# 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:** 142
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2821 "2010-04-13T17:46:23Z")
Kanye West was parodied in an episode of South Park where his character became something of a laughing stock for failing to get the inexplicably popular joke ‘Do you like fish sticks? What are you, a gay fish?’ which had been created by Jimmy. Also parodied in the episode is Carlos Mencia, who claimed to have written the joke, and was tortured by Kanye and his posse as a result. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2822 "2010-04-13T19:10:51Z")
Carlos Mencia’s given name is Ned and he is from Honduras. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2823 "2010-04-13T19:14:23Z")
Acclaimed 20th century poet William Carlos Williams was a successful pediatrician, and delivered hundreds of babies. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2824 "2010-04-13T20:06:45Z")
William Carlos Williams attend Penn, and while there, he became friends with Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle (best known as H.D.) and the painter Charles Demuth. (BTW: “This Is Just To Say” changed my world and made a huge difference for me as a writer.) ---
**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 13, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2825 "2010-04-13T20:16:25Z")
William Penn and his wife Hannah are two of only seven honorary U.S. citizens, the first and perhaps best-known of which was Winston Churchill (so recognized in 1963). ---
**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 13, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2826 "2010-04-13T20:35:07Z")
(I think we did that one before) For many years the most popular cigarette in the US was Winston, named for the headquarters city of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC (and, yes, they also made Salems). ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2827 "2010-04-13T21:03:36Z")
Clarence “Big House” Gaines, who led the Winston-Salem State Rams from 1946 to 1993, was the first African-American inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2828 "2010-04-13T21:08:55Z")
Elroy “Crazy Legs” Hirsch of the Los Angeles Rams played the co-pilot in the Fifties disaster movie _ **Zero Hour** _! In the Zucker Brothers’ comic remake, \*\*\*Airplane!, \*\*\*a different Los Angeles sports star, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, played the co-pilot. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2829 "2010-04-13T22:35:20Z")
The Lakota chief Thasunkay Witko (or something like it), better known by his name’s approximate English translation of Crazy Horse, is the focus of a yet unfinished colossal statue in the Black Hills. In the 1990s a mental health advocacy group requested the name be changed to Thasunkay Witko Monument (or something like it) because they felt the term crazy, even applied to a horse, was offensive. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2830 "2010-04-13T23:02:13Z")
The Black Hills (_Paha Sapa_), were considered sacred by the Lakota Indians, and although the SCUTOS ruled in 1980 that they deserved to be paid for the loss of that land thru treaty violations, the tribe refused to take the money, preferring to press to get the land back (good luck with that, dudes). That money is in a trust, in the event they change their minds-- it’s \> $700M at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2831 "2010-04-13T23:16:47Z")
Per unreliable but persistent legend, when Wild Bill Hickock was killed while playing 5 card draw in the Black Hills boomtown of Deadwood his cards included a pair of aces and a pair of 8s, all spades and clubs. (Accounts are inconsistent on what the 5th card was.) ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2832 "2010-04-13T23:23:53Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Per unreliable but persistent legend, when Wild Bill Hickock was killed while playing 5 card draw in the Black Hills boomtown of Deadwood his cards included a pair of aces and a pair of 8s, all spades and clubs. (Accounts are inconsistent on what the 5th card was.) The brothels in Deadwood were shut down after a 1980 raid. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2833 "2010-04-13T23:32:00Z")
The sequel to _Best Little Whorehouse in Texas_ was called _The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public_; it flopped. It was inspired by the true story of when the IRS hired the madam of the famous ‘Chicken Ranch’ from the original (which had reopened as a legal brothel in Nevada) to manage another licensed brothel that had been seized for the owner’s tax debts. ---
**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 14, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2834 "2010-04-14T01:52:31Z")
The tax on tea that led to the Boston Tea Party was actually pretty minimal, and Britain never expected it to bring in much money. It was partly enacted because the British wanted to establish their right to tax their colonies. The colonists claimed they were amenable to additional taxes (the money was being used to pay for the French and Indian War) if their own legislatures determined what they would be. At the same time, however, the money was being raised to help pay for better patrols to stop smugglers, and many patriot leaders did a good business smuggling goods. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2835 "2010-04-14T03:08:24Z")
“Smuggler’s Blues” was both an episode name on _Miami Vice_ (Season 1) and a song by Glenn Frey on the soundtrack album _Miami Vice I_. ---
**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 14, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2836 "2010-04-14T04:27:38Z")
Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is transferred from Miami back to his home state of Kentucky, much against his will, in the pilot episode of the new FX crime drama _Justified_. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2837 "2010-04-14T04:40:52Z")
The [Mordecai Lincoln house](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3584/3338754576_7d84d23649.jpg) in Springfield, Kentucky was the home of Abraham Lincoln’s wealthy slave-owning uncle and is a mansion compared to his brother’s farms in Indiana and [Illinois](http://www.picturehistory.com/images/products/0/2/2/prod_2202.jpg); his brother’s wealth was not due to Thomas’s sloth (as Abraham seemed to think) but the fact that under the primogeniture customs of the 18th century his older brother inherited almost all of their father, who was also named Abraham Lincoln. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2838 "2010-04-14T05:57:41Z")
The sloth is an animal that hangs from a tree (a hanger-on is all he’ll ever be). He won’t be a rival for the lion’s crown; he’ll only be the leader of the upside-down. But if you pledge to indolence your troth, you might grow up to be a sloth. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2839 "2010-04-14T09:13:25Z")
While it does have some serious claws (the better to hang upside down from tree limbs), the sloth’s main defense mechanism is being really, really filthy. It has foul tasting moss growing inside its fur, and its meat tastes abominably bad. So, while its the easiest prey of them all, no one bothers. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2840 "2010-04-14T10:31:45Z")
Sloth, along with wrath, greed, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony, is one of the _Seven Deadly Sins_. That sloth was “promoted” to such deadly company is something of a mystery, though Dante may have played a role, claiming that slothful are punished underneath the Stygian lake, breathing sighs in bubbles and singing a dolorous song. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=141) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=143)