# 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:** 2131
**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:** [March 19, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42609 "2019-03-19T17:21:25Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > …So remember Christian ladies: Paul wrote and signed his name to the idea that it is disgraceful for women to speak in church. In other words STFU. A conservative Christian friend of mine, who insists that \*all \*of the Bible is important and should guide us in our daily lives, changed the subject when I asked if he and his wife both agreed with St. Paul. In play: The rector or chief priest of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the largest parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, is a woman, the Rev. Jeanne Leinbach. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42610 "2019-03-19T17:25:53Z")
That’s just disgraceful 😃 In play: When conservative, church going Christian “lady” Anita Bryant opened her disgraceful mouth and lost her entertainment gigs and later her marriage, as well as being sued by the government for unpaid taxes and her employees for unpaid wages, she blamed the homosexual agenda for all her troubles. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42611 "2019-03-19T18:22:01Z")
Per Wiki, Anita Bryant scored four Top 40 hits in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including “Paper Roses” which reached No. 5 on the charts. She was also a former Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and was a brand ambassador from 1969 to 1979 for the Florida Citrus Commission, which marketed orange juice. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42612 "2019-03-19T18:37:21Z")
Limone is the Italian word for ‘lemon’, and the town with this name on the shore of Lake Garda was once renowned for growing lemons and other citrus fruits. Limone’s name, however, is coincidental, since it is said to be much older than the lemon groves, and to derive from a Latin word meaning ‘boundary’. ---
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_An Garda Síochána_ (Irish for “the Guardian of the Peace”), colloquially known as the Gardai or the Guards, are the police force of the Republic of Ireland. The force was formed in 1923, soon after the formation of the Irish Free State. Most members of the Gardai do not routinely carry firearms. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42614 "2019-03-19T20:47:06Z")
_ **The Guardian** _ is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as The Manchester Guardian, and took its current name in 1959. The Guardian is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The Scott Trust was created in 1936 “to secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of the Guardian free from commercial or political interference”. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than to benefit an owner or shareholders. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42615 "2019-03-19T21:12:32Z")
For a time in the Seventies, _The Guardian_ become so notorious for its poor editing and proofreading that it was nicknamed _The Guarniad_. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42616 "2019-03-19T21:39:08Z")
_That '70s Show_ is an American television sitcom that aired on Fox for 8 seasons from 1998 to 2006. The series focused on the lives of a group of six teenage friends living in the fictional city of Point Place, Wisconsin. The first episode took place on May 17, 1976; the last on December 31, 1979. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42617 "2019-03-20T01:00:00Z")
Even though _That '70s Show_ lasted for eight years in real life, the timeline only went from 1976 to 1979. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42618 "2019-03-23T13:59:18Z")
“Old Bones” was the nickname of Exterminator, the winner of the 1918 Kentucky Derby. He was put in as a last-minute replacement for his stablemate, Sun Briar, who had been the favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42619 "2019-03-23T13:57:46Z")
“Old Bones” was the nickname of Exterminator, the winner of the 1918 Kentucky Derby. He was put in as a last-minute replacement for his stablemate, Sun Briar, who had been the favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42620 "2019-03-23T14:01:37Z")
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**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:** [March 23, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42621 "2019-03-23T15:47:49Z")
The winner of the 1919 Kentucky Derby was a horse named Sir Barton. Sir Barton went on to win both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes, thus becoming the first horse to win the American Triple Crown of horse racing. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42622 "2019-03-23T19:41:08Z")
In his 1956 series of six interrelated short stories, _Venture to the Moon_, Arthur C. Clarke wrote of the first lunar mission, which apparently took place in the mid-1970s. It landed in Mare Imbrium and included an American ship, the _Goddard_; a Russian ship, the _Ziolkovsky_; and a British ship, the _Endeavour_. The stories were written as if told by the captain of the _Endeavour_. In 1971, Apollo 15 actually did land in Mare Imbrium. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42623 "2019-03-24T01:03:43Z")
In _Rendezvous with Rama_ by Clarke, the space survey vessel sent to rendezvous with the incoming alien _Rama_ probe, is named _Endeavour_, after HMS _Endeavour_, the ship used by Captain Cook in his voyage of the South Pacific. The commander of the survey vessel, Commander Bill Norton, has a portrait of Captain Cook in his cabin, and frequently muses on how Cook would deal with the issues Norton is facing. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42624 "2019-03-24T04:16:50Z")
W. W. Norton & Company is an American publishing company based in New York City. It was founded in 1923 by William Warder Norton. The company is known for its Norton Anthologies, which are frequently assigned in university literature courses. The best known anthology in the series is the Norton Anthology of English Literature; its 10th edition appeared in 2018. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42625 "2019-03-24T04:37:54Z")
William Howard Taft was, in 1908, the next-to-last man from Ohio to be elected President of the United States; Warren G. Harding was the last, in 1920. For now. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42626 "2019-03-24T04:52:42Z")
The “G.” in Warren G. Harding stands for “Gamaliel.” In the Sayers novel _Murder Must Advertise_, Lord Peter is challenged to come up with a rhyme for “Gamaliel” and promptly suggests “impale you all” and “jail you all”. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42627 "2019-03-24T14:18:22Z")
While impalement is probably best known due to Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, better known in history as Vlad the Impaler, the use of impalement for punishing crimes goes back to at least the Code of Hammurabi, promulgated about 1772 BC by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, which specifies impaling for a woman who killed her husband for the sake of another man. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42628 "2019-03-24T15:40:42Z")
“Vlad” is a Romanian name, a shortened form of “Vladislav”, meaning “possessor of glory”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2130) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2132)