# 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:** 2103
**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 25, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42049 "2019-01-25T21:41:14Z")
The small starship that a mercenary band (including a young woman named Call (Winona Ryder)) operates in \* Alien: Resurrection\* was named the _Betty_. ---
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In the _Archie_ comic franchise, the main character is Archie Andrews. His girlfriend is Betty Cooper, although Archie also has a crush on Veronica Lodge. Archie’s friend Reggie Mantle also has a thing for Veronica. Archie’s best friend is Jughead Jones. Those five characters are all members of a garage band called The Archies. ---
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_Riverdale_ on the CW Network is a modern, dark/goth teen drama which uses the characters from the _Archie_ comics series. ---
**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 26, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42052 "2019-01-26T03:30:36Z")
Riverdale House is a Victorian mansion located at 89 Graham Road in Sheffield, England. The house was built around 1860 and has had several owners, but is now used as offices and is divided up between a number of small businesses. ---
**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 26, 2019, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42053 "2019-01-26T05:07:02Z")
In _David Copperfield_, Mr Murdstone, who is courting young David’s mother, warns his friends not to comment on his plans in David’s presence, referring to him as “Brooks of Sheffield.” ---
**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 26, 2019, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42054 "2019-01-26T05:10:35Z")
Per Wiki, there has never been a Duke of Sheffield. There have been several Barons of Sheffield, a title which has been created four times: once in the Peerage of England, twice in the Peerage of Ireland, and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Richard Oliver Stanley is, among other things, the ninth and current Baron Sheffield. He was born in 1956. ---
**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 26, 2019, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42055 "2019-01-26T05:24:40Z")
Actor and director Christopher Guest, who is best-known in the U.S. for films such as _This Is Spinal Tap_, _The Princess Bride_, _Best In Show_, and _Waiting For Guffman_, also holds the title of Baron Haden-Guest (a peerage of the United Kingdom). Guest succeeded to the title in 1996, upon the death of his father. Guest is married to actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who thus holds the title of Baroness Haden-Guest. Guest and Curtis have two children, whom they adopted; since the letters patent which created the title of Baron Haden-Guest preclude the title from passing to non-blood relatives, the current heir presumptive to the barony is Christopher’s younger brother, actor Nicholas Guest. ---
**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 26, 2019, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42056 "2019-01-26T06:04:25Z")
_Nicholas Nickleby_ was Dickens’ third novel. Like _David Copperfield_, the protagonist is a young man whose father has died, leaving the family in poor financial circumstances. Nicholas’s rich uncle sends him to work at a terrible boarding school, Dotheboys Hall, run by an abusive headmaster, Wackford Squeers. Nicholas eventually snaps at Squeers’ mistreatment of the boys and beats him senseless, saving another boy from a beating. ---
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Charles Dickens, in his 1842 travel memoir _American Notes,_ described Washington as the home of “Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; and cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers”. ---
**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 26, 2019, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42058 "2019-01-26T07:05:14Z")
“But aside from that, how was the play, Mr Dickens?” 😉 Dickens wasn’t any more impressed by his visit to Toronto. After dining with the _extremely_ conservative Chief Justice, John Beverley Robinson, pillar of the Family Compact, he wrote home to a friend: “the wild and rabid Toryism of Toronto is, I speak seriously, appalling.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42059 "2019-01-26T12:14:57Z")
The mayor of Toronto is John Tory, who of course would not dare be a member of any other party. He succeeded the colorful, and late, Rob Ford, who introduced “drunken stupor” into the Canadian political lexicon. ---
**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 26, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42060 "2019-01-26T14:35:12Z")
Rob Reiner was on the set of The Dick Van Dyke show as a young teenager, and as Mary Tyler Moore went by, he patted her on the butt. Moore told Carl Reiner about it, and the father had a heart-to-heart talk with his son about the proper way to treat women, which included “do not touch them without their permission.” As far as I know, Rob Renier has never again done so. ---
**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 26, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42061 "2019-01-26T16:21:10Z")
Mary Tyler Moore, who died two years ago yesterday at the age of 80, was nominated for Best Actress for her role in the 1980 film _Ordinary People_. The movie was directed by Robert Redford and featured Moore, Donald Sutherland, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton. The film was four Oscars, including Best Picture. ---
**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 26, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42062 "2019-01-26T18:18:28Z")
On October 14, 1980, at the age of 24, Mary Tyler Moore’s only child, her son Richard Meeker, Jr., died of an accidental gunshot to the head while handling a small .410 shotgun. The model was later taken off the market because of its “hair trigger” ---
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Canadian progressive rock band Rush’s 1976 album, _2112_, features a 20-minute-long title track (the entirety of the A side of the original vinyl). The song _2112_ depicts a dystopian future, ruled by a totalitarian government and the Temple of Syrinx, in which creativity is outlawed. At the end of the song’s initial overture, vocalist Geddy Lee sings, “And the meek shall inherit the earth,” a reference to one of the Beatitudes, blessings which Jesus describes in his Sermon on the Mount. ---
**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 26, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42064 "2019-01-26T18:54:17Z")
[Trey Pearson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trey_Pearson), the founder of the Christian rock band Everyday Sunday, was married with 2 children, who got divorced and came out as gay. Googling him leads to some very bizarre, and funny, Christian anti-sodomite commentaries. ---
**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 26, 2019, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42065 "2019-01-26T19:38:11Z")
“Hill 781” is the high point, at 781 feet above sea level, on a small island in South Australia that became separated from the continent about 10,500 years ago by the rising sea level during a warming phase of the earth. The island is now some 40 miles off of the continent’s coast. This separation caused its species of rock-wallabies to evolve separately from rock-wallabies on the mainland. In 1922 this species was identified as a new species, but was subsequently re-described as a sub-species of the black-footed rock-wallaby. The island is named Pearson Island, and the sub-species is named Pearson Island rock-wallaby. [File:Black-footed Rock-wallaby(small).jpg - Wikimedia Commons](https://goo.gl/p9oWxq) — gImage, black-footed rock-wallaby [Google Maps](https://goo.gl/pY2yPU) — gMap, Pearson Island ---
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Lester “Mike” Pearson is usually considered one of Canada’s best prime ministers. He was a Father of Medicare, introduced the Canada Pension Plan to improve retirements for all Canadians, brought in Canada’s flag, and set in motion official bilingualism, in response to what he perceived as a growing separatist Quebec threat, emerging from real grievances with the treatment of francophones in Canada. He also was instrumental in recruiting three young politically minded Québécois to Ottawa as federalists, nicknamed the “Three Wise Men” by the English press, and « les trois colombes » (“the three doves”) in the French press: Pierre Trudeau, Gérard Pelletier and Jean Marchand. ---
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Lester “Mike” Pearson is usually considered one of Canada’s best prime ministers. He was a Father of Medicare, introduced the Canada Pension Plan to improve retirements for all Canadians, brought in Canada’s flag, and set in motion official bilingualism, in response to what he perceived as a growing separatist Quebec threat, emerging from real grievances with the treatment of francophones in Canada. He also was instrumental in recruiting three young politically minded Québécois to Ottawa as federalists, nicknamed the “Three Wise Men” by the English press, and « les trois colombes » (“the three doves”) in the French press: Pierre Trudeau, Gérard Pelletier and Jean Marchand. ---
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Preston Pearson was an NFL football player for the Dallas Cowboys from 1975-1980 as a running back. Drew Pearson was an NFL football player for the Dallas Cowboys from 1973-1983 as a wide receiver. On 12/12/1975 the “Hail Mary” pass became a widespread nickname, when the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Minnesota Vikings in an NFC playoff game on a late, deep touchdown pass. Both Pearsons played in that game, and both Pearsons caught passes. But it was Drew Pearson who caught Cowboys QB Roger Staubach’s hail mary pass to win the game to advance in the playoffs. YouTube — [Staubach's 'Hail Mary' Cowboys vs. Vikings 1975 Divisional Round Game highlights - YouTube](https://goo.gl/gnyL5k) The term “Hail Mary pass” has become generalized to refer to any last-ditch effort with little chance of success. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2102) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2104)