# 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:** 1874
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37469 "2018-01-24T19:13:44Z")
Biloxi is a city in the United States. In 2016 the estimated population was 45,975. The name of Biloxi in French was Bilocci, a transliteration of the term for the local Native American tribe in their language. ---
**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:** [January 24, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37470 "2018-01-24T20:18:33Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > …gImage, Seven Sisters, view from Seaford: [Seven Sisters, East Sussex - Wikipedia](https://goo.gl/WsrLnQ) Almost that exact view appears in the WWII drama _Atonement_. In play: Hillary Clinton, Democrat of New York, got almost three million more votes than Donald Trump, Republican of New York, in the presidential election of 2016, but Trump won in the Electoral College. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37471 "2018-01-24T20:36:11Z")
The 2016 Presidential election marked the fifth time in which the winner of the electoral college vote received less popular votes than the opponent. Here are the previous four: 1824: Andrew Jackson won the popular vote; John Quincy Adams won the electoral college vote. 1876: Samuel Tilden won the popular vote; Rutherford B. Hayes won the electoral college vote. 1888: Grover Cleveland won the popular vote; Benjamin Harrison won the electoral college vote. 2000: Al Gore won the popular vote; George W. Bush won the electoral college vote. ---
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The town of Quincy, Massachusetts, is named for Capt. John Quincy, grandfather of Abigail Adams; she named her son, John Quincy Adams, for her grandfather. Capt. John Quincy represented his town (which was then known as Braintree) at the Massachusetts General Court from 1717 until 1740. ---
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Quincy, California, about 225 miles NE of San Francisco, is a small town of about 1,750 people. Quincy, California is named after the city of Quincy, Illinois, which in turn is named after John Quincy Adams. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37474 "2018-01-25T04:31:12Z")
_Qunicy, M.E._ was an NBC medical mystery drama that ran from 1976 to 1983, a total of 148 episodes. It starred Jack Klugman as a Los Angeles County forensic pathologist. The show was originally part of the 1976 NBC Sunday Mystery Movie rotation, along with _Columbo_, _McCloud_, and _MacMillan and Wife_. It proved to be so popular that it was spun off into its own weekly series the following year. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37475 "2018-01-25T05:21:45Z")
Colombo, Sri Lanka, not to be confused with the Italian name Columbo, is not named after Christopher Columbus. It was named by the Portuguese, just 13 years after Columbus sailed to America, but is just a Portuguese spelling of the Sri Lankan name that had been in use for centuries. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37476 "2018-01-25T07:07:34Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Colombo, Sri Lanka, not to be confused with the Italian name Columbo, is not named after Christopher Columbus. You mean it wasn’t named after Peter Falk? In play: Christopher Plummer hated _The Sound of Music_ so much that he called it _The Sound of Mucus_. He said it was “Because it was so awful and sentimental and gooey. You had to work terribly hard to try and infuse some minuscule bit of humor into it.” Plummer also admitted on the that he was drunk when filming the music festival. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37477 "2018-01-25T09:54:55Z")
_ **Mucus** _ is one of the four _ **Humors** _ of ancient Greek medicine. (Two references for the price of one.) ---
**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:** [January 25, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37478 "2018-01-25T14:43:59Z")
Athenian statesman Themistocles was described as “the man most instrumental in achieving the salvation of Greece” from the Persian threat, Plutarch wrote. In part because of his advocacy of a strong navy and the subsequent Greek victory over the Persian fleet at Salamis, maritime power became the cornerstone of the Athenian Empire and golden age. ---
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Iran started being called that, instead of “Persia,” in 1935, when the Shah started asking foreign governments to call it that. To Iranians it’s always been “Iran.” The named “Persia” was a Greek term first applied to the old Persian Empire, and the name just stuck in the Western world. Ironically, of course, the Greeks themselves do not call Greece “Greece.” Their name for their country is, roughly, “Hellas” or “Ellada”. We call it “Greece” because the Romans called it that, for reasons lost to history. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37480 "2018-01-25T16:25:08Z")
[The Persian Corridor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Corridor) was a supply route through Iran into Soviet Azerbaijan by which British aid and American Lend-Lease supplies were transferred to the Soviet Union during World War II. This supply route originated in the US and UK with ships sailing around the Cape of Good Hope to the Persian Gulf. From there, the materiel transited Iran to the USSR. Other supply routes included the Northern Route across the north Atlantic, and the Pacific route which handled US cargo at Vladivostok and then used the Trans-Siberian Railway across the USSR. This Persian Route became the only viable, all-weather route to be developed to supply Soviet needs. ---
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) existed from 1917 through 1991. During its period of existence, it was the world’s largest country. It covered 8.6 million square miles, which is roughly 1/6 of the Earth’s land surface. From north to south it stretched over 2800 miles; from east to west it extended more than 6800 miles. The USSR covered 11 of the world’s 24 time zones. ---
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Paul McCartney wrote["Back in the USSR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_the_U.S.S.R.)" while the Beatles were in Rishikesh, India, studying Transcendental Meditation. The title parodied Chuck Berry’s “Back in the U.S.A.,” while the chorus and background vocals were a humorous take on the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”. Mike Love of the Beach Boys also attended the retreat in Rishikesh at the same time and he has stated in interviews that, in order to make the song sound more like a Beach Boys number, he encouraged McCartney to “talk about the girls all around Russia, the Ukraine and Georgia” in the lyrics. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37483 "2018-01-25T21:21:04Z")
Paul McCartney is left-handed and John Lennon was right-handed. McCartney has said that, when he and Lennon sat facing one another with their guitars writing Beatles songs together, it was almost like looking into a mirror. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37484 "2018-01-26T08:52:12Z")
John Paul (anolther two-fer) added the surname Jones to his birth name, to escape law enforcement, and went on to become a renowned naval hero in both the USA and the Russian Empire. ---
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John Lennon and Paul McCartney formed one of the best known and most successful musical collaborations in history, with the Beatles selling over 600 million records, tapes and CDs as of 2004. Between 1962 and 1969, the partnership published approximately 180 jointly credited songs, of which the vast majority were recorded by the Beatles, forming the bulk of their catalog. Unlike many songwriting partnerships that comprise separate lyricist and composer, both Lennon and McCartney wrote words and music. According to Guinness World Records, “_Yesterday_” has been recorded by more artists than any other song. ---
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Pryce Pryce-Jones, a draper from Llanllwchaiarn, Wales, is credited with inventing the modern system of mail order catalog sales. In 1860, he took advantage of the penny postage in Britain, to circulate a catalog of fabrics, which he then shipped by the railway. The spelling ‘catalogue’ is still the norm in Brfitain, but the ‘catalog’ spelling began to take form in the USA around 1900, and became the dominant American spelling by the 1970s. ---
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The amazon.ca advert for a book spells the country name as **Brfitain** , although it clearly is meant to be Britain. > [@](#): > > **Six Years of War : The Army in Canada Brfitain and the Pacific** At least the book cover spells Britain correctly. 😉 > **[Six Years of War : The Army in Canada Brfitain and the Pacific: Stacey, C. P.:...](https://www.amazon.ca/Six-Years-War-Brfitain-Pacific/dp/B001JDFSUY)** > > Six Years of War : The Army in Canada Brfitain and the Pacific: Stacey, C. P.: Books - Amazon.ca ---
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Per Wiki, Elizabeth II is Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Additionally, she is Head of the Commonwealth and monarch of twelve other countries that have become independent since her accession: Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1873) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1875)