# 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:** 1730
**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:** [April 19, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34587 "2017-04-19T18:37:42Z")
Princess Caroline of Monaco is married to Prince Ernst August of Hanover, current claimant to the deposed House of Hanover. He is a descendant of King George III of the United Kingdom, and of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. His aunt, Frederica of Hanover, was Queen of the Hellenes, and his cousin, Sophia, is the Queen of Spain. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34588 "2017-04-19T20:17:01Z")
King George III did not even bother to read the “Olive Branch Petition” from the Continental Congress in late 1775, seeking a peaceful resolution of the many issues troubling colonial relations, but called its writers traitors and instructed his ministers to put down the rebellion with overwhelming force. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34589 "2017-04-19T21:27:44Z")
The Olive tree of Vouves in the village of Ano Vouves in Crete, Greece is probably one of the oldest olive trees in the world; estimates vary from 2,000 to 4,000 years old. it still produces olives today. Branches from the tree were used to weave victors’ wreaths for the winners of the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34590 "2017-04-20T01:15:42Z")
Before meeting Popeye, Olive Oyl had a number of her relatives named after other oils, including her brother, Castor Oyl, their mother, Nana Oyl (after “banana oil”, a mild slang phrase of the time used in the same way as “horsefeathers”, i.e. “nonsense”), their father, Cole Oyl, and Castor’s estranged wife, Cylinda Oyl; more recently, Olive’s nieces Diesel Oyl and Violet Oyl have appeared in the cartoons. Also among Olive’s family are her two uncles, Otto (Auto) Oyl and intrepid explorer Lubry Kent Oyl. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34591 "2017-04-20T02:00:31Z")
Popeye the Sailor first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip, **Thimble Theatre** , in January 1929. The comic was already successful, having had a 10-year run, but Popeye soon became the focus of the comic, which is still running under the name of it’s squinty-eyed hero. And here’s that first appearance: [http://popeye.com/files/2014/01/Popeye\_1st-appearance\_SMALLER.jpg](http://popeye.com/files/2014/01/Popeye_1st-appearance_SMALLER.jpg) ---
**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:** [April 20, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34592 "2017-04-20T03:39:43Z")
When Monopoly tokens were first used in 1937, the thimble was one of the eight metal game pieces used to mark a player’s position on the board. However, the thimble, the boot and the wheelbarrow are being replaced in the new versions of the board game in August 2017 with a Penguin, a Rubber Duck, and a T-Rex. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2017, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34593 "2017-04-20T12:35:54Z")
“Scotty” is the nickname of the T-Rex found in Eastend, Saskatchewan in 1994. It is one of the most complete R-Tex specimens ever found. The initial pieces, a tooth and a bone from the tail, were found by a school principal on his first day of assisting palaeontologists from the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, who were conducting an initial dig in the area. The Scotty nickname is said to come from the expensive bottle of Scotch that the palaeontologists bought to celebrate the discovery. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34594 "2017-04-20T16:11:11Z")
> [@](#): > > Balvenie 50 year old Scotch, pricing on average at retail over $37,000, is the most expensive whiskey bottling for sale at the moment, according to [wine-searcher.com](http://wine-searcher.com). See: [25 Of The Most Expensive Whiskies In The World - The Whiskey Wash](https://thewhiskeywash.com/whiskey-styles/bourbon/50-of-the-most-expensive-whiskies-in-the-world-hint-it-is-mostly-scotch/) ---
**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:** [April 20, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34595 "2017-04-20T16:41:31Z")
Back in play: a [Google image search on “scotty”](https://www.google.com/search?q=scotty&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjA2Y_4uLPTAhXnzlQKHcf-AR0Q_AUIBygB&biw=768&bih=928) yields many early results for _Star Trek_’s (TOS) fictional character, Montgomery Christopher Jorgensen “Scotty” Scott, who was played by the late actor James Montgomery “Jimmy” Doohan. James Doohan was a fellow artilleryman (yeah!) who saw his first combat assignment, [according to Wkpd](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Doohan#Military_service), in WWII on D-Day assaulting Juno Beach. He was injured by friendly fire, shot 6x by another a fellow Allied soldier. His right middle finger had to be amputated, and later during his acting career he did his best to hide that. It is, however, noticeable in an [image as he holds an armful of “Tribbles”](https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/16420/is-james-doohan-s-missing-finger-ever-noticeable-in-star-trek). Thank you, James Montgomery “Jimmy” Doohan, sir, for your service as part of the Greatest Generation. Montgomery Christopher Jorgensen “Scotty” Scott has been recently played, since 2009, by actor Simon John Pegg (né Beckingham). And done quite well, I will add. And, my very overdue thank you goes to **Elendil’s Heir** and **septimus** for these: > [@septimus](#): > > The official name of King William’s _Domesday Book_ was _Liber de Wintonia_. The Bastard’s subjects gave it its nickname, referring to the Day of Doom, because > > > [@](#): > > > > for as the sentence of that strict and terrible last account cannot be evaded by any skilful subterfuge, so when this book is appealed to … its sentence cannot be quashed or set aside with impunity. That is why we have called the book ‘the Book of Judgement’ … because its decisions, like those of the Last Judgement, are unalterable. > > [off-topic] Did you guys throw a party for **Bullitt** when he made his 5000th post two weeks ago? > > [SPOILER] > The top places look pretty settled, but Annie-Xmas recently moved into 6th place. My own 15th place may be in jeopardy. > > Who Posted? > Total Posts: 33,286 > > User Name Posts > > Bullitt 5,000 > Elendil’s Heir 4,122 > ElvisL1ves 3,080 > RealityChuck 2,274 > Northern Piper 1,805 > Annie-Xmas 1,447 > Sampiro 1,446 > jtur88 1,420 > Siam Sam 1,339 > Cunctator 1,332 > astorian 1,241 > Sternvogel 981 > The Stainless Steel Rat 764 > kunilou 605 > septimus 562 > gkster 512 > Prof. Pepperwinkle 391[/SPOILER] [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19845951#post19845951](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19845951#post19845951) and > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Huzzah for **Bullitt**! > > John Brown, convicted for his role in attempting to trigger a slave insurrection at Harper’s Ferry, Va., was executed by hanging at Charles Town. John Wilkes Booth, actor and future assassin, was present for the event. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19846777#post19846777](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19846777#post19846777) ---
**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:** [April 21, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34596 "2017-04-21T04:18:27Z")
Bullitt, good to see you back and looking forward to more interesting trivia from you! In play: The given name James has a great range of translations and variants, some of which are unrecognizable to English speakers. James is the English form of the Late Latin name Iacomus which was derived from Ιακωβος (Iakobos), the New Testament Greek form of the Hebrew name Ya’aqov (Jacob) In Spanish there are several forms including Jaime, Tiago, Santiago and Diego; in French it is Jacques, in Scotland it is Seumas and Ireland it is Seamus. Dutch variants of Jacobus include Cobus, Coos, Jaap, Kobe, Kobus, and Koos. One Danish and Norwegian variant, short for Jacob, is Ib. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2017, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34597 "2017-04-21T13:26:50Z")
Thanks, **gkster** , I’ll do my best to add to the good trivia here. The Epistle of James is the 59th book, of the 66 books, in the bible. When memorizing the 66 books in order, the Epistle of James leads a sequence of six books often memorized as “1-2-3”, because the six books, and all are General Epistles, are: (the 1) The Epistle of James (the 2) The First Epistle of Peter The Second Epistle of Peter (the 3) The First Epistle of John The Second Epistle of John The Third Epistle of John Or, more quickly, 1-2-3 are James, 1st & 2nd Peter, 1sr, 2nd & 3rd John. There are 22 epistles, or didactic letters in the bible. James’ is believed by many biblical scholars to be the brother of Jesus, or “James the Just.” ---
**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:** [April 21, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34598 "2017-04-21T15:44:27Z")
Epistolary novels, where the story is told through “epistles” or letters between characters, or through journal/diary entries, have been popular for centuries, with some outstanding early examples being “Les liaisons dangereuses” by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Dracula by Bram Stoker. More recent epistolaries include The Color Purple by Alice Walker and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Worries that the genre would disappear due to the decline of writing letters on paper are unfounded; contemporary epistolary novels (such as The Princess Diaries) include emails, texts and IMs. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34599 "2017-04-21T18:40:21Z")
Despite the popular image of Dracula having a stake driven through his heart to kill him, Mina’s narrative describes his decapitation by Jonathan Harker’s kukri while Quincy Morris simultaneously pierced his heart with a Bowie knife. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34600 "2017-04-21T22:38:10Z")
The term _ **beheading** _ means the deliberate act of decapitating a person. According to Wkpd, Saudi Arabia is the only country that continues to behead its offenders regularly as a punishment for crime. > **[Decapitation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapitation)** > > Decapitation or beheading is the total separation of the head from the body. Such an injury is invariably fatal to humans and most other animals, since it deprives the brain of oxygenated blood, while all other organs are deprived of the involuntary functions that are needed for the body to function. > The term beheading refers to the act of deliberately decapitating a person, either as a means of murder or as an execution; it may be performed with an axe, sword, knife, machete or by mechanical ... ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34601 "2017-04-21T22:59:23Z")
\*Deadheading \*is the act of removing spent flowers or flowerheads for aesthetics, to prolong bloom for up to several weeks or promote rebloom, or to prevent seeding. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34602 "2017-04-22T01:25:34Z")
On June 16, 1916, Irish author James Joyce began his relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel _Ulysses_. The book chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of a fictional character named Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day (June 16, 1904). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34603 "2017-04-22T12:39:36Z")
Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas, and more generally the completion of emancipation of African-American slaves throughout the Confederate South. Celebrated on June 19, the word is a combination of “June” and “nineteenth”. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34604 "2017-04-22T16:06:41Z")
According to [Juneteenth.com](http://Juneteenth.com), Juneteenth became an official state holiday in Texas on January 1, 1980. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34605 "2017-04-22T16:58:20Z")
Apocryphally, the first May 4th Star Wards reference was on May 4, 1979, the day Margaret Thatcher took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. An online news article from the Danish public broadcaster says her political party, the Conservatives, placed a congratulatory advertisement in The London Evening News, saying “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34606 "2017-04-22T17:33:40Z")
Boba Fett was introduced in the 1978 TV show[Star Wars Holiday Special](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3a5j8PgQxg). In it, on Wookie Life Day, Chewbacca, accompanied by Han Solo, is headed home to see his family. Along the way, the duo are chased by two Star Destroyers, but they escape into hyperspace. Meanwhile, on Kashyyyk (referred to as Kazook), Chewbacca’s family is preparing for his return. Hoping to find the Millennium Falcon, his wife, Malla, runs a computer scan for starships in the area, but is unsuccessful. Malla contacts Luke Skywalker, who, along with R2-D2, is working on his X-wing starfighter. Luke tells her that he does not know what happened. Malla contacts Saun Dann, a local human trader. He tells her through a carefully worded message that Han and Chewbacca are on their way and should be arriving soon. Malla then attempts (unsuccessfully) to prepare a meal, the instructions of which are being aired via a local cooking show by an eccentric four-armed alien cook, Chef Gormaanda (Harvey Korman). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1729) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1731)