# 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:** 1785
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35687 "2017-08-06T17:39:40Z")
[The Miss Rheingold contest](http://missrheingold.com/history/) was held every year from 1941 to 1964, following the success of an advertising campaign with actress Jinx Falkenberg as Miss Rheingold of 1940. All winners were white; even Jews were discouraged from entering. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35688 "2017-08-06T21:05:29Z")
Falkenberg is a locality and the seat of Falkenberg Municipality, Sweden, with 20,035 inhabitants in 2010. It is located at the mouth of river Ätran. The name consists of the Swedish words for falcon (falk) and mountain (berg). ---
**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:** [August 7, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35689 "2017-08-07T00:46:47Z")
The moose is considered the most dangerous animal in Sweden. Every year, they cause approximately 6,000 road accidents. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35690 "2017-08-07T01:28:39Z")
Around 400 people in New Brunswick, Canada, are involved in collisions with moose each year. Moose pose a significant risk of injury or death during a collision due to their 1000+ lb. weight, long legs and tendency to be knocked into the passenger area of vehicles. More people are injured or killed in moose-vehicle collisions in New Brunswick than in crashes with any other animal. Most moose-vehicle collisions happen between May and October when moose leave the forest to escape the flies and heat and to feed on vegetation in ditches. The transportation department installs moose fencing along highways in areas where more than 15 collisions with moose have occurred in the last five years. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35691 "2017-08-07T01:38:15Z")
Steven Fletcher was the first quadriplegic Member of Parliament in Canada. His quadriplegia was the result of a moose-motor vehicle collision. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2017, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35692 "2017-08-07T03:55:08Z")
The Loyal Order of Moose was founded in Louisville, Kentucky, in the spring of 1888 by Dr. John Henry Wilson. Originally intended purely as a men’s social club, lodges were soon founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri and Crawfordsville and Frankfort, Indiana. The early order was not prosperous. Dr. Wilson himself was dissatisfied and left the order of the Moose before the turn of the century. In the fall of 1906 the Order had only the two Indiana lodges remaining. On October 27 of that year James J. Davis became the 247th member of the Order. He saw the Order as a way to provide a social safety net for a working class membership, using a low annual membership fee of $10–$15. After giving a rousing address to the seven delegates of the 1906 Moose national convention, he was appointed “Supreme Organizer” of the Order. Davis and a group of organizers set out to recruit members and establish lodges throughout the US and Canada. The Order grew to nearly half a million members in 1,000 lodges by 1912. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35693 "2017-08-07T13:12:38Z")
Wik Also wik Also also wik Wi not trei a holiday in Sweeden this yer ? See the loveli lakes The wonderful telephone system And mani interesting furry animals Including the majestic moose A moose once bit my sister… No realli! She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svenge—her brother-in-law— an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian movies: “The Hot Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink”… Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti… ---
**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:** [August 7, 2017, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35694 "2017-08-07T13:28:18Z")
Not sure what to make of that post. Playing off of moose… The moose has very few natural predators. Moose are able to run at speeds of up to 35 miles per hour and are capable of swimming up to 10 miles without stopping. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35695 "2017-08-07T13:32:51Z")
Elton John’s LP Caribou included the single "The Bitch is Back. Several radio stations in the United States and elsewhere refused to play the song because of the word “bitch”. For example, in 1976, the program director of WPIX-FM in New York told Billboard, "We will play records that are borderline suggestive records such as ‘Disco Lady’ by Johnny [sic] Taylor but we will not play ‘The Bitch Is Back’ by Elton John. We won’t play those types of records no matter how popular they get."Other stations did play it, but _bleeped_ the B-word. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35696 "2017-08-07T14:01:31Z")
The de Havilland Canada DHC-4 **Caribou** is a Canadian-designed and produced specialized cargo aircraft with short takeoff and landing (STOL) capability. The U.S. Army purchased 159 of the aircraft and they served as a tactical transport during the Vietnam War, ---
**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:** [August 7, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35697 "2017-08-07T14:04:19Z")
Best known for playing Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in the movie Gone With the Wind (and for hitting 101 on July 1, 2017), Olivia de Havilland appeared three times on Broadway, in Romeo and Juliet (1951), Candida (1952), and A Gift of Time (1962). ---
**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:** [August 7, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35698 "2017-08-07T14:28:28Z")
During WWII the de Havilland Aircraft Company built a light bomber called the Mosquito. Made almost entirely of wood, the de Havilland Mosquito was nicknamed _The Wooden Wonder_, or “_Mossie_”. The first operational Mosquito flew in 1941, and the last were retired in 1963. About 30 Mosquitos survive today, and about 3 are airworthy. One flying example is at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, VA. Picture of it: [List of surviving de Havilland Mosquitos - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_de_Havilland_Mosquitos#/media/File%3AMosquitoKA114Taxi.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35699 "2017-08-07T15:15:47Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Not sure what to make of that post. Screen credits from _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. Howard Hughes hated the media-given nickname “Spruce Goose” for his H-4 Hercules flying boat, not least because it was made almost entirely from birch. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35700 "2017-08-07T15:55:50Z")
On May 16, 1960, the first working laser was operated at the **Hughes** Research Laboratories in Malibu CA by American physicist Theodore Maiman. Maiman was granted a patent for his invention, and he received many awards and honors for his work. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35701 "2017-08-07T16:49:19Z")
Malibu Beach, Victory Road Park and Tenean Beach, in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, provide the public with coastal access along the extended mouth of the Neponset River. Malibu Beach offers protected swimming and a bathhouse. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35702 "2017-08-07T19:15:45Z")
_The Aquanauts_ was a short-lived TV series of the early 60s about two scuba divers in California. Halfway through the series, star Keith Larsen had to leave due to health reasons; the constant time in the water exacerbated sinus issues he was having. He was replaced by Ron Ely, and the format changed so that the ran a surf shop (probably because it required less shooting underwater). In response to the change, title was changed to _Malibu Run_ ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35703 "2017-08-07T19:54:08Z")
Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter became an aquanaut, following an arm injury in a motorcycle crash that permanently grounded him. In 1965, for SEALAB II, he spent 28 days living on the ocean floor off the coast of California. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35704 "2017-08-08T00:55:25Z")
1852 Carpenter, provisional designation 1955 GA, is a asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter. It was named after American astronomer Edwin Francis Carpenter, who played a major role in enabling the construction of the Kitt Peak National Observatory. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35705 "2017-08-08T03:05:22Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Screen credits from _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. O… kay… The Perseid meteor shower is happening right now. Each year, beginning in mid-July and peaking between 09 an 14 August, the earth passes through the debris field of comet Swift-Tuttle, and this debris creates the meteor shower. This comet was discovered in 1862 by astronomers Lewis Swift and Horace Tuttle. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35706 "2017-08-08T03:49:22Z")
“Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812” is a musical based on a 70 page segment of Leo Tolstoy’s _War and Peace_. Josh Groban made his Broadway debut in the show’s November 2016 premiere, wearing a “fat suit” that made him look 60+ lbs heavier; Count Pierre Bezukhov, the character he plays, is described in the book as stout and heavily built. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1784) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1786)