# 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:** 134
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2661 "2010-04-07T19:14:11Z")
Robert B. Parker never much cared for the TV series _ **Spenser: for Hire** _, or for star Robert Urich, but thought actor Avery Brooks was brilliant as Hawk. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2662 "2010-04-07T19:18:03Z")
Avery Brooks is a graduate of Oberlin College,\* and recently returned to campus to star in a production of Arthur Miller’s _Death of A Salesman_. \*as am I. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2663 "2010-04-07T19:20:49Z")
Avery Brooks is a tenured professor of theatre at Rutgers University. As a singer, he performed the lead role in the premiere of Anthony Davis’ 1985 opera _X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X_. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2664 "2010-04-07T19:22:11Z")
Comedian Albert Brooks’s real name is Albert Einstein; he’s the son of the radio comedian Parkyakarkus. His brother is Super Dave Osborne. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2665 "2010-04-07T19:46:50Z")
Osborne House is a mansion on the Isle of Wight used as a favorite country home of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Per legend, after Albert died Queen Victoria began a huge collection of photographs of various friends and relatives in their coffins and stored it at Osborne House; not per legend is that she died there in 1901. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2666 "2010-04-07T19:53:11Z")
In the Beatles song “When I’m 64”, Paul proposes to his sweetheart that every summer they could have a cottage in the Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2667 "2010-04-07T19:59:33Z")
The Beatles began their rise to fame by playing in Hamburg nightclubs. The “Negroid wailings” of the then-obscure band are mentioned in passing in Robert Harris’s alt-history crime thriller _Fatherland_, set in 1964 Nazi Germany. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2010, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2668 "2010-04-07T20:15:12Z")
George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was an award-winning commercial artist whose parents were vaudeville performers. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2669 "2010-04-07T20:18:16Z")
Painter Norman Rockwell once said, “People are always telling me 'I don’t know much about art, but I love your work,” as if that’s a compliment. Just once, I’d like someone to say, ‘I know a lot about art, and I love your work.’ " Also… Rockwell, who recorded the Eighties hit “Somebody’s Watching Me,” is the son of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2670 "2010-04-07T21:09:04Z")
The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 resulted in a compiling of all English property and landholders and revenue sources compiled in 1086 and called “The Domesday Books”. The name comes from the Old English word _dom_ meaning “reckoning” (as in accounting), which is the basis of the word _doom_ and thus the book is often misspelled as or pronounced Doomsday. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2671 "2010-04-07T21:12:31Z")
William, Duke of Normandy, received a blessing and a special flag from the Pope for his invasion of England in 1066. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2672 "2010-04-07T21:29:32Z")
Though politically they are British Crown Dependencies, the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey are geographically part of the otherwise French region of Normandy. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2673 "2010-04-07T21:34:24Z")
Faye Dunaway, who played Steve McQueen’s lover in the original \*\*\*The Thomas \*\*\*_ **Crown Affair** _, played Pierce Brosnan’s psychiatrist in the remake. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2674 "2010-04-08T00:13:07Z")
Baseball pitcher Jim Brosnan’s book _The Long Season_, an account of the 1959 campaign in which he was traded from the St. Louis Cardinals to the Cincinnati Reds, was criticized by such players as Joe Garagiola for “violating the sanctity of the clubhouse”. However, it was hardly as salacious as such later volumes as Jim Bouton’s _Ball Four_ and Sparky Lyle’s _The Bronx Zoo_. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2675 "2010-04-08T00:31:31Z")
One of Pierce Brosnan’s first screen roles was a bit part as an IRA terrorist in the British crime thriller _The Long Good Friday_, starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2010, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2676 "2010-04-08T00:52:23Z")
According to the OED, the “Good” in Good Friday comes from the a middle English definition of “good” meaning “pious.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2677 "2010-04-08T01:45:26Z")
In 17th century New England most married women were addressed as Goody (short for goodwife) rather than as Mrs., which came from _mistress_ and even then had more salacious connotations in addition to its proper meaning. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2010, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2678 "2010-04-08T04:07:01Z")
The symbol for New England on many Revolutionary War-era flags was a green pine tree, as seen perhaps most famously on the Bunker Hill flag (no original example of which now exists, although it was depicted in several contemporary paintings). ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2679 "2010-04-08T04:16:26Z")
At the Battle of Bunker Hill, fought on Breed’s Hill, Colonel William Prescott supposedly said “don’t fire till you see the whites of their eyes”. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2680 "2010-04-08T05:45:17Z")
William Howard Taft was the fattest U.S. President yet. He lost a lot of weight and was later appointed to his life’s ambition, a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court (as Chief Justice, no less), by President Warren G. Harding. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=133) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=135)