# 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:** 1451
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29007 "2016-04-24T00:24:00Z")
The “Flower of New England Parks”, Elizabeth Park in West Hartford, Connecticut, is so named because of its large and beautiful flower gardens. Opened in 1904, its famous rose garden was the first public rose garden in the United States. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29008 "2016-04-24T00:43:45Z")
“Rose Garden” (also known and covered as “(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden”) is a song written by Joe South, best known as recorded by country music singer Lynn Anderson, and first released by Billy Joe Royal in 1967. The 1987 cover by k.d. lang and the Reclines was her first release in the United States but failed to chart. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29009 "2016-04-24T01:28:24Z")
A famous Marine Corps recruiting poster from the 1980s shows a close up of a DI (Drill Instructor) jamming his mean, angered face into the face of a young, scared recruit. The front bill of the DI’s “smokey”, the hats worn by DIs, is jammed to the recruit’s hat. The caption reads, **We don’t promise you a rose garden** Images: [https://www.google.com/search?q=usmc+recruiting+poster+we+never+promised+you+a+rose+garden&client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=1024&bih=672&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiG\_sGkjqbMAhVW2GMKHQ98DJ0Q\_AUIBygC](https://www.google.com/search?q=usmc+recruiting+poster+we+never+promised+you+a+rose+garden&client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=1024&bih=672&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiG_sGkjqbMAhVW2GMKHQ98DJ0Q_AUIBygC) Ahh, fond memories from long ago. Drill Instructors run the Marine boot camp platoons. Drill Sergeants run the Army boot camp platoons. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29010 "2016-04-24T01:36:17Z")
Darned timeout again! Completing the play: A famous Marine Corps recruiting poster from the 1970s and 1980s shows a close up of a DI (Drill Instructor) jamming his mean, angered face into the face of a young, scared recruit. The front bill of the DI’s “smokey”, the hats worn by DIs, is jammed to the recruit’s hat. The caption reads, **We don’t promise you a rose garden** Images: [https://www.google.com/search?q=usmc+recruiting+poster+we+never+promised+you+a+rose+garden&client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=1024&bih=672&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiG\_sGkjqbMAhVW2GMKHQ98DJ0Q\_AUIBygC](https://www.google.com/search?q=usmc+recruiting+poster+we+never+promised+you+a+rose+garden&client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=1024&bih=672&prmd=sivn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiG_sGkjqbMAhVW2GMKHQ98DJ0Q_AUIBygC) Ahh, fond memories from long ago. Drill Instructors run the Marine boot camp platoons. Drill Sergeants run the Army boot camp platoons. The poster can be bought for $7.50 here: [https://www.marineshop.net/classic-male-di-rose-garden-poster-102463](https://www.marineshop.net/classic-male-di-rose-garden-poster-102463) The Drill Instructor was Sgt. Chuck Taliano and he has a Wikipedia page. Sgt. Taliano was awaiting his discharge at MCRD Parris Island, South Carolina in 1968 when the picture was taken. Taliano was less than a month from being discharged from the Corps. Taliano died in 2010. Rst well, Sgt. Taliano, and say hello to Chesty for me. ---
**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 24, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29011 "2016-04-24T02:56:44Z")
United States Marines serve as ceremonial guards at the north entrance to the West Wing of the White House. The Secret Service has overall responsibility for the security of the White House. [http://images.politico.com/global/2013/04/18/20130416-pictures07\_605\_605.jpg](http://images.politico.com/global/2013/04/18/20130416-pictures07_605_605.jpg) [http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/ratio--83-34--830x340/public/articles/ap831243314322.jpg?itok=GAgIMsXc](http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/ratio--83-34--830x340/public/articles/ap831243314322.jpg?itok=GAgIMsXc) [http://www.vosizneias.com/assets/uploads/news\_photos/thumbnails/800\_smzjvcx9k5ha5jfvexyeylp9hgw9xrpy.jpg](http://www.vosizneias.com/assets/uploads/news_photos/thumbnails/800_smzjvcx9k5ha5jfvexyeylp9hgw9xrpy.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29012 "2016-04-24T03:01:32Z")
United States Marines guard US Embassies around the world and provide security detachments for US Navy vessels. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29013 "2016-04-24T04:03:17Z")
US Marine guards in embassies constitute virtually the only US military presence in about a hundred of the “130 countries around the world’” claimed by Armed Forces Network, in their reach to US military personnel in their radio and television audience. (Nowhere can I find a list of the claimed 130 countries. I’ve been in 130 countries and there are a lot I’ve missed.) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29014 "2016-04-24T04:10:13Z")
Using Marines as security guards began with the Foreign Service Act of 1946, which authorized the Secretary of Navy to assign Marines to serve as custodians under the supervision of the senior diplomatic officer at a diplomatic post. The first Marines arrived at Tangier and Bangkok in early 1949. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29015 "2016-04-24T04:59:16Z")
The tangerine is a citrus fruit that is closely related to, or possibly a type of, mandarin orange. The name was first used for fruit coming from Tangier, Morocco, described as a mandarin variety. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29016 "2016-04-24T05:04:22Z")
Around 1 billion people speak Mandarin Chinese around the world. The Mandarin language has more native speakers than any other language. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29017 "2016-04-24T17:37:20Z")
The most widely spoken language in South America is Portuguese, as 51% of the population lives in Brazil. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29018 "2016-04-24T17:50:19Z")
Brazil is named after the Brazil-nut, not the other way around. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29019 "2016-04-24T18:03:31Z")
Águas de Março" or The Waters of March, is a Brazilian song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, who wrote both the English and Portuguese lyrics. In 2001, “Águas de Março” was named as the all-time best Brazilian song in a poll of more than 200 Brazilian journalists, musicians and other artists conducted by Brazil’s leading daily newspaper, Folha de S.Paulo. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29020 "2016-04-24T18:11:35Z")
Jobim told a musician-composer friend that writing in the free association-stream of consciousness style of “Waters of March” was his version of therapy and saved him thousands in psychoanalysis bills. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29021 "2016-04-24T18:13:45Z")
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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29022 "2016-04-24T18:14:50Z")
“Garota de Ipanema” (“The Girl from Ipanema”) is a Brazilian bossa nova jazz song. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. It was written in 1962, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes. The 1964 single featuring Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz became an international hit. ---
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Brazil has the world’s seventh largest economy by nominal GDP. FAB, the Brazilian Air Force (_Força Aérea Brasileira_) is the largest air force in the Southern hemisphere and second largest in the Americas behind the USAF. During WWII the FAB contributed greatly to the Allied efforts, especially in the battles along the Italian front. Brazilian fighter pilots flew the Republic P-47 _Thunderbolt_, and one was on display at the now-closed TAM Museum in São Carlos in São Paulo. The museum also had a Fairchild PT-19 Cornell, a Douglas C-47, a Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2, an RAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX, a Vought F4U Corsair, and several MiGs. TAM is for Táxi Aéreo Marília. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29024 "2016-04-24T18:34:48Z")
When Republic Airlines broke the neck off Tom Paxton’s guitar, he did what any musician would do: He wrote a song. [Thank You Republic Airlines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwV8ozElNjk) ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29025 "2016-04-24T19:14:21Z")
Songwriter Irving Caesar said that he wrote the 1924 hit “Tea For Two” in eight minutes. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29026 "2016-04-24T19:40:36Z")
Canadian industrialist K C Irving started out as the roughneck kid of the owner of a sawmill in Buoctouche, New Brunswick, and built an empire that made him the 11-th richest man in the world. Canadians know him as the famous owner of a ubiquitous chain of Irving gas stations monopolizing the eastern provinces. He expanded his forest holdings across the border into Maine, and was once the fourth largest landowner in the USA. None of his holdings ever went public, and his family still controls the industrial empire. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1450) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1452)