# 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:** 1468
**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, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29347 "2016-05-10T17:36:16Z")
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**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, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29348 "2016-05-10T17:39:21Z")
In the early 1920s, Henry 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. ---
**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, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29349 "2016-05-10T21:32:54Z")
During the Roaring Twenties, just before the Great Depression, the US’s overall wealth more than doubled. roaring Twenties symbols include flappers, women who were more sexually free, smoke, drank, wore shorter skirts, smoked, and spoke more freely with then-considered ‘unladylike’ things. On and they could vote! And there was dance! People were doing the Charleston, the flea hop, and the cake walk. Prohibition cramped many peoples’ styles. At midnight on 15 January 1920 (early morning on 16 Jan), the Volstead Act closed every single saloon, tavern and bar in the USA. Americans got creative in response. ---
**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, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29350 "2016-05-10T21:40:50Z")
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s original title for _The Great Gatsby_, one of the most memorable novels of the"Roaring Twenties", was _Trimalchio in West Egg_ ---
**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, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29351 "2016-05-10T22:11:53Z")
One of the iconic flappers of the 20’s was Olive Oyl, skinny and shapeless. Popeye The Sailor Man was not created in the comic strips until ten years after Olive Oyl was a regular. Olive Oyl was in E C Segar’s “Thimble Theater” in 1919, and Popeye did not show up as her boyfriend until 1929. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29352 "2016-05-10T22:17:57Z")
The long-running comic strip character Blondie, drawn by Chic Young until his 1973 death, was originally Blondie Boopadoop—a carefree flapper girl who spent her days in dance halls along with her boyfriend Dagwood Bumstead, heir to a railroad fortune. The name “Boopadoop” derives from the scat singing lyric that was popularized by Helen Kane’s 1928 song “I Wanna Be Loved by You.” On February 17, 1933, after much fanfare and build-up, Blondie and Dagwood were married after a month-and-a-half-long hunger strike by Dagwood to get his parents’ blessing, but they strongly disapproved of his marrying beneath his class, and disinherited him. Left only with a check to pay their honeymoon, the Bumsteads were forced to become a middle-class suburban family, including his working for what is now 83 years doing something office-y for Mr. Dithers. ---
**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, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29353 "2016-05-10T23:05:44Z")
In 1981, Debbie Harry and her band, Blondie, had the first rap song ever to hit #1 on the Billboard Singles Chart, ‘Rapture.’ ---
**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 11, 2016, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29354 "2016-05-11T00:15:24Z")
Harry Anderson, best known for his role as Judge Harry Stone on _Night Court_, began his career as a magician. His first exposure to magic began when the Anderson family moved to Chicago. Anderson’s father, who was a salesman, would occasionally take him to The Pump Room, the famous restaurant downstairs in the Ambassador East Hotel. There, Anderson discovered 'wise guys" playing card games, hustling and occasionally performing magic tricks. Young Anderson became highly intrigued by the art of conjuring and wanted to learn more about the subject. ---
**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 11, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29355 "2016-05-11T00:23:19Z")
When she was first launched in 1514, His Majesty’s Ship _Henry Grace à Dieu_ (nicknamed _The Great Harry_) was the largest warship in Europe, and the first that had the capability to fire a broadside. ---
**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 11, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29356 "2016-05-11T00:42:13Z")
The record for the standing broad jump is held by Byron Jones at just under 12 ft 3 in. ---
**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 11, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29357 "2016-05-11T04:18:31Z")
Byron Jones set that record, and it is a **world** record, at the NFL scouting combine. It wasn’t even at a track and field event. The combine was in Indianapolis and Jones, a cornerback, was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys that year (2015). This year, Byron Jones fulfilled a promise to his mother by graduating college. He is a UCONN Husky. ---
**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 11, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29358 "2016-05-11T04:53:50Z")
Lord Byron had a short and torrid affair with Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of the future Prime Minister. After the affair ended, Lady Caroline and Lord Byron spent several years and much energy hating each other, expressed in true Regency fashion in poems and novels. ---
**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 11, 2016, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29359 "2016-05-11T05:09:23Z")
Lord Byron’s only legitimate daughter was Ada, Countess of Lovelace, whose work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine is considered a founding document in the field of computer science. ---
**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 11, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29360 "2016-05-11T07:43:38Z")
The Royalist poet, Richard Lovelace, wrote the poem “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”, which contains the famous lines: I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more. The sentiment died at the latest in the trenches of WWI. ---
**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 11, 2016, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29361 "2016-05-11T09:10:19Z")
Neil Diamond’s _Sweet Caroline_ is often played at sporting events. Every Red Sox game at Fenway plays the song after the top of the 8th. The University of Pittsburgh sings the song with some changes. Instead of the usual chorus lines, ♫ _Sweet Caroline_ ( **ba-ba-ba** ), ♫ _Good times never seemed so good_ ( **So good! So good! So good!** ) Pitt instead yells these cheers, ♫ _Sweet Caroline_ ( **Let’s go Pitt!** ), ♫ _Good times never seemed so good_ ( **Go Pitt! Go Pitt! Go Pitt!** ) Pitt has held that long tradition. However, Pitt rival West Virginia has gotten into the act also with their own changes: ♫ _Sweet Caroline_ ( **Eat shit Pitt!** ), ♫ _Good times never seemed so good_ ( **Eat shit! Eat shit! Eat shit!** ) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29362 "2016-05-11T10:58:24Z")
Pitt and WVU only occasionally play the once-strong, once-annual Backyard Brawl football game, now that they are in different conferences. The former Pitt-Penn State rivalry is no longer what it was, either, for the same reason. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29363 "2016-05-11T12:15:41Z")
Pitt plays their conference games now in Miami, Penn State’s in Nebraska, and West Virginia’s in Lubbock, Texas. Which is fitting, fr the Mountaineers to go nearly the Mountain Time Zone. ---
**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 11, 2016, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29364 "2016-05-11T13:12:58Z")
The unincorporated community of Kenton, Oklahoma, located in the extreme western end of the Oklahoma Panhandle, unofficially observes Mountain Time (as the nearest sizable towns are located in Colorado and New Mexico, both of which are in the Mountain Time Zone). However, the entire state of Oklahoma is officially in the Central Time Zone. ---
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The Oklahoma City bombing is always thought as taking place only at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, where it killed 168 people,and injured more than 680 other people and destroyed one-third of the building, the blast also destroyed or damaged 324 other buildings within a 16-block radius, shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings, and destroyed or burned 86 cars, causing an estimated $652 million worth of damage ---
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Fort Sill, Oklahoma is this country’s main artillery fort. All the main artillery training for the US Army and Marine Corps takes place there. Fort Sill was founded by Phillip H. Sheridan, George A. Custer and William T. Sherman. They named the fort after Army Brigadier General Joshua Woodrow Sill. Sill died during the Civil War at the Battle of Stones River, also called the Second Battle of Murfreesboro in Tennessee. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1467) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1469)