# 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:** 1762
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35227 "2017-06-18T15:30:43Z")
Admiral James Stockdale was businessman Ross Perot’s running mate in his 1992 campaign. His most prominent contribution came in the vice-presidential candidates’ debate, when he rhetorically asked “Who am I? Why am I here?” ---
**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:** [June 18, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35228 "2017-06-18T17:38:41Z")
Phil Hartman played Adm. James Stockdale to Dana Carvey’s Ross Perot in a series of _Saturday Night Live_ sketches in 1992. In one of them, Perot drives Stockdale far out into the countryside and tries, unsuccessfully, to lose the nearly-incoherent retired Navy officer in the woods. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35229 "2017-06-18T17:45:59Z")
Ross Perot Jr. and J.W. Coburn were the first pilots to circumnavigate the world in a helicopter, completing the voyage in 1982 in a Bell 206 L-1 Long Ranger II. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35230 "2017-06-18T18:29:39Z")
On May 13, 1985, Philadelphia police raided a house with a **helicopter** dropping a bomb on it, killing eleven members of the black liberation group MOVE. The police department had decided to take action to evict the group from their row house. In the eviction attempt, after gunfire broke out and tear gas was not enough to force the MOVE members out of the house, the police decided to drop a bomb. A fire started, endangering several children trapped inside. The police decided to “let the fire burn,” resulting in the destruction of over 60 homes and the deaths of five children and six adults. An investigation commission that followed found that city leaders and law enforcement had acted negligently, but no criminal charges were filed. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35231 "2017-06-18T22:08:11Z")
“The Roof Is On Fire” by Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three became a hit in 1984 for its famous chorus, which actually doesn’t appear until 4:20. \*Now throw your hands in the air And wave 'em like you just don’t care And if you’re not a square from Delaware And you got on clean underwear And your momma ain’t on welfare Somebody say ‘Oh, yeah’ (Oh, yeah) Oh, yeah! (Oh, yeah) … Let’s make some noise (Ho) Let’s make some noise - come on The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire (We don’t need no water, let the motherfucker burn) (Burn, motherfucker, burn) The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire (We don’t need no water, let the motherfucker burn) (Burn, motherfucker, burn) The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire Say ‘Ho’ (Ho) Say ‘Ho’ (Ho)\* ---
**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:** [June 18, 2017, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35232 "2017-06-18T22:28:40Z")
The “ho hey ho” chant from “Mrs. Vanderbilt” (from the 1974 Paul McCartney and Wings album _Band on the Run_) was used by The Lumineers for their 2012 hit “Ho Hey”. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35233 "2017-06-19T03:43:46Z")
Paste from Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > When the California gold rush began in 1849, Vanderbilt switched from regional steamboat lines to ocean-going steamships. Many of the migrants to California, and almost all of the gold returning to the East Coast, went by steamship to Panama, where mule trains and canoes provided transportation across the isthmus. Ken Burns’ documentary, _The West_, which is streamable on Netflix, has an entire episode about the gold rush in California. There is no mention in that episode of the many migrants who went west via Panama, or of the shipment of gold eastward via Panama. Vanderbilt made deals with San Francisco shippers to handle the flow on the west side of Panama. But the Burns’ production does refer to migrants traveling via Cape Horn. Those were far, far outnumbered by those going across Panama. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35234 "2017-06-19T11:17:18Z")
Migrants from Mexico brought one of the Philippines national languages across the Pacific. Chavacano remains today the everyday language of Zamboanga, on Mindanao island. Chavacano is a Spanish Creole, dating back 400 years, which contains many words of Mexican Nahuatl origin, as well as modern imports from Tagalog and people in Zamboanga readily understand modern Spanish. I can speak Spanish (poorly) in Zamboanga, and be understood. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35235 "2017-06-19T13:21:32Z")
Judaeo-Spanish (also Judeo-Spanish and Judæo-Spanish: Judeo-Español, Hebrew script: גֿודיאו-איספאנייול), commonly referred to as Ladino, is a Romance language derived from Old Spanish. and spoken mainly by Sephardic minorities in more than 30 countries, most of the speakers residing in Israel. Although it has no official status in any country, it has been acknowledged as a minority language in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, France and Turkey. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2017, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35236 "2017-06-19T16:02:56Z")
The President of the Spanish Government (_Presidente del Gobierno_) is usually referred to in English as the “Prime Minister.” Mariano Rajoy Brey of the People’s Party has been the prime minister and head of government of Spain since 2011. King Felipe VI is the head of state. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35237 "2017-06-19T16:28:29Z")
The XV International Brigade, nicknamed _Brigada Abraham Lincoln_, fought for the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Iit mustered at Albacete in Spain, in January 1937, comprising many English-speaking volunteers – arranged into a mostly British Battalion and a mostly North American Lincoln Battalion. It also included two non-English-speaking battalions, the Balkan Dimitrov Battalion and the Franco-Belgian Sixth February Battalion. It fought at Jarama, Brunete, Boadilla, Belchite, Fuentes de Ebro, Teruel and the Ebro River. The brigade’s songs were “Jarama Valley” and “Viva la Quinta Brigada”. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35238 "2017-06-19T16:48:36Z")
Agatha Christie’s famously fussy and carefully-groomed detective Hercule Poirot was, as he was often obliged to point out, Belgian, not French. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35239 "2017-06-19T17:35:00Z")
The most famous landmark in Brussels, Belgium is Manneken Pis, a statue of a naked little boy urinating into a fountain basin. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35240 "2017-06-19T19:00:51Z")
Manakins are a clade of about 60 species of very small songbirds of troplical America, many of which are distinguished by vivid colors and elaborate tail feathers. Their name is a misspelling of the Dutch word, which means “little man”. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35241 "2017-06-19T19:23:20Z")
“Songbird” was the name Sky King, played by Kirby Grant, gave to his twin-engined airplanes on the TV show of that name. He had a Cessna T-50 “Bamboo Bomber” originally, and a Cessna 310 in later seasons. Grant died in a car crash while on his way to Cape Canaveral to witness a launch of the space shuttle Challenger, and to be honored by the astronaut corps for encouraging aviation and space flight. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35242 "2017-06-19T19:58:49Z")
U.S. Grant, victorious general of the Civil War and later President of the United States, was tone-deaf. He once joked, “I know just two songs. One is _Yankee Doodle_, and the other isn’t.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35243 "2017-06-19T20:05:31Z")
Roger Ramjet’s sidekicks, the four American Eagles (each of whom was smarter and a better pilot than Roger), were Yank, Doodle, Dan, and Dee. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35244 "2017-06-19T20:21:48Z")
The sports teams of American University in Washington, D.C. are called the Eagles. A large sculpture of a bald eagle stands on campus, and incoming first-year students traditionally have their picture taken with it. [![](https://www.usnews.com/img/college-photo_301.jpg) ](https://www.usnews.com/img/college-photo_301.jpg) ---
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Although the Auburn University athletics teams are the Tigers, their battle cry is “War Eagle!” ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35246 "2017-06-19T20:46:59Z")
On June 9, 411 BCE, wealthy Athenians overthrew the democratic government of ancient Athens and replaced it with a short-lived oligarchy known as “The Four Hundred.” The _coup d’état_ took place during the Peloponnesian **War** between Athens and Sparta. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1761) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1763)