# 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:** 1840
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36789 "2017-12-01T10:41:53Z")
According to the CIA’s World Factbook, Haiti has 14 airports: 4 with paved runways and 10 with unpaved runways. And, Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36790 "2017-12-01T12:51:55Z")
More than 500 recruits from Haiti (then called Saint-Domingue), both white and black, under the overall command of French nobleman Charles Hector, Comte d’Estaing, served alongside American forces at the Battle of Savannah in 1779. During the attack, Polish nobleman Count Casimir Pułaski, leading the combined cavalry forces on the American side, was mortally wounded. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36791 "2017-12-01T16:21:20Z")
Comte is the French form of the word ‘count’. The British and Irish equivalent is an earl (whose wife is called a “countess”, for lack of an female English term for earl). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36792 "2017-12-01T21:18:14Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > lack of an female English term for earl Sure there is. 😉 Earlene Brown was the first American woman to win an Olympic medal in shot put, at the 1960 Rome Games, and is the only athlete to compete in it in 3 consecutive Games. After her track and field career, she became one of the top defenders in Roller Derby, with the Texas Outlaws, New York Bombers, and Los Angeles Thunderbirds, nicknamed “747”. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36793 "2017-12-01T22:22:14Z")
The Ford Thunderbird was created as a market niche car now known as the “personal luxury car”. It was never marketed as a sports car. The T-bird is in its 17th generation. ---
**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:** [December 1, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36794 "2017-12-01T23:01:13Z")
The USAF Thunderbirds were created in 1953 out of Luke ADB near Phoenix AZ. They first flew the F-84G Thunderjet. Over the years they have flown: 1953: F-84G Thunderjet 1955: F-84F Thunderstreak 1956: F-100 Super Sabre 1964: F-105 Thunderchief 1969: F-4 Phantom — the only plane flown by both the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels 1974: T-38 Talon 1983: F-16 Fighting Falcon ---
**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:** [December 2, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36795 "2017-12-02T01:30:15Z")
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon’s first flight was in 1974; it is now the world’s second most numerous military aircraft and the most numerous airplane in service. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36796 "2017-12-02T04:32:18Z")
The tale of the generous Federigo degli Alberighi and his falcon is one of the most touching in Boccaccio’s collection of stories, _The Decameron_. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow used it in his “The Falcon of Ser Federigo” as part of _Tales of a Wayside Inn_ in 1863. Alfred, Lord Tennyson used it in 1879 for a play entitled _The Falcon_. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2017, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36797 "2017-12-02T05:16:54Z")
“The Falcon”, Christopher Boyce, in _The Falcon an the Snowman_, was convicted in May 1977 and served his prison sentence initially at the Federal Correctional Institution on Terminal Island, the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego, and then the federal penitentiary in Lompoc CA. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36798 "2017-12-02T07:04:21Z")
Bob Eckstein, author of The History of the Snowman documented snowmen from medieval times, by researching artistic depictions in European museums, art galleries, and libraries. The earliest documentation he found was a marginal illustration from a work titled Book of Hours from 1380, found in Koninklijke Bibliotheek, in The Hague. “But, come on, isn’t it possible that one of our earliest ancestors, a cave men if you will, rolled up a round anthropomorphic sculpture, gave it eyes and said, ‘Dudes, I, Harcok, want to find and kill enough of those four-leggeds on which to gormandize and so to become SNOWMAN FAT.’?” ~~boson ---
**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:** [December 2, 2017, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36799 "2017-12-02T08:31:15Z")
Former MLB infielder David Eckstein was the MVP of the 2006 World Series with the champion St. Louis Cardinals. He was also on the championship team in 2002 with the Anaheim Angels. Eckstein was a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, an international non-profit Christian sports ministry based in Kansas City MO. The official chartering date of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes was November 10, 1954 in Norman OK. Branch Rickey was one of the founding members. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36800 "2017-12-03T00:48:23Z")
A founding member of the American Association in 1882, the St. Louis Cardinals were originally known as the St. Louis Brown Stockings. They shortened it a year later to the Browns and kept that nickname after the collapse of the American Association led to their move to the National League in 1892. They then spent 1899 as the St. Louis Perfectos prior to becoming the Cardinals in 1900. A different St. Louis Browns team was formed in 1902 and played in the American League, but it moved out of St. Louis in 1954 and became the Baltimore Orioles. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36801 "2017-12-03T08:06:41Z")
As the Cardinal is not the official state bird of Missouri (the eastern bluebird is), it remains relatively uncommon for a major professional sports team to have its state bird as a nickname. Recent such examples are the Baltimore Orioles, New Orleans Pelicans, Atlanta Thrashers, and Toronto Blue Jays. The Cardinal is the Illinois state bird, so the last NFL franchise so named would have been the Chicago Cardinals. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36802 "2017-12-03T15:17:21Z")
Umm… no. The brown thrasher is the only thrasher to live primarily east of the Rockies and central Texas. It is the state bird of Georgia. (That’s my play) ---
**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:** [December 3, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36803 "2017-12-03T21:14:44Z")
The state flag of Georgia had four designs between 1956 and 2003, as the state dealt with (or didn’t) its four years in the Confederacy: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag\_of\_Georgia\_(U.S.\_state)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36804 "2017-12-03T21:31:46Z")
When he was a Massachusetts state representative, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh introduced a bill to designate as the state’s official rock song “Roadrunner”, by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. The bill failed when Richman politely said he thought the honor should go to a worthier work than his teenage ditty about the joy of cruising suburban Boston with a new driver’s license “going faster miles an hour / With the radio on / Radio on / Radio on …” ---
**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:** [December 3, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36805 "2017-12-03T22:41:39Z")
One of the best-known verses of James Taylor’s song “Sweet Baby James” is the second one, Now the First of December was covered with snow And so was the [Massachusetts] Turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston Lord, the Berkshires seemed dream-like on account of that frostin’ With ten miles behind me and ten thousand more to go The song, which Taylor says is his best composition, failed to chart, but is received with cheers whenever he performs it in Massachusetts. If the concert is in Tanglewood, in the Berkshires, or Great Woods/Xfinity Center outside Boston, the commotion is enough to pause the song, which Taylor usually performs near the end of his concerts. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36806 "2017-12-04T03:29:43Z")
That is the version on JT’s _Greatest Hits_, released in 1976. _Greatest Hits_, to date, is the best-selling album of his career. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36807 "2017-12-04T04:39:32Z")
The CN Tower opened in Toronto, Canada in June 1976. It took over 3 years of construction to build the 1,815 foot tower; its floor count is the equivalent of a 147 story building. It held the title of the tallest free-standing structure in the world until 2007, when it was surpassed by Burj Khalifa in Dubai. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2017, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/36808 "2017-12-04T05:41:00Z")
Some people who died in 1976 are: Zhou Enlai Agatha Christie Werner Heisenberg George Whipple Lee J. Cobb Howard Hughes J. Paul Getty Mao Zedong [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1839) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1841)