# 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:** 1679
**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:** [January 3, 2017, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33567 "2017-01-03T09:58:22Z")
Richard Cordray has said that family legend is that they are connected to Charlotte Cordray. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33568 "2017-01-03T13:55:12Z")
Charlotte, North Carolina was named in honor of German princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who had become the Queen Consort of Great Britain and Ireland in 1761, just seven years before the town’s incorporation. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33569 "2017-01-03T14:36:40Z")
Charlotte, North Carolina, is in Mecklenburg County, named after the same person. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33570 "2017-01-03T14:41:45Z")
Bergen County, the most populous county in the state of New Jersey, is located in the northeastern corner of New Jersey and its Gateway Region, and is considered part of the New York City Metropolitan Area.Its population of about one million peojple resides among 70 municipalities but no large cities. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33571 "2017-01-03T15:35:03Z")
In 1349, the Black Death was inadvertently brought to Norway by the crew of an English ship arriving in the town of Bergen. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33572 "2017-01-03T16:37:31Z")
Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp near Hanover in northwest Germany, located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen. It had no gas chambers, but 50,000 people (including Anne Frank) died of starvation, overwork, disease, and sadistic medical experiments. As the first major camp to be liberated by the Allies, in April 1945, the event received a lot of press coverage and the world saw the horrors of the Holocaust. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33573 "2017-01-03T17:14:23Z")
Marilyn Chambers was one of the best known porn stars of the big-screen pre-home-video era. After a number of famous XXX-rated pictures in the 1970s, she was the only well known porn actress to successfully cross over to make general audience films. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33574 "2017-01-03T18:01:57Z")
On June 6, 1989, the remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician nicknamed the Angel of Death, were discovered in Embu das Artes, Brazil. He had been notorious for the selection of victims to be killed in gas **chambers** and for performing unscientific and often deadly human experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33575 "2017-01-03T19:15:40Z")
To return for a moment to Marilyn Chambers: one of her earliest jobs as a model was in an ad as the “Ivory Snow Girl”, portraying a mother holding an infant, with the caption “99 44/100% Pure”. After her porn debut in “Behind the Green Door”, she predicted that Ivory was going to sell a whole lot more soap. Proctor and Gamble didn’t see it that way and fired her. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33576 "2017-01-03T19:30:14Z")
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot ends with the lines _We have lingered in the **chambers** of the sea, By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown, Till human voices wake us, and we drown._ Now viewed as one of the most influential poems of the 1900s, it was not initially well received. A review in The Times Literary Supplement in June 1917 dismisses it: “The fact that these things occurred to the mind of Mr. Eliot is surely of the very smallest importance to anyone, even to himself. They certainly have no relation to poetry.” ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33577 "2017-01-03T21:25:09Z")
There is a version of the lyrics to the song, “Deep Purple,” that resonates with the TSE quotation; _viz_ When the purple turtle drowns And the Irish elf wears browns Then the lights begin to dim out From my eye With the loss of my memory You color my reverie Making be blue I know not why ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33578 "2017-01-03T22:11:45Z")
Editing the penultimate line too late: Making me blue ---
**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:** [January 4, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33579 "2017-01-04T00:43:26Z")
**Irish** Catholics were popular targets for stereotyping in the 19th century. The _Catholic Telegraph_ of Cincinnati in 1853 wrote: The “name of ‘Irish’ has become identified in the minds of many, with almost every species of outlawry.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33580 "2017-01-04T01:06:49Z")
After 1860, many Irish sang songs about “NINA signs” reading Help wanted – no Irish need apply. (A variation was, Irish need not apply, or INNA). The 1862 song, “No Irish Need Apply”, was inspired by NINA signs in London. Later Irish Americans adapted the lyrics and the songs to reflect the discrimination they felt in America. In the post-World War II years, signs saying “No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs” or similar anti-Irish sentiment began to appear in the United Kingdom. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33581 "2017-01-04T04:04:46Z")
The Irish Brigade took terrible casualties in the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., repeatedly and futilely charging Confederate entrenchments. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33582 "2017-01-04T04:07:13Z")
In crap-shooting parlance, a dice roll of nine is nicknamed “Nina from Carolina”. A roll of eight is similarly rhymed as “Ada from Decatur”. This is the same slang that gave us Snake Eyes and Box Cars for rolls of two and twelve. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33583 "2017-01-04T04:30:16Z")
Ninjaed, so following from 33570 – > [@](#): > > The Irish Brigade took terrible casualties in the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., repeatedly and futilely charging Confederate entrenchments. Though General Houston defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto in April 1836, armed conflict at sea continued into August 1837 when the First Texas Navy lost its last two warships, the _Invincible_ and the _Brutus_. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33584 "2017-01-04T04:44:21Z")
In the 1953 film production of _Julius Caesar_, James Mason memorably played **Brutus** , with Marlon Brando as Mark Antony, John Gielgud as Cassius, Louis Calhern as Julius Caesar. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33585 "2017-01-04T16:22:11Z")
Tarita Cheyenne Brando was a Tahitian model and the daughter of Marlon Brando by his third wife Tarita Teriipaia, a former Tahitian actress whom he met while filming Mutiny on the Bounty in 1962. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33586 "2017-01-04T17:00:44Z")
Cheyenne County, Colorado, is home of the Antipode of Île Saint-Paul making it one of the few places in the continental United States with a non-oceanic antipode. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1678) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1680)