# 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:** 1823
**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:** [October 23, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36448 "2017-10-23T01:49:19Z")
A witness is said to testify in the narrative when they simply recount events without any questions in chief from their lawyer. It is usually taken as an indication that their own lawyer believes there are serious difficulties with the veracity of the client’s testimony. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2017, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36449 "2017-10-23T04:41:23Z")
Earl Warren, Republican of California, appointed Chief Justice of the United States by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953, was the last member of the Supreme Court to have served as governor of a U.S. state, the last justice to have been elected to statewide office, and the last serving politician elevated to the Supreme Court. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36450 "2017-10-23T06:03:40Z")
Byron White was the last member of the Supreme Court who led the National Football League in rushing yards in his rookie season. There probably won’t be any more. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36451 "2017-10-23T12:54:24Z")
Associate Justice Alan Page of the Minnesota Supreme Court, a former Vikings “Purple People Eater” defensive lineman, is the highest-ranking jurist to be a member of the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame (White is in the College one but not the Pro one). As a young man growing up in Canton, he worked construction on the pro building one summer, before heading off to Notre Dame, making him the only member of a major North American sports Hall of Fame to have helped build it. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36452 "2017-10-23T13:42:42Z")
12 Jun 1994: Nicole Brown Simpson murdered by OJ Simpson. 23 Jul 1995: during the height of the trial, OJ Simpson’s bronze bust stolen from Hall of Fame, maybe by some college pranksters. The bust was found and returned a few days later. I was visiting the Hall of Fame, saw the missing bust’s location, and an hour or two later it was returned. I doubled back and saw it back in its rightful place. Wish I’d taken pictures, before and after! > [@](#): > > The theft prompted the hall to change up its security – bolting down all the busts, and grouping them by the year they were enshrined, instead of in nooks around the hall like they were in 1995. [O.J. Simpson bust mystery: Looking back at heist from Pro Football Hall of Fame](http://fox8.com/2017/07/20/o-j-simpson-bust-mystery-looking-back-at-heist-from-pro-football-hall-of-fame/) ETA: > [@](#): > > To this day, the person or people who did it have not been identified. It happened just as the museum was about to close. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36453 "2017-10-23T14:38:22Z")
President William McKinley, Republican of Ohio, was born in Niles, Ohio but lived in Canton at the time of his 1896 election. His chief campaign advisor - or kingmaker, as some political cynics considered him - was Marcus Hanna, born and raised in nearby New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36454 "2017-10-23T14:53:54Z")
Mark Hanna is entombed in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, along with lawman Eliot Ness, beanball-killed ballplayer Ray Chapman, President James A. Garfield, black inventor Garrett Morgan, and ground-beef-steak inventor James Salisbury, among many others. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36455 "2017-10-23T14:59:37Z")
Mt. McKinley is North America’s highest peak, and was named in 1896 for the president by a prospector. Known as “Denali” by Alaska’s Koyukon Athabaskans, the name became the center of dispute between Alaska and Ohio politicians. McKinley was recognized as the official name from 1917 until 2015, when the Department of the Interior finally changed it to “Denali”. Damn, once again not fast enough. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36456 "2017-10-23T15:45:52Z")
Denali rises about 18,000 feet (5,500 meters) from its base, which is a greater vertical rise than Everest’s 12,000-foot rise (3,700 meters) from its base at 17,000 feet (5,200 meters). Denali is taller than Mount Everest. There is a distinction between measuring “highest mountain” and “tallest mountain.” The highest mountain is determined by measuring a mountain’s highest point above sea level. The tallest mountain is measured from base to summit. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36457 "2017-10-23T16:10:11Z")
The tallest mountain measured from its base, disregarding sea level, is Mauna Kea. The highest mountain as measured from the earth’s center is the near-equatorial Aconcagua. ---
**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:** [October 23, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36458 "2017-10-23T16:23:33Z")
Aconcagua is located in the Andes Mountain range, in the Mendoza Province, Argentina. No hard records are kept about Aconcagua ascents, but the Provincial Park reports a success rate of about 60% of climbers who attempt the mountain. It is considered a "technically easy’ mountain to climb, but deaths do occur. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36459 "2017-10-23T16:31:59Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The highest mountain as measured from the earth’s center is the near-equatorial Aconcagua. Beg pardon - Chimborazo in Ecuador. Nevertheless: Argentina defeated England 2-1 in the 1986 World Cup on the infamous “Hand of God” goal by Diego Maradona, obviously using his hand but without getting a call. Maradona later scored on the “Goal of the Century” by dribbling past 5 England defenders. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36460 "2017-10-23T21:13:44Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Mt. McKinley is North America’s highest peak, and was named in 1896 for the president by a prospector. Known as “Denali” by Alaska’s Koyukon Athabaskans, the name became the center of dispute between Alaska and Ohio politicians. McKinley was recognized as the official name from 1917 until 2015, when the Department of the Interior finally changed it to “Denali”. > > Damn, once again not fast enough. Especially how I used this trivia earlier in the thread. In play: San Diego the city is not in the southwest corner of the United States. It ends on the Mexican border about a quarter mile from the Pacific Ocean separated by it by International Friendship Park which is unincorporated San Diego County. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36461 "2017-10-23T22:50:51Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Especially how I used this trivia earlier in the thread. > > In play: San Diego the city is not in the southwest corner of the United States. It ends on the Mexican border about a quarter mile from the Pacific Ocean separated by it by International Friendship Park which is unincorporated San Diego County. Dang, and I read all 729 pages before posting, too. 😃 ---
**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:** [October 23, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36462 "2017-10-23T23:19:36Z")
Playing off of 729. 😃 Smith numbers are composite numbers for which, in a given base (in base 10 by default), the sum of its digits is equal to the sum of the digits in its prime factorization. 729 is a Smith number. 😃 ---
**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:** [October 23, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36463 "2017-10-23T23:54:58Z")
Jonathan Harris, an American character actor, was best known for playing the villain Dr. Zachary Smith of the 1960s science fiction series _Lost in Space_. He did not appear in the pilot episode, but his interpretation of Dr. Smith as a whiny, prissy coward ended up making him the star attraction for the three years the series ran. ---
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Guy Williams was supposed to be the star of _Lost In Space_, after his success in _Zorro_ and before Jonathan Harris became a central character. For Disney’s _Zorro_, Walt Disney himself interviewed Guy Williams, telling him to start growing a mustache “neither very long or thick.” The exclusive contract paid Williams $2,500 per week, as he had demanded, a high wage for that time. Williams had professional training in fencing with the Belgian champion Fred Cavens (who also trained Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power), since the show required sword fights in most episodes. He also took guitar lessons with the famous Vicente Gomez. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36465 "2017-10-24T02:13:07Z")
The BeeGees (Gibb brothers) were actually born in Douglas, the capital of the Isle of Man, a sleepy town of only 28,000 that still has horse-drawn trams. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36466 "2017-10-24T12:12:43Z")
Although Man may be sleepy, that changes once a year. The International Isle of Man TT (Tourist Trophy) Race is an annual motorcycle sport event run on the Isle of Man in May or June of most years since its inaugural race in 1907. It has been traditionally run in a time-trial format on public roads closed for racing by the provisions of an Act of Tynwald (the parliament of the Isle of Man). The event consists of one week of practice sessions followed by one week of racing. It has been a tradition perhaps started by racing competitors in the early 1920s for spectators to tour the Snaefell Mountain Course on motorcycles during the Isle of Man TT on “Mad Sunday”, an informal and unofficial sanctioned event held on the Sunday between ‘Practice Week’ and ‘Race Week.’ ---
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Among her many other high offices, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is also Lord of Mann. The English, and now British, monarchs have held the title since 1765. > **[Lord of Mann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Mann)** > > The Lord of Mann (Manx: Çhiarn Vannin) is the lord proprietor and head of state of the Isle of Man. The current lord proprietor and head of state is Charles III. Before 1504 the head of state was known as King of Mann. > Since 1399, the kings and lords of Mann were vassals of the kings of England, and subsequently of Great Britain, who was the ultimate sovereign of the island. This right of 'lord proprietor' was revested into the Crown by the Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765 for £70,000 and a £2,00... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1822) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1824)