# 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:** 2101
**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 23, 2019, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42009 "2019-01-23T02:03:22Z")
When he was just 18 years old, Arthur MacArthur Jr. displayed such valor at the Civil War Battle of Missionary Ridge in 1863 that he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Although nominated twice before, his son, Douglas MacArthur, did not receive the same accolade until 1942 for his service in defense of the Philippines during World War II, this becoming the first Father-Son combination to win the Medal of Honor (Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously in 2001, equaling his son’s award during WWII). ---
**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 23, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42010 "2019-01-23T14:25:24Z")
“MacArthur Park” was written and composed by Jimmy Webb. Richard Harris was the first to record it in 1968; his version peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number four on the UK Singles Chart. “MacArthur Park” was subsequently covered by numerous artists, including a hit version in 1969 by country music singer Waylon Jennings. Among the best-known covers is Donna Summer’s disco arrangement from 1978 which topped the Billboard Hot 100. However, it is still judged to be one of the worst songs of all time. ---
**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 23, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42011 "2019-01-23T15:27:38Z")
The Imperial battlecruiser _MacArthur_, commanded by Roderick, Lord Blaine, is the setting of much of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s 1974 alien first-contact novel _The Mote In God’s Eye_. ---
**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 23, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42012 "2019-01-23T15:37:01Z")
The second line of Mrs Cecil Alexander’s 1904 hymn “All Things Bright and Beautiful” was used as the title to James Herriot’s book All Creatures Great and Small. Subsequently it became the title of the film and television series. Later Herriot used the rest of the lines of the refrain for the books that followed: All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful, and The Lord God Made Them All. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42013 "2019-01-23T15:49:17Z")
[The Monty Python version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPriOQkKd6k), written by Eric Idle and John DuPrez, starts “All things dull and ugly, All creatures short and squat, All things rude and nasty, The Lord God made the lot.” ---
**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 23, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42014 "2019-01-23T16:32:50Z")
Eric Idle was the author of the 2005 Broadway musical _Spamalot_, which was adapted from the 1975 film _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_. At the beginning of the show, a recording by Idle encourages members of the audience to “let your cellphones and pagers ring willy-nilly,” and comments that they should “be aware there are heavily armed knights on stage that may drag you on stage and impale you.” ---
**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 23, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42015 "2019-01-23T17:58:16Z")
Spamilton: An American Parody is a musical parody of the Broadway show Hamilton. Written by Gerard Alessandrini, creator of the parody revue Forbidden Broadway, Spamilton also parodies several other musicals, included Gypsy, Chicago, The King and I, Assassins, Camelot, The Book of Mormon and Sweeney Todd, and personalities, like Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Barbra Streisand, Bernadette Peters, Carol Channing and Liza Minnelli. ---
**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 23, 2019, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42016 "2019-01-23T23:05:20Z")
Carol Channing died on January 15, 2019, at age 97. ---
**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 23, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42017 "2019-01-23T23:20:05Z")
Milvina Dean was one of 706 people — mostly women and children — who survived the sinking of the _Titanic_. Her father was among the 1,517 who died. She died in 2009, age 97, the last of the survivors. ---
**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:** [January 23, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42018 "2019-01-23T23:39:05Z")
Graphic artist Roger Dean has had a long career of creating posters, album cover art, and logos for rock bands, most notably for the progressive rock bands Yes and Asia. Dean’s signature style features fantastic, otherworldly landscapes, and often include arches and floating islands. Dean originally went to school to study architecture and industrial design, then moved into furniture design, before beginning to work with music acts. ---
**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 24, 2019, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42019 "2019-01-24T02:42:57Z")
The Dean drive was a device created and promoted by inventor Norman Lorimer Dean that he claimed to be a reactionless drive. Dean claimed that his device was able to generate a uni-directional force in free space, in violation of Newton’s third law of motion from classical physics. His claims generated notoriety because, if true, such a device would have had enormous applications, completely changing human transport, engineering, space travel and more. However, no working space ship has ever been built. ---
**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 24, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42020 "2019-01-24T03:46:05Z")
Dr. Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2004, is not mentioned by name in Max Brooks’s _World War Z_ but is strongly implied to have served as Vice President to President Colin Powell in the book’s alternative timeline. ---
**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 24, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42021 "2019-01-24T04:32:46Z")
Vermont and New Hampshire are the only two states that elect governors to 2-year terms; all other states elect governors to 4-year terms. However, the two states are among the 14 states that have no gubernatorial term limits. ---
**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 24, 2019, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42022 "2019-01-24T05:20:24Z")
No premiers in Canada have term limits. (Nor terms.) ---
**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 24, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42023 "2019-01-24T15:06:46Z")
Canada is the world’s second-largest country by total area, after Russia. ---
**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 24, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42024 "2019-01-24T15:27:50Z")
The world’s most polluted city, Norilsk in Russia not only has a harsh climate with an average temperature of 15.5 F, but is so heavily polluted by heavy metals that it is economically feasible to mine the surface soil. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42025 "2019-01-24T15:32:27Z")
The music genre called Heavy Metal takes its name from a lyric in Steppenwolf’s “Born To Be Wild”. _I like smoke and lightning Heavy metal thunder Racin’ with the wind And the feelin’ that I’m under_ ---
**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 24, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42026 "2019-01-24T15:37:29Z")
Notable heavy metals are lead, bismuth, iron, copper and tin, and precious metals such as silver, gold and platinum. ---
**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 24, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42027 "2019-01-24T15:50:08Z")
In addition to the Burl Ives Christmas classic, songs with the title “Silver & Gold” have been released by Dolly Parton’s (written by Carl, Greg and Stan Perkins), and Neil Young (who wrote the song). . ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42028 "2019-01-24T15:53:50Z")
Neil Young married actress Daryl Hannah just last year. Hannah had never before been married, but did have a long term relationship with another musician, Jackson Browne. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2100) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2102)