# 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:** 1526
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30507 "2016-07-07T15:31:31Z")
Malaysia’s Peaceful Assembly Law of 2012 has been criticized by opponents, as actually adding further restrictions to the constitutional presumptions that already existed. It is characteristic of modern legislation in nearly all countries, such as the USA Privacy Act, which enabled certain institutions to violate privacy, where no such presumption was previously codified. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2016, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30508 "2016-07-07T16:49:20Z")
In calling to concede the race and to congratulate Barack Obama for winning reelection to the Presidency in November 2012, Republican challenger Mitt Romney specifically mentioned the effectiveness of Democratic GOTV (get out the vote) efforts in Cleveland, Ohio, and elsewhere. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30509 "2016-07-07T17:19:14Z")
Professional football player Milton Addas “Mitt” Romney was the cousin of George W. Romney, father of former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney is his namesake and is a first cousin once removed. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30510 "2016-07-07T22:02:55Z")
Rebecca Romney manages the Las Vegas Gallery of Bauman Rare Books, but is best known for being a recurring subject expert on “Pawn Stars”. And she needs her own show, dammit. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30511 "2016-07-07T23:00:44Z")
NM ---
**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:** [July 7, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30512 "2016-07-07T23:06:45Z")
One site claims that “Vegas Vic”, the enormous neon cowboy that towers over Fremont Street in Las Vegas, is the world’s largest mechanical neon sign. Vegas Vic is 40 feet high. However, some 350 miles to the north in West Wendover NV, “Wendover Will” stands 63 feet tall, and he is a large mechanical neon sign. Wendover Will: [Wendover Will - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendover_Will) Vegas Vic: [Vegas Vic - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegas_Vic) Claiming site: [http://www.lasvegas.com/planning-tools/vegas-basics/fun-facts/](http://www.lasvegas.com/planning-tools/vegas-basics/fun-facts/) ---
**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:** [July 7, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30513 "2016-07-07T23:17:04Z")
NM…I never learn. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30514 "2016-07-07T23:19:50Z")
In October 1999, the U.S. Department of Transportation moved West Wendover, Nevada out of the Pacific Time Zone due to the strong economic ties between West Wendover and neighboring Utah. This made the city of West Wendover the only portion of Nevada legally in the Mountain Time Zone. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30515 "2016-07-08T00:05:56Z")
Las Vegas, New Mexico, was founded in 1835. For the first 92 years of its existence, it was the largest city in the USA named Las Vegas. The upstart town of the same name in Nevada did not surpass it in population until the late 1920s. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30516 "2016-07-08T00:40:27Z")
When New Mexico thoroughbred racehorse Mine That Bird won the 2009 Kentucky Derby, he was a 50-to-1 long shot. Jockey Calvin Borel rode him to victory that day. It was Borel’s second of three (to date) Derby wins. Borel won in 2007 and 2010. Mine That Bird raced in the Preakness that year, but he finished second to the filly, Rachel Alexandra. Who was the jockey for Rachel Alexandra? None other than the same Calvin Borel. In the Belmont, Borel rode Mine That Bird to a third place finish. Mine That Bird unanimously won New Mexico’s Horse of the Year award. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30517 "2016-07-08T01:19:43Z")
New Mexico holds a very odd place in the baseball record books. In 1949, two New Mexico born ball;layers between them hiit 93 home runs – Ralph Kiner and Vern Stephens. Before that, only Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx, two Marylanders, exceeded that number, by hitting 99 homers. In 1962, the second place mark was yielded to Alabama boys, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. An oddity is that the Kiner and Stephens families had both moved to Los Angeles, where their power-hitting boys grew up and went to school. It would be 40 years before a single home run would be hit in the major leagues by a player who went to high school in New Mexico. And that would be a pitcher, Scott Terry. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30518 "2016-07-08T02:34:08Z")
The battleship USS _New Mexico_’s first actions during World War II were neutrality patrols in the Atlantic Ocean. She returned to the Pacific after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and participated in shore bombardments during operations at Attu and Kiska, Tarawa, the Marshall Islands, the Mariana and Palau islands, Leyte, Luzon, and Okinawa. These were interspersed with escort duties, patrols, and refits. The ship was attacked by kamikazes on several occasions. The warship was present in Tokyo Bay for the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on 2 September 1945. She was scrapped in 1948. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30519 "2016-07-08T04:27:03Z")
The second US Navy ship to be named after our 47th state, the USS _New Mexico_ (SSN-779), a _Virginia_ class nuclear submarine, was commissioned in 2010. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30520 "2016-07-08T04:59:52Z")
In Canada the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over all aspects of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, by virtue of the federal residual power over “Peace, Order and Good Government.” ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30521 "2016-07-08T12:53:14Z")
Whales are members of the same order as pigs, giraffes and cattle, but a different order than horses. Mammalian hoofed animals divided into even-toed ungulates and odd-toed ungulates, before whales began their separate evolutionary journey. Whales, being a “hoofed animal”, are less closely related to seals or manatees, than to gazelles… ---
**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:** [July 8, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30522 "2016-07-08T12:53:18Z")
The money order system was established by a private firm in Great Britain in 1792, but was expensive to use and not very successful. In approximately 1836, it was sold to another private firm which lowered the fees, which therefore significantly increased the popularity and usage of the system. The English Post Office noted the success and profitability, and it took over the system in 1838. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2016, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30523 "2016-07-08T13:12:25Z")
The Extermination Order was issued in Missouri on 27 October 1838 by Governor Lilburn Boggs. It ordered all Mormons to leave the state, or be exterminated. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2016, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30524 "2016-07-08T13:12:43Z")
Bangkok Bank has a monopoly on U.S. government services in Thailand — the U.S. Treasury allows no other commercial bank in Thailand to cash Treasury checks or to receive direct deposits from the Treasury. Fees are charged for the direct deposits. A settlement is now proposed in the class action lawsuit _Peter Van Dermark v. Bangkok Bank Public Limited Company, New York Branch._ One Doper and his son will apparently get three months of fee-free Social Security deposits. Ninja’ed: The lawsuit was a federal suit, but filed in the Southern District of New York, located in New York _State_. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30525 "2016-07-08T13:15:10Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Bangkok Bank has a monopoly on U.S. government services in Thailand — the U.S. Treasury allows no other commercial bank in Thailand to cash Treasury checks or to receive direct deposits from the Treasury. Fees are charged for the direct deposits. A settlement is now proposed in the class action lawsuit _Peter Van Dermark v. Bangkok Bank Public Limited Company, New York Branch._ One Doper and his son will apparently get three months of fee-free Social Security deposits. Ninja! 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 8, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30526 "2016-07-08T13:18:14Z")
Thailand is the only country in southeastern Asia to never have been colonized by a European country. The name Thailand means “Land of the Free.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1525) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1527)