# 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:** 1925
**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:** [April 20, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38489 "2018-04-20T03:14:25Z")
Bennet is the name of a hypermarket / supermarket chain with 59 retail locations in northern Italy. The business was founded by Enzo Ratti in 1964 and the head office is still located in Montano Lucino. Most of the commercial outlets are located in the states of Lombardy (23) or Piedmont (24); ---
**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:** [April 20, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38490 "2018-04-20T03:23:45Z")
The gift shop of the New York Review of Books sells a $ 79 “Pride and Prejudice literary scarf” with a floral print and a quotation in calligraphy, Mr. Darcy’s words of love to Elizabeth Bennet: "“My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love you, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on ….” However, only the first sentence is a quote from Austen’s book; the rest of it comes from the script of the 2005 film adaptation. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2018, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38491 "2018-04-20T03:28:21Z")
The Piedmont is a plateau region in the eastern United States. It sits between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the main Appalachian Mountains. It stretches from Alabama in the South through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. It does not quite reach New York. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38492 "2018-04-20T03:52:22Z")
Donald Trump is only the second U.S. President to have been born in New York City; the first was Theodore Roosevelt. Both were Republican. Roosevelt was a war hero, rancher, naturalist, historian, police commissioner, assistant secretary of the Navy, and Vice President of the United States; Trump has been none of those things. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38493 "2018-04-20T13:51:28Z")
“The Last Trump” is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. Unlike the current US president, the 'Trump ’ refers to the last trumpet, or the end of the world. \*Note: there is so much I could have played off of our current president, but I decided not to politicize the game. YMMV, of course. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38494 "2018-04-20T14:16:53Z")
Noted science fiction writer Isaac Asimov was fond of limericks, particularly ribald ones. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38495 "2018-04-20T16:18:36Z")
A favorite limerick of mine: There was an old man in a spa Who unhooked his girl friend’s bra When he came up for air He admired her pair And that was his last hoorah ---
**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:** [April 20, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38496 "2018-04-20T17:39:41Z")
On November 3, 1914, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Mary Phelps Jacobs for the garment she called a “brassiere.” Jacobs had first created the undergarment a year earlier to replace the corset; the first design was fashioned out of handkerchiefs and pink ribbon. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38497 "2018-04-21T00:20:25Z")
A year earlier: Ethnologists up with the Sioux Wired back “Send three punts, one canoe”. The reply the next day Said “Broads on the way But what the hell’s a panoe?” ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38498 "2018-04-21T02:37:33Z")
A millenium earlier, when the hordes of Mongolia were not amused by ribaldry: There was an old man in a yurt Who hadn’t even a shirt He’d beg for a dime But most of the time His plate held only some dirt ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38499 "2018-04-21T13:45:01Z")
The word “dime” is ultimately derived from the Proto-European word for “ten”: PIE root “\*dekm-” “ten” =\> Latin “decima” (pars) “tenth” (part) =\> Old French “disme” “a tenth part” =\> dime “a tenth, tithe” (late 14c.). In Modern French, dîme has the meaning of “a tenth part,” and also the ecclesiastical meaning of “tithe.” ---
**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:** [April 21, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38500 "2018-04-21T14:22:47Z")
_Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?_ is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression. It was written in 1930 and was part of the 1932 musical revue _Americana_. The song became best known through recordings by Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee. The Crosby recording made on October 25, 1932 became the best-selling record of the period. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2018, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38501 "2018-04-21T14:46:16Z")
Bing Crosby, although a Republican, was a friend of President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy once visited him in Palm Springs, reportedly enraging Frank Sinatra, who had expected the President to stay with him instead. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38502 "2018-04-21T18:00:48Z")
The lyrics to “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime,” were written by E. Y. “Yip” Harburg, who approved of President Roosevelt. Wikipedia says > [@](#): > > During the malaise of the 1970s stagflation, the New York Times asked Harburg to update “Brother” for a new age, and he responded with: > > Once we had a Roosevelt > Praise the Lord! > Life had meaning and hope. > Now we’re stuck with Nixon, Agnew, Ford, > Brother, can you spare a rope? ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38503 "2018-04-21T20:23:12Z")
A lyrical reply to the likes of Harburg: Beware, the best poems can hurt Their verses are downright too pert You’ll cringe at the rhymes Of bards who do crimes So issue a poet alert ---
**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:** [April 22, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38504 "2018-04-22T01:01:17Z")
Limerick is a city in Ireland, located in the province of Munster. The main railway station in Limerick is called Colbert station, named after West Limerick man Con Colbert who was executed following the Easter Rising of 1916. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38505 "2018-04-22T03:43:11Z")
The French Navy missile cruiser _Colbert_ was a museum ship in Bordeaux from 1993-2007 before she was scrapped, due largely to the expense of maintaining her. I wrote to American late-night TV show host Stephen Colbert, urging him to make saving the ship a (humorous) crusade, but never heard back from him. > **[French cruiser Colbert (C611)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_cruiser_Colbert_(C611))** > > Colbert (C 611) was an anti-air cruiser, later transformed into a missile cruiser, of the French Navy. She was the sixth ship (and second cruiser) of the French Navy to be named after Jean-Baptiste Colbert (the previous one was scuttled at Toulon in 1942). She served in the Navy from 1956 to 1991, before being converted into a museum ship at Bordeaux from 1993. Colbert was scrapped in 2016. > Colbert was the last French warship designated as a "cruiser". Afterward, the French Navy adopted the term... ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38506 "2018-04-22T07:15:49Z")
Stephen is the patron saint of deacons, headaches, horses, coffin makers, and masons. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38507 "2018-04-22T13:16:57Z")
A distinction is often made between a coffin and casket: the latter is generally understood to denote a four-sided (almost always rectangular) funerary box, while a coffin is usually six-sided. A casket was originally regarded as a box for jewelry; use of the word “casket” in this burial sense began as a euphemism introduced by the undertaker’s trade. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38508 "2018-04-22T18:26:24Z")
The Rev. William Sloane Coffin, a prominent United Church of Christ clergy leader, civil rights, gay rights and peace activist, in earlier life served in the U.S. Army and as a CIA agent. He was a Yale University classmate and friend of George H.W. Bush. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1924) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1926)