# 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:** 18
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/341 "2010-02-09T04:05:46Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Roger Bannister, who ran the first 4-minute mile, became one of England’s leading neurologists. Neurologist Oliver Sachs has written several popular books of essays, including “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.” ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/342 "2010-02-09T04:15:10Z")
Marilyn Sachs is the author of such children’s books as _Veronica Ganz_ and _Amy Moves In_. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/343 "2010-02-09T04:38:14Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Roger Bannister, who ran the first 4-minute mile, became one of England’s leading neurologists. I don’t get the link with Dabbs Greer. 😕 Perennial comics teen Archie eventually chose Veronica over Betty. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/344 "2010-02-09T04:39:52Z")
_Veronica Mars_ star Kristen Bell is best friends with Zachary Quinto, the co-star of _Heroes_ and _Star Trek_. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/345 "2010-02-09T06:42:48Z")
\*Saved by the \*\*Bell \*\*\*was a popular kid’s show in the late 80s/early 90s, featuring characters **Zack** , Screech and Slater. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/346 "2010-02-09T06:49:47Z")
Bell’s Theorem can be viewed as supporting retrograde causality: the future affects the past. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/347 "2010-02-09T08:16:57Z")
The Bell Witch is a southern ghost story, allegedly based on fact (though it seems to have ‘significantly grown’ with each retelling), about a Tennessee family haunted for a generation by an invisible and destructive spirit who spoke in an audible voice and terrified Andrew Jackson when he attempted to investigate. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/348 "2010-02-09T08:36:46Z")
_The Blair Witch Project_ (the closeness of whose name to the Bell Witch implies an arguable inspiration) inspired the _Bones_ episode “The Headless Witch in the Woods.” The victim’s film professor was played by Joshua Leonard, one of the three actors in the original film. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/349 "2010-02-09T10:25:00Z")
Linda Blair’s first feature role was as Regan, the possessed teen in _The Exorcist_. Other notable vehicles were _Sarah T - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic_, _Roller Boogie_ and _The Blair Bitch Project_. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/350 "2010-02-09T11:02:49Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Linda Blair’s first feature role was as Regan, the possessed teen in _The Exorcist_. Other notable vehicles were _Sarah T - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic_, _Roller Boogie_ and _The Blair Bitch Project_. Linda Blair enjoyed (if that was possible with a guy like him) a romantic relationship with Rick James. His song “Cold Blooded” is supposedly about her. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/351 "2010-02-09T14:22:31Z")
Blair House is the official state guest house for the President of the United States. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/352 "2010-02-09T14:25:32Z")
Robert E. Lee was offered command of the Union Army in the parlor of Blair House; he declined soon after. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/353 "2010-02-09T14:52:42Z")
Anissa Jones, of _Family Affair_ fame, later to die of an OD at age 18, was up for the part in _The Exorcist_, that eventually went to Linda Blair. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/354 "2010-02-09T14:59:31Z")
This Hollywood version of an exorcism is supposedly based on a real-life exorcism performed on a Maryland boy in 1949. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/355 "2010-02-09T15:05:49Z")
In the year 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb, the People’s Republic of China was established, and the first VW Beetle arrived in the US. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/356 "2010-02-09T15:13:41Z")
In the movie “The Atomic Kid”, Mickey Rooney plays a prospector who survives an atomic test blast, possibly because of the peanut butter and sardine sandwich he had been eating. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/357 "2010-02-09T15:16:19Z")
Edited play: It is an urban legend that Mr. Ed’s “talking” mouth movements were created by putting peanut butter on the roof of his mouth. [oog] > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I don’t get the link with Dabbs Greer. 😕 > [@Rafe\_Hollister](#): > > _The Green Mile_ (1999) featured character actor Dabbs Greer in his last movie role, 8 years prior to his death. Greer was a native of McDonald County, MO, which still celebrates his fame with Dabbs Greer Day. > [@astorian](#): > > Roger Bannister, who ran the first 4-minute mile, became one of England’s leading neurologists. [/oog] ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/358 "2010-02-09T15:25:10Z")
Alan Young, who played Wilbur in _Mister Ed_, tried to enlist in the Royal Canadian Navy, but was rejected due to ill health. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/359 "2010-02-09T15:37:33Z")
An episode of _Ren and Stimpy_ had them joining the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/360 "2010-02-09T15:39:06Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > An episode of _Ren and Stimpy_ had them joining the Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen. Darrell Royal coached the last all-white team to win the NCAA national championship in football: the 1970 Texas Longhorns. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=19)