# 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:** 26
**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:** [February 10, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/501 "2010-02-10T20:34:20Z")
Tim Curry played a demon in the Ridley Scott-directed fairy tale _Legend_ with Tom Cruise and Mia Sara. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/502 "2010-02-10T20:36:01Z")
Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, who was partially blind for most of his life and totally blind for his final few decades, was given the job of Poultry and Rabbit Inspector in the Buenos Aires meat market as a deliberate insult by Evita Peron because she had heard (probably accurately) he had referred to her as a classless disgrace to the nation. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/503 "2010-02-10T20:39:06Z")
IGNORE THE BORGES POST- MERGING A COUPLE OF LOOSE ENDS: Robert Duvall, who is an enthusiast of Argentine music and the tango and played Adolf Eichmann in a made for TV movie filmed in Buenos Aires, appeared with Tom Cruise in _Days of Thunder_. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/504 "2010-02-10T20:44:02Z")
PLO terrorists killed passenger Leon Klinghoffer on the cruise ship Achille Lauro. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/505 "2010-02-10T20:50:57Z")
As a child before donning drag and going into hiding Achilles was tutored by Chiron, the “good centaur” who in the heavens became the constellation Sagittarius. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/506 "2010-02-10T20:51:00Z")
The sail sloop USS _Constellation_ is moored in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/507 "2010-02-10T20:55:57Z")
The USS Constitution, also know as Old Ironsides, is moored in Boston Harbor. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/508 "2010-02-10T20:56:46Z")
NCC-1017 USS Constellation captained by Matthew Decker was destroyed by the Doomsday Machine in an episode of Star Trek - The Original Series. \ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/509 "2010-02-10T21:04:03Z")
The song _Dirty Water_, which is played regularly at Fenway Park, refers to the pollution in the Charles River before the Boston Harbor Project was completed. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/510 "2010-02-10T21:08:02Z")
The poor water quality of Boston Harbor was used as a campaign tool by George HW Bush against MA Gov. Mike Dukakis. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/511 "2010-02-10T21:12:07Z")
The ships from which tea was thrown into Boston Harbor during the tea party were named Eleanor, Dartmouth, and Beaver. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/512 "2010-02-10T21:18:05Z")
Beaver Cleaver’s real first name is Theodore. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/513 "2010-02-10T21:18:56Z")
The _Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern_, a humor magazine, was once edited by Theodor Geisel, who later became known as Dr. Seuss. ETA: Played off **Sampiro** ’s “Dartmouth” fact, but the “Theodor(e)” ties in with **astorian** ’s post as well! ---
**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:** [February 10, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/514 "2010-02-10T21:20:45Z")
_Green Eggs and Ham_, by Dr. Seuss, contains only fifty different words, 49 of which are monosyllabic. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/515 "2010-02-10T21:25:38Z")
The one polysyllabic word in “Green Eggs and Ham” is “anywhere,” which appears eight times. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/516 "2010-02-10T21:34:02Z")
Ham and all pork products such as bacon and pork rinds are not kosher. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/517 "2010-02-10T21:36:22Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ham and all pork products such as bacon and pork rinds are not kosher. Kevin Bacon makes a brief appearance in “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” as a guy who races Steve Martin for a taxi. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/518 "2010-02-10T21:37:16Z")
[del]While the forbidden birds in kosher law are all birds of prey, it never says they are forbidden _because_ they are birds of prey, thus some extremely orthodox Jews will not eat turkey because it was unknown when the Torah was written and thus it cannot be known with absolute certainty if it is allowed.[/del] Steve Martin was born in Waco, Texas, and has said one of his proudest professional accomplishments was [playing banjo with Earl Scruggs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw). ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/519 "2010-02-10T21:47:11Z")
Waco, Texas is home to the Ranger Wing of the Commemorative (formerly Confederate) Air Force. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/520 "2010-02-10T21:48:24Z")
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