# 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:** 2048
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40949 "2018-11-10T15:25:02Z")
The Big Bang Theory’s Leonard Hofstadter has an IQ of 173, and was 24 years old when he received a PhD from Princeton University in theoretical physics.He also received a dissertation of the year award for his doctoral paper on experimental particle physics.[18] Leonard has been established to have been a child prodigy, and a gifted scientist with an impressive knowledge of theoretical physics. He designs experiments in order to test theories but, according to Sheldon Cooper, his work is mostly derivative and thus unimportant. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40950 "2018-11-10T17:27:07Z")
Leonard Nimoy wrote two autobiographies and seven books of poetry. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40951 "2018-11-10T17:36:48Z")
Leonard Nimoy was very active in the Jewish community, and could read and speak Yiddish. Or, as Adam Sandler put it in “The Chanukah Song” You don’t need “Deck The Halls” or “Jingle Bell Rock” 'Cause you can spin a dreidel with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock- both Jewish ---
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40952 "2018-11-10T18:29:53Z")
James T. Kirk was such a serious student in his days at Starfleet Academy, he tells his friend and colleague Dr. Leonard H. McCoy in the _Star Trek: The Original Series_ episode “Shore Leave,” that he was “positively grim.” ---
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40953 "2018-11-10T22:06:06Z")
Horatio is the middle name of Dr. Leonard H. McCoy. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40954 "2018-11-10T22:21:30Z")
During the 1976 NFL season, the Green Bay Packers had two players named Mike McCoy. One was a [defensive tackle](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/McCoMi21.htm), in his seventh and final season with the team, and the other was a rookie [defensive back](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/McCoMi22.htm). ---
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40955 "2018-11-10T23:05:35Z")
On 15 September 1963 the San Francisco Giants had all three outfielders who all had the same last name. They were brothers: Felipe Alou, then 28, was a regular outfielder for the Giants; Matty Alou, 24, was a defensive replacement and pinch hitter who started only six games; and Jesus Alou, 21, was a September call-up. They played in the same outfield for a few innings in three games in September. In spite of some lingering baseball mythology, they never all started a game together. ---
**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:** [November 10, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40956 "2018-11-10T23:47:09Z")
According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shared_franchise_names_in_North_American_professional_sports), there are currently seven mascot names that are shared by North American professional sports franchises. The list is as follows: Cardinals – Arizona (football), St. Louis (baseball) Giants – San Francisco (baseball), New York (football) Jets – New York (football), Winnipeg (hockey) Kings – Los Angeles (hockey), Sacramento (basketball) Lions – Detroit (football), British Columbia (Canadian football) Panthers – Florida (hockey), Carolina (football) Rangers – New York (hockey), Texas (baseball) ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40957 "2018-11-11T01:40:26Z")
Florida panthers primarily eat white-tailed deer, but they will also hunt feral hog, rabbit, raccoon, armadillo, birds and other animals. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40958 "2018-11-11T01:46:31Z")
Until mismanagement brought them down in 1996, ending a competitive period of over a century, the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League shared a homophonic nickname with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The origins were different, however. The Ottawa name is believed to have been a reference to the loggers who rode rafts of logs down the rivers to Ottawa, while the Saskatchewan Roughriders refer to hard riding cattle drives. The Saskatchewan name may have the same root origin as Teddy Roosevelt’s Roughriders: North Dakota, where Teddy had his ranch, borders on Saskatchewan, and the two areas have similar geography and ranching history. The Detroit Lions and the BC Lions have the same nickname, but judging by their logos, Detroit is referring to an African, maned, lion, while BC’s logo is a mountain lion. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40959 "2018-11-11T04:17:21Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Horatio is the middle name of Dr. Leonard H. McCoy. Cite? Not mentioned here: [Leonard McCoy | Memory Alpha | Fandom](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Leonard_McCoy) In play: Theodore Roosevelt did not like the nickname “Teddy.” Members of his close family often called him “Teedy,” his childhood nickname. After he left the White House, he was often referred to in social situations as “the Colonel,” reflecting his Army rank at the end of the Spanish-American War. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40960 "2018-11-11T04:45:37Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Cite? Not mentioned here: [Leonard McCoy | Memory Alpha | Fandom](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Leonard_McCoy) From your play of Leonard H. McCoy (and I don’t recall ever hearing of H as his middle initial), I then found this: > [@](#): > > The novels Provenance of Shadows and The Assassination Game have identified McCoy’s middle name as “Horatio”, but this was never established on screen. > **[Leonard McCoy](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Leonard_McCoy)** > > Admiral Leonard H. McCoy, MD was a male Human Starfleet officer of the 23rd and 24th centuries. He was an accomplished surgeon, physician, psychologist, and exobiologist, and was also considered an expert in space psychology. As chief medical... ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40961 "2018-11-11T07:29:19Z")
In the play (and later, the film) _Arsenic and Old Lace_, the protagonist, Mortimer Brewster, has a brother named Teddy, who is under the delusion that he is actually Teddy Roosevelt. Mortimer and Teddy’s elderly aunts, Abby and Martha, have been poisoning lonely old bachelors to put them out of their misery, and have been having Teddy bury the bodies in the basement, as he believes that they are workers who have died from yellow fever while digging the Panama Canal. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40962 "2018-11-11T10:45:57Z")
Most of the laborers who built the Panama Canal were Jamaicans and Barbadians of African descent, who were wrongly thought to have elevated immunity to the yellow fever, malaria, and other tropical diseases that were endemic to the area (and also helped end the earlier French project). ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40963 "2018-11-11T16:50:50Z")
Panama was not a country before the canal was built. When the French began work on the canal, Panama was a province of Colombia. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40964 "2018-11-11T16:54:13Z")
The Panama Canal, which opened in 1914, has a total length of about 51 miles from one ocean to the other. 21 miles of the overall length are in Gatun Lake, which was created in 1913 by the building of the Gatun Dam across the Chagres River. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40965 "2018-11-11T18:01:41Z")
Thanks, **Bullitt**. I’d mentioned in an earlier post here that Dr. McCoy’s middle name was not established _Star Trek_ canon. He mentioned his middle initial in the movie _Star Trek III: The Search for Spock_. In play: American historian David McCullough’s book _The Path Between the Seas_, about the politics, diplomacy, funding, design and construction of the Panama Canal, was credited by President Jimmy Carter and many on Capitol Hill with smoothing the way for the 1977 treaties by which the United States turned control of the canal over to Panama in 1999. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40966 "2018-11-11T18:55:15Z")
McCullough’s bio of the second US President, _John Adams_, was originally planned as a dual biography of Adams and Jefferson. However, the more he worked on it, the more McCullough found himself drawn to Adams and actually disliking Jefferson, so it became a bio of Adams alone. ---
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_The Ladies of Missalonghi_, a 1987 novel by Australian writer Colleen McCullough, very closely resembles _The Blue Castle_, a 1926 novel by Canadian L.M. Montgomery, best known as the author of _Anne of Green Gables_. The plot and character details are nearly identical. In response to allegations of plagiarism, McCullough first said that she was too intelligent and creative to need to plagiarize, and then gave a defense of subconscious recollection. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/40968 "2018-11-11T20:23:46Z")
David McCullough is, like me, a graduate of Shady Side Academy in Fox Chapel, Pa., just outside of Pittsburgh. He now lives in Boston and Cape Cod. During the 2016 campaign, he, Ken Burns and several dozen other prominent American historians formed a group which was harshly critical of Donald Trump. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2047) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2049)