# 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:** 13
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/241 "2010-02-07T14:05:09Z")
Ernest Hemingway volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Italians during the first World War and was wounded by a mortar round during his service. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/242 "2010-02-07T15:21:19Z")
One of the largest mortars ever produced was the 'Little David" mortar produced by the U.S. The shell it fired weighed over 3600 pounds and had a range of six miles. It was never used in combat. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/243 "2010-02-07T16:05:41Z")
Buster Keaton posed in a gag photo with a mortar while starring in _The General_: [http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/images/04/33/the\_general.jpg](http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/images/04/33/the_general.jpg) Great game idea - sorry I hadn’t seen it sooner! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/244 "2010-02-07T16:09:43Z")
A mortar is commonly used with a pestle. Few people know which is which, or why. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/245 "2010-02-07T16:14:27Z")
“The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!” – was spoken by Danny Kaye in the film,\* The Court Jester \*(1956). ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/246 "2010-02-07T16:34:47Z")
Michael Ironside played the character with the call sign “Jester”, a hardened veteran pilot, in _Top Gun_. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/247 "2010-02-07T16:40:17Z")
Raymond Burr played paralyzed detective Robert Ironside in _Ironside_. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/248 "2010-02-07T17:20:11Z")
The interjection “Brr” is also used by the French to indicate being cold. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/249 "2010-02-07T17:30:23Z")
“Interjections!” was a song from _Schoolhouse Rock_, as was “Conjunction Junction,” “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly,” and “Verb: That’s What’s Happenin’.” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/250 "2010-02-07T17:33:54Z")
Grand Junction, Colorado is the nearest city to Colorado National Monument. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/251 "2010-02-07T17:58:25Z")
John Ford filmed many of his classic Westerns in Monument Valley, Utah. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/252 "2010-02-07T18:18:03Z")
Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego, California, recognizes Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the first European to set foot on what is now the West Coast of the United States; San Diego, originally named San Miguel, went on to become the site of the first European settlement in Alta California. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/253 "2010-02-07T21:50:13Z")
\*Somewhere in Time \*with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour was filmed at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/254 "2010-02-07T21:52:49Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > \*Somewhere in Time \*with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour was filmed at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. Jane Seymour was the only one of Henry the Eighth’s six wives to give him a son. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/255 "2010-02-07T21:55:35Z")
_Henry the Eighth, I Am_ by Herman’s Hermits was the number one song on the charts on the day esteemed Straight Dope Poster **Jack Batty** was born. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/256 "2010-02-07T21:55:41Z")
Henry VIII never divorced any of his wives – his marriages to Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves were annulled. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/257 "2010-02-07T22:16:47Z")
Tammy Wynette, best known for “Stand By Your Man”, had another hit country song with “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/258 "2010-02-07T22:20:36Z")
Tammy Wynette was married five times, her third being to singer George Jones with whom she had a daughter Georgette who played her mother on the TV series _Sordid Lives_. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/259 "2010-02-07T22:25:24Z")
The song “Tammy,” as recorded by Debbie Reynolds, hit number 1 on the charts in 1957. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/260 "2010-02-07T22:37:02Z")
Debbie Reynolds is the mother (by Eddie Fisher) of Carrie Fisher, best known for playing Princess Leia in the STAR WARS film and author of the memoir _Wishful Drinking_ in which she discussed “Hollywood Inbreeding” when her daughter began dating the grandson of Eddie Fisher’s ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=14)