# 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:** 1643
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32847 "2016-11-16T02:42:35Z")
On November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes was arrested in the Palace of Westminster. His capture foiled a plot to demolish the **House** of Lords and its occupants. Fawkes was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who had planned the failed conspiracy known today as the Gunpowder Plot. Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder—enough to reduce the House of Lords to rubble—and arrested. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32848 "2016-11-16T02:52:54Z")
The Four Great Inventions of ancient China that are celebrated in Chinese culture for their historical significance and as symbols of ancient China’s advanced science and technology are: The Compass **Gunpowder** Papermaking, and Printing ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32849 "2016-11-16T03:47:58Z")
Commercial enterprises just north of Joppa, Maryland, utilize water power from the Little Gunpowder Falls. The most notable of these is the still standing Jerusalem Mill Village complex in Kingsville, which, among other enterprises, fabricated weapons for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32850 "2016-11-16T04:19:07Z")
Henry IV of England wanted to go on Crusade, partly as penance for usurping the throne from his cousin, Richard II. However, the affairs of state meant that Henry could not find the time. His hope that he would one day go on crusade were buoyed by a prophecy that he would die in Jerusalem. After several years on the throne, one day he suddenly collapsed. He was carried into a room where he could be laid on a long bench. He realized that the room was called the Jerusalem Chamber and gave up the ghost. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32851 "2016-11-16T04:27:56Z")
The Star Chamber, while a metopher for arbitrary and capricious judicial power actually introduced some widely accepted legal concepts, such as perjury, attempts and judicial panels. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32852 "2016-11-16T04:32:55Z")
In Ohio, a person may be prosecuted for perjury if he or she lies about a material fact in either a deposition, affidavit or court testimony. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32853 "2016-11-16T06:30:19Z")
After Mr Pickwick is found liable to his landlady for breach of promise to marry, Mr Weller senior says sorrowfully to his son, “Oh Sammy, why worn’t there an affydavit?” ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32854 "2016-11-16T14:02:16Z")
American actor Peter Weller, probably best known for _Robocop, Naked Lunch_ and _Buckaroo Banzai_, was nominated for an Academy Award for his direction of the 1993 short _Partners_, in which he also acted. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32855 "2016-11-16T14:15:01Z")
Musician Freddy Weller, who got his professional start playing guitar for Paul Revere and the Raiders, had his biggest solo hit as a country music artist with “Games People Play,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1969; “Promised Land” and “Indian Lake,” both 1971, peaked at No. 3. He also co-wrote “Dizzy” and “Jam Up and Jelly Tight” which were hits for Tommy Roe in 1970. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32856 "2016-11-16T14:22:41Z")
Paul Revere provided the copper hull sheathing for the sail frigate USS _Constitution_, still the oldest-commissioned U.S. Navy warship. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32857 "2016-11-16T14:28:16Z")
Paul Revere of Paul Revere and the Raiders fame’s full name is Paul Revere Dick. Just like Tim Allen’s full name is Tim Allen Dick. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32858 "2016-11-16T15:08:33Z")
Revolutionary patriot and hero Ethan Allen famously captured Fort Ticonderoga with the help of the Green Mountain Boys. This group was originally formed by Allen as a result of legal issues during Allen’s attempt to acquire land in New Hampshire. Basically a gang of thugs, the Green Mountain Boys used intimidation and property destruction to drive New York settlers out of the land grants. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32859 "2016-11-16T15:15:11Z")
Ethan Allen Global, Inc. is an American furniture chain with almost 300 stores across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1932 by two brothers-in-law, Nathan S. Ancell and Theodore Baumritter. The firm adopted the name “Ethan Allen” for its early-American furniture introduced in 1939. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32860 "2016-11-16T15:39:07Z")
Theodore Roosevelt has been and will be, until Jan. 20, 2017, the only U.S. President born in New York City. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32861 "2016-11-16T16:40:43Z")
U S Grant is the only president to be buried in New York City. All presidents have received trasitional burials, as well as all vice-presidents except Spiro Agnew, who was cremated. In fact, nowadays, you’d prctically have to be a president to be buried in Manhattan, where it is now nearly impossible to arrange to have a traditional burial in any existing cemetery. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32862 "2016-11-16T17:35:30Z")
On February 16, 1862, Union forces in the Battle of Fort Donelson captured the Confederate fort near the Tennessee–Kentucky border, thereby opening the Cumberland River. The river was an important means with which to invade the South. The victory gave General Ulysses S. **Grant** the nickname “Unconditional Surrender” Grant. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32863 "2016-11-16T19:26:37Z")
In Canada after World War I, some labour leaders thought that there should be a single union for all workers, nicknamed the One Big Union, which would call strikes of all workers on behalf for individual groups of workers. The idea contributed to the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32864 "2016-11-16T19:30:45Z")
American soldiers who returned from WWI were promised bonuses for their services. These were not paid. In 1932, when the depression was in full swing, some 40,000 veterans comprising what became known as the “Bonus Army” marched on Washington, DC, demanding their bonuses in order to be able to feed their families. A bill was introduced and passed in the House, but failed in the Senate. President Hoover called the soldiers criminals and called out active duty Army troops replete with tanks to drive them from the city. This force was commanded by Douglas MacArthur. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32865 "2016-11-16T19:39:52Z")
Clan Douglas was one of the most powerful Lowland clans in Scotland. As it grew in power, the Clan acquired two different leaders: Earl Douglas, called the “Black Douglas” by the English for his ferocity in war, and the Earl of Angus, nicknamed the “Red Douglas”. The Red Douglas branch of the clan eventually turned on the Black Douglas branch, leading to the downfall of the Black Douglases. ---
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The term “mondegreen,” for misheard song lyrics, refers to the Scottish folk ballad “The Bonnie Earl o’ Moray”. The actual words are “Ye Highlands and ye _ **Lowlands** _, Oh, where have you been? They have slain the Earl o’ Moray, And laid him on the green”. The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term “mondegreen” in an essay “The Death of Lady Mondegreen,” which was published in Harper’s Magazine in November 1954. In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the final two lines of the above verse as “they have slain the Earl o’ Moray, and Lady Mondegreen.” She said that she always imagined the Earl dying beside his faithful lover “Lady Mondegreen”, and refused to hear the real words, because they were less romantic than her misheard version. The term “mondegreen” has since been adopted for any misheard song lyric which changes the meaning of the original. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1642) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1644)