# 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:** 1794
**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 23, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35867 "2017-08-23T15:21:31Z")
Harmon Face Values is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bed Bath & Beyond. It has 55 free standing stores in NJ, NY, CT, FL, PA, CA and NV, and a “store within a store” presence within many of Bed Bath & Beyond’s 1500+ locations. ---
**Author:** ![Joanie\_Loves\_Trotsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@Joanie\_Loves\_Trotsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joanie_Loves_Trotsky)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35868 "2017-08-23T18:14:51Z")
Until recently, Bed Bath & Beyond did not have any “vice-president” positions in their company. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35869 "2017-08-23T19:21:52Z")
Both of Abraham Lincoln’s Vice Presidents, Hannibal Hamlin, Republican of Maine, and Andrew Johnson, Democrat of Tennessee, had been U.S. senators before the Civil War and returned to the U.S. Senate after their service as Vice President (and as President, in Johnson’s case). ---
**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 23, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35870 "2017-08-23T19:45:55Z")
After the Second Punic War, Hannibal Barca, Commander of the Carthaginian forces, went to work for Antiochus III of Syria in his planned war with Rome, but Antiochus would not listen to Hannibal’s advice. Hannibal went on to advise Prusius I of Bithynia. Serving as a naval commander, Hannibal catapulted baskets full of venomous snakes into enemy ships. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35871 "2017-08-23T20:26:00Z")
Hannibal Hamlin has been the only Vice President of the United States to serve in the military while in office. He volunteered in a unit of the Maine militia during the Civil War, and served on garrison duty, never leaving the state. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35872 "2017-08-24T01:17:56Z")
Hannibal Barca had a less famous brother, Hasdrubal, who was also a Carthaginian general. No major league baseball player was ever named after Hannibal, but Asdrubal Cabrera has been in the big leagues for ten years. ---
**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 24, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35873 "2017-08-24T01:55:26Z")
The José Cabrera Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power station 43 mile east of Madrid, Spain. It was commissioned in 1968, and it operated from 1968 until 2006. Westinghouse Electric Company has secured a contract for dismantling and segmentation of the station. ---
**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 24, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35874 "2017-08-24T02:39:17Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Hannibal Barca had a less famous brother, Hasdrubal, who was also a Carthaginian general. No major league baseball player was ever named after Hannibal, but Asdrubal Cabrera has been in the big leagues for ten years. Anibal Sanchez is a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. ---
**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 24, 2017, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35875 "2017-08-24T02:56:23Z")
The tiger is the only big cat which enjoys swimming. (I’ve seen one swimming, at the Bronx Zoo. ) ---
**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 24, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35876 "2017-08-24T04:03:48Z")
Edgar Allan Poe lived for several years in a cottage in the Bronx, near what was then St. John’s College and is now Fordham University; it was a rural area at the time. In this home, Poe wrote his poems “Annabel Lee” and “Ulalume” while the family cat sat on his shoulder. His wife Virginia died of tuberculosis there in 1847. The cottage is still standing, a part of the Historic House Trust, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35878 "2017-08-24T12:47:47Z")
The Seven Blocks of Granite were the Fordham University football team’s offensive line under head coach “Sleepy” Jim Crowley and line coach Frank Leahy. The most famous Seven Blocks of Granite were Leo Paquin, Johnny Druze, Alex Wojciechowicz, Ed Franco, Al Babartsky, Natty Pierce and Vince Lombardi (yes, \*that \*Vince Lombardi). The nickname was also commonly used to referred to the Fordham lines of the 1929, 1930, and 1937 teams, but it is the 1936 line which is today the best known of these lines. ---
**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 24, 2017, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35879 "2017-08-24T14:12:02Z")
Herbert Lawrence **Bloc** k, commonly known as Herblock, was an American editorial cartoonist and author best known for his commentaries on national domestic and foreign policy. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for editorial cartooning, shared a fourth Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for Public Service on Watergate, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994, and received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award in 1957 and 1960. Examples: [https://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/b/block\_h/herblock\_nixon.jpg](https://www.lambiek.net/artists/image/b/block_h/herblock_nixon.jpg) [![](https://cjr290.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/hblock-fire3.jpg?w=500&h=600) ](https://cjr290.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/hblock-fire3.jpg?w=500&h=600) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35880 "2017-08-24T14:25:54Z")
When Richard Nixon was elected President in 1968, Herblock, who had been roasting him for decades while always sketching in some five o’clock shadow, published a cartoon of a barber shop with the sign “This shop gives to every new President of the United States a free shave.” ---
**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 24, 2017, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35881 "2017-08-24T14:28:06Z")
Herblock, a strong critic of Joseph McCarthy, is credited with coining the term McCarthyism. In 1954 Herblock drew a stubbly faced Richard M. Nixon, who was then the U.S. vice president, climbing out of the sewer. When Nixon decided to run for president, he reportedly said, “I have to erase the Herblock image.” Some sources say that Herblock was the first to call Richard Nixon “Tricky Dick”. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35882 "2017-08-24T16:39:15Z")
Among many other roles, Welsh-born actor Anthony Hopkins has played the future King Richard I (_The Lion in Winter_), David Lloyd George (_Young Winston_), Adolf Hitler (_The Bunker_) and Richard Nixon (Oliver Stone’s _Nixon_). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35883 "2017-08-24T16:45:55Z")
The classic _fuehrerbunker_ film is, however, _Der Untergang_ (Downfall), a 2004 production starring Swiss actor Bruno Ganz. His performance of Hitler’s rant denouncing everyone who had betrayed him is an Internet staple for those who enjoy creative subtitling. Really good movie on its own terms, too - it’s on Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35884 "2017-08-24T23:47:31Z")
Bruno Hauptmann was convicted and executed in 1936 for the kidnapping and murder of the son of Charles Lindbergh. ---
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Also executed in 1936 was Hamilton Howard “Albert” Fish, an American serial killer. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and The Boogey Man. A child rapist and cannibal, he boasted that the number of his victims was about 100. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35886 "2017-08-25T03:59:03Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The classic _fuehrerbunker_ film is, however, _Der Untergang_ (Downfall), a 2004 production starring Swiss actor Bruno Ganz… Really good movie… Seconded. Ganz should’ve won an Oscar; he could _almost_ make you feel a little sorry for Hitler as his world came crashing down around him. In play: Alexander Hamilton was the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and a statue of him stands outside the Treasury building in Washington, D.C., not far from the White House. It can be seen on the back of the $10 bill. ---
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[quote=“ozziemaland, post:34594, topic:527657”] Not wrong. The most expensive whisky it completely dominated by Scotch. The ten most expensice whiskies on the market are all from Scotland: [The Most Expensive Whisky Money Can Buy - GreatDrams.com](http://www.greatdrams.com/most-expensive-whisky-money-can-buy/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1793) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1795)