# 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:** 2291
**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:** [December 28, 2019, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45812 "2019-12-28T03:14:54Z")
Sorry, double 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:** [December 28, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45813 "2019-12-28T04:02:54Z")
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, has been said by his wife, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz, formerly of the Cleveland _Plain Dealer_, to be a cutthroat Scrabble player. ---
**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 28, 2019, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45814 "2019-12-28T06:37:15Z")
The last U.S. President to be elected without winning Ohio was John F. Kennedy in 1960. ---
**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 28, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45815 "2019-12-28T08:46:42Z")
The first Chairman of the SEC was Joseph P. Kennedy; FDR allegedly said “it takes a thief to catch a thief” when making this appointment. Joseph P. Kennedy was one of the richest men of his day; he made his fortune with stock manipulation schemes that are now illegal. Kennedy was a major importer of Scotch whiskey and, allegedly, a bootlegger. Kennedy had three sons who became U.S. Senators. ---
**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 28, 2019, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45816 "2019-12-28T08:56:52Z")
JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. JFK was previously a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 11th district from 1947 to 1953. There, JFK was succeeded by Tip O’Neill. ---
**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 28, 2019, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45817 "2019-12-28T09:02:17Z")
JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. JFK was previously a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 11th district from 1947 to 1953. There, JFK was succeeded by Tip O’Neill. ---
**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 28, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45818 "2019-12-28T10:16:16Z")
James G. Fair (Silver King), Leland Stanford (one of the Southern Pacific RR’s Big Four) and George Hearst (prospector father of W.R. Hearst) were all U.S. Senators, and are all listed among America’s 60 wealthiest ever. All three won their fortunes primarily near California or Nevada. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45819 "2019-12-28T14:47:14Z")
Sara Jane Moore had a fascination and an obsession with Patricia Hearst.[8] After Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), her father Randolph Hearst created the organization People In Need (PIN) to feed the poor as a response to the SLA’s claims that the elder Hearst was “committing ‘crimes’ against ‘the people’”. Moore, a volunteer bookkeeper for PIN, also functioned as an FBI informant when she attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975. She was given a life sentence for the attempted assassination and was released from prison on December 31, 2007, after serving 32 years. Moore and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme are the only two women to have attempted to assassinate an American president; both of their attempts were on Gerald Ford and both took place in California within three weeks of one another. ---
**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 28, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45820 "2019-12-28T16:45:06Z")
Eight US Presidents have died in office: William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, Warren Harding, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and John Kennedy. Of these 8 men, only Taylor was not elected in a year evenly divisible by the number 20. In fact, from 1841 through 1963, all presidents who were elected in such a year died in office. ---
**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 28, 2019, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45821 "2019-12-28T19:48:06Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > In fact, from 1841 through 1963, all presidents who were elected in such a year died in office. Are you saying that we’re overdue? 😃 In play: PCU _John F. Kennedy_ (CVN-79] is the second _Gerald R. Ford_-class aircraft carrier being built for the United States Navy. She is a PCU, a Pre-Commissioning Unit, because she is under construction and not yet commissioned. She is planned to be commissioned in 2022. PCU is only a descriptive term and is not a prefix or a part of the ship’s official name. Her Captain is Todd Marzano, call sign “Cherry”. And I am related to him by marriage. ---
**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:** [December 28, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45822 "2019-12-28T21:04:29Z")
In 1998, actor Todd Bridges and his brother James were credited with saving the life of Stella Kline, a 51-year-old paraplegic woman. The woman nearly drowned when her wheelchair rolled into a lake while she was fishing. Kline said, “I was thanking God that he was there, and you know, everybody’s been saying nothing but bad stuff about Todd Bridges on the news and in the papers… He has a heart of gold.” Bridges remarked on the rescue, “We felt God put us there at the right time to save this lady’s life, because there was no one else around.” ---
**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 28, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45823 "2019-12-28T21:48:29Z")
NM ---
**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 28, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45824 "2019-12-28T21:53:58Z")
Missed the edit window! In play: In 1903, childhood friends William S. Harley ([1880 - 1943](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Harley)) and Arthur Davidson ([1881 - 1950](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Davidson_(motorcycling))), along with Arthur’s brothers William A. Davidson ([1870 - 1937](http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.aspx?RacerID=39)) and Walter Davidson ([1876 - 1942](http://cyrilhuzeblog.com/2012/02/07/in-memoriam-of-walter-davidson/)), the four men together, founded the Harley-Davidson motorcycle company in Milwaukee WI. These Davidson brothers were three siblings out of five. The other two were sisters. The oldest of the five siblings was sister Janet May, and the youngest was sister Elizabeth. Bob Seger’s song, _Roll Me Away_ hints at the protagonist riding a Harley, and it’s almost certainly a Harley, with the opening lyrics (emphases mine)… - Took a look down a westbound road Right away I made my choice Headed out to **my big two-wheeler** I was tired of my own voice Took a bead on the northern plains And just **rolled that power on** \* … and _We never even said a word We just walked out and got on **that bike And we rolled And we rolled clean out of sight We rolled across the high plains** Deep into the mountains Felt so good to me Finally feelin’ free_ ---
**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 29, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45825 "2019-12-29T01:50:30Z")
According to [this](https://www.rideapart.com/articles/245751/india-becomes-worlds-largest-motorcycle-manufacturer/) 2017 article from [rideapart.com](http://rideapart.com), the country of India is now the world’s largest manufacturer of motorcycles. They have surpassed China in this category. > [@](#): > > While overall motorcycle sales in the US have been about 500,000 a year, the total sales of machines made in India for the last financial year came to just over 17.5 million. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2019, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45826 "2019-12-29T03:53:06Z")
Under the Constitution of India, there is no official language of the country, but 22 regional languages are recognized, including Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Kashmiri. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2019, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45827 "2019-12-29T06:39:36Z")
In the original _Star Trek_ television series, the U.S.S. Enterprise was a _Constitution_-class Class I Heavy Cruiser. A number of other ships of that class appeared in (or were mentioned in) the series, including the Constellation, the Defiant, the Intrepid, the Exeter, the Lexington, and the Excalibur. ---
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Ciudad Constitución in Mexico’s Baja California Sur lies along Mexico Highway 1 about 220 miles north of Cabo San Lucas. If you drive the 1,000 miles down the Baja peninsula from San Diego to Cabo, you will drive right through the city.\* - — I’ve done the drive twice, from San Francisco. Cabo is 1,500 miles from San Francisco. ---
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The great Spanish painter Diego Velázquez was known for his portraits of Spanish royalty. Through a great-great-granddaughter, a Marquesa of Monteleone who married a Count Reuss zu Köstritz, he is also the ancestor of a number of reigning European royals, including King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, King Philippe of Belgium, Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. Velázquez is also an ancestor of King Felipe VI of Spain, through Felipe’s mother Sophia of Greece and Denmark, a member of the Greek branch of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg dynasty. ---
**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 29, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45830 "2019-12-29T16:05:16Z")
At the time of World War I, the leaders of three of the warring nations were first cousins: King George V of Great Britain, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. All three men were grandsons of Queen Victoria. ---
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