# 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:** 1494
**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:** [June 4, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29867 "2016-06-04T16:14:41Z")
In Monopoly, you still collect rent even if you are in jail. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29868 "2016-06-04T16:51:26Z")
In Monopoly, if you roll doubles to go into or get out of jail, you surrender the privilege of an additional roll. But you do get an additional roll if you roll doubles after paying bail or using card to get out of jail before the roll. The right to make any transaction while in jail is probably a defect in the game, as there is clear advantage to being in jail in the late game play when nearly all properties have been bought and many are improved… ---
**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:** [June 4, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29869 "2016-06-04T18:30:44Z")
Jelly Roll Morton is most notable as jazz’s first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated.His 1915 composition “Jelly Roll Blues” was the first published jazz composition. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29870 "2016-06-04T21:09:32Z")
Morton Salt’s trademark of a girl with a numbrella and the phrase “When It Rains, It Pours” refers to the fact that Morton added an ingredient (magnesium carbonate) to their salt to prevent it from caking into solid blocks in humid weather. So on rainy days, thei salt would still pour from a salt shaker. ---
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Magnesium carbonate is also the “chalk” used in gymnastics. One example is to use chalk for your hands when on the pommel horse or the rings. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29872 "2016-06-04T21:35:15Z")
If you’re playing Twenty Questions, Chalk is “animal”, not “mineral”. It forms under reasonably deep marine conditions from the gradual accumulation of minute calcite shells (coccoliths) shed from micro-organisms called coccolithophores. Using the Twenty Questions format, one can correctly guess any number from one to a million, or any other object from a million samples. Three million, if you are told in advance whether it is “animal, vegetable or mineral”. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29873 "2016-06-04T22:19:31Z")
Calcium sulfate, CaSO[sub]4[/sub], and calcium carbonate, CaCO[sub]3[/sub], are common forms of chalk used frequently in school classrooms until the 2000s on blackboards or slates. Writing slates were in use in Indian schools back in the 11th century. The first classroom uses of large blackboards are difficult to date, but they were used for music education and composition in Europe as far back as the sixteenth century. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29874 "2016-06-04T22:22:41Z")
When I started school, blackboards were still black, and chalk was still white. Sometime around 1950, the fledgling Pedagogy/Industrial Complex decided that children could see better on a green board with yellow chalk. I couldn’t. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29875 "2016-06-04T22:33:58Z")
James Pillans, headmaster and geography teacher at the Old High School in Edinburgh, Scotland, is credited with inventing the first modern blackboard when he hung a large piece of slate on the classroom wall. In America, the first use of a wall-mounted blackboard occurred at West Point Military Academy. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29876 "2016-06-04T22:34:06Z")
The strongly negative response most humans have to the sound of fingernails being [scraped on a chalkboard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalkboard_scraping) may be due to the natural resonance of the ear canal at those frequencies, or its similarity to the warning call of a primate. The latter hypothesis was disproved in a study on macaque monkeys that won Randolph Blake an Ig Nobel Prize. ---
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Although the term blackboard did not appear until 1815, the use of these cobbled-together slates spread quickly; by 1809, every public school in Philadelphia was using them. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29878 "2016-06-04T22:41:54Z")
The only people in the United States who vote for President are the 538 electors who form the Electoral College. There also is no national election for President, only 51 state and DC elections, held on the same day, for slates of electors pledged to vote for particular candidates in the EC. Even the EC does not meet as a body, but only as 51 separate state bodies, also on the same day. ---
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The Library of Congress building in Washington DC has more gilded gold leaf on it than any other building in the northern hemisphere. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29880 "2016-06-05T00:39:52Z")
The Nissan Leaf is a compact five-door hatchback electric car manufactured by Nissan and introduced in Japan and the United States in December 2010, followed by various European countries and Canada in 2011. As of December 2015, it is the world’s all-time best selling highway-capable all-electric car. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29881 "2016-06-05T02:08:19Z")
The Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team steadfastly refuse to use the name “Maple Leaves”., and Canadian pedants defended them, ruling that “Maple Leafs” is an acceptable collective noun. No word yet on whether Canada’s Nissan dealers are permitted to call their inventory “Leafs”. Also, in Canada, a singular collective noun takes a plural vierb, as in “Toronto are defending a one-goal lead.” (Hence the verb “refuse” in the first sentence.) ---
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Mike Pearson originally favoured a new flag with three red maple leaves on white, with narrow blue vertical bands on either side. Fortunately, saner heads prevailed and gave us the iconic single red maple leaf flag we have today, designed by George Stanley and manoeuvred through the Commons committee process by Hugh Matheson MP. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2016, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29883 "2016-06-05T04:31:50Z")
Lester Bowles Pearson was the first person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and then go on to be elected head of state. He won the prize in 1957, and was elected Prime Minister of Canada in 1963. This feat was also accomplished by Lech Wałęsa of Poland and Nelson Mandela of South Africa. ---
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Charlotte NC’s NASCAR Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 2010. Driver David Pearson was admitted the following year. ---
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Actress Minnie Driver’s television debut was in a Right Guard deoderant commercial. ---
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