# 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:** 1496
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29907 "2016-06-06T15:19:05Z")
On June 9, 1999, the St. Louis Cardinals, in the fifth inning against the Royals, had three players on the field at once who had been diagnosed and treated for cancer and recovered and resumed their MLB careers: Right fielder Eric Davis, catcher Eli Marrero, and relief pitcher Scott Radinsky. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29908 "2016-06-06T16:06:50Z")
Jefferson Davis led the Confederate States of America as president from 1861-65. When his Mississippi estate was badly damaged by storms a few years ago, the majority of repair costs were borne by the very United States he had done his level best to break up. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29909 "2016-06-06T16:21:25Z")
Brower’s Spring, at 9000-feet elevation in Montana, is the source of the Jefferson River. Those waters flow through the Jefferson, the Missouri, and finally the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico, thus forming the 4th-longest river in the world. ---
**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 6, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29910 "2016-06-06T16:24:57Z")
Jefferson Milhouse D’Arcy (played by Ted McGinley) is the alias of Marcy Rhode D’Arccy’s second husband , a “pretty boy” who married her for her money on Married…With Children.During the course of the series, it is revealed that Jefferson spent time in prison for selling contaminated land as a vacation spot to several people, including Al. He also used to be in the CIA and still has connections there. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29911 "2016-06-06T16:53:01Z")
The Romanian word for “children” is “copiii”, thus being the only common word in any widely-spoken European language that has a triple-letter sequence. It is the plural nominative definite form of declined “copil”, child. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29912 "2016-06-06T17:18:04Z")
Words with a letter repeated thrice in succession are indeed very rare in English. Merriam-Webster shows ‘Hmmm’ as an alternate spelling of the interjection ‘Hmm.’ Wiktionary shows ‘Goddessship’ as an alternate spelling of ‘Goddess-ship.’ Merriam-Webster may also show this variant since [Goddess-ship Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goddessship) takes you to “Aren’t you smart – you’ve found a word that is only available in the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary. To view the full definition of goddess–ship, activate your free trial today.” ---
**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 6, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29913 "2016-06-06T17:27:24Z")
AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted is the solo debut studio album by American rapper Ice Cube. “AmeriKKKa” is an alternate spelling of “America” by cynics to refer to America’s racism, invoking the KKK of the Ku Klux Klan. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29914 "2016-06-06T17:56:56Z")
The present Ku Klux Klan began as a loose coalition of anti-Black groups in the 1950’s, but there were two prior groups called “Ku Klux Klan”: a briefly-lived one immediately after the Civil War, and one in the early 20th century which had several million members at its peak. The first Ku Klux Klan was affiliated with groups like The Knights of the White Camelia. Among those “Knights” was Louisiana Judge Taylor Beattie, who eventually led the Thibodaux massacre of 1887. ---
**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:** [June 6, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29915 "2016-06-06T18:40:38Z")
Nathan Bedford Forrest, after whom Forrest Gump was named, was a noted Confederate cavalry officer during the Civil War and one of the founders of the Ku Klux Klan, although he later quit. ---
**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 6, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29916 "2016-06-06T19:34:21Z")
On April 12, 1864, General Nathan Bedford Forrest led his forces in the attack and capture of Fort Pillow, in Henning, Tennessee, on the Mississippi River. Many African American Union soldiers were killed in the battle. A controversy arose around the actions on May 3, 1864 about whether Forrest conducted or condoned a massacre of negro soldiers, white Tennessee Unionists, and Confederate deserters, who had surrendered there. The issue is still debated today about Forrest’s actions there. ---
**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 6, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29917 "2016-06-06T21:56:27Z")
Bedford Hills, NY has a population density of 3000/sq mi. This is due to the population of right around 3000 people and a size of almost exactly 1 sq mi. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29918 "2016-06-06T22:23:24Z")
There is a bulldog that sounds almost exactly like Chewbacca. [http://holykaw.alltop.com/this-bulldog-sounds-almost-exactly-like-chewbacca-video](http://holykaw.alltop.com/this-bulldog-sounds-almost-exactly-like-chewbacca-video) ---
**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 7, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29919 "2016-06-07T01:11:12Z")
The use of consecutive adverbs in a sentence, such as _almost exactly_, is not a grammatical problem. However, it may not _sound_ correct to some. But if the first adverb is _very_ or _rather_, consecutive adverbs do not sound so awkward. > ---
**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:** [June 7, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29920 "2016-06-07T01:54:31Z")
Off-play: > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Pearson was a head of government, not head of state. The British monarch is the Canadian head of state. It pains me to nitpick a nitpick, but the Queen of Canada is the Canadian head of state. 🙂 In-play: Four Canadian Prime Ministers have served non-consecutive terms: MacDonald, Meighen, King (who served three separate terms) and Trudeau père. ---
**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 7, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29921 "2016-06-07T02:08:27Z")
The monarch in the UK is also the monarch in many other members of the Commonwealth (including the monarch of Canada) but on 11 December 1936 the King of the UK and the King of the Irish Free State were two different people. ---
**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 7, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29922 "2016-06-07T05:11:02Z")
There are a few monarch butterfly groves in California. Santa Cruz (Natural Bridges State Beach): [https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g33048-d116861-r148221151-Natural\_Bridges\_State\_Beach-Santa\_Cruz\_California.html](https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g33048-d116861-r148221151-Natural_Bridges_State_Beach-Santa_Cruz_California.html) Pacific Grove (Monterey): [Monarch Grove Sanctuary](http://www.cityofpacificgrove.org/visiting/monarch-butterfly-sanctuary) Pismo Beach: [http://www.monarchbutterfly.org/](http://www.monarchbutterfly.org/) Goleta (Santa Barbara): [http://www.goletabutterflygrove.com/](http://www.goletabutterflygrove.com/) There are at least 25 sites in California, from San Diego in the south to Bolinas and Bodega Bay in the north: [404: Page Not Found](http://www.monarchwatch.org/download/pdf/where.pdf) ---
**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 7, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29923 "2016-06-07T05:30:02Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > It pains me to nitpick a nitpick… That was amusing. Still in play: > [@Bullitt](#): > > There are a few monarch butterfly groves in California. > > Santa Cruz (Natural Bridges State Beach): [Watching the Monarch butterflies - Review of Natural Bridges State Beach, Santa Cruz, CA - Tripadvisor](https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g33048-d116861-r148221151-Natural_Bridges_State_Beach-Santa_Cruz_California.html) > Pacific Grove (Monterey): [Monarch Grove Sanctuary](http://www.cityofpacificgrove.org/visiting/monarch-butterfly-sanctuary) > Pismo Beach: [http://www.monarchbutterfly.org/](http://www.monarchbutterfly.org/) > Goleta (Santa Barbara): [http://www.goletabutterflygrove.com/](http://www.goletabutterflygrove.com/) > > There are at least 25 sites in California, from San Diego in the south to Bolinas and Bodega Bay in the north: [404: Page Not Found](http://www.monarchwatch.org/download/pdf/where.pdf) ---
**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:** [June 7, 2016, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29924 "2016-06-07T06:02:09Z")
A 2016 study by a group of research ecologists concluded that the monarch butterfly population has a substantial probability of quasi-extinction, from 11–57% over 20 years. [http://www.nature.com/articles/srep23265](http://www.nature.com/articles/srep23265) ---
**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 7, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29925 "2016-06-07T06:20:59Z")
Monarch butterflies can fly up to 265 miles in a day. They have been known to travel over 3,000 miles on their seasonal migrations. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2016, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/29926 "2016-06-07T12:11:17Z")
Monarch butterflies are among the many living creatures which can determine direction from the Earth’s magnetic field. Magnetic detection is accomplished with cryptochrome — a protein surrounding a pigment chromophore. How this chemical detects the magnetic field is a major puzzle; after all the energy associated with that field is far too weak to affect normal chemical reactions. It is now believed that quantum physics plays a key role. Within a key chemical bond, a triplet of electrons will be in some particular entangled state which can be perturbed by a magnetic field. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1495) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1497)