# 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:** 1684
**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 9, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33667 "2017-01-09T11:19:43Z")
Coins issued by the former colony of Newfoundland are still legal tender in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33668 "2017-01-09T13:40:21Z")
In the 1950-70s, two different resettlement programs resulted in 300 Newfoundland communities being abandoned, under government programs that paid families (30,000 people) about a year’s incomem to move to more centralized locations. Before the resettlement the communities had no access to the outside world except by coastal boat. Hundreds of houses were removed from heir foundations and floated by sea to new locations. There are still several Newfoundland towns that do not yet have road access, and are accessible only by boat. ---
**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 9, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33669 "2017-01-09T14:25:54Z")
On July 30 of 1492, the entire Jewish community, some 200,000 people, were expelled from Spain by orders of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Many of the Jews **resettled** in the Ottoman Empire, whose ruler said: “How can you call Ferdinand of Aragon a wise king? The same Ferdinand who impoverished his own land and enriched ours?” Those that fled to Portugal were forcibly converted to Christianity. ---
**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 9, 2017, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33670 "2017-01-09T14:32:28Z")
With a population of over 205 million, Brazil is by far the world’s largest Portuguese-speaking nation and the only one in the Americas. Portuguese was introduced during the Portuguese colonial period. Portuguese has also served as a lingua franca between the various ethnic groups in Brazil and the native Amerindian population after the Jesuits were expelled from every Portuguese territory and the languages associated with them prohibited. Portuguese is the first language of the overwhelming majority of Brazilians, at 99.5%. ---
**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 9, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33671 "2017-01-09T15:39:31Z")
In 1984, Brian Mulroney led the Progressive Conservative Party to the largest majority in history in Canada’s federal Parliament, winning 211 seats out of 282 in the House of Commons, a gain of 111 seats. In the 1993 election under his successor, widely seen as a plebiscite on the Mulroney government, the PC Party won 2 seats. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33672 "2017-01-09T16:26:12Z")
Progressive Conservative is an oxymoron. ---
**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 9, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33673 "2017-01-09T16:32:59Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > The first US postage stamps were issued in 1847, seven years after England issued their first stamps. There was a 5-cent stamp with Franklin and a 10-cent stamp with Washington on it, and over 3 million of the 5c were printed. They can be bought today for about $100 in average condition. Five cents at that time had the purchasing power of about two dollars, the cost of mailing a letter. They had to be cut apart on the sheet with scissors, so most surviving copies were carelessly cut and the margins are not entire. You might like these: [https://store.usps.com/store/browse/productDetailSingleSku.jsp?productId=S\_586804&categoryId=buy-stamps](https://store.usps.com/store/browse/productDetailSingleSku.jsp?productId=S_586804&categoryId=buy-stamps) In play: Oxymoron is derived from the 5th century Latin word _oxymorus_, _oxymōrus_, which is derived from the Ancient Greek _ὀξύς oksús_ “sharp, keen, pointed” and _μωρός mōros_ “dull, stupid, foolish,” making the word itself an oxymoron. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33674 "2017-01-09T17:10:22Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Progressive Conservative is an oxymoron. This thread is not the place for political commentary. Drop it. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33675 "2017-01-09T17:11:20Z")
On November 10, 1202, participants engaged to commence the Fourth Crusade in the Holy Land attacked Zadar, Croatia, a **Catholic** city, beginning the Siege of Zara. Pope Innocent III had issued letters **in Latin** (to prevent ninja) forbidding such an action and threatened excommunication. In 1203, Innocent excommunicated the entire crusading army, but later gave them an absolution. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33676 "2017-01-09T17:23:02Z")
My last post should have been ninja’d, unless perhaps the word “issued” picks up from a posting still in play. ---
**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 9, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33677 "2017-01-09T21:28:09Z")
ozzie, you’re good, I’m playing off of #33664. in play: Almost 90% of Croatians are Roman Catholic. The second largest religious group are Eastern Orthodox (about 4%), and those are mostly people of Serbian origin. Another group are Muslims at about 3%. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33678 "2017-01-09T22:11:53Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > This thread is not the place for political commentary. Drop it. It wasn’t a political commentary. It was a statement that progressive and conservative are, in almost any context, antonyms by definition, which defines an oxymoron… Playing off the isolated reference "progressive conservative’ in the previous post, according to the rules of the thread. ---
**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 10, 2017, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33679 "2017-01-10T05:00:39Z")
Playing off **TSSR** ’s post: The current Roman Catholic pontiff is the first pope named Francis, and the first trained as a Jesuit. ---
**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 10, 2017, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33680 "2017-01-10T06:10:33Z")
A number of films have been inspired by the lives and works of the Jesuits, among them Roland Joffe’s _The Mission_ (1986), Bruce Beresford’s _Black Robe_ (1991) and _Ignacio de Loyola_ (2016), a biopic. ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33681 "2017-01-10T06:11:33Z")
Rome, Oregon is an unincorporated community in the southeastern part of the state, on the west bank of the Owyhee River. It is named after a nearby spectacular geographic feature, seen [here](https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/owyhee_canyonlands/#.WHR6IZXTlLM), that reminded early settlers of pillars in the ancient city of Rome. * * * Nnjah! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33682 "2017-01-10T07:22:15Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > It wasn’t a political commentary. It was a statement that progressive and conservative are, in almost any context, antonyms by definition, which defines an oxymoron… Playing off the isolated reference "progressive conservative’ in the previous post, according to the rules of the thread. I think it was political commentary as well…or–at the very least–a bit of a political potshot, so that’s two mods asking you to cut out things like that…and if you have anything you want to discuss about it from here on, please make a thread in ATMB as to not disrupt this game (so, don’t reply to this continuing to debate against it in this thread…make a thread in the forum where that sort of stuff is supposed to go). ---
**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 10, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33683 "2017-01-10T14:44:09Z")
The watershed of the Owyhee River was part of region inhabited by the Shoshone and Bannock Indians. The name of the river is from the older spelling of “Hawaii”. It was named for three Hawaiian trappers, in the employ of the North West Company, who were sent to explore the uncharted river. They failed to return to the rendezvous near the Boise River and were never seen 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:** [January 10, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33684 "2017-01-10T15:07:01Z")
Boise Cascade, is an American manufacturer and distributor of lumber and building materials headquartered in Boise, Idaho. The company logo, designed in the 1960s, depicts a pine tree inside the containing circle ---
**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 10, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33685 "2017-01-10T16:09:40Z")
**Cascadia** is an independence movement that would create a country out of several western US states and possibly part of Canada. This would create a country of about 15 million people with an economy generating upwards of $700 billion in goods and services annually. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33686 "2017-01-10T19:19:10Z")
On July 25, 1139, Prince Afonso Henriques led Portuguese troops to victory over the Almoravid Moors at the Battle of Ourique. A legend of the miracle of the Battle of Ourique developed and served as a political instrument to defend Portuguese **independence** as divine will. Yet, the legend first appeared in the 15th century and was forged by the monks of the Monastery of Santa Cruz. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1683) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1685)