# 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:** 1609
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32167 "2016-10-12T01:11:11Z")
Holyoke, Massachusetts, is the location of East Mountain, the Mount Tom Range, and Mount Tom, which, at 1202 feet above sea level, is the highest traprock peak on the Metacomet Ridge. ---
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Trap rock, also known as either trapp or trap, is any dark-colored, fine-grained, non-granitic intrusive or extrusive igneous rock. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32169 "2016-10-12T02:27:56Z")
On November 16, 1959, _The Sound of Music_, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based on _The Story of the Trapp Family Singers_, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, the production was a five time winner at the 14th Tony Awards, out of nine nominations. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32170 "2016-10-12T02:45:37Z")
Heather Menzies starred as Louisa von Trapp, and then (much) later she married actor Robert Urich. Urich was the only person whose last name began with U on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, until Usher was added. Now there are two U’s there. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32171 "2016-10-12T03:43:13Z")
Robert Urich and Joe Mantegna both played Robert B. Parker’s fictional Boston detective Spenser on TV. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32172 "2016-10-12T04:07:20Z")
Edmund Spenser’s allegorical epic poem _The Faerie Queene_ was dedicated to Elizabeth I; even though it was never completed, it is still one of the longest poems in the English language. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32173 "2016-10-12T04:30:51Z")
“Life with Elizabeth” was the first long-run sitcom on network television, in 1953. The low-budget comedy was produced by and filmed at a local Los Angeles TV station where Betty White and Del Moore were on the staff . The series had aleady aired for two years locally on the ABC affiliate in Los Angeles. ---
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Betty White was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame, along with Michael Landon and Dick Van Dyke. ---
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Many of the light sources that emit white light emit light at almost all visible wavelengths (sun light, incandescent lamps of various Color temperatures). This has led to the notion that white light can be defined as a mixture of “all colors” or “all visible wavelengths”. This misconception is widespread, and might originally stem from the fact that Newton discovered that sunlight is composed of light with wavelengths across the visible spectrum. Concluding that since “all colors” produce white light then white must be made up of “all colors” is a common logical error called affirming the consequent, which might be the cause of the misunderstanding. ---
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Van Morrison’s 1978 song “Wavelength”, on the album of the same name, was inspired by his youthful memories of listening to the Voice of America radio service at his home in Northern Ireland. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32177 "2016-10-12T12:09:14Z")
The Voice of America headquarters is located at 330 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. . The VOA is fully funded by the U.S. government; the Congress appropriates funds for it annually under the same budget for United States embassies and consulates. ---
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According to voice and speech experts who have studied ancient remains, Neanderthals may have had a voice that was high pitched, nasal and very loud. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32179 "2016-10-12T13:07:16Z")
Fran Drescher is often asked if her high pitched, nasal and very loud voice is affected. Her standard answer is “Please! Who would make this up?” ---
**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:** [October 12, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32180 "2016-10-12T14:02:49Z")
Francine Descartes, daughter of philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, died at the age of 5 in 1640 of scarlet fever. ---
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Under the US academic regalia code, scarlet represents the study of theology, divinity, canon law, etc. ---
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_Scarlett_ is a 1966 musical based on Gone With The Wind. The original Japanese book is by Kazuo Kikuta, and the English version of the book is by Horton Foote. The Tokyo production was directed by American director/choreographer Joe Layton, who later directed a production in the London West End. London producer Harold Fielding cancelled his plans for a 1974 Broadway production, and the musical has never been performed on Broadway. In August 1973, a revised version of the London production was mounted at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles by the city’s Civic Light Opera Association, with Lesley Ann Warren, Pernell Roberts, Udana Power and Terence Monk in the leads. The strongly negative reviews prompted Layton to make numerous changes throughout the Los Angeles and subsequent San Francisco runs, but Fielding cancelled his plan to move the show to Broadway. In 1976, Lucia Victor staged a production in Dallas that travelled to three other cities, but that was the last time the musical was produced. ---
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The USS _Dallas_ is an actual _Los Angeles_-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine prominently featured in Tom Clancy’s thriller _The Hunt for Red October_, as well as the movie based on it. She is still in active U.S. Navy service. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32184 "2016-10-12T16:04:47Z")
On January 15, 1815, a squadron of four British frigates captured the _USS President_ commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur—whose name and legacy, like those of John Paul Jones, were soon to become symbolically identified with the US Navy. Decatur died in a duel with a rival officer five years later. ---
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The fatal Alexander Hamilton-Aaron Burr duel took place 212 years ago, in July 1804. While Burr was charged with murder he ultimately faced no legal consequences; however, the duel effectively ended his political career. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32186 "2016-10-13T00:40:16Z")
Aaron was the older brother of Moses. Unlike Moses, who grew up in the Egyptian royal court, Aaron and his elder sister Miriam remained with their kinsmen in the eastern border-land of Egypt (Goshen). When Moses first confronted the Egyptian king about the Israelites, Aaron served as his brother’s spokesman, or prophet, to Pharaoh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1608) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1610)