# 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:** 2096
**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 12, 2019, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41909 "2019-01-12T14:41:59Z")
Robert Scorpio, one of General Hospital’s long running characters, has been portrayed by Tristan Rogers for his every, entire run: 1980–92, 1995, 2006, 2008, 2012–16, and 2018–present. ---
**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 12, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41910 "2019-01-12T15:00:51Z")
The Merkur Scorpio was a car manufactured between 1987 and 1989 and was discontinued in October 1989. They were manufactured in Germany and sold in North America as captive imports, which is a marketing term and a strategy for a vehicle that is foreign-built and then sold under the name of an importer or by a domestic automaker through its own dealer distribution system. The Merkur cars, the Scorpio and the smaller XR4Ti, were Ford cars. Ford’s Merkur cars were introduced to the USmarket, but were not as successful. The XR4Ti only lasted from 1985 to 1989. gImages, Merkur Scorpio — [https://goo.gl/2LQG8B](https://goo.gl/2LQG8B) (my brother used to own one, in this color) gImages, Merkur XR4Ti — [https://goo.gl/1t6hSt](https://goo.gl/1t6hSt) (back then, I thought this was a cool looking, sporty sedan; what was I thinking?) ---
**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 12, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41911 "2019-01-12T17:23:05Z")
Albert Brooks provided the voice of Hank Scorpio, a swell guy and a terrific boss who just happened to be a criminal mastermind extorting the United Nations, in an episode of _The Simpsons_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8Ew78KThLOY/maxresdefault.jpg "The Very Best Of Hank Scorpio | Four Finger Discount") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ew78KThLOY) ---
**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:** [January 12, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41912 "2019-01-12T19:16:27Z")
Brooks Robinson, who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983, played his entire 23-year career with the Baltimore Orioles. This length of tenure still stands as the record for the longest career spent with a single team in major league history. For his career, Robinson batted .267, with 268 home runs and 1,347 runs batted in. He won 16 consecutive Gold Glove Awards during his career. ---
**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 13, 2019, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41913 "2019-01-13T05:14:22Z")
Visitors to Jackie Robinson’s tomb in Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York often leave behind baseballs and bats. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2019, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41914 "2019-01-13T09:45:36Z")
The parkway running for around 5 miles between Brooklyn and Queens and alongside Cypress Hills Cemetery was officially named the Interboro Parkway until 1997, when it was renamed the Jackie Robinson Parkway. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41915 "2019-01-13T13:31:14Z")
The expression “faster than you can say [Jack Robinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Robinson_(mythical_person))” long predated the baseball player, with the earliest citation being from 1785. Multiple theories of its origin exist, the oldest being from Grose’s Classical Dictionary, published in 1785, which states that the reference is to an individual whose social visits were so short that he would be departing almost before his arrival was announced. The name was also held by the commander of the Tower of London, and a government whip. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41916 "2019-01-13T16:02:52Z")
A novel about a fictional person named Robinson Crusoe, written by Daniel Defoe, was first published in 1719. The actual title of the book is: _The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates_. > **[Robinson Crusoe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe)** > > Robinson Crusoe\[a\] (/ˈkruːsoʊ/) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. > Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer) – a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island n... ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41917 "2019-01-13T16:46:21Z")
In his best known novel, Swiss author Johann Wyss named his shipwrecked Swiss family the Robinsons (_Der schweizerische Robinson_) in honor of Crusoe’s novel. The stranded crew of the Jupiter 2 in the TV series “Lost In Space” were named The Space Family Robinson, in a later homage. Jules Verne declared that _The Swiss Family Robinson_ was one of his favorite books. He liked it so much that he decided to write a sequel entitled _The Castaways of the Flag_, published in 1900, many years after Wyss’s death. ---
**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 13, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41918 "2019-01-13T23:04:51Z")
The Vatican’s Swiss Guard provides police services in an internationalized Jerusalem to which both Israel and the Palestinian Authority have set aside their claims under the terms of a painstakingly-negotiated treaty in Tom Clancy’s novel _The Sum of All Fears_. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2019, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41919 "2019-01-14T03:09:22Z")
The Clancy Brothers are often credited with triggering a revival of Irish folk singing and establishing Aran sweaters as modish garb. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2019, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41920 "2019-01-14T05:40:59Z")
The patterns of knitting stitches used in Aran sweaters are a mix of cables, honeycombs, basket, moss, blackberry, trellis and tree-of-life stitches. According to some, each family had its own distinctive combination of “clan stitches” handed down through the generations, enabling identification of drowned fishermen even after long immersion in water. However, this belief has been challenged as a myth by historians and researchers. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41921 "2019-01-14T13:31:16Z")
The Gloucester Fishermen’s Memorial is a statue of a fisherman in wet-weather gear holding a ship’s wheel, overlooking the Massachusetts city’s harbor. Surrounding it are plaques with the names of local fishermen who have been lost at sea over the centuries, including those of the crew of the Andrea Gail from _The Perfect Storm_. The statue is depicted on packages of Gorton’s of Gloucester seafood. ---
**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 14, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41922 "2019-01-14T14:43:32Z")
In 1906, Slade Gorton & Company, John Pew & Sons, and two other Gloucester fisheries merged into the Gorton-Pew Fisheries. In 1957, Gorton-Pew Fisheries name was changed to Gorton’s of Gloucester; in 1965, it became The Gorton Corporation, and is now known as Gorton’s. It is now a subsidiary of Japanese seafood conglomerate Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41923 "2019-01-14T14:54:22Z")
Thomas Slade Gorton III (born January 8, 1928) is an American politician. A Republican, he was a U.S. Senator from Washington state from 1981 to 1987, and from 1989 to 2001. He held both of the state’s Senate seats in his career and was narrowly defeated for reelection twice as an incumbent: in 1986 by Brock Adams, and in 2000 by Maria Cantwell after a recount. Gorton describes himself as a descendant but not an heir of the seafood magnate. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41924 "2019-01-14T16:37:39Z")
According to the [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/12/us/washington-highway-sign-420.html), the state of Washington has had a problem for many years of people stealing the green mile marker signs that are posted along the highway. The mile signs most likely to be stolen are mile marker 420 (popular among pot smokers) and mile marker 69. The solution has been to move these two signs back a tenth of a mile and replace them with signs that read Mile 419.9 and Mile 68.9. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41925 "2019-01-15T02:18:03Z")
There are two “Mile Zero” markers on the Trans-Canada Highway: one in front of City Hall, St John’s, Newfoundland, and one on the shore of Victoria, British Columbia. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41926 "2019-01-15T02:57:21Z")
Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a self-governing French territory located in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is the only part of New France that remains under French control, with an area of 242 square kilometres (93sqmi) and a population of 6,080 at the January 2011 census. The only time the guillotine was used in North America was in Saint-Pierre in the late 19th century. Joseph Néel was convicted of killing Mr Coupard on Île aux Chiens on December 30, 1888, and was sentenced to be executed by guillotine, the official method of execution in France. The only problem was, Saint-Pierre did not own a guillotine. They finally located one 5000 miles away, on the Caribbean island of Martinique. When it arrived from Martinique, the guillotine was not in working order, and had to be repaired. Finally, on August 24, 1889, Neel was led to the guillotine, which had been set up in a public square, which was now filled by a crowd of eager onlookers. St. Pierre had to recruit a local petty criminal to serve as executioner. They hadn’t thought through the execution procedure to determine who would give the order to drop the blade, so after an uncomfortable pause, Neel himself shouted at the executioner to just do it. By the time it hit bottom, human flesh was left grotesquely clinging to the dull imported blade. The poor executioner was so ostracized that he left for France afterwards. The prosecutor vowed never to seek another death sentence. Never used again, this infamous device remains in St. Pierre to this day. It can be seen there behind the stairs at the Musée de l’Arche. ---
**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 15, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41927 "2019-01-15T04:05:05Z")
In February, 1889, President Grover Cleveland signed a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states. However his successor, Benjamin Harrison, signed the proclamations formally admitting North Dakota and South Dakota to the Union on November 2, 1889, while Montana was admitted on November 8th and Washington on November 11th. ---
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Grover Cleveland was a Democrat of New York, and the first of his party to be elected President of the United States after the Civil War. His first election in 1884 was supported by one newspaper which said it was endorsing him for three reasons. “1. He is honest. 2. He is honest. 3. He is honest.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2095) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2097)