# 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:** 1992
**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 27, 2018, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39829 "2018-08-27T00:04:45Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The Lincoln Highway, from New York to San Francisco, is now called US Route 30 for the majority of its distance. It intersects Route 66 west of Chicago, near the suburb of Aurora, Illinois, where Wayne and Garth starred in “Wayne’s World” on local cable TV. I don’t think Route 66 passes through Aurora…? Does it? I think it runs east of Aurora. And I think its intersection with the Lincoln Highway is in Joliet: [intersection lincoln highway route 66 - Google Search](https://goo.gl/kqozJV). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39830 "2018-08-27T00:14:06Z")
I did a quick Google Maps search and found the Route 66 Barber Shop in Aurora. Maybe they lied to me. Certainly, if anyone would know, it would be you, though. 🙂 Carry on, lads and lasses. ---
**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 27, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39831 "2018-08-27T00:18:46Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > I did a quick Google Maps search and found the Route 66 Barber Shop in Aurora. Maybe they lied to me. Certainly, if anyone would know, it would be you, though. 🙂 > > Carry on, lads and lasses. There is a barber shop in Aurora named Route 66. It is located at 723 Aurora Ave Q. But it’s closed right now. 🙂 Google says it’ll open @0900 tomorrow. [route 66 barber shop aurora il - Google Search](https://goo.gl/XvRh63) In play: The Lincoln Highway passes through Plainfield IL and Joliet IL. At one time, Route 66 passed through Joliet. Later, due to changed routing, it passed through Plainfield. In its 1926-1940 routing, Route 66 crossed the Lincoln Highway in Joliet IL. In its 1940-1985 routing, Route 66 crossed the Lincoln Highway in Plainfield IL. (Based on turn-by-turn directions of Route 66 thru Illinois, at [Chicago-Gardner - Historic66](https://www.historic66.com/illinois/det-il1.php). > [@](#): > > Plainfield and Joliet both were on the Lincoln Highway, the first coast-to-coast highway designed for car travel built in 1915, later known as US-30. ) ---
**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 27, 2018, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39832 "2018-08-27T00:20:35Z")
Get your kicks on Route 66. Get your haircut in Aurora IL. 🙂 Hey! Maybe on my road trip I’ll get my haircut there. Just a thought. Play on… ---
**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 27, 2018, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39833 "2018-08-27T04:27:50Z")
The small civilian starship _Aurora_ in the 1969 _Star Trek_ episode “The Way to Eden” was digitally replaced with a ship of a different design in the remastered 2008 version of the episode. > **[Aurora (NC-17740)](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Aurora_(NC-17740))** > > The Aurora (NC-17740) was a 23rd century Federation Class J space cruiser. (TOS: "The Way to Eden") In 2269, the Aurora was stolen by Dr. Sevrin and his followers, who were traveling in search of the mythical planet Eden. Consequently, it was pursued... ---
**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 27, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39834 "2018-08-27T08:23:04Z")
Eden River Brewing Company, in Penrith, Cumbria County, England, is into the Route 66 act. They brew a pilsner named Route 66. ---
**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 27, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39835 "2018-08-27T13:08:56Z")
The county of Cumbria consists of six districts (Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden and South Lakeland), and in 2008 had a population of just under half a million. Cumbria is one of the most sparsely populated counties in the United Kingdom, with 190 people per square mile. ---
**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 27, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39836 "2018-08-27T13:18:40Z")
The name _Tijeras_ means “scissors” in Spanish, and Tijeras Canyon in central New Mexico, east of Albuquerque separates the Sandia Mountains to the north from the Manzano Mountains to the south. Once in Albuquerque, along historic Route 66, some of the original motels still exist between Eubank and _ **Carlisle** _ streets. ---
**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 27, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39837 "2018-08-27T13:56:25Z")
The U.S. Army War College and U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center are in Carlisle, Penna., and are worth a visit next time you’re in town. ---
**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 27, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39838 "2018-08-27T14:24:38Z")
In 1853, the US Congress commissioned Amiel Weeks Whipple (1817 - 1863), an **Army** Captain in the Topographical Corps, to survey a proposed transcontinental railroad. The outcome was a network of wagon trails into the Far West. Four years later, Congress instructed Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale to mark a route between New Mexico and California. His expedition charted a route which would be used by thousands of migrants on their way to California. And was the basis for the roads which would later cross the region, like Route 66. His route linked what are now the cities of Albuquerque, Grants, Winslow and Flagstaff with California. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39839 "2018-08-27T18:08:08Z")
The 1946 play \*The \*\*Winslow \*_Boy_ is based on a father’s fight to clear his son’s name after the boy is expelled from Osborne Naval College for stealing a five-shilling postal order. The play was inspired by an actual event, which set a legal precedent: the case of George Archer-Shee, a cadet at Osborne in 1908, expelled for stealing a postal order from a fellow cadet. His elder brother, Major Martin Archer-Shee, was convinced of his innocence and persuaded his father to engage lawyers. The most respected barrister of the day, Sir Edward Carson, was also persuaded of his innocence and insisted on the case coming to court. On the fourth day of the trial, the Solicitor General, Sir Rufus Isaacs, accepted that Archer-Shee was innocent, and ultimately the family was paid compensation. The play was adapted for film and television several times, most recently in 1999. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39840 "2018-08-27T18:35:26Z")
The late Robert Osborne, the genial host of Turner Classic Movies (TCM), had been a minor TV performer with Desilu Studios (including in the pilot episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies”, which was set near the western terminus of Route 66), before Lucille Ball convinced him he had a brighter future in entertainment journalism than in acting. ---
**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 27, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39841 "2018-08-27T19:00:35Z")
The acting credits of Donna Douglas, who played Elly May Clampett in “The Beverly Hillbillies”, includes “Route 66” the TV series that ran from October 1960 to March 1964. ---
**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 27, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39842 "2018-08-27T19:06:00Z")
Donna Douglas became a realtor and gospel singer after _The Beverly Hillbillies_ ended its nine-year run in 1971. She also appeared in two reunion movies for the show. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39843 "2018-08-27T19:15:26Z")
The retirement home that Ronald and Nancy Reagan bought in Bel Air, CA is adjacent to Kirkeby, the mansion that was used as the set of “The Beverly Hillbillies”, complete with housing for Elly May’s critters and the cee-ment pond. The Clampetts might have taken Route 66 much of the way from Appalachia to Californy, the place they oughta be, after loading up the truck. ---
**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 27, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39844 "2018-08-27T19:26:23Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The Clampetts might have taken Route 66 much of the way from Appalachia to Californy, the place they oughta be, after loading up the truck. I think you also meant to add… … when they moved to Bever-lee. Hills that is. Swimmin’ pools. Movie stars. 🙂 Play on. ---
**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 27, 2018, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39845 "2018-08-27T19:26:44Z")
Ronald Wilson Reagan’s three names each had six letters, 6-6-6, leading to speculation in some conservative Christian quarters before he took office in 1981 that he might help bring about Armageddon. When he and Nancy retired after leaving the White House in 1989, their initial street address was 666 St. Cloud Road, Bel-Air, California, but it was quietly changed to 668 at their request. ---
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According to the Book of Revelation, Chapter 13, verse 18, the number of the Beast is 666. Some people take the Satanic associations of 666 so seriously that they actively avoid things related to 666 or the digits 6-6-6. This is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. ---
**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 27, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39847 "2018-08-27T20:06:11Z")
A portion of Revelation 21:4 may be heard near the end of the James Cameron blockbuster _Titanic_, when a priest recites it at the stern of the doomed liner to passengers gathered there: “…and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall not be any more, neither sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain…” ---
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There are 66 books in the bible. 39 are in the Old Testament, and 27 in the New Testament. At least one church has used the number 66 and matched it to Route 66 with a site called Route 66 Bible – A road trip through the bible. > **[Route 66: A Road Trip Through the Bible](http://www.route66bible.com/)** > > A "road trip" through the 66 books of the Bible. They refer to the book of Revelation as “The Last Exit”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1991) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1993)