# 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:** 16
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/301 "2010-02-08T17:26:29Z")
Steve Martin had a Top 40 hit with _King Tut_. EDIT: Chevy Chase starred in _Caddyshack_ as a playboy golfer who was a member of Bushwood Country Club. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/302 "2010-02-08T17:28:05Z")
The gopher noises used in _Caddyshack_ were actually voiced by a dolphin. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/303 "2010-02-08T17:32:30Z")
Beverly D’Angelo starred in the Milos Forman-directed film version of _Hair_, choreographed by Twyla Tharp. ETA: Gah! indeed. I’m supposed to be working here! The Miami Dolphins are the only team in NFL history to have an undefeated season. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/304 "2010-02-08T17:35:22Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Beverly D’Angelo starred in the Milos Forman-directed film version of _Hair_, choreographed by Twyla Tharp. Colin Firth played a French pervert in Milos Forman’s 1989 movie _Valmont_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/305 "2010-02-08T17:37:40Z")
> [@KennerTheGreat](#): > > Colin Firth played a French pervert in Milos Forman’s 1989 movie _Valmont_ Two future “Saturday Night Live” cast members worked on the MTV quiz show “Remote Control”: Adam Sandler and Colin Quinn. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/306 "2010-02-08T17:52:23Z")
Before being on SNL, Adam Sandler appeared a few times on The Cosby Show. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/307 "2010-02-08T17:53:18Z")
Adam Sandler and Sarah Silverman are both from New Hampshire. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/308 "2010-02-08T18:00:30Z")
Sarah Silverman’s real-life sister Laura plays her sister on The Sarah Silverman Program. ---
**Author:** ![Rafe\_Hollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Rafe\_Hollister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rafe_Hollister)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/309 "2010-02-08T18:08:51Z")
Laura Ingalls Wilder died in Missouri in 1957 at age 90. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/310 "2010-02-08T18:23:48Z")
Meramec Caverns in Stanton, Missouri, has a new attraction for 2010: the “Caveman Zip Line”. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/311 "2010-02-08T18:56:22Z")
The character name for ALF, the cat-eating alien from the planet Melmac on the eponymous sitcom, was Gordon Shumway. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/312 "2010-02-08T19:15:51Z")
The “real” name of the Venus Flytrap character on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ (played by actor Tim Reid) was Gordon Sims. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/313 "2010-02-08T19:17:11Z")
The city of Cincinnati was named for George Washington, who often compared himself to the Roman farmer-general Cincinnatus. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/314 "2010-02-08T19:21:17Z")
George Washington manumitted his slaves in his will but delayed it until the death of his wife and he encouraged her to free her slaves as well; she did not, but she freed his slaves during her lifetime because she realized that otherwise they all had a vested interest in her death. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/315 "2010-02-08T19:29:33Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > George Washington manumitted his slaves in his will but delayed it until the death of his wife and he encouraged her to free her slaves as well; she did not, but she freed his slaves during her lifetime because she realized that otherwise they all had a vested interest in her death. New knowledge! I’ve never come across the word “manumitted” before. The _USS Lady Washington_ was the first US military vessel named for a woman. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/316 "2010-02-08T19:46:02Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > New knowledge! I’ve never come across the word “manumitted” before. > > The _USS Lady Washington_ was the first US military vessel named for a woman. The NBA’s New York Knickerbockers were named after a character created by Washington Irving. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/317 "2010-02-08T19:50:51Z")
Dwight Babcock of Knickerbocker Bank and Trust Company was the administrator of Patrick’s inheritance and the title character’s archenemy in AUNTIE MAME by Patrick Dennis (whose real name was Edward Everett Tanner, III and who later became a butler for Ray Kroc). I decided to give lots of possible things to play off of; I wish I could think of a way you can play off previous tiles as with doubles in real dominoes ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/318 "2010-02-08T19:56:56Z")
Ray Kroc approved the Egg McMuffin without test marketing it after eating 2 of them on a suggestion from one of his franchisees. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/319 "2010-02-08T20:01:45Z")
The first fast food franchise was for A&W Root Beer stands, which began to be franchised in 1921. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/320 "2010-02-08T20:07:14Z")
There is an A&W restaurant located in the Desert Dome of the U.S. Naval Support Activity in Bahrain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=17)