# 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:** 2114
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42269 "2019-02-14T16:43:06Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > . . .One of the most expensive pianos in the world is worth about $2.37M and isn’t much to look at — it is a homely, upright brown Steinway with cigarette burns once owned by John Lennon. British superstar singer George Michael paid that price and now owns it. sidenote: George Michael doesn’t own anything, seeing as he died Dec 25, 2016. The piano was last seen at [The Beatles Story Museum](https://www.beatlesstory.com/) in Liverpool. Carry on mc ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42270 "2019-02-14T17:02:01Z")
“Sesame Street” writer/producer Christopher Cerf also authored a number of children’s books, including [_The World’s Largest Cheese_](https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Largest-Cheese-Christopher-Cerf/dp/B0006BVCVO), which included a series of illustrated homonyms of “See the merino standing there / With his long, **shaggy** hair”. His father was publisher/editor and TV personality Bennett Cerf. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42271 "2019-02-14T17:50:50Z")
RB Bennett is the only Canadian Prime Minister who was subsequently ennobled by a British peerage. So too was one of his early political associates from Bennett’s home province of New Brunswick: Max Aitken, who entered the peerage as Lord Beaverbrook. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42272 "2019-02-14T18:11:43Z")
The Brunswick Corporation was, for over a century, one of the U.S.'s leading manufacturers of bowling equipment and operators of bowling alleys. Brunswick left the bowling business in 2014 and 2015, selling off its bowling centers to competitor Bowlmor AMF, and its bowling equipment lines to BlueArc Capital Management. Brunswick continues to manufacture billiards equipment (one of its other original product lines), as well as fitness equipment, boats, and marine engines. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42273 "2019-02-14T20:00:47Z")
White House Adviser Kellyanne Conway invoked the horrible tragedy of the Bowling Green Massacre in justifying President Individual-1’s Muslim travel ban, in interviews with Cosmopolitan and TMZ on January 29, 2017, and in an interview on the MSNBC news program Hardball with Chris Matthews on February 2, 2017. Unfortunately, there was no such incident. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42274 "2019-02-14T20:23:30Z")
Alice the theater ghost is said to haunt both the Joe E. Brown and Eva Marie Saint theaters in University Hall at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Who Alice was remains a mystery. Superstition holds that Alice must be officially invited to all performances by the stage manager alone on the stage after the final dress rehearsal. Usually, a seat is left for her at each performance. If Alice is not invited to the performance, the shows can experience both minor problems and larger disasters. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42275 "2019-02-14T20:59:59Z")
The song “Living Next Door To Alice”, in which the singer sees the girl next door moving away and only realizes too late that he’s missed his chance, was originally released by the Australian group New World in 1972, and remade by the British group Smokie in 1976. The Dutch group Gompie recorded another cover in 1995 with comedian Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown, who added to the chorus with the lyric “Who the fuck is Alice?” ---
**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:** [February 14, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42276 "2019-02-14T21:16:50Z")
The television sitcom “Alice,” which starred Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Polly Holliday, Philip McKeon, and Beth Howland, ran on CBS from 1976 to 1985. The series was loosely based on the 1974 film, “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” and Tayback played diner owner / cook Mel in both the film and the 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:** [February 15, 2019, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42277 "2019-02-15T02:13:25Z")
Mel is the Latin word for Honey. In Spanish and French today, it is spelled miel, and the Portuguese still use mel. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2019, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42278 "2019-02-15T02:31:57Z")
The French have names for four different meals: “petit déjeuner” - breakfast “déjeuner” - lunch “dîner” - dinner “souper” - late night meal ---
**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:** [February 15, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42279 "2019-02-15T04:18:48Z")
In France, \*pain perdu \*(French toast, literally “lost bread”, made with day-old crusty bread or brioche) is often eaten as a dessert, or sometimes as an afternoon tea snack (“goûter”). It is not as commonly eaten at breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42280 "2019-02-15T13:51:54Z")
Marcel Proust’s _À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past)_ was initially published in seven volumes, beginning with _Du côté de chez Swann (Swann’s Way)_. The first part, _“Combray I”_, ends with the famous madeleine cake episode, introducing the theme of involuntary memory. ---
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In Martin Gardner’s book Annotated Alice, one of his annotations about Alice in Wonderland refers to (direct quote): Jack Kerouac’s forgettable book _On The Road_. So forgettable it’s still read 60 years later! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42282 "2019-02-15T14:46:05Z")
A new acronym meaning “working poor” is ALICE, for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed (brought to you by, apparently, the same people who invented NINJA loans - No Income, No Job or Assets). The same acronym at CERN refers to one of the seven detector experiments using the Large Hadron Collider there: A Large Ion Collider Experiment. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2019, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42283 "2019-02-15T16:18:00Z")
On the Straight Dope Message Board, the term “ninjaed” or “ninja’d” is often used to refer to the phenomenon in which multiple, similar replies (from different posters) are made in quick succession – the reply which is posted first has snuck in (like a ninja) while subsequent posters were composing their replies. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42284 "2019-02-15T16:57:36Z")
Sir Laurence Olivier played Admiral Hood, head of the Board of Admiralty panel considering the loss through mutiny of His Majesty’s Armed Vessel _Bounty_, in the 1984 film _The Bounty_, starring Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson. It was one of Olivier’s last roles; he died five years later. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42285 "2019-02-15T18:21:11Z")
A panel truck in U.S. and Canadian usage is a small delivery truck with a fully enclosed body.[1] It typically has no rear windows in the rear cargo area. Panel trucks are often used by construction and maintenance contractors and were sometimes configured for ambulance and hearse roles. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42286 "2019-02-15T19:32:03Z")
Authors Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, e.e. cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Somerset Maugham all drove ambulances in World War I, as did composers Maurice Ravel and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Walt Disney reported for the job after the Armistice. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42287 "2019-02-15T20:24:59Z")
Record albums have constant angular velocity but the groove moves with variable linear velocity. Because of the relationship of this linear velocity and fidelity and the style of Ravel’s Bolero moving from soft to loud, there is a performance of Bolero on an album where the needle moves from the inside to the outside. Out of play: [Techmoan’s explaination](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Afikv6k1-c&ytbChannel=null) ---
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“Groove Is in the Heart” is a 1990 hit by American dance band Deee-Lite. Although it was released on an album in 1990, the song was actually written in the late 80s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2113) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2115)