# 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:** 1965
**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:** [July 13, 2018, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39289 "2018-07-13T03:42:40Z")
Italian-American actor/singer/comedian Dean Martin and Edwin McMasters Stanton, President Lincoln’s second Secretary of War, are the two best-known people to hail from Steubenville, Ohio. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2018, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39290 "2018-07-13T04:47:32Z")
At different times, the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany and the US Navy both had vessels named after Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794), the Prussian officer who aided the colonials in the American Revolutionary War (and for whom Steubenville, Ohio is named). There were 2 USS Von Steubens, during World War I and from 1963-1963, while the German cruiser SS General von Steuben was sunk in battle in 1945. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39291 "2018-07-13T12:42:25Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > …There were 2 USS Von Steubens, during World War I and from 1963-1963… That’s a short-lived ship. Gen. George Washington appointed von Steuben (who commonly used the title “baron,” although he had never been elevated to the aristocracy by any European monarch) inspector general of the Continental Army in 1778. His reforms of the army’s encampments and training methods were very effective. One American soldier’s first impression of von Steuben was “of the ancient fabled God of War… he seemed to me a perfect personification of Mars. The trappings of his horse, the enormous holsters of his pistols, his large size, and his strikingly martial aspect, all seemed to favor the idea. He turned the volunteers into a great army.” ---
**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:** [July 13, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39292 "2018-07-13T13:38:57Z")
The candy company Mars, Inc. is still a family business owned by the Mars family. The company is famous for its secrecy. A 1993 Washington Post Magazine article was a rare raising of the veil, as the reporter was able to see the "M"s being applied to the M&M’s, something that “no out-sider had ever before been invited to observe.” ---
**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:** [July 13, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39293 "2018-07-13T16:27:56Z")
The earliest recorded candy bar was made in 1847 by Joseph Fry, a Quaker from Bristol, England. Fry discovered a way to mix the ingredients of cocoa powder, sugar and cocoa to manufacture a paste that could then be molded into a proper candy bar for consumption. His chocolate factory, Fry’s, began mass-producing candy bars in 1866. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2018, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39294 "2018-07-14T02:06:01Z")
Stephen Fry was done for credit card fraud as a youth and spent three months in jail. His mother carefully cut out the Times crosswords for the entire three months for him. He has said that wonderful act of maternal kindness is what got him through his incarceration. ---
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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > That’s a short-lived ship. Oops, the USS Von Steuben was active from 1963-1993 Back in play: Elizabeth Fry was much better known than her husband, Joseph Fry, referred to above. A prison reformer, social reformer and philanthropist, she was sometimes referred to as the “angel of prisons”. In 1840, she opened a training school for nurses. Her programme inspired Florence Nightingale, who took a team of Fry’s nurses to assist wounded soldiers in the Crimean War. She worked with other prominent Quakers to campaign for the abolition of the slave trade. Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more humane, and she was supported in her efforts by Queen Victoria. She was depicted on the Bank of England £5 note from 2001-2016. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39296 "2018-07-14T03:27:50Z")
The E Fry Society is active in Canada, advocating for rights of women who are incarcerated. The John Howard Society plays a similar role for men who are incarcerated. The two societies also work together on common causes relating to incarceration. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39297 "2018-07-14T04:02:30Z")
Several of his _PT-109_ shipmates, and the captain of the Japanese cruiser which rammed and sank his patrol torpedo boat, attended the Jan. 20, 1961 inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Zox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Mr\_Zox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Zox)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39298 "2018-07-14T22:13:15Z")
The **PT Cruiser** was a car sold by Chrysler in 5-door hatchback model 2000–2010, and 2-door convertible model 2005-2008. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39299 "2018-07-15T19:38:05Z")
Walter Chrysler, the founder of Chrysler Corporation, was born in the small town of Wamego, Kansas, and was raised in the smaller town of Ellis, Kansas. Chrysler’s father was a locomotive engineer; Chrysler’s first job was a mechanic for the railroad. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39300 "2018-07-15T20:48:39Z")
[Eigerwand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigerwand_railway_station)is an underground railway station on the Jungfrau railway, which runs to the Jungfraujoch from Kleine Scheidegg. The station is situated just behind the dreaded North Face of the Eiger, and its principal purpose was to allow passengers to observe the view through a series of windows carved into the rock face. To that end, uphill trains used to stop at the station for five minutes. One of the windows featured in the 1975 Clint Eastwood film _The Eiger Sanction_. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39301 "2018-07-16T04:14:10Z")
1975 was just one of two full calendar years in which Gerald Ford was President of the United States; the other was 1976. He took office in August 1974, upon the resignation of Richard M. Nixon, and left office in January 1977, when his successor - and later close friend - Jimmy Carter was sworn in. ---
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The Carter Bar, in the Cheviot Hills, is the pass where the A68 highway crosses the England-Scotland border. In 1575 Carter Bar was the scene of the Raid of the Redeswire, one of the last large-scale battles between the English and the Scots. Nowadays Carter Bar forms a popular point for tourists to stop and take photographs on the England-Scotland border. There are two marker stones on either side of the A68 for this purpose. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2018, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39303 "2018-07-16T13:47:46Z")
The Union Flag of the United Kingdom is not flown at the Carter Bar, but the flags of Scotland and Northumberland - the adjoining English county - are: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Scottish-Northumbrian\_Border\_Crossing\_-\_geograph.org.uk\_-\_1452794.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Scottish-Northumbrian_Border_Crossing_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1452794.jpg) ---
**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:** [July 16, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39304 "2018-07-16T19:14:58Z")
Jimmy Carter was 52 years of age when he was inaugurated as the 39th President of the United States, and he was 56 when he left the office. In 2012, he surpassed Herbert Hoover as the longest-retired president in U.S. history. And, in January of 2017, he became the first president to mark the 40th anniversary of his inauguration. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39305 "2018-07-16T20:47:26Z")
Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter have three sons, one daughter, eight grandsons, three granddaughters, and two great-grandsons. They celebrated their 72th wedding anniversary on July 7. 2018. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Zox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Mr\_Zox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Zox)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39306 "2018-07-16T23:26:17Z")
From Jan 20 2017 to date there have been 5 living ex-presidents of the USA: Carter, , Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr, and Obama. This is the fourth time there have been 5 living ex-presidents. The first time was Mar 4, 1861 to Jan 8, 1862 (Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan), then Jan 20, 1993 to Apr 22, 1994 (Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr), and the third time was Jan 20, to Jun 5, 2004 (Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton). ---
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Canada currently has seven living ex-Prime Ministers: Clark (1979-80); Turner (1984); Mulroney (1984-93); Campbell (1993); Chrétien (1993-2003); Martin (2003-06); and Harper (2006-15). That’s the most we’ve ever had, but it’s easy to rack up the numbers in a parliamentary system where you can have PMs serving for only a few months (Clark; Turner; Campbell). ---
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Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson’s 1967 Cabinet included four men who would serve as Prime Minister: Pearson himself, Pierre Trudeau, John Turner and Jean Chrétien. All four appear in this picture: [Jean Chrétien - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Chr%C3%A9tien#/media/File:Trudeau,_Turner,_Chretien,_and_Pearson.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1964) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1966)