# 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:** 1650
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32987 "2016-11-22T20:06:38Z")
Alaska is one of two states that feature a bear on their flag. California uses the old Bear Flag of the California Republic, and Alaska’s motif is the “Great Bear” constellation, Ursa Major. ---
**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 22, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32988 "2016-11-22T20:10:56Z")
Canada’s two dollar coin has the Queen’s face on the front and a bear behind. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32989 "2016-11-22T20:37:34Z")
Two dollar bills are legal tender and 230 million of them were printed in 2006; there are over $1.1 billion of them in circulation. However, they are seldom seen, (perhaps due to hoarding) to the point that people have been arrested when trying to use these “fake” bills ---
**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 22, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32990 "2016-11-22T20:54:38Z")
The $3 bill was never a U.S. issued currency, although some states may have done so in the past. It has gained popularity as a derogatory descriptive, as in “phony (or queer) as a $3 bill”. There have been coins issued in a $3 denomination. ---
**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 22, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32991 "2016-11-22T20:55:43Z")
Chefguy beat me on the followup. Will try again. ---
**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 22, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32992 "2016-11-22T20:58:21Z")
The 3 Seventh Avenue Express is a rapid transit service in the A Division of the New York City Subway. The 3 operates between 148th Street in Harlem, Manhattan and New Lots Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn, making express stops in Manhattan and all stops in Brooklyn, except nights when it short turns at Times Square–42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32993 "2016-11-22T21:38:32Z")
On November 21, 1964, the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time. Yesterday was the 52nd anniversary. ---
**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 22, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32994 "2016-11-22T21:41:55Z")
On November 21, 1976, the movie _Rocky_ was released.The film, made on a budget of just over $1 million and shot in 28 days, was a sleeper hit; it earned $225 million in global box office receipts, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1976, and went on to win three Oscars, including Best Picture. The film received many positive reviews and turned Sylvester Stallone into a major star. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32995 "2016-11-22T22:50:34Z")
On May 1, 1941, _Citizen Kane_, a film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered. _Citizen Kane_ was voted the greatest film of all time in five consecutive _Sight & Sound_ '​s polls of critics. The screenplay examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a character based in part upon the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. While a critical success, _Citizen Kane_ failed to recoup its costs at the box office. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32996 "2016-11-22T23:22:27Z")
Orson Welles played a number of Shakespearean roles on film, including the title roles in _Macbeth_ and _Othello_, as well as Falstaff in _Chimes at Midnight_, his adaptation of _Henry IV_ Part I and Part 2. He also directed all three of these films. ---
**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 23, 2016, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32997 "2016-11-23T00:59:41Z")
Despite his reputation as an actor and master filmmaker, Orson Welles maintained his memberships in the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Society of American Magicians, and regularly practiced sleight-of-hand magic in case his career came to an abrupt end. ---
**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 23, 2016, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32998 "2016-11-23T06:46:13Z")
Shakespeare frequently dealt with the concept of reputation. Two examples are Jaques’ speech on the seven ages of man in _As You Like It_ (the soldier who “seeks the bubble reputation even in the cannon’s mouth”) and Cassio lamenting his lost reputation after a bout of drunkenness in \* Othello\* (“My reputation, Iago, my reputation!”) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32999 "2016-11-23T09:26:16Z")
A seven-sided shape is a heptagon. The regular _n_-gons for _n_ ≤ 6 can be constructed by compass and straightedge alone, but the regular heptagon cannot. Figurate numbers representing heptagons (including seven) are called heptagonal numbers. Seven is also a centered hexagonal number. ---
**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 23, 2016, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33000 "2016-11-23T12:03:21Z")
The area of a regular heptagon of side _ **a** _ is a formula using the cotangent of π (pi). A = [(7/4)_ **a** _²]cot(π/7) The cotangent of an angle, θ, is given by cotθ = cosθ/sinθ = 1/tanθ. ---
**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 23, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33001 "2016-11-23T13:01:24Z")
Baby \*\*formula \*\*is a manufactured food designed and marketed for feeding to babies and infants under 12 months of age. The most commonly used infant formulas contain purified cow’s milk, whey and casein as a protein source, a blend of vegetable oils as a fat source, lactose as a carbohydrate source, and a vitamin-mineral mix. ---
**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 23, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33002 "2016-11-23T13:20:28Z")
When feeding a baby, the introduction of cow’s milk protein in the first 8 days of a baby’s life will increase the risk for Type 1 diabetes. ---
**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 23, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33003 "2016-11-23T14:22:57Z")
According to the anti-abortion troops, abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. The American Cancer Society says [No](http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/moreinformation/is-abortion-linked-to-breast-cancer) ---
**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 23, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33004 "2016-11-23T14:44:36Z")
Canada’s abortion law was struck down on constitutional grounds by the Supreme Court in 1988. Unlike in the US, that decision has been generally accepted politically, and abortion is now just one more medical procedure, regulated under provincial health laws. There have not been any further cases in the Supreme Court on the issue, unlike the regular stream of cases to the US Supreme Court since _Roe v Wade_. It’s an interesting commentary on the differences in the political cultures between the two countries. ---
**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 23, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33005 "2016-11-23T14:51:18Z")
The real life abortion nightmare of Nancy and Marty Klein was turned [Absolute Strangers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Strangers), a TV movie starring Henry Winkler. Basically, after Marty Klein decided to seek the abortion that might help his wife, who was in a coma from a car accident, recover, two men came forward and said they knew Mrs. Klein and her fetus would not want the abortion. These two men were absolute strangers to the family and did not know Mrs. Klein or the fetus at all, yet they knew what she snd the “baby” would want. ---
**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 23, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33006 "2016-11-23T15:28:53Z")
Black women are almost four times as likely to have an abortion as white women. For Latino women, the number is 2.5 times. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1649) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1651)