# 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:** 1836
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36709 "2017-11-22T02:34:04Z")
In the 1970s, singer Anita Bryant was one of the first celebrities to stake her career on an anti-gay position, which turned out disastrous for her fame. She was a former runner-up in Miss America, and reached the top of the music charts in 1960 with “Paper Roses”. ---
**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 22, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36710 "2017-11-22T04:44:10Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Otto Graham was the greatest quarterback ever. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > jtur88: I think you could get an argument on that, but this is not the time or place. Yeah, I agree, that is opinion, not trivia. Or is it trivial opinion? \ 😃 In play: Anita Bryant graced the May 1978 cover of _Playboy_ magazine — in **text**. ([I believe this is SFW.](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&biw=768&bih=922&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=iv8UWq_MIuWMjwS0go24Cg&q=anita+bryant+playboy&oq=anita+bryant+playboy&gs_l=mobile-gws-img.3...21275.23963.0.24443.8.8.0.0.0.0.259.1344.0j6j1.7.0....0...1c.1.64.mobile-gws-img..1.1.258...0j0i30k1j0i8i30k1.256.dgKZ3yCZCbk#imgrc=2JORNdKLh7odlM:)) ---
**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 22, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36711 "2017-11-22T14:09:00Z")
After the defeat of the law that homosexuals could not be Florida teachers, a newspaper reported that "Anita Bryant got out of her monogrammed Rolls Royce and did a little dance. Bryant denied doing this until she saw the tape. Then she explained “We don’t own the car. We rent it.” ---
**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 22, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36712 "2017-11-22T14:58:40Z")
Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12 piston engines powered such World War II British aircraft as the Fairey Battle, Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire and Avro Lancaster. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36713 "2017-11-22T17:03:17Z")
The V-1650 Merlins used to power the American-built P-51 Mustang and the P-40F Kittyhawk were made under license by the Packard Motor Car Company, which had produced the Rolls Royce-based Liberty V-12 in the first war. ---
**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 22, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36714 "2017-11-22T21:23:02Z")
The first flight\* of the P-38 Lightning was only 3 months after that of the P-40 Warhawk. The P-40 was the third most-produced American fighter, after the P-51 and P-47. In the South West Pacific theater of WWII, the P-38 was the primary long-range fighter of USAAF until the P-51D Mustangs arrived toward the end of the war. - — according to Wikipedia ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36715 "2017-11-23T08:43:20Z")
The lightning rod may have been invented by the Russians, several decades before Benjamin Franklin demonstrated the principle. A lightning conductor may have been intentionally used in the Leaning Tower of Nevyansk. The spire of the tower is crowned with a metallic rod in the shape of a gilded sphere with spikes. This lightning rod is grounded through the rebar carcass, which pierces the entire building. ---
**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 23, 2017, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36716 "2017-11-23T09:11:26Z")
Benjamin Franklin never patented an invention. He considered them as gifts to the public. ---
**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 23, 2017, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36717 "2017-11-23T18:16:13Z")
U.S. Navy records are unclear as to whether the World War II _Essex_-class carrier USS _Franklin_ was named after the celebrated printer, inventor, scientist and Founding Father, or after the 1864 Battle of Franklin, Tenn. ---
**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 23, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36718 "2017-11-23T21:32:41Z")
The Argentinian Navy submarine, the ARA _San Juan_ (S-42) and one of only three, was last heard from last Wednesday, 8 days ago on 15 November 2017, and to date has not been heard from since. She is believed to be somehow sunk and incapacitated and sitting on the Atlantic Ocean floor east of Argentina. Its crew of 44 are in peril and time is running out for them. ---
**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 23, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36719 "2017-11-23T22:15:42Z")
In 1963, the U.S. nuclear submarine USS Thresher sank in the Atlantic, killing all 129 crew members. Thresher was also the first of only two submarines that killed more than 100 people aboard; the other was the Russian Kursk, which sank with 118 aboard in 2000. ---
**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 24, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36720 "2017-11-24T04:17:11Z")
Charles Stross, in his 2004 Lovecraftian espionage novel _The Atrocity Archive_, suggested that the April 1963 loss of the nuclear attack submarine USS _Thresher_ may have been due to supernatural causes. ---
**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 24, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36721 "2017-11-24T05:36:27Z")
The McCann Submarine Rescue Chamber is a device for rescuing submariners from a submarine that is unable to surface. It was created in the late 1920s. Ten years later it was used successfully when the USS _Squalus_ sunk off of New Hampshire. All 33 surviving seamen were rescued. ---
**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 24, 2017, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36722 "2017-11-24T06:03:21Z")
_Nautilus_ was Captain Nemo’s fictional submarine in Jules Verne’s novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1874). Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton’s real-life submarine Nautilus (1800). ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36723 "2017-11-24T06:56:21Z")
Nardo-submarines have been built by hand, by amateur labor, to transport drugs from South America. Construction cost is about $2-million, and are considered to be disposable after a 2,000 mile voyage carrying an eight-ton payload worth several hundred times their cost. ---
**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 24, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36724 "2017-11-24T12:34:14Z")
At 22,837 ft, Aconcagua is the highest mountain in South America. It is the highest mountain outside Asia, and it is the highest point in both the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. In mountaineering terms, Aconcagua is technically an easy mountain if approached from the north, via the normal route. Aconcagua is arguably the highest non-technical mountain in the world, since the northern route does not absolutely require ropes, axes, and pins. Although the effects of altitude are severe (atmospheric pressure is 40% of sea-level at the summit), the use of supplemental oxygen is not common. ---
**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 24, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36725 "2017-11-24T16:21:10Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Nardo-submarines have been built by hand, by amateur labor, to transport drugs from South America. Construction cost is about $2-million, and are considered to be disposable after a 2,000 mile voyage carrying an eight-ton payload worth several hundred times their cost. They ought to find that Nardo guy and stop him. In play: France is in both the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36726 "2017-11-24T17:03:51Z")
Narco? France and the Netherlands share a common border, without Belgium involved - on the island of St. Martin / Sint Maarten. ---
**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 24, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36727 "2017-11-24T20:43:21Z")
France still has a tiny foothold in North America, the self-governing territorial overseas-collectivity islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon off the eastern coast of Canada, with a population of just over 6,000 as of 2011. ---
**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 24, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36728 "2017-11-24T20:45:56Z")
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