# 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:** 2088
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41749 "2019-01-03T13:17:51Z")
Woody Guthrie had a sign on his guitar reading “This machine kills fascists”. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41750 "2019-01-03T13:27:27Z")
Woody Guthrie died of Huntington’s disease, a fatal hereditary neurological disorder typically inherited from a person’s parents, although up to 10% of cases are due to a new mutation. Huntington’s disease affects about 4 to 15 in 100,000 people of European descent. There is no cure for Huntington’s disease, and it is fatal. Woody Guthrie’s mother, and two of his daughters, also died from Huntington’s disease. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41751 "2019-01-03T13:43:58Z")
Janet Guthrie was the first woman to drive in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41752 "2019-01-03T13:51:17Z")
In the 1977 Daytona 500, Janet Guthrie won the award for Top Rookie. In the 1977 Indy 500, Janet Guthrie started and raced but finished 29th with engine troubles. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41753 "2019-01-03T15:07:41Z")
The Y-chromosome of the Guthrie Clan traces back to R1b-P312 (Bell Beaker), but rather than the subclade that came to Britain with the Amesbury Archer, they descend from the DF27 subclade that may have come to the British Isles by way of Spain. [out of game:] > [@Bullitt](#): > > … not normally sung: > > _One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple > By the Relief Office I saw my people > As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering > If this land was made for you and me?_ > > This ‘different song’ was sung in 2009 by Pete Seeger and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger in 2009 at … Barack Obama’s inauguration. Those commonly-ommitted verses were included. > > Woody Guthrie’s original “copyright” on his song reads: > > **This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.** . Thanks for quoting this Copright! I hadn’t seen it. Nitpick: In 2009 Pete Seeger changed the quoted verse, in particular the reddened word, to celebrate what he hoped would be a new era for America: > [@Pete Seeger](#): > > In the squares of the city By the shadow of the steeple > By the relief office I saw my people. > As they stood hungry I stood there **whistling**. > This land was made for you and me. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41754 "2019-01-03T15:14:07Z")
In concert performances of “Ol’ Man River”, from the Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein II musical _Show Boat_, singer/football star/social activist Paul Robeson would often change Hammerstein’s lyrics to “Show a little grit and you land in jail” and “I must keep fighting until I’m dying”. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41755 "2019-01-03T15:14:21Z")
(ninja’d) ---
**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:** [January 3, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41756 "2019-01-03T15:17:53Z")
Paul Robeson was the third-ever African-American student ever enrolled at Rutgers College — that was in 1915. ---
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Rutgers University was chartered as Queen’s College in 1766, originally affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church. It was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 after Colonel Henry Rutgers, an American Revolutionary War hero and early benefactor of the school. It became a state university of New Jersey in the mid-20th century. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41758 "2019-01-03T15:31:25Z")
In 1915, Robeson won an academic scholarship to Rutgers College, where he was twice named a consensus All-American and was the class valedictorian. However, he was not inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame until almost 80 years later. Robeson received his LL.B. from Columbia Law School, while playing in the National Football League (NFL). At Columbia, he sang and acted in off-campus productions. After graduating, he became a figure in the Harlem Renaissance with performances in The Emperor Jones and All God’s Chillun Got Wings. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41759 "2019-01-03T15:51:01Z")
Avery Brooks, a graduate of Oberlin College and later a member of the drama faculty of Rutgers University, is perhaps best known for playing Hawk on _Spenser: For Hire_ and _A Man Called Hawk_, and Ben Sisko on _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_. He has toured the country in a one-man show playing singer, actor and social activist Paul Robeson. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41760 "2019-01-03T17:38:19Z")
John Heisman, for whom the Heisman trophy is named, started his coaching career as Oberlin’s first football coach. He was undefeated in his first season. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41761 "2019-01-03T18:02:58Z")
Oberlin College was, under John Heisman’s coaching, the last Ohio college football team to defeat Ohio State University on the gridiron. Oberlin’s field house and athletic-support group are both named after him. > **[Facilities](https://goyeo.com/facilities/heisman-field-house/8)** > > The official facilities page for the Oberlin College Yeomen and Yeowomen > **[Heisman Club Announces Next Generation Board - Oberlin College Athletics](https://goyeo.com/news/2018/11/29/heisman-club-announces-next-generation-board.aspx)** > > Oberlin, Ohio – Oberlin College Heisman Club President Carla Freyvogel '79 announced the appointment of the Next Generation Board. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2019, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41762 "2019-01-03T18:16:26Z")
John Heisman served as the head football coach at Oberlin College, Buchtel College (now the University of Akron), Auburn University, Clemson University, Georgia Tech, the University of Pennsylvania, Washington & Jefferson College, and Rice University. ---
**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:** [January 3, 2019, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41763 "2019-01-03T19:14:43Z")
Rice University takes it’s name from William Marsh Rice, an American businessman. Rice left the bulk of his estate to the founding of a free institute of higher education in Houston, Texas. In his will, Rice mandated that the university to bear his name would be for “whites only.” This request was eventually overruled, and Raymond L. Johnson — Rice University’s first black student — was admitted in 1969. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41764 "2019-01-03T19:19:42Z")
In President John Kennedy’s “We choose to go to the moon” speech, delivered at Rice U., he rhetorically asked "… But why, some say, the Moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? “We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to the Moon…We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.” ---
**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:** [January 3, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41765 "2019-01-03T20:33:52Z")
A fantastic speech, **Elvis** , thank you for that. Its full text is here on [nasa.gov](http://nasa.gov)’s site, [https://goo.gl/1v8gyA](https://goo.gl/1v8gyA). My play… In closing his speech, Kennedy said, \* "Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, “Because it is there.” Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God’s blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. Thank you.\*". ---
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Actress Justine Bateman is best known for playing Mallory, the materialistic, airheaded daughter on the 1980s sitcom _Family Ties_. She is the older sister of actor Jason Bateman. ---
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Justine Bateman is a licensed pilot of single-engine planes and a certified scuba diver. ---
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In 1957, author Laurence Durrell published _Justine_, the first novel of what was to become his most famous work,\* The Alexandria Quartet\*. In 2012, when the Nobel Records were opened after 50 years, it was revealed that Durrell had been on a shortlist of authors considered for the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, along with American John Steinbeck (winner), British poet Robert Graves, French writer Jean Anouilh, and the Danish Karen Blixen. The Academy decided that “Durrell was not to be given preference this year”—probably because “they did not think that _The Alexandria Quartet_ was enough, so they decided to keep him under observation for the future.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2087) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2089)