# 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:** 1623
**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 26, 2016, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32447 "2016-10-26T12:11:37Z")
The largest gold nugget ever found is the “Welcome Stranger” discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates in Australia. The nugget is 10 by 25 inches and yielded 2,248 ounces of pure gold. At today’s price of $1,277 per ounce, that nugget is worth about $2.8M. That nugget was found just two inches below the ground surface, on February 5, 1869. ---
**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 26, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32448 "2016-10-26T12:30:08Z")
The Golden Nugget Las Vegas is a luxury hotel and casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada on the Fremont Street Experience. It is the largest casino in the downtown area, with a total of 2,419 deluxe guest rooms and suites. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32449 "2016-10-26T13:02:53Z")
In 1949, Chevrolet introduced the DeLuxe trimline, which sold for $1,492 list price. Fuel mileage was 20 mpg at 50 mph. Gas was 25c a gallon. So, in today’s dollars, it would have cost about $18 to drive a hundred miles – about twice as much as the cost of driving a modern mid-sized Chevy. ---
**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 26, 2016, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32450 "2016-10-26T13:14:18Z")
For most of its 14 year run, Bonanza was sponsored by Chevrolet. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byvjLa4zt0w) is the first scene and Chevrolet commercial that aired in 1959. ---
**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 26, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32451 "2016-10-26T14:25:39Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Speaking of death, a human head can remain conscious for about 15 to 20 seconds after it is decapitated. French physician Dr. Gabriel Beaurieux witnessed the beheading of a man named Languille. He wrote that immediately afterward, “the eyelids and lips … worked in irregularly rhythmic contractions for about five or six seconds.” Dr. Beaurieux called out his name and said that Languille’s eyelids “slowly lifted up, without any spasmodic contraction” and that “his pupils focused themselves” The Perfect Master speaks: [Does the head remain briefly conscious after decapitation (revisited)? - The Straight Dope](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1172/does-the-head-remain-briefly-conscious-after-decapitation) In play: Sen. John F. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, was already campaigning across the country for the Presidency throughout much of 1959, although he did not formally announce his candidacy until January 1960. ---
**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 26, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32452 "2016-10-26T15:13:19Z")
One single Massachusetts county was the birthplace of four US Presidents. In Norfolk County, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George Herbert Walker Bush all were born. ---
**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 26, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32453 "2016-10-26T15:51:27Z")
The supercarrier USS _John F. Kennedy_ suffered arson fires while in port in the Norfolk, Va. naval shipyard in June 1975, April 1979 and June 1979. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32454 "2016-10-26T16:17:16Z")
On September 7, 1571, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of **Norfolk** , was arrested for his involvement in a plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. ---
**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 26, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32455 "2016-10-26T16:26:43Z")
The Duke of Norfolk is the premier duke in the peerage of England and is also the Earl Marshal and hereditary Marshal of England, playing a key role in British coronations. The dukes have historically been Catholic, a state of affairs known as “recusancy” from the established (and Protestant) Church of England. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32456 "2016-10-26T17:32:08Z")
Virginia Beach is now the largest city in Virginia, nearly double the population of any other city, although it did not gain city status until 1963. At that time, it was a suburb of Norfolk, then the largest city in the state. Virginia Beach is the 41st largest city in the USA. Before 1963, Virginia Beach was Princess Anne Couinty. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32457 "2016-10-26T17:35:34Z")
The titles of Duke of Norfolk and Duke of Suffolk (now extinct) ultimately date back over a millennium, to the division of the Kingdom of East Anglia into two regions: the one inhabited by the “north folk” and the one inhabited by the “south folk”. Of such homely commonplace names are grand titles derived. ---
**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 26, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32458 "2016-10-26T18:07:32Z")
British historic royal dukedoms which are now not held by anyone include Albany, Albemarle, Avondale, Clarence, Connaught, Cumberland, Hereford, Kendal, Ross, St. Andrews, Strathearn, Sussex, Teviotdale, and perhaps most famously, Windsor. There has only ever been one Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII. ---
**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 26, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32459 "2016-10-26T18:48:21Z")
The Tri-City area of Upstate New York is formed by the capital city, Albany, and Schenectady and Troy. The three cities sit near where the Mohawk River drains into the Hudson. The Mohawk is the largest tributary of the Hudson. Together with the Erie Canal, yhe Mohawk connects the Hudson to the Great Lakes. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32460 "2016-10-26T21:03:32Z")
On August 2, 1610, English sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as **Hudson** Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage to reach the Pacific Ocean. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32461 "2016-10-26T21:07:19Z")
The first confirmed complete passage, from west to east, of the Northeast Passage, along Russia’s northern coast, was made by the Finnish-Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, in 1878. The successful voyage of the steamship \*Vega \*is considered to be among the highest achievements in the history of Swedish science. ---
**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 26, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32462 "2016-10-26T21:40:24Z")
The star Vega is the brightest in the constellation of Lyra, the fifth-brightest star in the night sky. It was the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed, by William Bond and John Adams Whipple at the Harvard College Observatory in 1850. ---
**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 27, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32463 "2016-10-27T01:40:30Z")
Vega, also designated Alpha Lyrae, is the brightest star in the constellation of Lyra and the second-brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus. Vega was the Northern pole star around 12,000 BC and will be so again around the year 13,727 AD. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32464 "2016-10-27T01:41:52Z")
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**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 27, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32465 "2016-10-27T01:43:10Z")
Playing off of 32452, unless **ozziemaland** corrects his ninja. IN **VEGA** (paliperidone) is used for the short-term treatment of schizoaffective disorder in adults and for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults and in adolescents (12-17 years of age). ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32466 "2016-10-27T03:33:05Z")
Correcting ninja: On May 17, 1902, artifacts were recovered from a shipwreck near the Greek island Antikythera, including the Antikythera mechanism—the oldest extant geared mechanism now known. The mechanism is usable for calculating Olympiads and predicting astronomical events. Olympiads are periods of four years associated with the Olympic Games of the ancient Greeks. Following the calculation of the mechanism, and applying the Proleptic Gregorian calendar, the first Olympiad lasted from the summer of 776 BC to that of 772 BC. The 699th Olympiad would, extrapolating from the calculation, begin in mid-summer 2016 for the northern **hemisphere**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1622) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1624)