Claypool. ---
**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, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2423 "2010-03-29T20:21:13Z")
Baseball Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn played 15 seasons in the majors, but in only 4 of those seasons did his team have a winning record. He also held the distinction of being the lone All-Star Game representative for the hapless 1962 New York Mets. ---
**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, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2424 "2010-03-29T20:25:03Z")
Three members of the 1962 Mets played for pennant-winning New York Mets teams: Ed Kranepool (1969 and 1973), Al Jackson (1969, though traded away in June), and Bob Miller (appeared in one game in September of 1973, but not eligible for the World Series roster). ---
**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, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2425 "2010-03-29T20:32:51Z")
The rock band Yo La Tengo takes its name from an incident involving the 1962 “Can’t anybody here play this game?” Mets. [Quoth Wiki:](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_la_tengo) > [@](#): > > During the 1962 season, New York Mets center fielder Richie Ashburn and Venezuelan shortstop Elio Chacón found themselves colliding in the outfield. When Ashburn went for a catch, he would scream, “I got it! I got it!” only to run into Chacón, who spoke only Spanish. Ashburn learned to yell, “¡Yo la tengo! ¡Yo la tengo!” instead. In a later game, Ashburn happily saw Chacón backing off. He relaxed, positioned himself to catch the ball, and was instead run over by left fielder Frank Thomas, who understood no Spanish and had missed a team meeting that proposed using the words “¡Yo la tengo!” as a way to avoid outfield collisions. After getting up, Thomas asked Ashburn, “What the heck is a Yellow Tango?”. ---
**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, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2426 "2010-03-29T20:43:19Z")
Dana Andrews and Anthony Quinn are wrongly hanged as cattle rustlers, in the movie version of _ **The Ox-Bow Incident.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2427 "2010-03-29T21:02:39Z")
Quinn Martin (producer of television shows which featured the voice-over “This has been a Quinn Martin production”) was born Irving Martin Cohn in New York. His adopted first name came from his friends’ mispronunciation of his original surname as “Co-in”. ---
**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, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2428 "2010-03-29T21:22:13Z")
Disc jockey Frank Gallop spoofed Lorne Greene’s hit single “Ringo” with the novelty song “The Ballad of Irving.” Irving was a Jewish cowboy, and the 142nd fastest gun in the West. ---
**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, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2429 "2010-03-29T21:30:29Z")
Lorne Green’s birth name was Hyman Green and his family and childhood friends called him Chaim, which means life. The song _L’Chaim_ in _Fiddler On the Roof_ was sung in the film version and on stages in London, on Broadway, and in numerous tours by the Israeli actor Chaim Topol. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2430 "2010-03-29T22:05:01Z")
After _Bonanza_ ended its run, Lorne Greene took the title role in a crime drama called _Griff_. The series lasted for thirteen episodes. ---
**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, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2431 "2010-03-29T22:22:33Z")
Rotund Hoss Cartwright, on the Western _ **Bonanza,** _ rode an unfortunate horse with the equally unfortunate name “Chubby.” ---
**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, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2432 "2010-03-29T22:40:08Z")
Dan “Hoss Cartwright” Blocker was partial owner of the _Bonanza_ steakhouse chain and his [Tudor style mansion](http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/b/Dan%20blocker/house.jpg)is now the home of Rob Zombie. ---
**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 30, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2433 "2010-03-30T01:58:12Z")
The 2006 movie _The Quick and the Undead_ was touted as being a “zombie western.” ---
**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 30, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2434 "2010-03-30T03:08:00Z")
The film **I Walked with a Zombie** is loosely based upon the book **Jane Eyre** – showing the trend of mixing zombies with literature (e.g., **Sense and Sensibility with Zombies** ) is not a new one. ---
**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 30, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2435 "2010-03-30T03:12:06Z")
Natalie Portman (Queen Amidala in the _Star Wars_ prequels) has been cast as Elizabeth Bennet, the lead female role, in the upcoming movie version of _Pride and Prejudice and Zombies._ ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2436 "2010-03-30T03:43:37Z")
The current bestselling novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, author of _Pride and Prejudice and Zombies_, is _Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter_. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2437 "2010-03-30T05:07:58Z")
David Hunter, abolitionist Union General, rode Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural train from Springfield, and later the train bearing Lincoln’s body back to Springfield. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2438 "2010-03-30T05:15:14Z")
While two of her sisters lived in Springfield, many of Mary Todd Lincoln’s siblings and half-siblings sided with the South; there was much criticism when her half-sister Emilie Helm, widow of a Confederate general killed at Chickamauga, moved into the White House during the Civil War. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2439 "2010-03-30T11:16:30Z")
Deep Purple’s first hit single in the United States was a cover of “Hush,” originally written and sung by Joe South. ---
**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 30, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2440 "2010-03-30T12:49:25Z")
Sinead OConnor appeared in the movie “Hush-a-Bye Baby” about a pregnant, Irish girl who writes letters to her boyfriend (who is in prison), but they don’t let the boyfriend get the letters because she writes in Irish. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=121) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=123)