# 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:** 1690
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33787 "2017-01-18T01:55:06Z")
The Royal Proclamation of 1763, handed down by Great Britain’s King George III on October 7, 1763, had the effect of closing off Native American lands from any white settlements north and west of the Allegheny Mountains. ---
**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 18, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33788 "2017-01-18T04:59:14Z")
The first Roman Catholic Cathedral west of the Alleghenies is Basilica of St. Joseph in Bardstown, Kentucky. Its cornerstone was laid in 1816 and construction was completed in 1819. In 1775, Catholic settlers, mostly of English and Irish descent, began emigrating chiefly from Maryland to Kentucky, an outpost of the crown colony of Virginia. The first missionaries came around 1787. In 1808 a new Catholic diocese was created. The new diocese of Bardstown covered almost the entire Northwest Territory, south to New Orleans and as far north as Detroit. ---
**Author:** ![ronam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@ronam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ronam)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33789 "2017-01-18T06:27:52Z")
Henry Frick, a steel magnate from Pittsburgh, a city at the confluence of the **Allegheny** and Monongahela Rivers, booked a room on the _Titanic_ but cancelled after his wife sprained her ankle. ---
**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 18, 2017, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33790 "2017-01-18T10:14:08Z")
The earliest known production of steel are pieces of ironware excavated from an archaeological site in Anatolia, and are nearly 4,000 years old, dating from 1800 BC. Horace identifies steel weapons like the _falcata_ in the Iberian Peninsula, while Noric steel was used by the Roman military. ---
**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 18, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33791 "2017-01-18T16:38:01Z")
**Horace** is a crater on the planet Mercury with has a diameter of 58 kilometers (about 35 miles). Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. The crater was named for the Ancient Roman poet Horace. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33792 "2017-01-18T17:45:49Z")
The names of the Horace Walker glacier and Horace Walker hut in the Southern Alps of New Zealand are eponyms. Walker was born in 1838, the son of Liverpool lead merchant and mountaineer Francis Walker (1808–1872) and brother of Lucy Walker (1836–1916), the first woman to climb the Matterhorn. Horace died in 1908. ---
**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 18, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33793 "2017-01-18T19:05:04Z")
Bernard Hubbard, SJ was a mountaineer and explorer who got the nickname “The Glacier Priest” because of his exploits in the Alps of Europe. In later years, he taught at the University of Santa Clara. During off months, he would go on explorations in Alaska, climbing volcanoes and hiking into remote areas such as The Valley of 10,000 Smokes, which was created after the eruption of Novarupta in 1912. Many people believe that Hubbard Glacier in Alaska was named for him, but that is not the case. Hubbard wrote three books about his exploits that I cannot recommend highly enough. They read like something from Indiana Jones. ---
**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 18, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33794 "2017-01-18T19:28:43Z")
All three major-party U.S. presidential candidates in 1912 - William Howard Taft, the incumbent Republican; Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic nominee; and Theodore Roosevelt, the Bull Moose candidate - appeared before and spoke to the Ohio constitutional convention that year. ---
**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 18, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33795 "2017-01-18T20:19:07Z")
The earliest recorded description of the **moose** is in Julius Caesar’s _Commentarii de Bello Gallico_ (Commentaries on the Gallic War), published approximately 50BC. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33796 "2017-01-18T21:04:14Z")
Although having his work The Poseidon Adventure adapted for the movies, Paul Gallico is best known for the short story The Snow Goose. ---
**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 18, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33797 "2017-01-18T21:20:06Z")
The 1963 American horror film The Birds was directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on the 1952 story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier. The screenplay is by Evan Hunter, who was told by Hitchcock to develop new characters and a more elaborate plot while keeping du Maurier’s title and concept of unexplained bird attacks. ---
**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 18, 2017, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33798 "2017-01-18T22:58:26Z")
Tippi Hedren, the star of **The Birds** , was actively harassed by Hitchcock throughout the film, ostensibly because she rejected his sexual advances. Her daughter is Melanie Griffith. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33799 "2017-01-18T23:46:23Z")
On February 8, 1915, film director D. W. **Griffith** ’s _The Birth of a Nation_ (originally called _The Clansman_) was released… The film was a commercial success, though it was highly controversial owing to its portrayal of black men (some played by white actors in blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women. The film portrayed the Ku Klux Klan (whose original founding is dramatized) as a heroic force. ---
**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 19, 2017, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33800 "2017-01-19T01:54:09Z")
A Scottish clan is a kinship group among the Scottish people. Contrary to popular belief, the ordinary **clansmen** rarely had any blood tie of kinship with the clan chiefs, but they took the chief’s surname as their own when surnames came into common use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Thus by the eighteenth century the myth had arisen that the whole clan was descended from one ancestor. ---
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A scotch egg is a hardboiled egg encased in sausage, coated with bread crumbs, and deep fried. ---
**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 19, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33802 "2017-01-19T03:28:47Z")
Quail eggs are not widely eaten in North America, but are a common snack or street food in Asia, hardboiled, pickled, or softboiled then skewered and fried in batter. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33803 "2017-01-19T04:02:57Z")
Goose-egg sets in tennis were called “bagels” by Bud Collins. ---
**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 19, 2017, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33804 "2017-01-19T05:11:34Z")
Balut, a food from South East Asia and well known in the Philippines, is a hard-boiled duck egg with a partially formed, 17 or 18 day old duck embryo. It is also known as hot vit lon in Vietnamese. Balut has traditionally been a street food, a snack that men eat with a beer, but some restaurants are starting to serve it. Metzer Farms in California is the top producer of balut in the United States, selling around 250,000 balut eggs per year. ---
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Fossilized animal embryos are known from the Precambrian, and are found in great numbers during the Cambrian period. Even fossilized dinosaur embryos have been discovered. ---
**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 19, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/33806 "2017-01-19T14:15:06Z")
Pterodactyls are not **dinosaurs** , but were flying reptiles that lived during the age of dinosaurs but by definition they do not fall into the same category. The same goes for water based reptiles such as Plesiosaurs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1689) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1691)