# 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:** 2208
**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:** [July 28, 2019, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44149 "2019-07-28T06:07:36Z")
Film locations for _The Way We Were_ (1973) included the village of Ballston Spa in upstate New York. I just saw the movie tonight. First time ever. If I had a bullet I would have shot myself. :smack: ---
**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:** [July 28, 2019, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44150 "2019-07-28T06:25:54Z")
Cooperstown, a small town in upstate New York, is the location of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. When the Hall of Fame was first founded in the 1930s, it was believed by many that the game of baseball had been invented in Cooperstown, in 1839, by Abner Doubleday (who would later become a general in the U.S. Army during the Civil War). However, most baseball historians now believe the tale of Doubleday’s involvement in creating baseball to be a myth. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2019, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44151 "2019-07-28T07:10:12Z")
One popular exhibit in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown is the collection of World Series championship rings. The first ring, from 1922, was designed by New York jeweler Dieges & Clust and featured a single diamond. The rings from that decade are quite modest, especially compared to the current massive rings; the 2003 World Series rings featured 229 diamonds, including one teal diamond, and 13 rubies. The 2016 World Series rings for the Chicago Cubs had 214 diamonds at 5.5 carats, 3 carats of rubies, and 2.5 carats of sapphires, said to be worth $70,000. (If you want to see a collection of tacky, ugly rings, look no further) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44152 "2019-07-28T15:11:38Z")
Nomar Garciaparra is the only player in major league baseball history to hit three home runs on his birthday. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44153 "2019-07-28T16:52:51Z")
On August 18, 1967, the Red Sox were playing the California Angels at Fenway Park. Player Tony Conigliaro, batting against Jack Hamilton, was hit by a pitch on his left cheekbone and was carried off the field on a stretcher. He sustained a linear fracture of the left cheekbone and a dislocated jaw with severe damage to his left retina.[5] The batting helmet he was wearing did not have the protective ear-flap that has since become standard. A year and a half later, Conigliaro made a remarkable return, hitting 20 homers with 82 RBI in 141 games, earning Comeback Player of the Year honors. In 1970, he reached career-high numbers in HRs (36) and RBI (116). That season he and his brother Billy formed two-thirds of the Red Sox outfield. After a stint with the Angels in 1971, he returned to the Red Sox briefly in 1975 as a designated hitter, but was forced to retire because his eyesight had been permanently damaged. Currently, the Tony Conigliaro Award, instituted by the Red Sox after his death, is given annually to the MLB player who best overcomes obstacles and adversities through the attributes of spirit, determination and courage that were considered Tony’s trademarks. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44154 "2019-07-28T17:36:34Z")
The Los Angeles Angels entered Major League Baseball as an expansion team in 1961, owned by entertainer Gene Autry. The name was the same as a minor league franchise which had competed in the Pacific Coast League. Autry bought the rights to the Angels name from Walter O’Malley, who owned the Los Angeles Dodgers at the time. In their first year of existence, the Angels played at the same park formerly used by the minor-league Angels, Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44155 "2019-07-28T23:34:58Z")
Gene Autry, a.k.a. “The Singing Cowboy,” was a popular film and recording star in the 1930s through the 1950s. He made nearly 100 films, mostly Westerns, and recorded many Western songs, as well as still-popular recordings of holiday songs, including “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Here Comes Santa Claus” (which Autry also wrote). Later in his career, Autry diversified, and he was the owner of a livestock ranch (specializing in stock for rodeos), and several television and radio stations, as well as being the original owner of the Los Angeles / California Angels major league baseball team. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44156 "2019-07-29T00:31:54Z")
Former baseball player Pete Rose once gave Yankees great Joe DiMaggio a shower while on a USO tour in the jungle of Vietnam, afterwards observing: “The best way to describe Joe DiMaggio is, he was a penis with a man hanging from it.” ---
**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:** [July 29, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44157 "2019-07-29T02:39:53Z")
Retired Yankees player Joe DiMaggio, a friend of Ronald Reagan, had the President and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev both sign a baseball during their December 1987 summit meeting in Washington, D.C. The baseball is unique in having the autographs of both a President of the United States and a top Soviet leader. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2019, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44158 "2019-07-29T05:25:49Z")
The life span of a major league baseball is 5–7 pitches. During a typical game, approximately 70 balls are used. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44159 "2019-07-29T07:40:28Z")
The West Virginia Mountaineers scored 70 points against the Clemson Tigers in the 2012 Orange Bowl, setting the record as the most points ever scored by one side in the history of all bowl games. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44160 "2019-07-29T14:13:40Z")
The San Francisco 49ers scored 55 points on January 28, 1990 against the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXIV, setting the record as the most points scored by one side in the history of all Super Bowl games. It is still the record today. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44161 "2019-07-29T14:50:27Z")
Super Bowl LIII (#53) was the most recent NFL title game, played on February 3, 2019. The two competing teams were the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots. The Patriots won the game 13-3; this was the fewest points ever scored in a Super Bowl game. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44162 "2019-07-29T15:16:53Z")
Battleships generally considered to have been of the super-dreadnought type include the British Royal Navy’s \*Orion \*class, first laid down in 1909, and the United States Navy’s _New York_, the French \*Bretagne \*and the Japanese \*Fuso \*classes. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44163 "2019-07-29T15:20:17Z")
As the replicant Roy Batty, played by the late Rutger Hauer, lay dying, he told Blade Runner Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford: > [@](#): > > I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of **Orion**. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44164 "2019-07-29T15:48:50Z")
Dutch actor Rutger Hauer, who died ten days ago, improvised that famous closing monologue in _Blade Runner_. Hauer began his acting career in 1969 in the TV series _Floris_, playing a Dutch knight. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44165 "2019-07-29T15:56:06Z")
_Blade Runner_, directed by _Alien_ director Ridley Scott, was set in Los Angeles in the year 2019. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44166 "2019-07-29T16:32:20Z")
“May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose” was a novelty song, performed by Little Jimmy Dickens, which reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965. The song was written by Neal Merritt, and the title was inspired by an insult uttered by Johnny Carson on _The Tonight Show_. The song’s chorus consists of a string of insults: May the bird of paradise fly up your nose May an elephant caress you with his toes May your wife be plagued by **runner** s in her hose May the bird of paradise fly up your nose ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44167 "2019-07-29T17:25:34Z")
There is a worldwide boycott of [Chiang Mai, Thailand’s elephant massage industry](https://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/thailand-elephant-massage-boycott), based on animal cruelty reasons as well as safety. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/44168 "2019-07-29T17:36:40Z")
One Night in Bangkok from Chess is Murray Head’s biggest selling single, despite the fact that he raps the whole song and does not sing a note of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2207) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2209)