# 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:** 2151
**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:** [May 3, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43009 "2019-05-03T15:12:18Z")
There are 128 species of maple trees, most of which are native to Asia. Other species are found in Europe, Northern Africa, and North America. Only one species, however, is native to the Southern Hemisphere; it is mainly found in Southeast Asia. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2019, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43010 "2019-05-03T17:49:33Z")
Some varieties of maple tree are becoming a problem in the Northeast and Midwest, where they are displacing native shrubs and understory trees. The Amur maple is not recommended for planting and is being considered for inclusion on the list of invasive species in the Midwest. The Norway maple has been planted extensively as an ornamental tree and is now found invading natural areas where it often outcompetes native sugar and red maples and other deciduous trees, and is on the list of invasives in New York and Connecticut. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43011 "2019-05-03T17:51:49Z")
Southeast Asia has many plants with great medicinal or nutritional value, for example the Gac Vine (_Momordica cochinchinensis_) which has far more carotenes than carrots have. Although it grows like a vine, Gac has a thick woody root like a tree. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43012 "2019-05-03T18:00:06Z")
The word “Carrot” is believe to originate with the Indo-European word “ker,” meaning “horn.” ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43013 "2019-05-03T18:35:44Z")
Among the English words ultimately derived from PIE /ker/ ‘horn’ are _Corn_ (via Old French), _Cranium_ (via Greek), _Horn_ (via Germanic), _Cerebrum_ (via French). Note the consonant K shifting to H (Germanic) or S (French) due to regular sound changes. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43014 "2019-05-03T18:56:37Z")
The French frigate \*Acheron \*in the Russell Crowe movie _Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World_, a film based on the Napoleonic naval adventure books by Patrick O’Brien, was a digital copy of the USS _Constitution_. The latter is a 1797 sail frigate still commissioned in the United States Navy and near-permanently docked in Charlestown, Mass. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43015 "2019-05-03T19:04:54Z")
The U.S. has had only a single Constitution since 1789, although there have been Amendments. Thailand, OTOH, has had at least 18 different Constitutions since 1932. (Does this mean Thailand’s government is more constitutional than that of the U.S.?) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43016 "2019-05-03T19:11:03Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt at his memorial in Washington, DC depicts his wheelchair resting on all four wheels. By statuary custom, if he had died in combat, the front wheels would have been raised. You know this is bullshit, right? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43017 "2019-05-03T19:27:44Z")
The English word _shit_ derives from Old English _scitan_, from Proto-Germanic \*_skit-_ and is traced back to the PIE root \*_skei-_ ‘to cut, split.’ Many other English words derive from the same PIE root including conscience, conscious, escutcheon, rescind, science, schism, schizophrenia, sheath, sheave, shingle, shyster. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43018 "2019-05-03T23:09:05Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > You know this is bullshit, right? It was a joke based on statues of military leaders and how they died. Sorry for the confusion. George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television”, originally released on his album _Class Clown_ and expanded upon in _Occupation: Foole_, were: shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. A 1973 broadcast of the routine on WBAI in New York led to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in _Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation_, 438 U.S. 726 (1978), which defined the power of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over indecent material as applied to broadcasting ---
**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:** [May 4, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43019 "2019-05-04T03:27:19Z")
Sean Connery in the 1981 British sf thriller _Outland_, loosely based on _High Noon_, plays a Federal Security Agency marshal assigned to the rough-and-tumble mining colony on Jupiter’s moon Io. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2019, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43020 "2019-05-04T04:41:46Z")
Sean Connery first met Michael Caine in 1954 at a party during the production of _South Pacific_, and the two later became close friends. Films where they starred together include _The Man Who Would Be King_ (1975), and _A Bridge Too Far_ (1977). ---
**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:** [May 4, 2019, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43021 "2019-05-04T05:31:28Z")
The screenplay for the 1957 film _The Bridge on the River Kwai_ was written by Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson (Foreman had written an initial draft of the script, with which director David Lean was dissatisfied, so Wilson was brought in to finish it). However, both Foreman and Wilson were on the Hollywood blacklist, and unable to work in Hollywood (both men had moved to England in order to work). Because of their presence on the blacklist, the credit for the script was originally given to Pierre Boulle, who had written the novel from which the script was adapted (despite the fact that Boulle, a Frenchman, did not speak English). Boulle wound up winning the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film; years later, after the blacklist was lifted, the truth behind the authorship of the script was revealed, and, in 1984, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences retroactively (and, in both cases, posthumously) awarded the Oscar to Foreman and Wilson. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43022 "2019-05-04T11:45:40Z")
Pierre Boulle’s two most famous novels were both adapted into famous Hollywood productions, with the usual plot modifications: The semi-autobiographical _The Bridge over the River Kwai_ (1952) and the non-biographical _Planet of the Apes_ (1963). ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43023 "2019-05-04T11:55:18Z")
There is a “Bridge over the River Kwai” tourist attraction in the middle of Kanchanaburi City, but it is not the bridge depicted in the same-named film. In fact, the river it crosses was called part of the Mae Klong River but was renamed to Khwae Yai River in the 1960’s to accord with the movie about a bridge on the “Death Railway.” Over 100,000 forced laborers died during the construction of the Siam–Burma Railway. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43024 "2019-05-04T12:32:12Z")
The Thousand Islands Bridge is a series of bridges spanning the USA-Canadian border over the St. Lawrence River in the Thousand Islands region of western New York state and Ontario Province. While it is a complex bridge infrastructure system, the actual international border crossing is a set of two parallel 90-foot-long bridges between Wellesley Island in the United States and Hill Island in Canada. (gImage — [https://tinyurl.com/y3n4nb2f](https://tinyurl.com/y3n4nb2f)) (gMaps — [Google Maps](https://tinyurl.com/y4ahxmo4) — and [Google Maps](https://tinyurl.com/y3y5zjbo)) ---
**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:** [May 4, 2019, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43025 "2019-05-04T14:33:37Z")
Boasting a length of 5, 525 miles, the Canada-United States border is the longest international border in the world. There are more than 100 land border crossings between Canada and the USA. The US state with the most border crossings is Maine, with 24. By contrast, New Hampshire has just one such crossing. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2019, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43026 "2019-05-04T14:40:06Z")
In July of 2017,Hollis, Maine police arrested a drunk, one-armed clown who was brandishing a machete.[Cite](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40735815) (And I still cannot tell anybody this story without laughing) ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43027 "2019-05-04T15:43:42Z")
In March of 2018 Brendon Whitney passed away. Whitney, whose stage alias was Alias, was a rapper and music producer from Hollis, Maine. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43028 "2019-05-04T18:43:06Z")
John Hollis Bankhead, Senator from Alabama, was the father of Senator John Hollis Bankhead II, Speaker of the House William Brockman Bankhead; and grandfather of the actress Tallulah Bankhead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2150) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2152)