# 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:** 2167
**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:** [May 29, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43329 "2019-05-29T01:14:39Z")
When the Saskatchewan Roughriders got a brand-new stadium a few years ago, Bryan Adams was booked to play the first concert. He asked his elderly mother if she wanted to come help open a new stadium for the Riders. Her immediate response: “Hell, yeah”! A new stadium for the Riders is a National Event. ---
**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 29, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43330 "2019-05-29T03:46:36Z")
U.S. Minister to France John Adams recognized the seamanship and patriotism of Scottish-born Capt. John Paul Jones, but also wrote that he was “the most ambitious and intriguing officer in the American Navy” during the Revolution. Jones’s biographer Evan Thomas believes that Adams did not mean “intriguing” as in, “someone who is found very interesting by others,” but rather, “one who schemes to gain unearned advantage.” ---
**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:** [May 29, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43331 "2019-05-29T04:37:03Z")
John, Adam, Paul, and Thomas are all biblical names. Evan is the Welsh form of John, and Jones is a Welsh patronymic form of John, and thus indirectly biblical names. Elendil is from a different religious tradition. 😉 ---
**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 29, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43332 "2019-05-29T04:46:50Z")
The Evans Scholars Foundation is a philanthropic foundation, which provides college tuition and housing for golf caddies. The organization was founded in 1930 by amateur golfer Chick Evans, who wanted to find a good use for money he’d earned in tournaments and royalties, while still maintaining his status as an amateur. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43333 "2019-05-29T14:19:05Z")
Francis Ouimet, a former caddy at The Country Club in Brookline, MA, became a championship golfer himself, winning the 1913 US Open at that very course over British golfers Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, both of Jersey. The publicity from the win helped cause an explosive growth in recreational golf in the US. Ouimet’s exploits, including becoming the first non-Briton elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, were depicted in the 2005 film _The Greatest Game Ever Played_, Bill Paxton’s last film as director. ---
**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 29, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43334 "2019-05-29T14:35:25Z")
Bill Murray’s famous “Cinderella story” scene in the movie Caddyshack was improvised based on two lines of stage direction. Director Harold Ramis gave him direction to act as a child announcing his own imaginary golf moment, with Murray then improvising. The flowers were his idea. Murray was with the production only six days, and all of his lines were unscripted. ---
**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 29, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43335 "2019-05-29T15:03:27Z")
One of the writers of _Caddyshack_ was Brian Doyle-Murray, who is the older brother of Bill Murray. Doyle-Murray also appeared in the film in a supporting role; he played the part of Lou Loomis, who is the manager of the Caddyshack. Loomis is the only character to say the title of the movie. ---
**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 29, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43336 "2019-05-29T15:09:27Z")
Brian Doyle-Murray also appears with his little brother Bill in _Groundhog Day_. He plays Buster, the head of the local Groundhog Day celebration committee whom Phil later saves from choking in a restaurant. [![](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/terminal01/2011/2/1/14/enhanced-buzz-529-1296587619-18.jpg) ](https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/enhanced/terminal01/2011/2/1/14/enhanced-buzz-529-1296587619-18.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43337 "2019-05-29T15:52:41Z")
The Comedy Central series [“The Sweet Spot”](http://tech.mit.edu/V122/N15/Sweet_Spot.15a.html) featured brothers Bill Murray, Brian Doyle-Murray, Joel Murray, and John Murray touring the western hemisphere, competing against each other in golf for the Braggart’s Cup. > [@](#): > > Ponce de Leon shows up in St. Augustine and a drunken announcer runs through the course in his skivvies on Lake Geneva. > > Also, for a show that claims to be about golf, there is surprisingly little golf in The Sweet Spot. Instead, skits seem to take up much of each episode. In the Wisconsin episode, Ryan Stiles plays Liberace. In another, Tim Meadows plays a personal injury lawyer specializing in golf, vowing, “I will make them pay.” > > The Sweet Spot has even taken some lowbrow cues from Comedy Central’s The Man Show. John makes Joel funnel beer to give him “Wisconfidence.” And, inevitably, in each episode, random women somehow make their way onto the course to dance around in bikinis. ---
**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 29, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43338 "2019-05-29T16:19:41Z")
Dick and Jane are the main characters in popular readers written by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp. Supporting characters in the books include Baby (or Sally), Mother, Father, Spot (originally a cat, but a dog in later editions), Puff the cat, and Tim the teddy bear. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43339 "2019-05-29T16:23:56Z")
The characters mentioned in Pinkfong’s song “Baby Shark” are Baby Shark, Mommy Shark, Daddy Shark, Grandma Shark, and Grandpa Shark. The song does not say which of them encountered Kay Kyser’s “Three Little Fishies” after they crossed the dam into the sea. ---
**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 29, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43340 "2019-05-29T16:36:41Z")
Later in life, Peter Benchley, writer of Jaws and The Depp, came to regret writing such sensationalist literature about sharks, which he felt encouraged excessive fear and unnecessary culls of such an important predator in ocean ecosystems and became an outspoken advocate for marine conservation. ---
**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 29, 2019, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43341 "2019-05-29T22:52:49Z")
During the filming of _Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl_, actor Johnny Depp wore tinted contact lenses, both for vision correction, and to keep from squinting in the bright tropical sunshine. ((Sorry, Annie-Xmas, I couldn’t resist using the typo from your post. 🙂 )) ---
**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 30, 2019, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43342 "2019-05-30T04:54:16Z")
Johnny Depp has said that he based his portrayal of Capt. Jack Sparrow as a cross between Keith Richards and Pepe LePew. Richards later appeared in a _Pirates of the Caribbean_ sequel as Sparrow’s father. ---
**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 30, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43343 "2019-05-30T12:47:00Z")
The House Sparrow, also known as the English Sparrow, is one of the most abundant songbirds in the United States, with an estimated 150 million birds established in all the 48 contiguous states. The bird is not native to North America; they were introduced in various parts of the continent beginning about 1850. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2019, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43344 "2019-05-30T13:09:23Z")
The seating plan of the British House of Commons, with the Government and Opposition members sitting on benches facing each other, is derived from the original meeting place of the Commons, the Chapel of St Stephen. The members sat in the choir stalls, and naturally sorted themselves to sit with those of like views. ---
**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 30, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43345 "2019-05-30T13:19:43Z")
British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse tried unsuccessfully to get Chuck Berry’s 1972 song “My Ding-A-Ling” banned from the BBC. “One teacher,” Whitehouse wrote to the BBC’s Director General, “told us of how she found a class of small boys with their trousers undone, singing the song and giving it the indecent interpretation which—in spite of all the hullabaloo—is so obvious… We trust you will agree with us that it is no part of the function of the BBC to be the vehicle of songs which stimulate this kind of behaviour—indeed quite the reverse.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43346 "2019-05-30T13:53:36Z")
When [John Cleese](https://news.wttw.com/2015/12/30/john-cleese-i-can-take-almost-nothing-seriously) was an eight year old entering St. Peter’s Preparatory School, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, the other boys immediately demanded to know “Are you a Roundhead or a Cavalier?”. I trust you can all figure out the meaning for yourselves. ---
**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 30, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43347 "2019-05-30T16:46:36Z")
John Cleese, playing the anchor of a parliamentary-election news team, mentioned Mary Whitehouse in the Nov. 1970 _Monty Python_ sketch “Election Night Special,” saying, “Mary Whitehouse has just taken Umbrage,” as if she were a candidate from a city of that name. At 5:18 here: [MPFC\_S02E06(ep.19) It's A Living (or School Prizes) "Election Night Special" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xm_TRekjno) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/43348 "2019-05-30T17:08:00Z")
Dolores Jane Umbridge was the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, the Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, and the main antagonist in _Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix_. Umbridge had the Dementors attack Harry in an attempt to silence him from contradicting the Ministry’s statement about Voldemort not returning from the dead. Ultimately, she deposes Dumbledore after he ‘confesses’ to plotting against the Ministry to prevent Harry being expelled, and has herself installed as Headmistress by the Ministry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2166) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2168)