# 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:** 1528
**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 9, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30547 "2016-07-09T13:39:46Z")
At 1,980 miles long the Yukon River is the 21st-longest river in the world and the 3rd longest in Noth America. 1. 3,902 miles: Mississippi–Missouri–Jefferson River System (4th longest in the world) 2. 2,637 miles: Mackenzie-Slave-Peace-Finlay River System (13th) 3. 1,980 miles: Yukon River (21st) > **[List of river systems by length](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_by_length#List_of_rivers_longer_than_1000_km)** > > This is a list of the longest rivers on Earth. It includes river systems over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) in length. > There are many factors, such as the identification of the source, the identification or the definition of the mouth, and the scale of measurement of the river length between source and mouth, that determine the precise meaning of "river length". As a result, the length measurements of many rivers are only approximations (see also coastline paradox). In particular, there seems to ... ---
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While Jack London was known for his adventure tales of the Yukon, he was also a strong supporter in his writings of labor unions, socialism, and the rights of workers. He experienced harsh working conditions first hand when as a young man in San Francisco he dropped out of school and went to work on the frontier. ---
**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 9, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30549 "2016-07-09T13:56:30Z")
London’s most successful theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim were both born on March 22nd–Lloyd Webber in 1948 and Sondheim in 1930. Therefore, this year former is now 68 and the latter 86. ---
**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 9, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30550 "2016-07-09T14:16:31Z")
Jack London State Historic Park is in the town of Glen Ellen, CA in Sonoma County. Glen Ellen is the town where London died at the age of 40 and is about 50 miles north of San Francisco. ---
**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 9, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30551 "2016-07-09T14:24:13Z")
Charles E. (Chuck) Williams settled in Sonoma, California, and opened his first shop as a hardware store in 1947. In 1953, he took his first trip to France, and fell in love with French Kitchenware such as In 1947, Charles E. (Chuck) Williams settled in Sonoma, California, and opened his first shop as a hardware store. In 1953, Williams took his first trip to France. He quickly fell in love with French Kitchenware such as copper cookware. He is quoted as saying, “I knew this was something that wasn’t found in America, but thought people would want.” Shortly after returning home he formulated a plan to import French cooking and serving equipment into America and converted his store into a cookware shop in 1956. Williams-Sonoma was founded, selling professional and restaurant-quality kitchenware for home use, leading to founder Chuck Williams being recognized as one of the titans of the American food revolution. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30552 "2016-07-09T14:39:30Z")
In Greek mythology, the twelve Titans were Oceanus, Tethys, Hyperion, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Cronus, Rhea, Mnemosyne, Themis, Crius, and Iapetus. ---
**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 9, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30553 "2016-07-09T14:56:15Z")
Lisa Kudrow’s pregnancy was written into Friends, when her character Phoebe Buffay serving as a gestational surrogate motherfor her younger half brother Frank and his much older wife Alice, eventually giving birth to their genetic triplets. ---
**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 9, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30554 "2016-07-09T17:18:10Z")
Phoebe Cates has been married to Kevin Kline since 1989. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30555 "2016-07-09T17:44:51Z")
_Inherit the Wind_ is a 1955 play based on the real-life Scopes Monkey Trial, in which the character depicting the actual defendant, John Thomas Scopes, is named Bertram “Bert” Cates. ---
**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 9, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30556 "2016-07-09T18:12:50Z")
To Kill a Mockingbird has been adapted as a play by Christopher Sergel. White male audience members are chosen at the intermission to make up the jury for Tom Robinson’s trial, and during the courtroom scene the audience is racially segregated, just as it was during the time period of the book. ---
**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 9, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30557 "2016-07-09T18:39:41Z")
The 1896 _ **Plessy v. Ferguson** _ ruling confirmed the validity of the “separate but equal” concept which said that segregation, as long as the segregated classes were treated equally, was a valid means of keeping groups of people apart. John Marshall Harlan was the only dissenting justice. Homer Plessy was arrested on 07 Jun 1892 in New Orleans LA for sitting in a first class rail car. Homer Plessy was an American Louisiana Creole of Color plaintiff who had a “fair” appearance and could easily pass for white. But he was an _ **octoroon** _, meaning he was 1/8th black. and Judge John Howard Ferguson was the Louisiana judge who ruled that the Louisiana Railway Car Act of 1890 (The Separate Car Act), a law declaring that Louisiana rail companies had to provide separate but equal accommodations for white and non-white passengers, was constitutional. ---
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Despite not knowing when he lived, as well as whether he lived at all, Homer is considered the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey and was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. ---
**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 9, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30559 "2016-07-09T21:36:27Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > …Judge John Howard Ferguson was the Louisiana judge who ruled that the Louisiana Railway Car Act of 1890 (The Separate Car Act), a law declaring that Louisiana rail companies had to provide separate but equal accommodations for white and non-white passengers, was constitutional. He was the subject of a Botticelli round here not too long ago. In play: Former astronaut, Grammy winner, nuclear-safety specialist and notable Springfield resident Homer Simpson will eat just about anything, and has even been known to go for floor pie: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WsDtn-feuI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WsDtn-feuI) ---
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“Shoofly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy” was a song that made the Hit Parade in 1946, playing on desserts of Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine. Shoo Fly pie is a molasses pie , so named because it was so syrupy that flies had to be shooed away from it. Apple Pan Dowdy is a baked apple pastry resembling modern apple cobbler. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/EI-k9DfuGps/maxresdefault.jpg "June Christy - Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI-k9DfuGps) ---
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Apple Computer’s street address is One Infinite Loop. ---
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A set is _ **countably infinite** _ if its elements can be put in one-to-one correspondence with the set of natural numbers. In other words, one can count off all elements in the set in such a way that, even though the counting will take forever, you will get to any particular element in a finite amount of time. One basic example of a countably infinite set is the set of integers. ---
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The den or burrow of the European badger is usually called a sett or set. In the United Kingdom, badger setts are protected from disturbance or destruction under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992. ---
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Wisconsin is known as The Badger State not because of the presence of that species of animal, which is actually quite rare in Wisconsin. Early settlers, who came to Wisconsin to work in mines, had no available housing at the mine sites, to they burrowed out badger-like setts in hillsides to live in. Wisconsin was a frontier state them, and was the last state east of the Mississippi River to be admitted to statehood. ---
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Wisconsin was admitted on 29 May 1848 and was the second to last state east of the Mississippi admitted to the Union. West Virginia was admitted on 20 June 1863 and was the last state east of the Mississippi admitted to the Union. ---
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Several major cities including Washington D.C., Chicago and Los Angeles, have a major rail transport hub named Union Station. Nashville also had a Union Station which was closed and then converted into a hotel which used the original terminal building. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1527) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1529)