# 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:** 1828
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36548 "2017-11-01T14:59:41Z")
too late ---
**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:** [November 1, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36549 "2017-11-01T14:59:42Z")
Richard F. Green, a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1936, ran in Union County (the greater Elizabeth area) at a time when New Jersey Democrats were so factionalized that his party label on the ballot was “Pro-FDR Democrat.” He was one of my grandfathers, as it happens. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36550 "2017-11-01T15:02:37Z")
dangit - waiting for EH now. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36551 "2017-11-01T16:10:26Z")
Elijah Jerry “Pumpsie” Green is a former Major League Baseball infielder who played with the Boston Red Sox (1959–62) and New York Mets (1963). Green’s nickname came from his mother calling him that during childhood. He was also the first black player to play for the Red Sox, the last pre-expansion major-league club to integrate. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36552 "2017-11-01T16:50:07Z")
Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s succcession to the Presidency in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 was the last time to date that a vacancy would be left in the Vice Presidency through the conclusion of a term of office. Since then, each vacancy - specifically those left by the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew, and the succession to the Presidency of his replacement, Gerald Ford - has been filled under the procedures laid out in the 25th Amendment, which was ratified in 1967. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36553 "2017-11-01T16:53:28Z")
Per Disney legend, 11/22/63 is also the date Walt picked Orlando for his second theme park. Returning home to California from an unsatisfying visit to Tampa, he had his plane take a wide loop over central Florida, pointed out the window and said “There’s the spot”. He found out about the assassination during a refueling stop in New Orleans. ETA: The Boston Bruins \*hockey \*team integrated before the Red Sox. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36554 "2017-11-02T00:29:56Z")
It took the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 25 years to return a kickoff for a touchdown. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36555 "2017-11-02T08:21:21Z")
Botany Bay, the British penal colony in Australia had no guards. Convicts were free to just walk away into the outback. There is no record of a single one who did so and survived more than a few days. Most who tried returned to “civilization” on their own. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36556 "2017-11-02T13:32:50Z")
The lyrics of My Eyes Adored You notwithstanding, there is no Barnegat Bridge: The three bridges span Barnegat Bay are the Mantoloking Bridge from Brick Township to Mantoloking, and the Thomas A. Mathis and J. Stanley Tunney Bridges from Toms River to Ortley Beach. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36557 "2017-11-02T14:22:19Z")
J. Stanley Tunney was head of the municipal government in Seaside Heights, New Jersey for over 25 years. When he was sworn in for his 13th consecutive term early in January, 1964, Mr. Tunney insisted on being brought to the municipal borough hall on a stretcher for the ceremony (he died in March 1964, age 79). ---
**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:** [November 2, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36558 "2017-11-02T16:57:00Z")
The first U.S. Navy warship named USS _New Jersey_ was a _Virginia_-class battleship (1904-23). The third and next will be a _Virginia_-class submarine. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36559 "2017-11-02T17:53:22Z")
The six _Iowa_-class battleships were to serve as fast escorts for the _Essex_-class aircraft carriers during WWII. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36560 "2017-11-02T19:27:30Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > The six _Iowa_-class battleships were to serve as fast escorts for the _Essex_-class aircraft carriers during WWII. Should have included that the USS _New Jersey_ is an _Iowa_-class battleship. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36561 "2017-11-02T19:48:23Z")
The Jersey was the most decorated battleship in US history, serving in WWII, Korea, and reactivated twice for service in Vietnam, the Lebanese Civil War and the Persian Gulf. She was finally decommissioned for good in 1991. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36562 "2017-11-03T03:35:42Z")
The \*USS Texas \*was a battleship built by the United States in the early 1890s, the first American battleship commissioned. The _Texas_ developed a reputation as a jinxed or unlucky ship after several accidents early in her career; she consequently earned the nickname “Old Hoodoo”. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36563 "2017-11-03T03:35:48Z")
Alaska, Wyoming and Montana have the three lowest population densities, with 1, 6, and 7 people per mi², respectively. New Jersey has the highest, with 1,218 people per mi². ETA: Texas is 26th, with 105 people per mi². ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36564 "2017-11-03T04:20:53Z")
Each year, brave Alaskans compete to be crowned the king or queen of their throne in the Fur Rondy Festival outhouse races. Teams outfit the bottoms of their custom-built outhouses with skis and race each other down a two-lane track. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36565 "2017-11-03T04:22:30Z")
In spite of the state’s high population density, agriculture is New Jersey’s third largest industry, behind pharmaceuticals and tourism. Horses and mules are one of the state’s top agricultural products; New Jersey has more horses per square mile than Kentucky. The state has a number of horse racing facilities, such as the Freehold Raceway, Monmouth Park Race Track and Meadowlands Racetrack. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2017, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36566 "2017-11-03T20:06:00Z")
Sam Houston, Governor of Texas at the outbreak of the Civil War, remained loyal to the United States, refused to countenance secession, and was deposed by the Texas legislature. He warned in a public address not long afterwards, “Some of you laugh to scorn the idea of bloodshed as the result of secession, but let me tell you what is coming… Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet… You may after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence, but I doubt it. I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of state rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction… they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South.” ETA: D’oh! Next page. Um… Houston did not give that speech in New Jersey. ---
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The island of Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (French: Bailliage de Jersey; Jèrriais: Bailliage dé Jèrri), is a Crown dependency of The Crown located near the coast of Normandy, France. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes went on to become kings of England from 1066. After Normandy was lost by the kings of England in the 13th century, and the ducal title surrendered to France, Jersey and the other Channel Islands remained attached to the English crown. (thanks to Wiki) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1827) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1829)