# 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:** 1708
**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:** [February 22, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34147 "2017-02-22T20:31:57Z")
Donald J. Trump went to a military academy and was a student athlete, but got a medical exemption and did not have to serve in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34148 "2017-02-23T02:02:26Z")
“The Last Trump” is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1955 issue of Fantastic Universe and reprinted in the 1957 collection Earth Is Room Enough. The world comes to an end, but only if everybody can agree on what date it is ending… ---
**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:** [February 23, 2017, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34149 "2017-02-23T02:03:20Z")
Trump’s mother, Mary Anne McLeod, was from Tong on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. One of Prince Charles’s titles is Lord of the Isles, which is an ancient title dating back to the Macdonalds of the Isles, including Lewis. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2017, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34150 "2017-02-23T04:56:56Z")
Felix Mendelssohn’s _Hebrides Overture,_ also known as _Fingal’s Cave,_ provides the soundtrack for the 1941 experimental film _Moods of the Sea_ by Slavko Vorkapić and John Hoffman. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2017, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34151 "2017-02-23T11:40:57Z")
_1941_ was a turkey of a film starring John Belushi. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34152 "2017-02-23T14:13:06Z")
Scarlett O’Hara’s famous line “As God is my witness, I will never be hungry again,” has been challenged by WKRP Arthur Carlson’s line “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.” ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34153 "2017-02-23T17:43:08Z")
On June 19, 1944, the Battle of the Philippine Sea was fought. It was a decisive naval battle of WWII which eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navy’s ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions. During the course of the battle, American submarines torpedoed and sank two of the largest Japanese fleet carriers. The aerial theater of the battle was nicknamed the Great Marianas **Turkey** Shoot by American aviators for the severely disproportional loss ratio inflicted upon Japanese aircraft by American pilots and anti-aircraft gunners. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2017, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34154 "2017-02-23T21:44:59Z")
The Philippine Sea is bordered by the Philippines and Taiwan to the west, Japan to the north, the Marianas Islands to the east and Palau to the south. Adjacent seas include Celebes Sea which is separated by Mindanao and smaller islands to the south, the South China Sea which is separated by the Philippines, and the East China Sea which is separated by the Ryukyu Islands, which include Okinawa. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34155 "2017-02-23T22:14:44Z")
Taiwan has won 17 Little League World Series championships. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34156 "2017-02-23T22:20:33Z")
The New England Patriots have won the most Super Bowls of any professional football team–5!!! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34157 "2017-02-23T22:28:14Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The New England Patriots have won the most Super Bowls of any professional football team–5!!! The San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys have also won five Super Bowls. Pittsburgh has won six. ---
**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:** [February 23, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34158 "2017-02-23T22:31:25Z")
Oops! I messed up. Well, five is still pretty good. And the Pats did make the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history, being down 25 points and still winning! ---
**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:** [February 24, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34159 "2017-02-24T12:45:54Z")
The biggest comeback victory in National Football League history was in January, 1993, when the Buffalo Bills came back from a 35-3 deficit in the third quarter to win 41-38 in overtime. The Bills went on to lost the Super Bolw, something they did four times. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34160 "2017-02-24T13:19:01Z")
The biggest victory margin ever in an NFL game was 73-0, in the 1940 championship game. Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall had made some regrettable comments about the Chicago Bears’ manhood, prompting their coach/owner George Halas and the “Monsters of the Midway” to keep their feet on the gas for the full 60 minutes. Redskins quarterback Sammy Baugh was interviewed after the game, and a sportswriter asked him whether the game would have been different had Charlie Malone not dropped the tying touchdown pass in the 1st quarter. Baugh reportedly quipped, “Sure. The final score would have been 73–7.” ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34161 "2017-02-24T19:09:28Z")
In 1916, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland College 222-0. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34162 "2017-02-25T00:21:38Z")
Cumberland was historically the northernmost county in England; the regions farthest north were part of Scotland until after the Norman Conquest and were the subject of border disputes for generations. The city of Carlisle in particular was fortified as a stronghold. The Cumberland region is now part of the administrative county of Cumbria. ---
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The Cumberland Gap is a narrow pass within the Appalachian Mountains, near the junction of the U.S. states of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. The path was explored by a team of frontiersmen led by Daniel Boone, making it accessible to pioneers who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee. ---
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In the tv show _Daniel Boone_ star Fes Parker was 6’ 5 1/2" while the real one was 5’ 8". ---
**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:** [February 25, 2017, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34165 "2017-02-25T07:35:57Z")
Actress Tessa Ferrer is the granddaughter of three multi-awarded entertainers. Her mother is Debby Boone, daughter of singer Pat Boone, and her father is Gabriel Ferrer, son of Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney. Jose Ferrer was the first Hispanic actor, to win an Academy Award. ---
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Mel Ferrer’s two marriages to Rosemary Clooney made him uncle, and their five children first cousins, to actor George Clooney. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1707) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1709)