# 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:** 1534
**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 15, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30667 "2016-07-15T14:03:08Z")
[del]Juliette Gordon Low, with some help from Sir Robert Baden-Powell, organized and assembled the first gathering of girls that would lead to the founding of Girl Scouts of the USA, in 1912 in Savannah GA. The group was initially known as the Girl Guides, after Low had previously formed a group of Girl Guides in Scotland in 1911. Juliette Gordon Low’S birthday, 31 October, is celebrated annually by GSUSA as Founder’s Day. That is probably why we get their cookies that time of year. [http://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/all-about-cookies/FAQs.html[/del]](http://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/all-about-cookies/FAQs.html%5B/del%5D) Ninja’d! In play: > [@jtur88](#): > > Sliced white bread was first sold in Chillicothe, Missouri in 1928. Otto Rohwedder, a bakery employee, invented a machine to slice loaves of white bread, and packages of white bread already sliced were first put on sale in Chillicothe. ---
**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 15, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30668 "2016-07-15T14:10:28Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > The savannah monitor (Varanus exanthematicus) is a medium-sized species of monitor lizard native to Africa. The species is known as Bosc’s monitor in Europe, since French scientist Louis Bosc first described the species. > [@jtur88](#): > > Sliced white bread was first sold in Chillicothe, Missouri in 1928. Otto Rohwedder, a bakery employee, invented a machine to slice loaves of white bread, and packages of white bread already sliced were first put on sale in Chillicothe. 😕 Hmmm, what’s the connection between these two plays? I don’t see it. Is it, _ **‘first’** _? 😕 ---
**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 15, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30669 "2016-07-15T14:20:14Z")
According to the National Association of Wheat Growers, one bushel of wheat: - contains approximately one million individual kernels. - weighs approximately 60 pounds. - yields approximately 42 pounds of white flour OR 60 pounds of whole-wheat flour. - yields 42 one-and-a-half pound commercial loaves of white bread OR about 90 one-pound loaves of whole wheat bread. - makes about forty-five 24-ounce boxes of wheat flake cereal. - makes about 42 pounds of pasta or 210 servings of spaghetti. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30670 "2016-07-15T15:02:30Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > 😕 > Hmmm, what’s the connection between these two plays? I don’t see it. > Is it, _ **‘first’** _? > 😕 Yes, I used “first”, and then you did too, so your submission was valid, as well. In play According to the National Association of Wheat Growers, one bushel of wheat: - contains approximately one million individual kernels. - weighs approximately 60 pounds. - yields approximately 42 pounds of white flour OR 60 pounds of whole-wheat flour. - yields 42 one-and-a-half pound commercial loaves of white bread OR about 90 one-pound loaves of whole wheat bread. - makes about forty-five 24-ounce boxes of wheat flake cereal. - makes about 42 pounds of pasta or 210 servings of spaghetti. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30671 "2016-07-15T16:05:39Z")
For every bushel of wheat harvested in the USA, a bushel of topsoil goes down the Mississippi River and into the Gulf of Mexico. For corn, the ratio is more like two bushels of topsoil to one of corn. There are places in Iowa wherfe the first settlers fouind 12 feet of topsoil, and today their plows are hitting bedrock. ---
**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 15, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30672 "2016-07-15T20:32:09Z")
The Eads Bridge is a combined road and railway bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, connecting St. Louis and East St. Louis, Illinois. The bridge is named for its designer and builder, James B. Eads. When completed in 1874, the Eads Bridge was the longest arch bridge in the world, with an overall length of 6,442 feet. The bridge is still in use today. ---
**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 15, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30673 "2016-07-15T23:42:40Z")
At the foot of the Eads Bridge, at the west end, on the south side - the St. Louis side, the side nearest the Gateway Arch - is a statue of Lewis and Clark in a small boat with their dog. At the usual height of the Mississippi River, the water is some 20 yards away and low, down the riverside reinforcing concrete. But when the river floods, the statue can become wet. The statue is approximately 20 feet tall. I’ve seen the river so flooded that the statue has been completely covered by the water. ---
**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 16, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30674 "2016-07-16T00:11:26Z")
Lewis and Clark took an air rifle on their expedition in 1804. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30675 "2016-07-16T00:14:07Z")
Yet somehow neither one shot his eye out. In _A Christmas Story_, Ralphie desperately wants a “Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time,” does not correspond to any model in existence nor even a prototype; the Red Ryder featured in the movie was specially made to match author Jean Shepherd’s story (which may be artistic license, but was the configuration Shepherd claimed to remember). However, the “Buck Jones” Daisy air rifle, immediately above the Red Ryder in the Daisy line, did have a compass and sundial in the stock, but no other features of the “Red Ryder” model. ---
**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 16, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30676 "2016-07-16T01:44:31Z")
In Canada, red is the colour of the Liberal Party; blue for the Conservative Party; orange for the New Democratic Party; light blue for the Bloc Québécois; and Green for the Green Party, of course. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30677 "2016-07-16T02:38:51Z")
When asked about what had inspired him creatively, Bob Dylan said it was a lyric by Scottish poet Robert Burns that had the greatest effect on his life. He named the 1794 song A Red, Red Rose, which is often published as a poem, penned by the man regarded as Scotland’s national poet. According to some experts it was based on a song Burns heard a girl singing in the Scottish Highlands. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30678 "2016-07-16T03:17:24Z")
Highland Community College is the oldest college in Kansas, established in 1858 in Kansas Territory, three years before statehood… Despite its name, the college, located in the town of Highland KS, is very nearly the lowest point in Kansas, about 20 miles from the Missouri River bottoms in the northeast corner of the 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 16, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30679 "2016-07-16T04:18:01Z")
Four slave states stayed in the Union - did not secede: from smallest to largest they were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. Missouri was the largest of the four, and this was the Final _Jeopardy_ answer from one episode this week. ---
**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 16, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30680 "2016-07-16T12:29:41Z")
Kentucky’s geographic location made it a key state during the Civil War. A quote attributed to Lincoln makes the point: “I hope to have God on my side. But I must have Kentucky!” ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30681 "2016-07-16T13:15:29Z")
Kentucky is the only state in the union that has an enclave, which cannot be reached without passing through the territory of another state. At the extreme western end of Kentucky, the enclave is surrounded by Missouri and Tennessee, and has a population of 18. ---
**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 16, 2016, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30682 "2016-07-16T13:18:09Z")
North America’s largest annual fireworks display is _“[Thunder Over Louisville](http://thunderoverlouisville.org/)”_, the opening ceremony of the Kentucky Derby. It is usually held in April, two weeks before the Kentucky Derby. The first [_“Thunder over Louisville”_](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Over_Louisville#History) was in 1989, when Kentucky wanted to hold an opening ceremony for the Derby. ---
**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 16, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30683 "2016-07-16T14:25:41Z")
Secretariat won the 1973 Kentucky Derby with a still-standing track record of 1:592⁄5, running each quarter-mile segment faster than the one before it. The successive quarter-mile times were :251⁄5, :24, :234⁄5, :232⁄5, and :23, s still accelerating as of the final quarter-mile of the race. No other horse had won the Derby in less than 2 minutes before, and it would not be accomplished again until Monarchos in 2001.[ ---
**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:** [July 16, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30684 "2016-07-16T16:19:58Z")
In Kentucky, the University of Louisville is home to a colony of white squirrels. Their presence on Brevard campus has been noted since the 1930s. The school established its own chapter of the"Albino Squirrel Preservation Society", which maintains contact with its members and interested parties through a Facebook group by that name. The university has an open policy to give away a free t-shirt to anyone who takes a photograph of a white squirrel on campus grounds and brings it to the administration offices. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30685 "2016-07-16T18:34:21Z")
A joke: “Do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky Loo-ee-vill or Loo-uh-vill”?" Neither. It’s pronounced “Frankfort”. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30686 "2016-07-16T18:55:20Z")
The NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles were formed from the assets of the defunct Frankford Yellow Jackets franchise, named for their home neighborhood in Philly. On October 26, 1931, the Yellow Jackets defeated the Chicago Bears, 13–12, at Wrigley Field. This game marked the last time a Philadelphia-based NFL team would win an away game over the Bears until October 17, 1999, when the Eagles defeated the Bears 20–16 at Soldier Field. The 1928 Yellow Jackets win over the Packers marked the last time in 51 years a Philadelphia NFL team won a road victory over the Packers; the Eagles’ 1979 win at Green Bay finally ended that streak. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1533) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1535)