# 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:** 2267
**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45330 "2019-11-05T16:48:53Z")
Rule 34 - If it exists, there’s a porn version. This is true for Dick and Jane. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45331 "2019-11-05T16:55:57Z")
A Saturday Night Live sketch, with Dan Ackroyd as Dick Nixon and Jane Curtain as Pat: Richard Nixon: I got a million slogans. Look at this one: The New Dick. Isn’t that nice? Short, sweet, and everyone wants to see. Pat Nixon: It’s short and sweet but I don’t think everybody wants to see 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:** [November 5, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45332 "2019-11-05T17:43:41Z")
Dan Ackroyd played both Richard M. Nixon and Jimmy Carter on _Saturday Night Live_ with a mustache, even though neither President had one in office. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45333 "2019-11-05T18:00:15Z")
The only US Presidents to sport mustaches were Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Howard Taft. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45334 "2019-11-05T18:45:22Z")
James A. Garfield, Republican of Ohio, is the only person ever to be elected directly to the Presidency from the U.S. House of Representatives. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45335 "2019-11-05T21:33:58Z")
James Garfield is one of seven men born in Ohio who have been President of the USA. The only state that has produced more presidents is Virginia; eight Virginians have been President. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2019, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45336 "2019-11-05T22:37:08Z")
George Washington, the first Virginian to be elected President and, as it happens, the first President of the United States under the Constitution, was played by American actor David Morse in the acclaimed HBO miniseries _John Adams_, and was nominated for an Emmy. Morse was perhaps best known before that for being part of the cast of the TV medical comedy-drama _St. Elsewhere_. [![](https://66.media.tumblr.com/2273f95672763ae62db4ab51de410b32/tumblr_inline_ni3qokEiUs1qzfjdf.jpg) ](https://66.media.tumblr.com/2273f95672763ae62db4ab51de410b32/tumblr_inline_ni3qokEiUs1qzfjdf.jpg) [![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Na-a3cvtdpA/Tt-bUIY8-XI/AAAAAAAACcI/mZBYR_YfCvQ/s1600/John+Adams.jpg) ](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Na-a3cvtdpA/Tt-bUIY8-XI/AAAAAAAACcI/mZBYR_YfCvQ/s1600/John+Adams.jpg) ---
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George and Martha Washington did not have any children together. Martha was a widow when she married George, and had two children with her first husband: her son John Parke Custis, and daughter Martha Parke Custis. It is not known why the Washingtons did not have children of their own together, as they were both young when they married (George was 26, Martha was 28). It is hypothesized that a bout of smallpox which George suffered during a trip to Barbados with his half-brother Lawrence in 1751 may have rendered him sterile, or that Martha may have suffered an injury during her daugther’s birth, making her unable to bear another child. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45338 "2019-11-05T23:04:37Z")
The young George Washington’s 1751 trip to Barbados marked the only time he ever left what is now the United States. The house where he stayed is now open to the public. Then-First Lady Hillary Clinton unveiled a plaque there in 1997. > **[George Washington House (Barbados)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_House_(Barbados))** > > George Washington House in Barbados is a historic house where the future first U.S. President George Washington is alleged to have stayed in 1751. > He was 19 years old at the time and traveling with his half-brother, Lawrence Washington, who was suffering from tuberculosis. George Washington contracted \[small pox\] during his stay, and was nursed back to health at the house. Barbados apparently was the only country outside the present United States that George Washington ever visited. > According t... ---
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The Calendar Act of 1750, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, changed the British calendar from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. Because the New Year began on March 25 in the Julian Calendar, it meant that the year of 1751 only had 282 days. ---
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Today, November 5, is Guy Fawkes Day, a night of fireworks and bonfires in Britain, marking the anniversary of Fawkes’ failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. 13 men including Guy Fawkes plotted to blow up the House of Parliament in London. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45341 "2019-11-06T04:47:56Z")
A longstanding bit of British political black humor has it that “Guy Fawkes is the last man to have entered Parliament with honest intentions.” ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45342 "2019-11-06T06:46:40Z")
The Parliament of Canada is seated in Ottawa, Ontario, and Ontario is 415,600 square miles in size. That makes Ontario almost twice the size of Texas (268,600 sq mi) and significantly smaller than Alaska (665,400 sq mi). ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45343 "2019-11-06T15:57:19Z")
Canada has ten provinces and three territories. Quebec is the largest province (595,391 square miles), and Prince Edward Island is the smallest (2,185 square miles). With 808,185 square miles, Nunavut is the largest territory. The total population of Nunavut is 35,944 inhabitants. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45344 "2019-11-06T16:10:17Z")
Irish tenor Colm Wilkinsonm who sang the role of Che on the original concept album of Evita, and originated the role of Jean Valjean in the West End and Broadway productions of Les Miserables, relocated his family to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1989, when he was offered the title role in the original Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera playing at the Pantages Theatre (now Ed Mirvish Theatre). He has lived in Toronto ever since, and became a Canadian citizen in the early 2000s. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45345 "2019-11-06T17:02:54Z")
I saw Colm Wilkinson perform in _Les Miserables_ in London in late 1985, and he was nothing short of awesome. He turned 75 on June 5 of this year. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45346 "2019-11-06T17:11:14Z")
For the 10th anniversary concert of \* Les Miserables\* Jean Valjean’s from 17 different countries, lead by Wikinson, performed [Do You Hear The People Sing?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPpkTgMbhRU) ---
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The original French version of the musical _Les Miserables_ premiered in Paris in 1980. The English-language adaptation ran in London from October 1985 to July 2019, making it the longest-running musical in the West End. It is also the second longest-running musical in the world after the original Off-Broadway run of _The Fantasticks_. ---
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The British synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys first recorded their song _West End Girls_ in late 1983 or early 1984, working with American producer Bobby Orlando. The [original version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXRqGfF64zQ) was a minor dance hit, but after Pet Shop Boys cut their ties with Orlando in 1985, the duo re-recorded the song with producer Stephen Hague; the [second recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs) became a #1 hit in both the US and the UK. ---
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The three colors of the Orlando, Florida city flag are white, blue and yellow, depicting the Linton E. Allen Memorial Fountain. It was adopted just two years ago. > **[Flag of Orlando](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Orlando)** > > The flag of Orlando, Florida, is a horizontal bicolor flag of white and blue defaced with a stylized depiction of the Linton E. Allen Memorial Fountain in the center. The bottom blue stripe takes up one third of the vertical length. Surrounding the fountain is a golden depiction of the sun in the shape of the letter "O." The portion of the sun over the blue stripe is split by four thin blue stripes, creating the appearance of sunlight over waves. > The white and blue background represents patrioti... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2266) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2268)