# 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:** 1748
**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 22, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34947 "2017-05-22T00:35:41Z")
The song “That’s Amore” (with its well-known line, “when the moon hits your eye like a big **pizza** pie”) was written by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Jack Brooks in 1952, for the film _The Caddy_, starring Dean Martin (né Dino Crocetti). Martin at the time was the straight man in a popular comedy team, partnering with Jerry Lewis, his co-star in _The Caddy_. Martin and Lewis would later split up in, launching one of the longest-running feuds in American show biz history. While “That’s Amore” was a big hit for Martin, it never reached No 1 on the US charts. The song it could not dislodge was “Vaya Con Dios,” performed by Les Paul and Mary Ford. ---
**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 22, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34948 "2017-05-22T01:11:52Z")
The Gibson Les Paul is an electric guitar that was first sold by the Gibson Guitar Corporation in 1952. The Les Paul has been continually produced in countless versions and editions since. ---
**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 22, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34949 "2017-05-22T04:15:27Z")
The five biggest deserts in Australia are, in order, Great Victoria Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Tanami Desert, Simpson Desert, and Gibson Desert. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34950 "2017-05-22T04:36:07Z")
Saskatchewan has two major areas of sand dunes: the [Great Sand Hills](https://greatsouthwest.ca/great-sandhills/) in the southwestern corner, and the [Athabaskan Sand Dunes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_Sand_Dunes_Provincial_Park) in the far north, on the shores of Lake Athabasca. Both are active sand dune systems. The Athabaskan dunes are the northern-most active dunes in the world. They date back to the end of the last glacial period, probably about 8,000 years ago. (I’ve been to the Great Sand Hills, but the Athabaskan ones are a fly-in only - no roads.) ---
**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:** [May 22, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34951 "2017-05-22T04:38:58Z")
“Buckley’s to none” is an Australian vernacularism that is used to characterize a very low probability outcome, particularly as it might pertain to the potential success of an endeavor. More often than not, the phrase is shortened to simply “Buckley’s”. For example, if one were to loan money to an untrustworthy individual, an astute onlooker might comment “Yer got Buckley’s of ever seein’ that bob again, mate.” ---
**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 22, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34952 "2017-05-22T04:59:31Z")
“It Tastes Awful. And It Works” was the successful cough syrup marketing slogan of the W.K. Buckley Ltd. company of Canada. Noted for the unpleasant taste (hence the slogan), the syrup’s ingredients include ammonium carbonate, potassium bicarbonate, camphor, menthol, Canada balsam, pine needle oil, and a tincture of capsicum. ---
**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 22, 2017, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34953 "2017-05-22T08:29:22Z")
Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada, located in Lake Huron, is the largest freshwater island in the world. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34954 "2017-05-22T15:31:05Z")
Lake Manitou is the largest lake on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada. It is the largest lake on a lake island in the world. Since Manitoulin Island itself is in Lake Huron, one of the Great Lakes, Manitou qualifies as the largest “lake in a lake”. ---
**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 22, 2017, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34955 "2017-05-22T15:32:30Z")
Huron Glacier is a 4.8 mile long and 2.2 mile wide glacial flow on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The glacier was named after the American ship _Huron_ which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21 and 1821–22. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34956 "2017-05-22T16:24:59Z")
The US National Park Service predicts that there will be no more glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana by 2030 and perhaps sooner. In 1850, at the end of the Little Ice Age, there were an estimated 150 glaciers in the area that is now Glacier National Park. By 1968, these had been reduced to around 50. Today the number of glaciers in the park is 25, many of which are mere remnants of what they once were. ---
**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 22, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34957 "2017-05-22T19:17:56Z")
> [@ozziemaland](#): > > On February 1, 1884, the first fascicle of the _Oxford English Dictionary_, a 352-page volume that covered words from A to Ant, was published… What flavors did those fascicles come in? Fictional _Ohio_-class Trident ballistic missile submarines named the USS _Montana_ appeared in both the TV movie _The Fifth Missile_ and the James Cameron big-screen movie _The Abyss_. ---
**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 22, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34958 "2017-05-22T19:29:46Z")
The first real-life _USS Montana_ was launched in 1905, and renamed the _USS Missoula_ after World War I. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34959 "2017-05-22T19:44:32Z")
Miley Cyrus, star of “Hannah Montana”, is the daughter of “Achy Breaky Heart” singer Billy Ray Cyrus. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34960 "2017-05-22T22:56:18Z")
**Ray** Kurzweil received the 1999 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the United States’ highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. To Elendil’s Heir, a paste from the Wikipedia entry for “serial:” > [@](#): > > In literature, a serial is a printed format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in sequential installments. The installments are also known as numbers, parts or fascicles, and are either issued as separate publications or within sequential issues of the same periodical publication. // My yogurt is flavored vanilla, but I couldn’t find much choice as to OED fascicles. ---
**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 22, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34961 "2017-05-22T23:41:38Z")
The first National Medals of Technology were issued in 1985 by then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan to 12 individuals and one company. Among the first recipients were Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, founders of Apple Computer. The medal has since been awarded annually. ---
**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 23, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34962 "2017-05-23T02:21:59Z")
The oldest military Medals still in use are Sweden’s För tapperhet i fält (“For Valour in the Field”) and För tapperhet till sjöss (“For Valour at Sea”), which were awarded beginning in 1789 to officers and soldiers of the Swedish Armed Forces during wartime. However, they has not been awarded since 1915. ---
**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 23, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34963 "2017-05-23T02:38:51Z")
Walter Isaacson, in his biography of Steve Jobs, writes that on the naming of Apple, Jobs said he was “on one of my fruitarian diets.” He said he had just come back from an apple farm, and thought the name sounded “fun, spirited and not intimidating.” Steve Wozniak said, “We’re on the freeway, and Steve mentions, ‘I’ve got a name: Apple Computer.’ We kept thinking of other alternatives to that name, and we couldn’t think of any.” Also, Wozniak had worked at Atari, and he pointed out that Apple would appear before Atari in the phone book. ETA avoiding ninja: Jobs probably did not eat the ‘Birgit Bonnier’ apple which is a Swedish cultivar that looks like a Macintosh apple. ---
**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 23, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34964 "2017-05-23T04:22:00Z")
Apple Records was founded by The Beatles in 1968. Apple albums and singles displayed a **bright green Granny Smith apple** on the A-side, while the flipside displayed the cross section of the apple. But on the US issue of the Beatles’ _Let It Be_ album, **the Granny Smith apple was red**. That’s because in the USA that album, being the soundtrack to the movie of the same name, was, for contractual reasons, being manufactured and distributed by United Artists Records. **The red apple was used to mark the difference.** ---
**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 23, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34965 "2017-05-23T14:07:28Z")
Granny Smith apples are known for their bright light green color; even when ripe they do not turn red. The name has been used for green paints and Crayola crayons. The “Granny Smith” RGB color space specifications are hex #a8e4a0, composed of 65.9% red, 89.4% green and 62.7% blue. The red apple on the US Let It Be album was either a colorized version of the green Granny Smith, or, more likely, a photograph of a naturally red apple, like a Jonathan. (It is not a Red Delicious apple which has a tapered base) [https://fthmb.tqn.com/ixC0vThUR6drj8NIf1YzjTVhBQU=/768x0/filters:no\_upscale()/about/Let-It-Be-Label-A-Real-57bb564d3df78c8763fb8941.jpeg](https://fthmb.tqn.com/ixC0vThUR6drj8NIf1YzjTVhBQU=/768x0/filters:no_upscale()/about/Let-It-Be-Label-A-Real-57bb564d3df78c8763fb8941.jpeg) The red apple gave rise to stories that since Let It Be was the final Beatles album, a red Apple was used to signify that the Apple was “ripe,” and the end of the line. ---
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The Smith & Wesson firearms company was created by Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson. They worked at the National Armory in Springfield MA, and they formed their first partnership in 1852 in Norwich CT. Smith & Wesson is headquartered in Springfield MA. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1747) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1749)