# 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:** 1894
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37869 "2018-02-22T21:24:20Z")
Chess pie is a Southern specialty that has a simple filling of eggs, sugar, butter, and a small amount of flour. The origin of the name is uncertain, but the most probable explanation is that since the English lemon curd pie filling is very close to lemon chess pie, the word “chess” is an Americanization of the English word “cheese,” referring to curd pie. Basically the Chess Pie is a cheese-less cheesecake. ---
**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 22, 2018, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37870 "2018-02-22T21:28:10Z")
The women on the sitcom \*The Golden Girls \*often got together to eat cheesecake together, but actress and costar Bea Arthur could not, in reality, stand the dessert. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37871 "2018-02-22T21:30:34Z")
Penny and Bernadette met while working as waitresses at the Cheesecake Factory chain restaurant franchise in Pasadena. There’s a real one there that looks very little like the TBBT set, but they’re grateful for the publicity nonetheless. ---
**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 22, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37872 "2018-02-22T22:20:58Z")
For many years, it was said around Washington that the penny would never be retired so long as House Speaker Dennis Hastert was in office. Hastert, a Republican from Illinois like the President featured on the penny, Abraham Lincoln, was said to be adamant that pennies should remain in circulation. Hastert has since gone to prison for sexual abuse of minors. ---
**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 23, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37873 "2018-02-23T00:21:46Z")
Curtis James Jackson III, known professionally as 50 Cent, is an American rapper, actor, businessman, and investor. With the aid of Eminem and Dr. Dre (who produced his first major-label album, Get Rich or Die Tryin’), he became one of the world’s best selling rappers and rose to prominence with East Coast hip hop group G-Unit. ---
**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 23, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37874 "2018-02-23T01:07:53Z")
According to The Verge, 50 Cent allowed consumers to purchase his 2014 album _Animal Ambition_ using bitcoin. At the time, a bitcoin was worth about $662.00, and fans bought his album using fractions of bitcoin. The account pulled in bitcoin worth about 400,000 dollars. 50 Cent has supposedly let the account sit unused; currently, depending on the fluctuating value of bitcoin, that account is worth between 7 and 8.5 million bucks. ---
**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 23, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37875 "2018-02-23T05:48:45Z")
Fans of Bea Arthur may not know that she is a Sergeant in the US Marine Corps. ---
**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 23, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37876 "2018-02-23T06:22:27Z")
Rickie Sorensen, who voiced the young King Arthur in the Walt Disney film _The Sword in the Stone_, entered puberty during production, which forced director Wolfgang Reitherman to cast his sons, Richard and Robert, to replace him. This led to noticeable changes in voice between scenes—and sometimes, within the same scene. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37877 "2018-02-23T11:47:03Z")
_Cutting for Stone,_ the award winning novel about a doctor in Ethiopia, was authored by Abraham Verghese, who is actually a doctor, born in Ethiopia. On the short list of the best books Ive ever read. ---
**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 23, 2018, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37878 "2018-02-23T12:07:00Z")
**Avraham** Aviv Alush is the first Israeli actor to play Jesus Christ in an English-language film, _The Shack_ (2017). ---
**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 23, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37879 "2018-02-23T18:18:28Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Fans of Bea Arthur may not know that she is a Sergeant in the US Marine Corps. Was, but she died in 2009. In play: The Christian Trinity was played in _The Shack_ by Octavia Spencer (Papa), Graham Greene (Male Papa) and Aviv Alush (Jesus). Reviews both by movie critics and Bible scholars were mixed. ---
**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 23, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37880 "2018-02-23T18:45:25Z")
Spencer Gifts LLC, doing business as Spencer’s, is a North American mall retailer with over 600 stores in the United States and Canada. It opened its first retail store in the Cherry Hill Mall in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where it operates to this day. ---
**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 23, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37881 "2018-02-23T18:58:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Was, but she died in 2009. Is! Once a Marine, always a Marine! 🙂 Michigan has over 35,000 acres of tart cherry trees and grows almost 75% of the tart cherries produced in the US. Traverse City MI is called the Cherry Capital of the World, and Eau Claire MI is known as the Cherry Pit Spitting Capital of the World. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37882 "2018-02-23T20:09:19Z")
John Waters was a teenaged friend of Divine - then just H. Glenn Milstead - the drag performer. In fact, Waters may well have been the person who gave Divine the name “Divine.” Of course, they helped each other become famous. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37883 "2018-02-23T20:13:03Z")
If you are standing in the State of Michigan, it is impossible for you to be as far as ten kilometres from a lake or stream. ---
**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 23, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37884 "2018-02-23T23:02:05Z")
The kilometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres. It is now the measurement unit used officially for expressing distances between geographical places on land in most of the world; notable exceptions are the United States and the road network of the United Kingdom where the statute mile is the official unit used. A slang term for the kilometre in the US military is klick. ---
**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 24, 2018, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37885 "2018-02-24T05:16:32Z")
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest racing event ever recorded was a footrace called “A Run for the Pasig River”, in Manila, Philippines on 10 October 2010. 116,086 participants competed in 10 kilometer, 5 km, and 3 km races. ---
**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 24, 2018, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37886 "2018-02-24T05:52:52Z")
The first full year of President Barack Obama’s second term was 2010. ---
**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 24, 2018, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37887 "2018-02-24T07:58:22Z")
In their 53rd year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, the 2010 San Francisco Giants won their first-ever World Series Championship. It was the franchise’s sixth championship. ---
**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:** [February 24, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/37888 "2018-02-24T14:37:41Z")
The Brooklyn Dodgers name derived from the reputed skill of Brooklyn residents at evading the city’s trolley streetcar network, and the team is noted for signing Jackie Robinson in 1947 as the first black player in the modern major baseball leagues. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1893) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1895)