# 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:** 2300
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45992 "2020-01-10T01:27:32Z")
The Narragansett Pacer was the first horse breed developed in the United States, but is now extinct. It was developed in the United States during the 18th century. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45993 "2020-01-10T01:38:00Z")
The AMC Pacer was produced from 1975 to 1979. It was promoted by AMC as “the first wide small car” at a time when American cars were downsizing. Richard Teague was its designer. He also designed the AMC Gremlin, the AMC Hornet, and the Jeep Cherokee XJ ([images](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS832US832&sxsrf=ACYBGNT5F09PLWuiR7OVPCELauXThRzv-A:1578620157643&q=jeep+cherokee+xj&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi-4Oyt8vfmAhUHqZ4KHXk2Cv8QsAR6BAgJEAE&biw=1225&bih=837)). He also designed the Rambler Classic ([images](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS832US832&biw=1225&bih=837&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ACYBGNTpOk3ogx7QtmFiGE0K1w3vPvPsHw%3A1578620160102&sa=1&ei=ANUXXs3tBYLr-gTm-oXYAw&q=Rambler+Classic&oq=Rambler+Classic&gs_l=img.3..0l10.75832.80738..82747...7.0..0.89.1731.23......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......35i39j0i67j0i10j0i10i24.zvInpmPTvrM&ved=0ahUKEwjN7YKv8vfmAhWCtZ4KHWZ9ATsQ4dUDCAc&uact=5)). ---
**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:** [January 10, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45994 "2020-01-10T02:47:20Z")
Narragansett beer was formerly the number one selling brand in New England. In the 1975 film _Jaws_, Captain Quint, the shark hunter played by Robert Shaw, crushes a can of Narragansett with one hand to intimidate the oceanographer, Matt Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfuss. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45995 "2020-01-10T08:42:37Z")
The Dionne Quintuplets were the first quints to survive infancy. Born as instant celebrities in Northern Ontario in 1934, two of them are still alive. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45996 "2020-01-10T14:42:02Z")
The Jackson 5, stylized as the Jackson 5ive, were: Jackie Jackson, born in 1951, Tito Jackson, born in 1953, Jermaine Jackson, born in 1954, Marlon Jackson, born in 1957, and Michael Jackson, born in 1958 and died in 2009. Rest in Peace, Michael. You were soooo talented. Hard to believe it’s been over 10 years that you’ve been gone now. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45997 "2020-01-10T14:47:56Z")
The Jackson Five were: Jackie Jackson, born in 1951, Tito Jackson, born in 1953, Jermaine Jackson, born in 1954, Marlon Jackson, born in 1957, and Michael Jackson, born in 1958 and died in 2009. Rest in Peace, Michael. You were soooo talented! Hard to believe it’s been over 10 years now that you’ve been gone. Thank you for how you entertained us so well. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45998 "2020-01-10T14:49:07Z")
50x error! Damn. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/45999 "2020-01-10T14:56:56Z")
Double post explained in the (now long) ATMB thread on 50x errors. Post is here: [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22073454&posted=1#post22073454](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22073454&posted=1#post22073454) ---
**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:** [January 10, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/46000 "2020-01-10T16:02:10Z")
The Jackson Five had four #1 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, all in the year of 1970: ‘I Want You Back’ (peaked on 1/30/1970), ‘ABC’ (4/24/1970), ‘The Love You Save’ (6/26/1970), and ‘I’ll Be There’ (10/16/1970). ---
**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:** [January 10, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/46001 "2020-01-10T16:08:55Z")
On January 11, 1970 the Kansas City Chiefs shocked the football world by beating the heavily-favored Minnesota Vikings 23–7 in Super Bowl IV. (ETA: that made it two back-to-back shocking Super Bowl upsets by a team from the upstart AFL league, after Joe Namath and the NY Jets defeated the Baltimore Colts 16-7 in Super Bowl III the previous year.) For the Chiefs, that was their last-ever Super Bowl win. For the Chiefs, that was their last-ever Super Bowl _ **appearance** _. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/46002 "2020-01-10T17:46:29Z")
Since the merger, the Vikings have appeared in four Super Bowl games and lost all of them to the Chiefs, Dolphins, Steelers and Raiders. The game against the Raiders in 1977 was the Vikings’ last Super Bowl appearance. It’s been 41 l-o-o-n-g seasons. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/46003 "2020-01-10T19:06:51Z")
The Vikings are one of 8 NFL teams to appear in at least one Super Bowl without a victory. The others are the Bills, Falcons, Panthers, Bengals, Cardinals, Titans, and Chargers. (Of course, the Browns, Lions, Jaguars, and Texans have never been to the Super Bowl.) Three teams are undefeated in their Super Bowl appearances: the Saints, Jets, and Buccaneers. All 3 of these teams are 1-0 in the Super Bowl. ---
**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:** [January 10, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/46004 "2020-01-10T19:08:02Z")
I feel for the Vikings fans, yessiree I do. BUT NOT TOMORROW DAMMIT! GO NINERS! (ahem, in play…) In Super Bowl IV the Vikings quarterback was Joe Kapp. In Super Bowls VIII, IX, and XI it was Fran Tarkenton. Fran Tarkenton’s father’s first name? Dallas. ---
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> [@Railer13](#): > > The Vikings are one of 8 NFL teams to appear in at least one Super Bowl without a victory. The others are the Bills, Falcons, Panthers, Bengals, Cardinals, Titans, and Chargers. (Of course, the Browns, Lions, Jaguars, and Texans have never been to the Super Bowl.) Three teams are undefeated in their Super Bowl appearances: the Saints, Jets, and Buccaneers. All 3 of these teams are 1-0 in the Super Bowl. Ahem, correction: the Ravens are also undefeated, at 2-0. (Thanks for bringing up such lovely memories, said the 49ers fan.) ---
**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:** [January 10, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/46006 "2020-01-10T19:18:27Z")
The USS _Dallas_ was the US Navy _Los Angeles_-class fast attack submarine featured in Tom Clancy’s first novel, _The Hunt for Red October_, and its movie adaptation of the same name, starring Sean Connery, Sam Neill, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones and Alec Baldwin. ---
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> [@Bullitt](#): > > Ahem, correction: the Ravens are also undefeated, at 2-0. Oh, crap! My bad. The Ravens are indeed the ONLY 2-0 Super Bowl team… In play: Tom Clancy sold his first novel, the aforementioned _The Hunt for Red October_, for $5,000.00 to a small publishing house in Annapolis, Maryland. It eventually sold more than 365,000 copies in hardback, and another 4.3 million copies in paperback. ---
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The publishing house for _The Hunt for Red October_ had never published a novel before, concentrating on history and other nonfiction. It was one of the oddest publishers of genre fiction, second only to the original publisher of _Dune_, which was published by Chilton, almost exclusively known as a publisher of auto repair manuals. ---
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Science-fiction author Frank Herbert related that the idea for his signature novel, _Dune_, came about when he was hired to write a magazine article about the sand dunes at the Orgeon Dunes (which is now a National Recreation Area). In doing research for the article, Herbert became engrossed in the topic, and wound up pulling together far more research material than he needed. Herbert, in fact, never actually wrote the article, but the research helped to inspire the idea for _Dune_. ---
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A big-budget film remake of Frank Herbert’s \*Dune \*is coming in December this year, directed by Denis Villeneuve (_Arrival, Blade Runner 2049_ and others). It is the first of a planned two-part adaptation, to star Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa and Javier Bardem. ---
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Gilles Villeveuve was a Canadian Formula One driver who won six races in a short six–year career, before being killrd in a crash in 1982. He had a son and a brother who were well-know racing drivers as well, both named Jacues Villeneuve. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2299) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2301)