# 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:** 1833
**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 14, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36649 "2017-11-14T15:08:26Z")
In 1844, John Tyler became the first President to marry while in office when he wed Julia Gardiner (1820-89), a wealthy New Yorker 30 years his junior. The couple went on to have seven children. With a total of 15 offspring from his two marriages, Tyler fathered more children than any other U.S. president in history. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36650 "2017-11-14T15:44:18Z")
Two of President John Tyler’s grandsons, Harrison Ruffin Tyler and Lyon Tyler Jr., are still alive today. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36651 "2017-11-14T16:30:00Z")
Parley Parker Pratt, known as “the Apostle Paul of Mormonism,” fathered 31 children by his 12 wives. Many thousands of his descendants are alive today, including Governors Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36652 "2017-11-14T16:52:54Z")
Approximately 8 percent of the population of Asia, or one-half percent of the entire world, can [trace their ancestry to Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_Genghis_Khan) So can Marvel Comics supervillains the Mandarin and his son Temugin, both primarily opponents of Iron Man. ---
**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 14, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36653 "2017-11-14T18:56:02Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Two of President John Tyler’s grandsons, Harrison Ruffin Tyler and Lyon Tyler Jr., are still alive today. See Annie Xmas’ post 2 above yours (#36635)…/pedantic mode. In play: In the Marvel comics, Tony Stark participated (and became Iron Man) during the Vietnam War; later this was retconned to the Gulf War. In the original Iron Man film, the character’s origin was retconned to Afghanistan, as Jon Favreau did not wish to make the film a period piece but instead give it a realistic contemporary look. ---
**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 14, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36654 "2017-11-14T19:34:30Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Again, thanks, **Elendil’s Heir**. > > … **Corrected List** > > The 13 states/district that have only one president buried or entombed are: > … > DC: 35-Kennedy > … > > Otherwise it’s: > > VA: 7, 1-Washington, 3-Jefferson, 4-Madison, 5-Monroe, 10-Tyler, 27-Taft, 28-Wilson… No, as I noted earlier, Kennedy is buried in Va. Wilson is buried in D.C. (the only late President who is). In play: By the end of French involvement in Vietnam, the U.S. government was paying more than 80% of the expenses of the French colonial government. ---
**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 14, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36655 "2017-11-14T19:37:34Z")
Shoot. My bad! In play: According to _Iron Man_ creator Stan Lee, Tony Stark was based on magnate Howard Hughes, who Lee described as “one of the most colorful men of our time. He was an inventor, an adventurer, a multi-billionaire, a ladies’ man and finally a nutcase.” For a significant portion of his life, Hughes displayed symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder and once lived in a darkened screening room for four months, never leaving its confines and relieving himself in empty containers and bottles. Fortunately, that sort of thing has never made it into the ‘Iron Man’ movies. ---
**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 14, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36656 "2017-11-14T20:19:15Z")
The work of African American poet Langston Hughes, especially his race consciousness and cultural nationalism, would influence many black writers around the world, including Jacques Roumain of Haiti, Nicolás Guillén of Cuba, Léopold Sédar Senghor (first President of Senegal) and Aimé Césaire of Martinique. ---
**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 15, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36657 "2017-11-15T01:50:43Z")
In 1924, Langston Hughes, working as a crewman on the freighter _McKeesport,_ after a row over chicken with the freighter’s chef,left the ship and eventually settled in Paris, France for about six months. He did some of his works there, but was not charmed by the French (to be fair, if was only 5 years since the end of WWI) as he wrote to a friend back in the USA: > [@](#): > > But about France! Kid, stay in Harlem! The French are the most franc-loving, sou-clutching, hard-faced, hard worked, cold and half-starved set of people I’ve ever seen in life. Heat-unknown. Hot water—water—what is it? You can pay for a smile here. Nothing, absolutely nothing is given away. You even pay for water in a restaurant on the use of the toilette. And do they like Americans of any color? They do not!! Paris—old and ugly and dirty. Style, class? You see more well-dressed people in a New York subway station in five seconds than I’ve seen in all my three weeks in Paris. Little old New York for me! But the colored people here are fine. There are lots of us. ---
**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 15, 2017, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36658 "2017-11-15T04:06:43Z")
Harlem, the neighborhood in Manhattan, NYC, NY, is named after Haarlem in the Netherlands. Naturalist John James Audubon, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, Scott Joplin, Norman Rockwell, publisher Bennett Cerf, composers George and Ira Gershwin, Harry Houdini, Burt Lancaster, Al Pacino, and Louis Armstrong come from Harlem. ---
**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 15, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36659 "2017-11-15T04:38:15Z")
In the 1950s, a radio disc jockey, when playing a piece written by the Gershwin brothers, attributed the song to “George Gershwin and his lovely wife, Ira.” (George, aside from never marrying his brother, was in fact a bachelor his entire life.) In 2009, singer and pianist Mark Nadler performed a cabaret show about Ira Gershwin. Its title was “…His Lovely Wife, Ira.” ---
**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 15, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36660 "2017-11-15T15:33:26Z")
In the 1992 movie _A League of Their Own_, the league commissioner, Ira Lowenstein (played by David Strathairn), convinces one of the team owners to keep the league operating for more than one season. In real life the AAGPBL, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, played 12 seasons, from 1943-1954, and had up to 15 teams. Those teams are: Kenosha Comets (1943–1951) Racine Belles (1943–1950) Rockford Peaches (1943–1954) South Bend Blue Sox (1943–1954) Milwaukee Chicks (1944) Minneapolis Millerettes (1944) Fort Wayne Daisies (1945–1954) Grand Rapids Chicks (1945–1954) Muskegon Lassies (1946–1949) Kalamazoo Lassies (1950–1954) Peoria Redwings (1946–1951) Chicago Colleens (1948) Springfield Sallies (1948) Battle Creek Belles (1951–1952) Muskegon Belles (1953) The first league champions, in 1943, were the Racine Belles, as was depicted in the movie. The Rockford Peaches and the South Bend Blue Sox were the only two teams to play in every AAGPBL season. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36661 "2017-11-15T16:01:57Z")
The teams currently in the National Women’s Hockey League are the Buffalo Beauts, Boston Pride, Connecticut Whale, and Metropolitan Riveters. The league’s championship trophy is the Isobel Cup, named after Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy, the daughter of Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, donor of the Stanley Cup. ---
**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 15, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36662 "2017-11-15T18:33:49Z")
The future King Frederick the Great of Prussia tried to run away from home with his tutor when he was a boy to escape his violent, overbearing (and possibly mentally ill) father, King Frederick William I. After their capture, the King had the tutor beheaded in Frederick’s presence; Frederick himself was court-martialed, imprisoned and later briefly exiled, although in later years he and his father reconciled to some degree. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36663 "2017-11-15T19:11:15Z")
The Royal Canadian Air Force’s 431 Air Demonstration Squadron, aka the Snowbirds, is the only unit still flying the Canadian-built CL-41 Tutor, formerly the RCAF’s standard training aircraft. The unit, which was formed in 1967 as the Golden Centenaires, is based at CFB Moosejaw in Saskatchewan. ---
**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 15, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36664 "2017-11-15T22:11:01Z")
[Moosejaw.com](http://Moosejaw.com) is a retailer specializing in outdoor recreation apparel and gear for snowboarding, rock climbing, hiking, and camping. The company was founded in 1992 by Robert Wolfe and David Jaffe, two longtime friends who chose to sell camping equipment instead of becoming wilderness guides. On February 15th, 2017, retail giant Walmart acquired Moosejaw for $51 million in cash. ---
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A loose jaw in Moosejaw— > [@](#): > > On February 15th, 2017, retail giant Walmart acquired Moosejaw for $51 million in cash. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2017, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36666 "2017-11-16T04:34:57Z")
Residents of Moose Jaw are termed “Moosejavians”. ---
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Maxilla and Mandible Ltd. was a store on Columbus Ave. in NYC, a few blocks from the American Museum of Natural History. The store, run by a former museum employee, was open from 1983 to 2011; its name means upper and lower jaw bone. It carried many kinds of bones, from fossils, dinosaur teeth that the store kept in a special case, to authentic New York rat skulls. On the store’s website, several large fossil skeletons are available for sale. ---
**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 16, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36668 "2017-11-16T15:05:38Z")
Ninth Avenue in Manhattan becomes Columbus Avenue between West 59th and 110th Streets. At West 110th Street the name changes again, to Morningside Drive, to West 112nd Street. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1832) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1834)