# 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:** 1952
**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, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39029 "2018-06-13T13:37:19Z")
Albert Einstein is attributed with saying “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ---
**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, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39030 "2018-06-13T13:45:08Z")
Becca Bender, a student studying archival science at New York University, was working at Lincoln Center when she stumbled upon some cardboard boxes. The boxes were labeled “Godowsky Home Movies.” And at the bottom of one box was a 35-millimeter film canister that had the word “Einstein” on it. "Is it the Einstein?? she wondered? [Yes, it was.](https://www.fromthegrapevine.com/videos/arts/never-seen-footage-surfaces-einsteins-driving-flying-car) ---
**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, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39031 "2018-06-13T15:03:36Z")
A great Einstein find, **Annie**! Adapted from Wiki: In 1952, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the position of President of Israel, a mostly ceremonial post. The offer was presented by Israel’s ambassador in Washington, Abba Eban, who explained that the offer “embodies the deepest respect which the Jewish people can repose in any of its sons.” Einstein declined, and wrote in his response that he was “deeply moved,” and “at once saddened and ashamed” that he could not accept it. ---
**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 13, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39032 "2018-06-13T15:45:59Z")
As noted above, the President of Israel is largely a ceremonial figurehead role; the executive power is effectively exercised by the Prime Minister. The first President of Israel was Chaim Weizmann, who served from 1949 until his death in 1952. The current President is Reuven Rivlin, who has served since 2014. He is the 10th person to hold the position of President. ---
**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, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39033 "2018-06-13T17:53:19Z")
Israel is roughly half the size of Lake Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39034 "2018-06-13T18:14:21Z")
The **SS Anna C. Minch** sunk in Lake Michigan in the Armistice Blizzard of 1940. It was carrying hardwood lumber ---
**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, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39035 "2018-06-13T18:33:38Z")
Until the 2004 major league baseball season, there were 3 franchises whose last World Series championships had come before the Armistice. Then the Boston Red Sox that year, the Chicago White Sox in 2005, and the Chicago Cubs in 2016 finally all broke their alleged curses. The Red Sox and Cubs front offices in those seasons were both led by General Manager Theo Epstein. ---
**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, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39036 "2018-06-13T19:17:11Z")
In the movie _Fever Pitch_ (2005), the Opening Day sequence was filmed in September 2004 with Stephen King throwing out the first pitch in a 2004 Boston Red Sox game. The Red Sox lost that game and that ended a ten-game winning streak. King was blamed for it in the Boston Globe. All was forgiven by 27 October when the Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals to win the Series and break the Curse of the Bambino. ---
**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, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39037 "2018-06-13T19:53:36Z")
Forty-one years after strutting down a Brooklyn street, merrily swinging a paint can to the sound of the Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive, e John Travolta returned on Tuesday June 12, 2018, to be honored for his services to the now-trendy New York City borough. Hundreds of people gathered outside Lenny’s Pizza in Bensonhurst, south Brooklyn, to glimpse Travolta, who brought the neighborhood to national and international consciousness in Saturday Night Fever. ---
**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, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39038 "2018-06-13T20:11:04Z")
The name Bee Gees was phonetic for BG’s, the Brothers Gibb (Barry, Robin, and Maurice). The famous 1930’s racing airplanes called [Gee Bees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Brothers_Aircraft) were named for the Granville Brothers. ---
**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, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39039 "2018-06-13T20:30:02Z")
Granville, North Dakota, founded in 1900, was named in honor of Granville M. Dodge, a railroad man. It had a population of 455 in 1910 but only 273 in 2016. ---
**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, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39040 "2018-06-13T20:50:37Z")
The leading producer of sunflowers in the USA is North Dakota. ---
**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 13, 2018, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39041 "2018-06-13T22:16:04Z")
In March 1987, van Gogh’s Sunflowers series (comprising 11 different paintings) was in the news when a Japanese insurance magnate paid US $39 million for van Gogh’s Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie’s London, at the time a record-setting amount for a work of art. The price was over four times the previous record of $12 million paid for Andrea Mantegna’s Adoration of the Magi in 1985. The record was broken in November 1987 with the purchase of another Van Gogh, Irises, by Alan Bond for $53.9 million at Sotheby’s, New York. ---
**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 14, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39042 "2018-06-14T01:15:11Z")
Alan Bond, a London-born Australian businessman, formed the _Australia II_ syndicate which won the 1983 America’s Cup. The Cup had been held by the New York Yacht Club since 1851; this victory broke the longest winning streak in the history of sport. In 1992 Bond declared bankruptcy; in 1997 he was convicted of fraud and served four years in prison. He died in 2015. ---
**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 14, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39043 "2018-06-14T02:41:11Z")
American Dennis Conner was the skipper of the first defender to be defeated in the 132-year history of the cup, also ending 132 years of successful defense by the New York Yacht Club with their loss in 1983 to Alan Bond’s wing-keeled challenger Australia II 4 races to 3. ---
**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 14, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39044 "2018-06-14T03:10:48Z")
Dennis Kucinich, former mayor of Cleveland, state senator and U.S. Congressman, was soundly defeated in his run for Governor of Ohio in the Democratic primary on May 8, 2018 by Richard Cordray. Cordray is a former state attorney general, state treasurer and most recently was the first head of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. ---
**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 14, 2018, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39045 "2018-06-14T03:44:14Z")
Richard Cordray has said that family legend is that his family is connected to Charlotte Corday, who fatally stabbed the French Revolutionary Marat in his bath. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39046 "2018-06-14T12:34:36Z")
I - okay, my team and I - beat Richard Cordray and his Grove City HS team on “In the Know”, the high school quiz bowl TV show in Columbus, then on WBNS-10 and now on WOSU-2. ---
**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 14, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39047 "2018-06-14T13:08:05Z")
In the 1971 children’s book The Monster at the End of This Book, Sesame Street muppet Grover goes to great effort to keep the reader from turning the pages of the book, because there is a monster on the final page. Grover nails pages together and builds a brick wall to block access; at the end it is discovered that the monster at the end of the book is Grover himself, who is mortified (“Oh, I am so embarrassed…”). ---
**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 14, 2018, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39048 "2018-06-14T13:33:14Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > I - okay, my team and I - beat Richard Cordray and his Grove City HS team on “In the Know”, the high school quiz bowl TV show in Columbus, then on WBNS-10 and now on WOSU-2. Overcoming that terrible setback, he went on to be a five-time _Jeopardy!_ champion. [http://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player\_id=2718](http://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=2718) > **[Richard Cordray](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cordray)** > > Richard Adams Cordray (born May 3, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician who is the outgoing COO of Federal Student Aid in the United States Department of Education. He served as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from 2012 to 2017. Before that, Cordray variously served as Ohio's attorney general, solicitor general, and treasurer. He was the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio in 2018. The Biden administration has announced Cordray's departure in June 2... In play: Grover Cleveland of New York was the only Democrat elected President of the United States between 1860 and 1912. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1951) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1953)