# 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:** 2290
**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:** [December 25, 2019, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45792 "2019-12-25T06:57:11Z")
William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 - 1891) graduated from West Point in 1840. While there he roomed and became good friends with another important future Civil War General, George H. Thomas. When Sherman graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant, he became an artillery officer. Today in Washington DC, the Sherman Memorial is located in Sherman Plaza, in President’s Park. ---
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Oh that is so bizarre — I’m on an iPad and only hit the Post button once. ---
**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:** [December 25, 2019, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45794 "2019-12-25T06:59:39Z")
Oh that is so bizarre — I’m on an iPad and only hit the Post button once. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45795 "2019-12-26T18:53:02Z")
President’s Park is a National Park, located, naturally, in Washington, D.C. In fact, the White House is located within the confines of President’s Park. The Park consists of 82 acres and is home to a number of significant statues, memorials and structures. One of these structures is Zero Milestone, which stands just south of the White House. Dedicated in 1923, it was intended to be the initial milestone from which all road distances in the United States should be measured. However, at present, only roads in the Washington, D.C. area have distances measured from it. ---
**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:** [December 26, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45796 "2019-12-26T18:53:21Z")
(Ninja’d!) ---
**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:** [December 26, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45797 "2019-12-26T19:09:20Z")
In play: Our newest US National Park is the former White Sands National Monument. Trump signed the bill on 20 December. CNN: [White Sands National Monument designated as the newest US national park](https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/white-sands-national-park-trnd/index.html) > [@](#): > > The United States has its 62nd national park. By year established, we now have… 1872 Yellowstone 1890 Yosemite (CA SP 1864) 1890 Sequoia 1899 Mount Rainier 1902 Crater Lake 1903 Wind Cave 1906 Mesa Verde 1910 Glacier 1915 Rocky Mountain 1916 Lassen Volcanic (Cinder Cone NM & Lassen Peak NM 1907) 1916 Hawaii Volcanoes (originally Hawaii NP) 1916 Haleakala (originally part of Hawaii NP) 1917 Denali 1919 Grand Canyon (NM 1908) 1919 Zion (Mukuntuweap NM 1909) 1919 Acadia (Sieur de Monts NM 1916, renamed Acadia 1929) 1921 Hot Springs (Reservation 1832) 1926 Shenandoah (established 1935) 1928 Bryce Canyon (NM 1923) 1929 Grand Teton 1930 Carlsbad Caverns (1923) 1934 Everglades (established 1947) 1934 Great Smoky Mountains (established 1940) 1938 Olympic (Mt Olympus NM 1909) 1940 Kings Canyon 1940 Isle Royale 1941 Mammoth Cave 1944 Big Bend 1956 Virgin Islands 1962 Petrified Forest (NM 1906) 1964 Canyonlands 1966 Guadalupe Mountains (established 1972) 1968 North Cascades 1968 Redwood 1971 Capitol Reef (NM 1937) 1971 Voyageurs (established 1975) 1971 Arches (NM 1929) 1978 Theodore Roosevelt (National Memorial Park 1947) 1978 Badlands (NM 1929) 1980 Channel Islands (NM 1938) 1980 Biscayne (NM 1968) 1980 Katmai (NM 1918) 1980 Glacier Bay (NM 1925) 1980 Gates of the Artic (NM 1978) 1980 Kenai Fjords (NM 1978) 1980 Kobuk Valley (NM 1978) 1980 Lake Clark (NM 1978) 1980 Wrangell St. Elias (NM 1978) 1986 Great Basin (Lehman Caves NM 1922) 1988 National Park of American Samoa (established 1993) 1992 Dry Tortugas (Fort Jefferson NM 1935) 1994 Death Valley (NM 1933) 1994 Saguaro (NM 1933) 1994 Joshua Tree (NM 1936) 1999 Black Canyon of the Gunnison (NM 1933) 2000 Cuyahoga Valley (National Recreation Area 1974) 2003 Congaree (Congaree Swamp NM 1976) 2004 Great Sand Dunes (NM 1932) 2013 Pinnacles (NM 1908) 2018 Gateway Arch (Jefferson National Expansion Memorial 1935) 2019 Indiana Dunes (National Lakeshore 1966) 2019 White Sands (NM 1933) ---
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When Prince **Rainier** succeeded to the throne of Monaco in 1949, gambling accounted for more than 95 per cent of the principality’s revenues. He decided to promote Monaco as a tax haven, commercial center, real-estate development opportunity, and international tourist attraction, and by the time of his death in 2005, gambling accounted for only approximately three per cent of the nation’s annual revenue. ---
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When American actress Grace Kelly sailed to Monaco in 1956 to marry Prince Rainier, she did so aboard the steamship _Constitution_. The liner later was used for cruises around the Hawaiian Islands; I sailed there aboard her with my parents in 1987. She sank, alas, while under tow ten years later. > **[SS Constitution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Constitution)** > > The SS Constitution was an ocean liner owned by American Export Lines, sister ship of the SS Independence. Both were constructed in the United States and made their maiden voyages in 1951. > Commissioned in 1951, she started her long career sailing on the New York City-Genoa-Naples-Gibraltar route to Europe. > Following service on American Export's "Sunlane" cruise to Europe in the 1950s and 1960s the two ships sailed for American Hawaii Cruises and American Global Line for many years in the 1980s... ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45800 "2019-12-27T03:49:56Z")
John Fitch developed the first practical steamship in 1791. Though it worked, he wasn’t able to make a profit and his company folded. Robert Fulton built his own steamship in 1807, the North River Steamboat (later renamed the Claremont) and was able to turn a profit. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2019, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45801 "2019-12-27T04:00:25Z")
Grace Kelly died in 1982 at the age of 52, from a car accident while she was driving and suffered a minor stroke. The strike caused her to lose control of her car, which fell off a steep road and down a mountainside. She survived the accident but folded (or, succumbed) to the injuries she sustained in it. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2019, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45802 "2019-12-27T04:08:10Z")
Ninja’ed! ---
**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:** [December 27, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45803 "2019-12-27T04:38:31Z")
In feudal Japan of the 12th through 16th centuries, ninja practices included espionage, deception, and surprise attacks. These covert methods of waging irregular warfare were deemed dishonorable and beneath the honor of the samurai. 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 27, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45804 "2019-12-27T15:38:45Z")
Although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, the country still maintains a modern military force; its military budget is the world’s eighth-largest. In 2015, it ranked as the world’s fourth-most powerful military. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45805 "2019-12-27T16:14:38Z")
According to Business Insider this month, of the 25 most powerful militaries in the world Poland ranks 24th. And China at #3 out spends #2 Russia by 6x. > **[This is how the US and Iran rank among the world's 25 most powerful militaries](https://www.businessinsider.com/most-powerful-militaries-in-the-world-ranked-2019-9)** > > Comparing the power of conventional military forces is complicated. But an annual ranking does just that — and these are the 25 most powerful. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2019, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45806 "2019-12-27T19:31:56Z")
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**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:** [December 27, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45807 "2019-12-27T19:32:59Z")
According to one list, Jayson `Jay’ Gould (1836-1892) is the 24th richest man in all of human history. Gould made his fortune in the stock market, cornering stocks, bribing judges as necessary. He often teamed with ‘Diamond Jim’ Fisk, most famously when they (also allied with Daniel Drew) pried Erie Railroad away from Vanderbilt. Gould and Boss Tweed raced to be with Fisk when he lay dying from a gun murder. With his front-man dead, Gould was forced to sell Erie but he continued to trade RR stocks, increasing his fortune. Gould’s credits include ‘Black Friday’ Sept. 24, 1869 after he’d bribed a relative of President U.S. Grant, hoping the government would help him corner the gold market. ---
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James Buchanan Brady, also known as Diamond Jim Brady, was an American businessman, financier and philanthropist of the Gilded Age. He was a man of prodigious appetites. According to Wiki: > [@](#): > > Brady’s enormous appetite was as legendary as his wealth, though modern experts believe it was greatly exaggerated.[7] It was not unusual, according to the legend, for Brady to eat enough food for ten people at a sitting. George Rector, owner of a favorite restaurant, described Brady as “the best 25 customers I ever had”.[8] For breakfast, he would eat “vast quantities of hominy, eggs, cornbread, muffins, flapjacks, chops, fried potatoes, beefsteak, washing it all down with a gallon of fresh orange juice”. A mid-morning snack would consist of “two or three dozen clams or Lynnhaven oysters”. > > Luncheon would consist of “shellfish…two or three deviled crabs, a brace of boiled lobsters, a joint of beef, and an enormous salad”. He would also include a dessert of “several pieces of homemade pie” and more orange juice. > > Brady would take afternoon tea, which consisted of “another platter of seafood, accompanied by two or three bottles of lemon soda”. > > Dinner was the main meal of the day, taken at Rector’s Restaurant. It usually comprised “two or three dozens oysters, six crabs, and two bowls of green turtle soup. Then in sumptuous procession came six or seven lobsters, two canvasback ducks, a double portion of terrapin, sirloin steak, vegetables, and for dessert a platter of French pastries.” Brady would even include two pounds of chocolate candy to finish off the meal. ---
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Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812-1902) was one of the richest Americans of his era. His investors were swindled in Philip Arnold’s 1872 diamond hoax, but in 1887 Tiffany acquired and sold some of the French crown jewels solidifying his reputation. ---
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The city of Diamond Bar, California named after the “diamond over a bar” branding iron registered in 1918 by ranch owner Frederick E. Lewis. Rapper Snoop Dogg hails from Diamond Bar. ---
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Snoopy, the dog in Charles Schulz’s comic strip _Peanuts_, served as inspiration for several items in the U.S. space program, including: - The “Communications Carrier Assembly,” or “communications cap” worn by astronauts as part of their spacesuits, is nicknamed a “[Snoopy cap](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Armstrong-Spencom01.jpg/330px-Armstrong-Spencom01.jpg),” as, with its black “ears” and white middle, it resembles Snoopy’s colorings. - The lunar module for the Apollo 10 mission was named “Snoopy” (while the command module for that mission was named “Charlie Brown”). - NASA has a special honor, the “[Silver Snoopy Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Snoopy_award),” which is bestowed by NASA astronauts to non-astronaut NASA employees and contractors, in recognition of excellence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2289) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2291)