# 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:** 2133
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42649 "2019-03-25T18:00:25Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > All but one professional football team is named after a city or a state. > > Let’s hear it for the only professional football team named after a whole region of the country, New England Patriots! > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > (Technically, there’s another: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are named after the region of western Florida around the body of water named Tampa Bay; there is no city named Tampa Bay. ) Ahem. Jerry Richardson and the Carolina Panthers would like a word with you… ---
**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 25, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42650 "2019-03-25T18:21:41Z")
Taylor wrote his 1968 song “Carolina in my Mind” while in England recording for the Beatles’ label Apple Records, and the song’s lyrics reflect his homesickness at the time. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42651 "2019-03-26T10:16:20Z")
The 1922 Gus Kahn / Walter Donaldson song “(Nothing Could Be Finer Than to Be in) Carolina in the Morning” debuted on Broadway in the elaborate (and risqué) musical revue _The Passing Show of 1922_ at the Winter Garden Theater by William Frawley, who later sang it in Paramount Pictures’ original version of “The Lemon Drop Kid” in 1934, on an episode of “I Love Lucy”, and in the season 3 episode _Evening with a Star_ of “My Three Sons”, where it generated moderate attention. ---
**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 26, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42652 "2019-03-26T13:15:36Z")
The Winter Garden Theatre’s longest tenant was Cats, which opened on October 7, 1982 and ran 7,485 performances spanning nearly eighteen years. The auditorium was gutted to accommodate the show’s junkyard setting, and, after the show’s closing, architect Francesca Russo supervised its restoration, returning it to its 192’0s appearance. ---
**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 26, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42653 "2019-03-26T15:13:38Z")
“The Winter Soldier” was a phrase coined by John Kerry and other Vietnam War vets expressing their opposition to the war. It is a play on Thomas Paine’s reference to the “summer soldier[s]” who abandoned Gen. George Washington’s bedraggled, poorly-supplied Continental Army at Valley Forge during some of the darkest days of the American Revolution. It later was used to describe a Marvel Comics supervillain, the title for an unrelated play by Daniel Lewis James, and a later novel by Daniel Mason. > **[History of the Term Winter Soldier Ahead of Captain America | The Mary Sue](https://www.themarysue.com/winter-soldier-history/)** > > Marvel's Captain America Winter Soldier is in theaters April 4th, and we were curious where the name Winter Soldier came from, so we did some research. ---
**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 26, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42654 "2019-03-26T15:19:35Z")
In William Shakespeare poem Winter from Love’s Labour Lost, the phrae “While greasy Joan doth keel the pot” keel has many meanings, one of which is a brewer’s cooling vat. The German is kiihlen, Old English celan. Joan is pouring in cold water to cool off the pot to avoid a boil over. ---
**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 26, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42655 "2019-03-26T15:31:58Z")
Joan of Arc was 19 years old when she was executed by the English in 1431. The means of execution was being burned at the stake. Her body was then burned a second and third time, to reduce it to ashes and completely destroy all possible relics. Her remains were thrown into the Seine River. ---
**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 26, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42656 "2019-03-26T17:31:02Z")
French playwright Jean Anouilh retells Joan of Arc’s story in his 1952 play L’Alouette (The Lark). However, the play ends on a joyful, triumphant note. The judge, Cauchon, realizes (as Joan is burning at the stake) that in the hurry to condemn her, they have not allowed her to re-live the coronation of Charles VII of France. The fire is extinguished, and Joan is given a reprieve. In the 1955 Broadway production of the play, Joan was played by Julie Harris (for which she won her first Tony award) and Cauchon was played by Boris Karloff. ---
**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 26, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42657 "2019-03-26T17:39:13Z")
Oops, missed the edit window; Julie Harris won her second Tony in 1955, not her 1st. ---
**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 26, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42658 "2019-03-26T17:43:05Z")
Unabashed plug: The new play Hillary and Clinton, starring two time Tony winner Laurie Metcalf as Hillary and two time Tony winner John Lithgow as Clinton, got a good review in [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/theater/hillary-and-clinton-broadway-lucas-hnath.html) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2019, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42659 "2019-03-26T22:51:30Z")
_Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte_ was Mark Twain’s last completed novel, published in 1896. ---
**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 27, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42660 "2019-03-27T01:18:12Z")
William Shakespeare’s younger sister was named Joan, which led Brian Bedford to speculate in his one man play, _The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet_, that the line “while greasy Joan doth keel the pot” was an example of Shakespeare putting a family joke into _Love’s Labours Lost_. ---
**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 27, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42661 "2019-03-27T03:58:30Z")
An early working title of Monty Python’s Flying Circus’s religious satire _The Life of Brian_ was _Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory_. Even with the tamer title, the movie was very controversial at the time of its opening. ---
**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 27, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42662 "2019-03-27T14:51:20Z")
There are several differing, and somewhat confusing, accounts of the origin of the _Monty Python_ name. The original members, however, agree that its only “significance” was that they thought it sounded funny. ---
**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 27, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42663 "2019-03-27T15:44:55Z")
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. The show, directed by Alessandrini, had its first preview on July 19, 2016 and opened on September 8, 2016 at New York’s Triad Theatre. Originally scheduled to run 18 performances, it was extended at the Triad until May 28, 2017. It moved on June 2, 2017 to the 47th Street Theatre, near the Richard Rodgers Theatre where Hamilton is presented. ---
**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 27, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42664 "2019-03-27T17:40:10Z")
Alexander Hamilton is (still, and likely for the foreseeable future) pictured on the US $10 bill. Hamilton, like Ben Franklin, was a Framer who never served as President but was nevertheless honored with a place on US currency due to his importance in the early history of the republic. ---
**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 27, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42665 "2019-03-27T19:01:00Z")
Hamilton, Ontario, the 10th largest city in Canada, was named for its founder, George Hamilton (1788–1836), a Canadian merchant and politician. Wikipedia’s disambiguation page lists over 20 individuals named George Hamilton; the best-known of them today is probably the actor who was born in 1939. ---
**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 27, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42666 "2019-03-27T20:43:56Z")
George, Washington is the only American place name which jokingly refers to a former President of the United States. > **[George, Washington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George,_Washington)** > > George is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 809 at the 2020 census. The "humorous homage" to President George Washington has landed George, Washington on lists of unusual place names. > The city is known for being near the Gorge Amphitheatre, sometimes called "The Gorge at George". The Gorge Amphitheatre was the location of the annual Sasquatch! Music Festival. > The city also celebrates national holidays such as the Fourth of July, and Washington's Birthday, wit... ---
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There are five mountains named Mount Washington in the United States. They are located in New Hampshire, Nevada, Oregon, and two in the state of Washington. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42668 "2019-03-28T02:26:32Z")
The Gorge Amphitheater is located in George, Washington near the Columbia River Gorge. I guess you could call it George’s Gorge. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2132) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2134)