# 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:** 2084
**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:** [December 27, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41669 "2018-12-27T19:09:30Z")
Not in play: [This](https://www.fedsmith.com/2017/06/07/postal-service-highest-paid-employees-highest-averages/)website lists the highest paid employees of the USPS. The Postmaster General salary is listed as $287,620.00 > [@](#): > > For 2017, there are 29 employees making over $200,000. There are 3,571 employees making over $100,000. Carry on. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41670 "2018-12-27T19:15:25Z")
In play: William Franklin Knox (January 1, 1874 – April 28, 1944) was the Republican vice presidential candidate in **1936**. Although he was a lifelong Republican, he served as the 47th Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt during most of World War II. FDR appointed him to the post in hopes of building bipartisan support for the war effort. Knox held the post from 1940 until his death in 1944. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41671 "2018-12-27T19:20:50Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > . . . The southern trip was omitted from the film entirely, as was the Golden Cap used to summon the monkeys. . . The [Golden cap](https://annettehoffman.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/img_0613.jpg?w=640) is there ---
**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:** [December 27, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41672 "2018-12-27T19:20:55Z")
Fort Knox was named for Henry Knox, the Continental Army’s chief of artillery during the Revolutionary War and the country’s first Secretary of 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:** [December 27, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41673 "2018-12-27T19:42:05Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I would debate that…[https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2018](https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2018) and [https://www.federalpay.org/ses/2018](https://www.federalpay.org/ses/2018) > [@Railer13](#): > > Not in play: [This](https://www.fedsmith.com/2017/06/07/postal-service-highest-paid-employees-highest-averages/)website lists the highest paid employees of the USPS. The Postmaster General salary is listed as $287,620.00 But… But… _ **I READ IT ON THE INTERNET!!!** _ Err, I mean, thanks guys. 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 27, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41674 "2018-12-27T19:58:50Z")
In play: During World War II the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were stored in Fort Knox. Then, in 1944 the documents returned to Washington, D.C. when an attack on U.S. soil was deemed unlikely. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41675 "2018-12-27T21:41:52Z")
The interior of the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox was imagined onscreen for the 1964 James Bond movie _Goldfinger_. The production-design staff was not given access to the Depository to see what it looked like, but learned afterwards that their design was considerably more open and roomy than the real thing. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2018, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41676 "2018-12-27T23:37:55Z")
Philander Knox was Teddy Roosevelt’s long-suffering Attorney General, who had to clean up legal issues created by the rambunctious President. After Roosevelt fomented the Panamanian revolution and secession from Colombia as a pre-condition to building the Panama Canal, he tried to support his actions by citing international law to Knox. “Oh, Mr President,” Knox sighed, " do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality." [Theodore Roosevelt - TIME](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,988150-2,00.html) ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41677 "2018-12-28T00:03:15Z")
Teddy Roosevelt, at the age of 42, remains the youngest person to become President of the United States. John F. Kennedy is the second youngest. He was 43. Bill Clinton and Ulysses S. Grant were 46, and Barack Obama was 47. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41678 "2018-12-28T01:03:33Z")
Jimmy Carter was 56 years old when his presidential term ended. He is now 94 years old. He has now lived for 37 years and 340 days since he left the office, which is an ongoing record. The next longest was Herbert Hoover, who lived for 31 years after he left the office. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41679 "2018-12-28T02:34:09Z")
The Hoover Building is a Grade II\* listed building of Art Deco architecture located in the London Borough of Ealing. The site opened in 1933 as the UK headquarters, manufacturing plant and repairs center for The Hoover Company.] The building has been converted into apartments. In 1980 Elvis Costello recorded a song called “Hoover Factory”. It includes a brief description of the building and its position in London. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41680 "2018-12-28T05:18:35Z")
Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in west London. The White Lodge on Ealing Green was established as a base for film making in 1902, and films have been made on the site ever since. It is the oldest continuously working studio facility for film production in the world. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41681 "2018-12-28T08:05:17Z")
The Negro Motorist Green Book was an annual guidebook for African-American roadtrippers originated and published by New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green from 1936 to 1966, during the era of Jim Crow laws. Only six percent of the more than 100 motels that lined US Route 66 in Albuquerque NM admitted black customers. In June 2016, a copy of the book on loan from The New York Public Library, was featured in the Missouri History Museum’s exhibition, \*Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis. \* ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41682 "2018-12-28T14:18:20Z")
[Richard Overton, the country’s oldest surviving World War II veteran, just died at age 112](https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/27/us/richard-overton-oldest-ww-ii-vet-died/index.html) Overton volunteered for the Army starting in 1942 and served with the 188th Aviation Engineer Battalion, an all-black unit that served on various islands in the Pacific. He was at Pearl Harbor and Okinawa and Iwo Jima. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41683 "2018-12-28T15:27:50Z")
Per Wiki, _Green Book_ is a 2018 American comedy-drama film about a tour of the Deep South in the 1960s by African-American classical and jazz pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) and Tony Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen), an Italian-American bouncer who served as Shirley’s driver and bodyguard. It is named after the _The Negro Motorist Green Book_, which listed businesses open to black customers. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41684 "2018-12-28T15:28:59Z")
Ninja’ed ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41685 "2018-12-28T15:33:15Z")
A bouncer is a type of security guard, employed at venues such as bars, nightclubs, stripclubs, casinos, hotels, billiard halls, restaurants, sporting events or concerts. The word “bouncer” was first popularized in a novel by Horatio Alger, Jr., called _The Young Outlaw_, which was first published in 1875. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41686 "2018-12-28T15:44:39Z")
The Catalina Casino is on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of Los Angeles. It is the most visible landmark in Avalon Bay. The large building contains a movie theater, ballroom, and used to house an island art and history museum. The Catalina Casino gets its name from the Italian language term casino, meaning a “gathering place”. Contrary to common belief, there has never been any gambling at the facility. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41687 "2018-12-28T15:55:10Z")
The only incorporated municipality on Catalina, and the home of the casino, is Avalon. It was the subject of the song “Avalon” (_… And so I think I’ll travel on …_), written by Al Jolson and collaborators and popularly sung by Mel Torme. Jolson was required to hand over the royalties to the song to Giacomo Puccini’s publishers due to a lawsuit based on the tune’s remarkable similarity to the aria _E lucevan le stelle_ (And the stars were shining), from the opera _Tosca_, although in the major key. It is sung by Mario Cavaradossi (tenor), a painter in love with the singer Tosca, while he waits for his execution on the roof of Castel Sant’Angelo. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41688 "2018-12-28T15:59:12Z")
“Avalon” comes from a Welsh phrase meaning “island of fruit trees,” and was, in legend, where the wounded King Arthur was taken to heal after defeating his evil bastard (literally) son Mordred. In some tellings of the tales, it is also where the King’s great sword Excalibur was forged. > **[Avalon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon)** > > Avalon (/ˈævəlɒn/; Latin: Insula Avallonis; Welsh: Ynys Afallon, Ynys Afallach; Cornish: Enys Avalow; literally meaning "the isle of fruit \[or apple\] trees"; also written Avallon or Avilion among various other spellings) is a mythical island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth's influential 1136 Historia Regum Britanniae as a place of magic where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was made and later where Arthur was taken to recover from being gravely wounded ... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2083) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2085)