# 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:** 1987
**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:** [August 20, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39729 "2018-08-20T16:56:22Z")
Milwaukee’s Rockwell Automation/Allen Bradley Clock tower houses one of the **largest** four-faced clocks in the world. It is larger than London’s Big Ben. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39730 "2018-08-20T17:36:19Z")
Little Ben is a cast iron miniature clock tower, situated at the intersection of Vauxhall Bridge Road and Victoria Street, in Westminster, central London, close to the approach to Victoria station. In design it mimics the famous clock tower colloquially known as Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster, found at the other end of Victoria Street. А replica of Little Ben called Lorloz (painted silver) was erected in 1903 in the centre of Victoria, capital of Seychelles to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39731 "2018-08-20T17:50:54Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Harvard professor E. O. Wilson is an American biologist, theorist, naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world’s leading expert…\* Wilson is said to have remarked that nature teaches us that “God has a peculiar affinity for beetles,” of which there are over 400,000 species. > [@Bullitt](#): > > The 23 US constitutional amendments are (summaries): > > 1. freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly > 2. RKBA, the right to keep and bear arms > 3. quartering of soldiers > 4. unreasonable searches and seizures > 5. the right to due process > 6. fair and speedy trial > 7. trial by jury > 8. excessive fines; cruel and unusual punishment > 9. unenumerated rights > 10. federalism; states’ rights > 11. states’ sovereign immunity > 12. presidential election procedures > 13. abolition of slavery > 14. citizenship; equal protection > 15. right to vote > 16. income tax > 17. direct election of United States Senators by popular vote > 18. alcohol prohibition > 19. women’s suffrage > 20. terms dates for Pres, VP, Senators > 21. repeal 18th > 22. Presidential terms > 23. District of Columbia electors Brace yourself: > **[Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution)** > > The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. > Southern states of the former Confederate States of America adopted poll taxes both in their state laws and in their state constitutions throughout t... > **[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution)** > > The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with presidential succession and disability. > It clarifies that the vice president becomes president if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office through impeachment, and establishes how a vacancy in the office of the vice president can be filled. > It also provides for the temporary transfer of the president's powers and duties to the vice president, either on the initiative of the president alone or ... > **[Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution)** > > The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution established a nationally standardized minimum age of 18 for participation in state and local elections. It was proposed by Congress on March 23, 1971, and it was ratified by three-quarters of the states by July 1, 1971. > Various public officials had supported lowering the voting age during the mid-20th century, but were unable to gain the legislative momentum necessary for passing a constitutional amendment. > The dri... > **[Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution)** > > The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII, also known as the Congressional Compensation Act of 1789) to the United States Constitution states that any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress may take effect only after the next election of the House of Representatives has occurred. It is the most recently adopted amendment but was one of the first proposed. > The 1st Congress submitted the amendment to the states for ratification on September 25, 1789, along with 11 ... In play: Queen Victoria met with William Seward, Republican of New York, when he toured Europe before the Civil War. Seward, frustrated in his ambition to become the Republican presidential nominee in 1860, agreed to serve in President Abraham Lincoln’s Cabinet as Secretary of State. He was played by David Strathairn in the Steven Spielberg movie _Lincoln_. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39732 "2018-08-20T18:24:57Z")
In _Lincoln_, Hal Holbrook played presidential adviser Francis Preston Blair, after whom Blair House is named. Holbrook played Lincoln in the TV miniseries “Carl Sandburg’s Lincoln”, but is still best known for his one-man show _Mark Twain Tonight!_ and for playing Julia’s boyfriend (he and Dixie Carter were married IRL) on “Designing Women”. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39733 "2018-08-20T19:31:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Brace yourself: > > [Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution) > [Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution) > [Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution) > [Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution) Thank you! (and welcome back) In play: There are at least 43 places in the US named Lincoln, including two in California that are about 175 miles apart. 1. Lincoln, Alabama 2. Lincoln, Arkansas 3. Lincoln, California, in Placer County 4. Lincoln, Madera County, California 5. Lincoln, Delaware 6. Lincoln, Idaho 7. Lincoln, Illinois 8. Lincoln, Indiana 9. Lincoln, Iowa 10. Lincoln Center, Kansas 11. Lincoln Parish, Louisiana 12. Lincoln, Maine 13. Lincoln Plantation, Maine 14. Lincoln, Massachusetts 15. Lincoln, Michigan 16. Lincoln, Missouri 17. Lincoln, Minnesota 18. Lincoln, Montana 19. Lincoln, Nebraska, capital of the state 20. Lincoln, New Hampshire 21. Lincoln (CDP), New Hampshire, the main village of Lincoln town 22. Lincoln, Gloucester County, New Jersey 23. Lincoln, New Mexico 24. Lincoln, New York 25. Lincoln, North Dakota 26. Lincoln, Jackson County, Oregon 27. Lincoln, Pennsylvania 28. Lincoln, Rhode Island 29. Lincoln, Texas 30. Lincoln, Vermont 31. Lincoln, Virginia 32. Lincoln, Washington 33. Lincoln, West Virginia 34. Lincoln, Adams County, Wisconsin, a town 35. Lincoln, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, a town 36. Lincoln, Buffalo County, Wisconsin, a town 37. Lincoln, Burnett County, Wisconsin, a town 38. Lincoln, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, a town 39. Lincoln, Forest County, Wisconsin, a town 40. Lincoln, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, a town 41. Lincoln (community), Wisconsin, Kewaunee County town 42. Lincoln, Monroe County, Wisconsin, a town 43. Lincoln, Polk County, Wisconsin, a town 44. Lincoln, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, a town 45. Lincoln, Vilas County, Wisconsin, a town 46. Lincoln, Wood County, Wisconsin, a town ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39734 "2018-08-20T21:00:48Z")
The Avro Lincoln bomber was a derivative of the famous Lancaster. It was the last piston-engined bomber operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF). Intended to participate in the invasion of Japan, the Lincoln instead was used militarily only against the Mau Mau in Kenya and the Communist uprising in Malaysia. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39735 "2018-08-20T21:52:01Z")
Perhaps the most famous plane of all time in the RAF’s possession is the Supermarine 300, more famously known as the Supermarine Spitfire. Its first flight was 5 March 1936 and after flying it, the test pilot, “Mutt” Summers, reportedly told the designers “Don’t touch anything.” ---
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The Spitfire was the first high-speed photo-reconnaissance aircraft to be operated by the RAF. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2018, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39737 "2018-08-20T23:26:07Z")
It was a common tradition for RAF pilots on missions in the first Gulf War to start singing “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from Monty Python’s _Life of Brian_. ---
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Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert is the principal antagonist in Sir Walter Scott’s bestselling 1820 novel, _Ivanhoe_. The character has been played on film and television by Ciaran Hinds and Sam Neill. The title role, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, has been played by Robert Taylor, Anthony Andrews and Roger Moore. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39739 "2018-08-21T07:07:41Z")
The modern notion of Robin Hood —“King of Outlaws and prince of good fellows!” as Richard the Lionheart calls him — made its debut in _Ivanhoe_, which was published in 1819. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39740 "2018-08-21T12:19:00Z")
The classic Jimmy Cliff film about the reggae music industry in Jamaica, _The Harder They Come_, tells of the struggle of poor Ivanhoe “Ivan” Martin (Cliff) to emerge from the Trenchtown slums of Kingston and break into the corrupt music business, succeeding only after killing a cop makes him a folk hero whose recordings are in demand. Wonderful soundtrack album, btw. Had a lot to do with popularizing reggae in the US. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39741 "2018-08-21T13:11:56Z")
In 1814, Jamaica, New York became the first incorporated village on Long Island. The New York Racing Association (NYRA), based at Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park, lists its official address as Jamaica. NYRA operates Belmont Park in Elmont NY. Secretariat’s finishing time in his 1973 Belmont victory (2 minutes, 24 seconds) set a world record for 1 1⁄2 miles on dirt, a world record which still stands. The 31-length victory clinched the first Triple Crown in 25 years, dating back to Citation in 1948. A statue of Secretariat is in the center of the Belmont paddock. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2018, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39742 "2018-08-21T13:13:43Z")
The Belmont was an electric car manufactured in Wyandotte, Michigan, by the Belmont Electric Auto Company in 1916. They produced four- and six-seater electrical limousines, along with other commercial electric vehicles. Not in play: Elendil’s Heir, in post #39717 you said: > [@](#): > > Wilson is said to have remarked that nature teaches us that “God has a peculiar affinity for beetles,” of which there are over 400,000 species. The quote actually started with the biologist J.B.S. Haldane, who, when asked what he thought his studies showed about the Creator, is said to have replied “An inordinate fondness for beetles”. ---
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On September 6, 1916 the first true supermarket, the “Piggly Wiggly” was opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee ---
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Safeway supermarkets’ original slogan was “an admonition and an invitation” to “Drive the Safeway; buy the Safeway”. The point of the name was that the market operated on a cash-and-carry basis — it did not offer credit, as grocers traditionally had done. It was the “safe way” to buy because a family could not get into debt via its grocery bill (as many families did at the time, especially during the Great Depression). ---
**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:** [August 21, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39745 "2018-08-21T16:07:58Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > It was a common tradition for RAF pilots on missions in the first Gulf War to start singing “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from Monty Python’s _Life of Brian_. I read in a book on the Falklands War not long ago that some Royal Marines, soaked to the skin in a driving rain, sang it, too, as they marched across the island, loaded down with rifles and heavy packs. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > …Elendil’s Heir, in post #39717 you said: The quote actually started with the biologist J.B.S. Haldane, who, when asked what he thought his studies showed about the Creator, is said to have replied “An inordinate fondness for beetles”. Ah, thanks. FWIW, Wiki says it’s possibly apocryphal with Haldane, too: [J. B. S. Haldane - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane#Quotations) > [@Bullitt](#): > > Safeway supermarkets’ original slogan was “an admonition and an invitation” to “Drive the Safeway; buy the Safeway”. The point of the name was that the market operated on a cash-and-carry basis — it did not offer credit, as grocers traditionally had done. It was the “safe way” to buy because a family could not get into debt via its grocery bill (as many families did at the time, especially during the Great Depression). Hmm, never knew that! _That’s_ good trivia. In play: In recent years, Safeway has gotten high marks from animal-welfare organizations for humane farming practices in producing its store brands. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39746 "2018-08-21T16:12:25Z")
PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, was founded in March 1980 by Ingrid Newkirk and fellow animal rights activist Alex Pacheco. PETA first caught the public’s attention in the summer of 1981 during what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, a widely publicized dispute about experiments conducted on 17 macaque monkeys inside the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. The case lasted 10 years, involved the only police raid on an animal laboratory in the US, triggered an amendment in 1985 to that country’s Animal Welfare Act, and established PETA as an internationally known organization. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39747 "2018-08-21T16:33:28Z")
Virginia Senator George Allen (son of the former Washington Redskins coach) lost his 2006 re-election campaign largely because of an incident in which he referred to an Indian-American man in the crowd as “Mister Macaca”. The term, derived from Portuguese for “monkey” (related to _macaque_), is a racial slur. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39748 "2018-08-21T18:04:16Z")
George Herbert Allen, the father of the Senator from Virginia, led his 1972 Washington Redskins to the Super Bowl (Super Bowl 7, or VII) against the undefeated Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins were ahead, 14-0, when kicker Garo Yepremian of the Dolphins lined up to attempt a 42-yard field goal in the 4th quarter and with a little more than 2 minutes left in the game. If the Dolphins won, and they had been dominating the entire game, their season record would be 17-0. The perfect season. To kick the field goal would have made the score 17-0, the perfect score to cap the perfect 17-0 season. But in what would later be called Garo’s Gaffe ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National\_Football\_League\_lore#1970s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League_lore#1970s)), Yepremian picked up the blocked field goal and feebly attempted a forward pass. He lost his grip and bobbled the ball, and Mike Bass of the Redskins returned the fumble for a touchdown. The final score was 14-7. The Dolphins got their perfect season, with a 17-0 record, but not with the perfect 17-0 Super Bowl score. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1986) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1988)