# 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:** 1879
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37569 "2018-02-01T02:21:07Z")
(Missed the edit window) Davy Jones Locker is a seafarers term for the bottom of the sea. It was first referenced in print in a story by Daniel Defoe in 1726. But its origin is disputed. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37570 "2018-02-01T02:36:15Z")
Originally Posted by gkster View Post Isn’t trivia supposed to be factual? Yes, it’s possible that Brady will win, but not a fact. > [@jtur88](#): > > No. In its early stages as a popular meme, trivia very often was about fictional characters or events. Trivial Pursuit has many questions of fictional “facts” I have no issue with trivia being about fictional facts and characters. However, a statement that real-world player X and team X will definitely win an upcoming game is speculation and not fact. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37571 "2018-02-01T05:45:19Z")
Sorry, I forgot to mark the previous post as not in play. Back in play: In 1703, Daniel Defoe was sentenced to three days in the pillory for writing a supposedly seditious political pamphlet. According to legend, instead of having dirt or rocks thrown at him as frequently happened to those pilloried, he was regarded as a hero by the crowd and was pelted with flowers. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37572 "2018-02-01T07:59:19Z")
The Sedition Act of 1918 gave the US government sweeping powers to prosecute anyone for speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light. It was repealed in 1920, but not until future presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs spent two years in prison for a conviction on sedition charges. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37573 "2018-02-01T15:22:52Z")
Codell, Kansas, is a small unincorporated town in the north-central part of the state. It is noted for having been struck by a tornado on May 20 in three successive years: 1916, 1917, and **1918**. Each year the tornado was stronger than the previous year, and the 1918 tornado, rated F4 on the Fujita scale, destroyed or damaged many businesses and homes. The small town never fully recovered from the devastation of the 1918 tornado. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37574 "2018-02-01T15:48:54Z")
Faced with a popular uprising and likely defeat in World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated both the Imperial German and the Prussian thrones on Nov. 9, 1918. He went into exile in the Netherlands, where he remained until his death in 1941. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37575 "2018-02-01T15:50:24Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > The most championships ever won by one player in a major North American sports league is 11; Henri Richard of the Montreal Canadiens was on eleven Stanley Cup champions, and Bill Russell of the Celtics played for 11 NBA champs. > > The records for the other major sports leagues are ten World Series rings by Yogi Berra of the Yankees, and in the case of football Tom Brady holds the record of five along with Charles Haley, who won two with the 49ers and three with the Cowboys. (Brady has not had a teammate who lasted the entire time with him on the Patriots.) > > Other people may have more rings - but not as a player. And what is the link to #37550? In play: “Weird Al” Yankovic’s parody of “Eye of the Tiger” has an old Rocky running a deli. It is called “Rye or the Kaiser” ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37576 "2018-02-01T15:52:55Z")
Double Ninja’ed. Back soon. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37577 "2018-02-01T15:55:40Z")
“Rocky Top” is an American country and bluegrass song written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant in 1967 and first recorded by the Osborne Brothers later that same year. It is associated with the Tennessee Volunteers of the University of Tennessee (UT), whose Marching Band has played version of the song at the school’s sporting events since the early 1970s. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37578 "2018-02-01T15:59:48Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Brady will win his 6th Super Bowl in a few days. The only other quarterbacks with 4 wins are Terry Bradshaw of the Steelers and Joe Montana of the 49ers. > [@gkster](#): > > Isn’t trivia supposed to be factual? Yes, it’s possible that Brady will win, but not a fact. > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Not in play: Yes, it’s a fact. 😉 **gkster** ’s point is a good one. Let’s keep it real, shall we? In play (after a double-ninja!): During _ **Kaiser** _ Wilhelm’s rule, in 1918 the first confirmed outbreak of the 1918 flu pandemic occurred at Camp Funston at Fort Riley, Kansas, in the north-central part of the state and only 140 miles west of Codell KS (gMap: [Google Maps](https://goo.gl/pvaFX6)). The pandemic lasted from roughly January 1918 to December 1920 that infected 500 million people around the world and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million. Roughly 3-5% of the world’s population) died, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history. It even killed people in _ **Tennessee** _. Comment: Kansas in 1918 was _ **not** _ the place to be! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37579 "2018-02-01T19:36:46Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > And what is the link to #37550? Tom Brady. Kansas is named after the Kanza people, also known as the Kaw. The name “Arkansas” isn’t related, despite the close spelling. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37580 "2018-02-01T19:52:08Z")
The only University of Kansas head basketball coach to have a losing career record was James Naismith. The inventor of the game. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37581 "2018-02-01T20:26:18Z")
Orson Welles believed that John Ford’s _Stagecoach_ (1939) was a perfect textbook of filmmaking and claimed to have watched the film more than forty times in preparation for the making of _Citizen Kane_. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37582 "2018-02-01T20:52:35Z")
[Monument Valley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_appearances_of_Monument_Valley_in_the_media#Film), located on the Navajo Nation within Arizona and Utah, has been featured in many John Ford films, including \*Stagecoach \*(1939) and _The Searchers_ (1956). It has also been featured in the film \*Easy Rider \*(1969), Robert Zemeckis’ film _Forrest Gump_, Clint Eastwood’s film \*The Eiger Sanction \*(1975), and recently the popular United Kingdom television show Doctor Who in the two episodes “The Impossible Astronaut” and “Day of the Moon”. The twin buttes of Monument Valley (“the Mittens”), the “Totem Pole”, and the Ear of the Wind arch, among other features, have developed iconic status. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37583 "2018-02-01T21:14:27Z")
Not in play: My grandfather was drafted in the late stages of WWI and reported to Camp Funston at Fort Riley on 11/9/18. The Armistice was signed two days later on 11/11/18. Grandpa used to joke that when the Germans heard that he was coming, they surrendered. Also not in play: Within the borders of Kansas, the Arkansas River is pronounced Ar-Kan-Zas. (Ar-Kansas). Everywhere else it’s pronounced the same as the state of Arkansas. In Play: Jack Nicholson wrote the screenplay for a 1967 counterculture film called ‘The Trip’ which featured Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. When a spot opened up in Fonda’s and Hopper’s movie ‘Easy Rider’, Nicholson got the part, for which he received his first Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37584 "2018-02-02T03:48:01Z")
Henry Fonda’s first acting appearance was at the Omaha Community Playhouse. His mother’s friend Dodie Brando (mother of Marlon Brando) recommended that he try out for a juvenile part in _You and I_, in which he was cast as Ricky. ---
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> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > [Monument Valley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_appearances_of_Monument_Valley_in_the_media#Film), located on the Navajo Nation within Arizona and Utah, has been featured in many John Ford films, including \*Stagecoach \*(1939) and _The Searchers_ (1956). It has also been featured in the film \*Easy Rider \*(1969), Robert Zemeckis’ film _Forrest Gump_, Clint Eastwood’s film \*The Eiger Sanction \*(1975), and recently the popular United Kingdom television show Doctor Who in the two episodes “The Impossible Astronaut” and “Day of the Moon”. The twin buttes of Monument Valley (“the Mittens”), the “Totem Pole”, and the Ear of the Wind arch, among other features, have developed iconic status. Monument Valley, in southern Utah and northern Arizona, is one of my favorite places! I have passed through it 3-4 times over the years. I want to go back, in the summer, and be there in the early morning before the sun rises, to sit there in the dark, in the quiet, and just watch the sun rise. To watch the light change from faint civil twilight, watching the monuments change from dark shadows, to faint hints of their presence, to watch as the colors fill in and feel the warmth of the sun displace the chill of the night. In play: Dorothy “Dodie” Harper Douglas, the character in the 1960-1972 TV sitcom _My Three Sons_, was played by actress Dawn Lyn Nervik. Dawn Lyn Nervik is the younger sister of singer Leif Garrett who was born Leif Per Nervik. Dawn Lyn Nervik and Leif Per Nervik guest-starred together in an episode of _Gunsmoke_ and also an episode of _Wonder Woman_. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37586 "2018-02-02T16:10:27Z")
_Gunsmoke_ began as a radio Western drama in 1952 and ran until 1961. The television series began in 1955 and ran until 1975. James Arness, who played Matt Dillon, and Milburn Stone, who played Doc Adams, starred in the TV series for all 20 years of its existence. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37587 "2018-02-02T16:15:43Z")
James Arness played the title role in [_The Thing from Another World_,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World) a carnivorous vegetable-based being found in a crashed alien spacecraft in the Arctic. The film was loosely adapted by Charles Lederer, with uncredited rewrites from Howard Hawks and Ben Hecht, from the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr.; the story was first published in Astounding Science Fiction under Campbell’s pseudonym Don A. Stuart (Campbell had just become Astounding’s managing editor when his novella appeared in its pages). ---
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NFL running back Earl **Campbell** never played in a Super Bowl. In the 8 seasons of his NFL career he rushed for 9,407 yards for two teams, the Houston Oilers and the New Orleans Saints. He retired after the 1985 season and was inducted into Canton OH in 1991. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1878) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1880)