# 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:** 1467
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29327 "2016-05-10T02:48:45Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > A sailer walked into that bar and sat down next to 3 men at the bar. He turned to the men and says “Would you like to hear a Marine joke?” the first man says, “Well, before you tell that joke let me tell you somehting, I’m 6 foot, 195 lbs and a Marine, the man next to me is 6’2” 210 lbs and a Marine and the man next to him is 6’7" 285 and a Marine. Wouls you still like to tell that joke?" The sailer thinks a bit then says “Nah, I don’t feel like explaining it three times!” Good one, I like it! But did you know that I was in that bar. I was the 6’, 195-lb Marine. After the sailor said that I asked him, “So, I’ve heard that at the end of the gangway when you board every Navy vessel there’s a big sign saying SLEEP ON YOUR BACK OR SOMEONE ELSE WILL. Is that true?” Silence. “Oh, and while you’re thinking about that, what, exactly does it mean to Yo Ho Blow the Man Down?” More silence. 😃 I’m no longer 195-lbs. But I’m not as lean, not as mean, but still a Marine. In play: A sailor serving abroad with infantry units is sometimes called a bluejacket. Only if he sleeps on his back. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29328 "2016-05-10T03:02:59Z")
The Coloumbus Blue Jackets, of the National Hockey League, chose their team nickname because Ohio contributed more of its population to the Union Army than any other state, while many of the Blue Coats worn by the Union soldiers were manufactured in Columbus. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29329 "2016-05-10T03:14:20Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > …Ohio contributed more of its population to the Union Army than any other state… Proud Buckeye that I am, I must concede that it looks like both New York and Pennsylvania outdid Ohio: [http://www.civil-war.net/pages/troops\_furnished\_losses.html](http://www.civil-war.net/pages/troops_furnished_losses.html) In play: President Abraham Lincoln’s second Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, was born and raised in Steubenville, Ohio; a statue of him still stands outside the Jefferson County Courthouse there. It was President Andrew Johnson’s attempted firing of Stanton that triggered the impeachment crisis of 1868. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29330 "2016-05-10T03:25:54Z")
Stanton gave the famous farewell to Lincoln when he died: “Now he belongs to the ages.” ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29331 "2016-05-10T03:28:47Z")
There is some debate as to whether Edwin Stanton said “Now he belongs to the ages” or “to the angels”, with scholars noting that Stanton’s faith makes the latter reading more likely. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29332 "2016-05-10T03:38:25Z")
Drew Stanton, as quarterback for the Michigan State Spartans, led them to the biggest comeback in NCAA Div. I-A football history, scoring 38 unanswered points in the last 24:54 of their game against Northwestern in 2006, for a final score of 41-38. He is now a backup to Carson Palmer on the Arizona Cardinals. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29333 "2016-05-10T04:51:56Z")
Edwin Stanton was born in Steubenville OH which is just down the Ohio River from Toronto OH. Toronto was named after the Ontario city because its early residents liked that city. Actor Robert Urich hails from Toronto OH. Urich died too young, 55, of one of the rarest forms of soft tissue cancer. A little farther up the Ohio are Stratton and Empire OH. Canadian Football League Hall of Famer Don Sutherin hails from Empire. Sutherin won the Grey Cup Championship seven times - four as a player and three as a coach. The Ohio River is the largest of all of the Mississippi River’s tributaries. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29334 "2016-05-10T05:07:21Z")
Robert Urich is the only person with a surname starting with the letter U with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29335 "2016-05-10T05:19:52Z")
The final resting place of Robert Urich, who was born in Toronto\*, is in Ontario. - - Toronto, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29336 "2016-05-10T12:15:43Z")
The Urich’s tyrannulet (Phyllomyias urichi) is a diminutive species of bird in the Tyrannidae (flycather) family. It is endemic to Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. Only one species of tyrranulet, the northern beardess tyrranulet, occurs in the United States, irregularly reported near the Mexican border, where they lay “anchor eggs”… ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29337 "2016-05-10T13:20:26Z")
The platypus is one of the five species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth and is the sole living representative of its family. The other four species of monotremes are all echidnas ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29338 "2016-05-10T13:40:47Z")
“Platypi” is false Latin and incorrect as the plural of platypus. As it is of Greek etymology the correct plural is “platypodes” or “platypuses” “Octopus” is similar. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29339 "2016-05-10T13:49:15Z")
Henry the Hexapus was a six-limbed octopus found by British marine scientists in 2008. The name alludes to King Henry VIII, who had six wives. The octopus was found off the coast of North Wales in a lobster pot, and was held in captivity at the Blackpool Sea Life Centre in North West England. His unusual number of arms was not immediately noticed, and appears to have resulted from a natal anomaly, rather than a physical accident ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29340 "2016-05-10T14:51:38Z")
Austin TX’s indie rock electronic group **The Octopus Project** released their fourth release in October 2010. It was called _Hexadecagon_. So, yeah, _Hexadecagon_ by **The Octopus Project**. And that was when the San Francisco Giants won their first-ever World Series Championship in SF, their (our!) first of three in five years. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29341 "2016-05-10T14:56:43Z")
The Pacific Northwest tree octopus is an endangered breed of octopus living in the trees of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula rain forests. It will line its nest with dollar bills that people leave as a donation. It is also a [hoax](http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/) ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29342 "2016-05-10T15:45:45Z")
Asiana 214 crashed on landing at SFO at 1128 PDT on Sat 06 Jul 2013. Tragically, three teenaged girls died. Fortunately, the other passengers, of the 307 aboard, did not. The plane approached too low and hit the ground just short of the runway. Losses after the crash include the jobs of an NTSB intern and three KTVU Channel 2 producers, Roland De Wolk, Christina Gastelu and Brad Belstock. They were fired for falling for a hoax that reported Asiana 214’s cockpit crew names. This from the KTVU 2 noon broadcast: \*\*Captain Sum Ting Wong Wi Tu Lo Ho Lee Fuk Bang Ding Ow \*\* Again, and now obviously, a hoax. KTVU claims they had contacted the NTSB and an intern confirmed the accuracy of the names. That intern was fired by the NTSB. This was reported on the air by KTVU 2’s Tori Campbell on their noon broadcast, about half an hour after the crash. Thre YouTube videos: - (30 sec) the KTVU report: [- YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XmvJZYWwOBA) - (2:20) KTVU full apology: [- YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FmFA7jDnk_w) - (3:00) Stephen Colbert’s _Colbert Report_ parody… - - of KTVU (San Francisco’s News Leader); - - it’s a Korean airlines, those are Chinese names, that’s racist; so at least please use Korean names like **Captain Park Ma Plen Tu-Sun Ha Yu Lan Dis Tang**; and - - Asiana to sue KTVU for tarnishing their sterling reputation [- YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FApy2K_P2O8) Great hoax. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29343 "2016-05-10T15:56:03Z")
A young Virginia Woolf was among those who took part in the notorious _Dreadnought_ hoax of 1910, pretending to be part of an Abyssinian royal delegation and being given a tour of the pride of the Royal Navy. > **[Dreadnought hoax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_hoax)** > > The Dreadnought hoax was a prank pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship HMS Dreadnought, to a fake delegation of "Abyssinian royals". The hoax drew attention in Britain to the emergence of the Bloomsbury Group, among whom some of Cole's collaborators numbered. The hoax was a repeat of a similar impersonation that Cole and Adrian Stephen had organised while they were students at Cambridge in 1905. > Horace de Vere Cole was b... ---
**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:** [May 10, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29344 "2016-05-10T15:56:55Z")
And did you know the Miracle on the Hudson was a [hoax](http://www.all-lies.com/legends/transportation/flight_1549.shtml)? > [@](#): > > •A ruined airplane is a type of debris. Any trained pilot would know that it’s illegal to dispose of debris in the Hudson River. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29345 "2016-05-10T16:56:31Z")
Henry Hudson was the victim of a mutiny. He, his son, and seven others were set adrift in a small open boat in Hudson Bay by his crew. They were never seen again. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29346 "2016-05-10T17:35:12Z")
In the early 1920s, Ford sponsored a weekly newspaper (the Dearborn Independent) that published strongly antisemitic views. At the same time, Ford had a reputation as one of the few major corporations actively hiring black workers and also hired women and handicapped men at a time when doing so was uncommon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1466) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1468)