# 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:** 1951
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39009 "2018-06-12T00:33:20Z")
Vassar College in Poughkeepsie is one of the historic Seven Sisters, the first elite female colleges in the U.S. It is the only one of the seven that became coeducational (in 1969). Of the other six “sisters”, Radcliffe merged with Harvard and then became the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (meaning that it no longer accepts undergraduate students but has graduate fellows). Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Wellesley are still women’s colleges. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39010 "2018-06-12T03:48:46Z")
“Did you ever pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?” As Elvis tells us, that line came from Gene Hackman’s character, Popeye Doyle in _The French Connection_ (1971). That movie had an epic car chase scene through the streets of NYC. According to Road & Track magazine (and IMDB), the chase scene was filmed without obtaining the proper city permits. There were some minor controls in place by the movie crew, but at times the chase continued beyond areas where traffic control measures were in place. At one point a crash with a white Ford at an intersection was actually a civilian’s car – the driver inadvertently entered the chase scene and got hit. They included the scene because of its realism. (no shit) > [@](#): > > The car crash during the chase sequence, at the intersection of Stillwell Ave. and 86th St., was unplanned and was included because of its realism. The man whose car was hit had just left his house a few blocks from the intersection to go to work and was unaware that a car chase was being filmed. The producers later paid the bill for the repairs to his car. Road & Track site: [https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/entertainment/videos/a24683/the-french-connection-chase-was-shot-on-uncleared-public-streets/](https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/entertainment/videos/a24683/the-french-connection-chase-was-shot-on-uncleared-public-streets/) ---
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39011 "2018-06-12T04:27:09Z")
For the movie Blues Brothers, producers purchased dozens of vehicles including 12 Bluesmobiles, over 60 police cars, and 6 Ford Pintos (for the Nazis). One Bluesmobile was specially built by a mechanic just to fall apart at the end of the movie’s final car chase—a visual gag many months and many thousands of dollars in the making. In one of the more memorable scenes of the iconic 1980 film, the title characters drive through shopping mall with police not far behind as shocked shoppers run for safety and the whole place ends up trashed. The memorable moment took place in Harvey, Illinois’s Dixie Square Mall. It had long been abandoned but was set up for the movie. And after the brothers left it in shambles, the crew left town without even cleaning it up. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39012 "2018-06-12T05:31:37Z")
The movie _First Man_ (2018), due to be released this coming October, is about the life of Neil Armstrong and stars Ryan Gosling in the lead role. Gratuitous trivia: Neil Armstrong flew over 200 different types of aircraft. Trailer: [First Man - Trailer (HD) - YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Y7DTCn7Cc) Comment: looks interesting and I want to see it, but… Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong? Seriously? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39013 "2018-06-12T12:29:13Z")
In the Tom Hanks-produced HBO series “From the Earth to the Moon”, which used the title of the Jules Verne novel, Neil Armstrong was played by Tony Goldwyn, grandson of MGM mogul Sam Goldwyn. Bryan Cranston played Buzz Aldrin. Goldwyn went on to play President Fitzgerald Grant on “Scandal”. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39014 "2018-06-12T13:04:44Z")
**Moon** ing is the act of displaying one’s bare buttocks by lowering the backside of one’s trousers and underpants, usually while bending over. While better known as an act of protest by students in the 1960’s-70’s, it has a long history. In 80 AD, Flavius Josephus recorded the first known incident of mooning. Josephus recorded that in 66 AD, at around the beginning of the First Roman–Jewish War, a soldier in the Roman army mooned Jewish pilgrims at the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem who had gathered for Passover, and “spake such words as you might expect upon such a posture” causing a riot in which youths threw stones at the soldiers, who then called in reinforcements—the pilgrims panicked, and the ensuing stampede resulted in the death of ten thousand Jews. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39015 "2018-06-12T14:07:12Z")
Pro football quarterback and NFL Hall of Famer Warren Moon played 23 seasons before retiring at the age of 44. (And Tom Brady will be 41 this season.) Moon first played 6 seasons in the Canadian Football League where he won 5 Grey Cup Championships and was twice the Grey Cup MVP. In his 17 NFL seasons his playoff performances were not as successful. In 7 playoffs, Moon’s teams only advanced to the second game 3 times and lost all of them. In the other 4 seasons his teams were 1-and-done. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39016 "2018-06-12T14:20:54Z")
Warren Burger and Harry Blackmun were both Minnesota Republicans and were both appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Richard Nixon. They were already friends before joining the court, and voted with each other so often in Blackmun’s early years there that some jokingly called them the “Minnesota Twins,” after the baseball team. Blackmun’s views began diverging more and more from Burger’s, however, and the two men were considerably less friendly by the time Burger left the court. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39017 "2018-06-12T16:13:44Z")
The Minnesota Twins are one of two major league baseball clubs that were formerly known as the Washington Senators, having moved there from DC’s Griffith Park in 1960. They were immediately replaced by an expansion team, with the same name and stadium, which moved to Arlington, Texas in 1972 as the Texas Rangers. The original Senators were the team long-suffering fan Joe Boyd helped to finally win the American League pennant by selling his soul to “Mr. Applegate”. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39018 "2018-06-12T16:27:40Z")
Joe Boyd, after his transformation to Joe Hardy, helped the Senators win the pennant in the book ‘The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.’ The book was the basis for the 1955 Broadway musical ‘Damn Yankees.’ A movie of the same name was released in 1958, starring Tab Hunter as Joe Hardy. I have uttered the phrase Damn Yankees countless times and will continue to do so whenever the Yankees are successful. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39019 "2018-06-12T16:48:47Z")
The retirement of shortstop Derek Jeter’s #2 filled a gap, and means no Yankee will ever again be assigned a single-digit uniform number. Plaques with the retired numbers are placed in Monument Park in the new Yankee Stadium, replacing an area in the old park that was partly hidden by a relocated center field wall. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39020 "2018-06-12T19:24:12Z")
_Yankee_ magazine was founded in 1935 and is based in Dublin, New Hampshire. It focuses on the lifestyles and attractions of the New England states. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2018, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39021 "2018-06-13T02:33:08Z")
Two of the fastest growing cities in California are Santa Clarita and Dublin. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39022 "2018-06-13T03:04:39Z")
Dublin, Ireland, began life as a Viking trading post. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2018, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39023 "2018-06-13T05:01:47Z")
Only two teams have ever gone to four Super Bowls without any victories: the Minnesota Vikings, and the Buffalo Bills. Only one team has ever played in four straight Super Bowls: the Buffalo Bills. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39024 "2018-06-13T12:37:14Z")
The most famous song about the Vikings, oddly titled [“Immigrant Song”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_Song), was written during Led Zeppelin’s tour of Iceland, Bath and Germany in the summer of 1970. The opening date of this tour took place in Reykjavík, Iceland, which inspired Plant to write the lyrics. It is played over the loudspeakers at the Minnesota Vikings’s stadium (some corporate name, can’t be arsed) before every home game, with the fans trying to imitate Robert Plant’s opening howls. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39025 "2018-06-13T12:53:59Z")
The Icelandic National Football (soccer) team qualified for the 2018 World Cup, the first time that they had made it to the event. With a total population of about 350,000, they are the smallest country (by population) to ever qualify for the Cup. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39026 "2018-06-13T13:08:40Z")
German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917) served as an observer for the Union’s Army of the Potomac in the American Civil War in Virginia in 1863. Later that year, in Minneapolis - St. Paul Minnesota, he made his first aerial balloon ascent from a site near the International Hotel. The town of Zepelin, in the northern **country** of Germany’s Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, was the family’s hometown and has a memorial to honor him. The town was called Cepelin, and in 1334 its name was changed to Zepelin. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39027 "2018-06-13T13:28:11Z")
Led Zepelin’s classic rock song “Stairway to Heaven” was voted number three in 2000 by VH1 on its list of the 100 Greatest Rock Songs, and was placed at number 31 on “Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”. It was the most requested song on FM radio stations in the United States in the 1970s, despite never having been commercially released as a single there. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39028 "2018-06-13T13:29:36Z")
A substantial part of Tom Clancy’s 1986 novel _Red Storm Rising_, about a non-nuclear World War III between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, is set in West Germany, as Soviet armed forces try to reach the Rhine despite stiff German, United States, British, Belgian and French opposition. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1950) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1952)