# 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:** 1996
**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:** [September 1, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39909 "2018-09-01T12:37:35Z")
In May 2018 the Oklahoma House passed a bill that would give teachers and public employees a $ **6,000** dollar a year raise. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39910 "2018-09-02T12:28:16Z")
Rodgers and Hammerstein added the song “Oklahoma” to the musical formerly named “Away We Go”, based on the Lynn Riggs play _Green Grow the Lilacs_, when it was sputtering in out-of-town tryouts in Boston. It was soon named the state’s official song, the only one taken from a musical. The table at which the pair wrote the song is still on public display at Boston’s Shubert Theatre. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2018, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39911 "2018-09-02T12:45:06Z")
In the lyrics to the “Get Your Kicks on Route 66” song by Bobby Troup, several place names are mentioned. Here are all of them, in song order: _**Chicago, LA St. Louis Joplin, Missouri Oklahoma City Amarillo Gallup, New Mexico Flagstaff, Arizona Winona Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino**_ I had to look up Winona. Wasn’t super easy. It’s in Arizona. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2018, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39912 "2018-09-02T12:51:31Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > In the lyrics to the “Get Your Kicks on Route 66” song by Bobby Troup, several place names are mentioned. Here are all of them, in song order: > > _**Chicago, LA > St. Louis > Joplin, Missouri > Oklahoma City > Amarillo > Gallup, New Mexico > Flagstaff, Arizona > Winona > Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino**_ > > I had to look up Winona. Wasn’t super easy. It’s in Arizona. Missed one: _ **California** _! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39913 "2018-09-02T15:08:50Z")
Both Bobby Troup and Jack Webb, both rather plain looking guys, were both inexplicably married to Julie London. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39914 "2018-09-02T15:55:45Z")
Jack Webb is best known for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday of the Los Angeles Police Department in the radio and television series _Dragnet_. When Webb died in 1982, LA Police Chief Daryl Gates announced that badge number 714, the badge worn by Sergeant Friday, would be permanently retired. Webb was buried with a replica LAPD badge bearing the rank of sergeant and the number 714. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39915 "2018-09-02T16:15:14Z")
Grant Wistrom, former NFL defensive end for the St. Louis Rams (1998-2003) and the Seattle Seahawks (2004-2006), hails from Webb City, Missouri, which is on Route 66. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39916 "2018-09-02T19:32:04Z")
The number 714 is best known in American culture as Babe Ruth’s career home run total. The record was topped by Henry Aaron, who retired with 755, and is now held by Barry Bonds with 762. Bonds also holds the single-season record with 73. If Japanese records are counted, Sadaharu Oh has it with 862, all as a Yomiuri Giant. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39917 "2018-09-02T20:30:34Z")
(Tying the last two posts together…) A portion of Prefectural Road 66, located near the village of Makkari in the Prefecture of Mie in Japan, is known as the Makkari Flower Road. Each year, more than 40,000 lilies bloom in a 2-kilometer section along the highway. Bulbs are planted in May and the flowers bloom sometime in August each year. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39918 "2018-09-02T23:53:31Z")
Sheriff Woody and his pals narrowly avoid being sent to a toy museum in Japan in the Pixar movie _Toy Story 2_. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2018, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39919 "2018-09-03T02:39:04Z")
The Sheriff in the Pixar movie _ **Cars** _ was voiced by Route 66 historian and author Michael Wallis. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39920 "2018-09-03T03:23:44Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > The Sheriff in the Pixar movie _ **Cars** _ was voiced by Route 66 historian and author Michael Wallis. Good trivia, SSR, thanks. Route 66 historian and author Michael Wallis was born in 1945 in St. Louis MO. Among the books he authored is _Route 66: The Mother Road 75th Anniversary Edition_ (1990), and also _The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate_ (2007). He currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with his wife, Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis. Note — it’d be very cool to meet him as I pass through Tulsa. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39921 "2018-09-03T10:44:43Z")
[“Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Four_Hours_from_Tulsa) is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, about a traveling man who detours to a romance in a motel (possibly on Route 66) and ends up never returning home, which was a hit for Gene Pitney. Its success in the UK enabled Pitney to become an international star. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine wrote a song that appeared on their album 101 Damnations, entitled “24 Minutes from Tulse Hill” as a reference to the song. The song refers to the journey time by train to Tulse Hill, from central London. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39922 "2018-09-03T15:05:33Z")
Near Tulsa on Route 66 is the Blue Whale of Catoosa OK, about 15 miles east of Tulsa. And then, in Tulsa is the Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza, which aims to celebrate and recognise the achievements of Cyrus Avery – often credited as the “Father of Route 66”. Avery created Route 66 while a member of the federal board appointed to create the Federal Highway System, and then he pushed for the establishment of the U.S. Highway 66 Association to pave and promote the highway. The Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza features the flags of the eight states of Route 66, the Route 66 Skywalk (with its zig-zag art-deco style and familiar logo), a park, a pedestrian walk way over route 66, and several bronze statues including a land-run horse and wagon, and an old automobile featuring Will Rogers. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39923 "2018-09-03T15:39:12Z")
Will Rogers World Airport, located in Oklahoma City, is the busiest airport in the state of Oklahoma. Although it has the name ‘World’ in its official title, there are currently no scheduled international flights. The airport first opened in 1911 as Oklahoma City Municipal Airfield. It was renamed in Rogers’ honor in 1941. Rogers died in a plane crash in 1935. The other major airport in Oklahoma City is Wiley Post Airport; it was named after famed pilot Wiley Post, who died in the same crash that took the life of Rogers. Will Rogers World Airport is located about 10 miles due south of Ann’s Chicken Fry House, which is located on the original Route 66 in Oklahoma City. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39924 "2018-09-03T17:46:28Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Will Rogers World Airport, located in Oklahoma City, is the busiest airport in the state of Oklahoma. Although it has the name ‘World’ in its official title, there are currently no scheduled international flights. > > The airport first opened in 1911 as Oklahoma City Municipal Airfield. It was renamed in Rogers’ honor in 1941. Rogers died in a plane crash in 1935. The other major airport in Oklahoma City is Wiley Post Airport; it was named after famed pilot Wiley Post, who died in the same crash that took the life of Rogers. > > Will Rogers World Airport is located about 10 miles due south of Ann’s Chicken Fry House, which is located on the original Route 66 in Oklahoma City. Ann’s Chicken Fry House, Oklahoma City OK — thanks! It’s added to my list. (gImages, [Ann’s Chicken Fry House, Oklahoma City OK - Google Search](https://goo.gl/axLvdE)) The Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore OK is along Route 66 and som 30 miles northeast of Tulsa. So, too, is Rogers State University, named after Rogers County which is named after Clement Vann Rogers, the father of Will Rogers. Clement V. Rogers was a Cherokee senator and judge in Indian Territory. Clem Rogers’ parents were both mixed-blood Cherokees who moved to Indian Territory in 1832, several years before the Trail of Tears. ETA gMap, probably in the order I will visit them. Although I may not go to Will’s airport. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39925 "2018-09-03T17:52:33Z")
Missed edit window: gMap, [Google Maps](https://goo.gl/oL2aEw). ---
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Will Rogers and Benjamin Franklin are the only American humorists to have United States Navy submarines named after them. > **[USS Will Rogers (SSBN-659)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Will_Rogers_(SSBN-659))** > > USS Will Rogers (SSBN-659) (referred to as Willy R by her crews) was a Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarine – the last of the "41 for Freedom" Polaris submarines. She was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for humorist Will Rogers (1879–1935). > The contract to construct Will Rogers was awarded on 29 July 1963, and her keel was laid down on 20 March 1965 at Groton, Connecticut, by the General Dynamics Corporation's Electric Boat Division. She was launched on 21 J... > **[USS Benjamin Franklin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Benjamin_Franklin_(SSBN-640))** > > USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN 640), the lead ship of her class of ballistic missile submarine, was the only submarine of the United States Navy to be named for Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), the American journalist, publisher, author, philanthropist, abolitionist, public servant, scientist, librarian, diplomat, inventor, and Founding Father.a > The contract to build Benjamin Franklin was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut, on 1 November 196... ---
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Paulette Bourgeois was inspired to create a children’s book by an episode of M_A_S\*H where Hawkeye Pierce admits that he is claustrophobic and refuses to go into a cave, “If I were a turtle I would be afraid of my own shell”, he said. Her book _Franklin in the Dark_ was the first in what became a best-selling series and TV show about Franklin, a little turtle. She did not realize until after the book was written that Hawkeye’s full name is Benjamin Franklin Pierce. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39928 "2018-09-04T02:40:59Z")
Mr. Benjamin Britt, also known as Ben, serves as General Partner at Route 66 Ventures, Inc. Route66 Ventures is a private investment firm focusing on helping entrepreneurs. They are located in Alexandria, Virginia, which makes their name odd as Route 66 is nowhere near Alexandria. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1995) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1997)