# 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:** 27
**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, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/521 "2010-02-10T21:53:02Z")
The six counties of Northern Ireland are Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone. ---
**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, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/522 "2010-02-10T22:04:26Z")
Scots Irish, aka Ulster Scots, aka Scotch Irish is a reference (mostly American) to people who descend from Scots who settled in northern Ireland (the geographic region, not a reference to the political region of Northern Ireland) under King James I & VI; presidents with Scots Irish ancestry include Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson and Richard Nixon. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/523 "2010-02-10T22:19:40Z")
The “King James Bible” is so-called because it was commissioned by King James I in 1604. A number of translators worked from the original Greek and Hebrew to produce the King James Bible. ---
**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, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/524 "2010-02-10T22:26:31Z")
Hebrew National hot dogs are now made by the ConAgra foods conglomerate. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/525 "2010-02-10T22:27:29Z")
Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/526 "2010-02-10T22:28:48Z")
A Chicago-style hot dog is topped with mustard, onion, sweet pickle relish, a dill pickle spear, tomato slices or wedges, pickled sport peppers, a dash of celery salt, and no ketchup. ---
**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, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/527 "2010-02-10T22:29:49Z")
The Hebrew Star of David is an identifying tattoo of the Black Gangster Disciples street gang. ETA:…who are based out of Chicago. save! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/528 "2010-02-10T22:30:47Z")
ConAgra, originally known as Nebrakska Consolidated Mills, was founded in Grand Island before moving to Omaha. ETA: Damn AGAIN! ---
**Author:** ![Rafe\_Hollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Rafe\_Hollister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rafe_Hollister)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/529 "2010-02-10T22:38:25Z")
ConAgra has a very large milling operation in Alton, IL on the banks of the Mississippi River. The recently-retired GM of the plant, Oren Cummins, began working with the company in his teens after his father died in WW2. Mr. Cummins never graduated high school and began his career there as a janitor. ---
**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, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/530 "2010-02-10T22:48:41Z")
The Yeakel Brewery of Alton, Il was driven out of buisness by prohibition, ultimately profiting Chicago gangster Al Capone. ---
**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, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/531 "2010-02-10T22:56:02Z")
Al Capone was eventually nailed by the Treasury Department for tax evasion, and did time on Alcatraz. ---
**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, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/532 "2010-02-10T23:01:42Z")
In 1974, the 60 year-old Jack LaLanne swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman’s Wharf, wearing handcuffs and towing a 1000-pound boat. ---
**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, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/533 "2010-02-10T23:08:08Z")
In Spanish, to handcuff somebody is sometimes humorously referred to as “putting the wife on them.” ---
**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, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/534 "2010-02-10T23:23:56Z")
The suspense and mystery movie _Deathtrap_ (based on the Ira Levin play of the same name) starred Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve and had a plot that featured a pair of handcuffs that once belonged to Houdini. ---
**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, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/535 "2010-02-10T23:53:31Z")
Houdini’s original name was Erik Weisz, which was later altered to Ehrich Weiss before the magician took his stage name as a tribute to French conjurer Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/536 "2010-02-11T00:01:28Z")
Although Houdini regularly defined death in escapes from such devices as the Milk Can and the Chinese Water Torture Cell, his own death was caused by peritonitis, which was itself caused by a ruptured appendix. The ruptured appendix may have been caused by a punch to Houdini’s stomach, although Houdini had already been suffering from appendicitis prior to the punching. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/537 "2010-02-11T00:09:39Z")
Murderer Gary Gilmore, executed by firing squad in Utah and the subject of Norman Mailer’s _The Executioner’s Song_, claimed to be the illegitimate grandson of Houdini through his grandmother who had once worked the same Vaudeville circuit. (There is no evidence and to my knowledge no biographer of either man takes the claim seriously.) ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/538 "2010-02-11T01:04:26Z")
Norman Mailer also wrote an homage to Marilyn Monroe. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/539 "2010-02-11T01:10:08Z")
Marilyn Monroe appeared in the Marx Brothers’ final film, _Love Happy_ ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/540 "2010-02-11T01:40:51Z")
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