# 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:** 1742
**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:** [May 10, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34827 "2017-05-10T14:40:28Z")
You could fit Rhode Island, the smallest U.S. state, into Alaska, the largest, 425 times. One-fifth the size of all the rest of the Lower 48, Alaska is bigger than Texas, California, and Montana combined. The 49th State is also 62.5 times wider (east to west) and 29.1 times taller (north to south) than Rhode Island. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34828 "2017-05-10T14:58:30Z")
48 US states are subdivided into counties. Louisiana has parishes, instead of counties, and Alaska has boroughs. Alaska’s organized boroughs cover the more densely populated areas of the state and do not cover the entire land area of the state. The area not part of any organized borough is referred to as the Unorganized Borough. Alaska’s Unorganized Borough encompasses nearly half of the state. At 323,440 square miles, the Unorganized Borough is bigger than Texas. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34829 "2017-05-10T15:16:37Z")
Per Wiki: Although Connecticut is divided into counties, there is no county government in Connecticut and local government consists of cities and towns. County government was abolished in Connecticut in 1960, although the names remain for geographical purposes. Counties are, however, still used by the state to organize its judicial and state marshal system. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34830 "2017-05-10T16:19:39Z")
‘The Hartford Courant’, first published in 1764 in Connecticut, is the oldest newspaper in the country that is still being published. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34831 "2017-05-10T19:06:16Z")
The _London Gazette_, originally the _Oxford Gazette_, claims to be the oldest still-published newspaper in the English speaking world. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34832 "2017-05-10T19:53:21Z")
On November 3, 1838, _The Times of India_ was founded with the name _The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce_. It is the world’s largest circulated English-language daily broadsheet newspaper today. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34833 "2017-05-10T22:36:59Z")
Times New Roman is a typeface commissioned by the British newspaper _The Times_ in 1931. Although no longer used by _The Times_, Times New Roman is still very common in book and general printing. Through distribution as a standard computer font, it has become one of the most widely used typefaces in history. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34834 "2017-05-11T12:37:52Z")
The size of typefaces and fonts is traditionally measured in points. A point has been defined differently at different times, but now the most popular is the Desktop Publishing point of ¹⁄₇₂ inch (0.0139 in or 0.35 mm). ---
**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:** [May 11, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34835 "2017-05-11T13:47:04Z")
_Popular_ was an American teenage comedy-drama on The WB Television Network, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls who are on opposite ends of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to get along when their single parents meet on a cruise ship and get married. The show was produced by Touchstone Television and ran for two seasons from 1999 to 2001. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34836 "2017-05-11T14:06:00Z")
“Popular” is one of the best-known songs from Steven Schwartz’s Tony Award-winning musical _Wicked_. On the Broadway cast album it is sung by the cast’s original Glinda, Kristin Chenoweth; in the song, Glinda addresses her roommate, whom she has decided to make over as “my new project”. Steven Schwartz comments:“It’s [the song] meant to be as shallow as possible. And I think that’s why people enjoy it, because it’s real funny in that way. But it’s also political. Glinda refers to the fact that politicians and heads of state get by not because they’re particularly smart, but because people like to hang out with them.” ---
**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:** [May 11, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34837 "2017-05-11T14:27:41Z")
The U.S. Constitution does not specifically assign the President the title of head of state, but since the Washington Administration he has customarily acted in that capacity. This is because the President is a single individual, like a king in the European diplomatic practice, and the Constitution’s Art. II does give him the “Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties,” as well as to “appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls” and “receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers.” ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34838 "2017-05-11T20:06:13Z")
Two hundred and five years ago today (May 11, 1812) Spencer Perceval became the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated. He was assassinated by John Bellingham, a merchant with a grievance against the government, who shot him dead in the lobby of the House of Commons. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34839 "2017-05-11T20:46:08Z")
Spencer Perceval was named for his mother’s great-uncle, Spencer Compton, First Earl of Wilmington, who had also been Prime Minister. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34840 "2017-05-11T21:24:05Z")
Wilmington, Delaware, United States was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. The Fort was built in 1638 and named after Queen Christina of Sweden. The fort was conquered by the Dutch in 1655 and the area then fell to the English in 1664. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34841 "2017-05-11T23:49:01Z")
{Minnie the Moocher} had a dream about the King of Sweden He gave her things that she was needin’ He gave her a home built of gold and steel A diamond car with a p-la-ti-num wheel Hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi (hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi) Ho-dee-ho-dee-ho-dee ho (ho-dee-ho-dee-ho-dee ho) Skip-de-diddly-skip-de-diddly-diddly-oh (skip-de-diddly-skip-de-diddly-diddly-oh) Bour’rrigy-bour’rrigy-bour’rrigy-oh (bour’rrigy-bour’rrigy-bour’rrigy-oh) ---
**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:** [May 12, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34842 "2017-05-12T03:01:34Z")
Between 300,000 and 400,000 moose roam the Swedish woods. Over 100,000 are shot during an annual hunt, and about 250,000 people participate in the hunt. The moose is also considered the most dangerous animal in Sweden. Every year, they cause approximately 6,000 road accidents. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34843 "2017-05-12T04:20:38Z")
The first recorded Swedish king was Eric the Victorious (_Erik Segersäl_l) of the House of Munsö, who reigned from c. 970–995. The current king is Carl XVI Gustaf of the House of Bernadotte, age 71, who has reigned since 1973. ---
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In Sweden, large amounts of confectionery are sold every year, and a substantial part of it is sold as pick and mix. Wine gums are sold in many different shapes, of which fish is just one. The Swedish Fish candy is marketed under the name “pastellfiskar”, literally “pastel fish”, and under the Malaco brand among others. The fish shaped candies are also part of various Malaco bags of mixed candy. This candy bag has been sold for many years and is still a favorite among Swedes. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34845 "2017-05-12T12:41:27Z")
Candy Crush Saga is a free-to-play video game. In it, players complete levels by swapping colored pieces of candy on a game board to make a match of three or more of the same color, eliminating those candies from the board and having them replaced with new ones, which could potentially create further matches. Around 2014, over 93 million people were playing Candy Crush Saga. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34846 "2017-05-12T15:04:48Z")
King Digital Entertainment plc, creators of Candy Crush Saga, was acquired by Activision Blizzard in February 2016 for $5.9 billion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1741) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1743)