# 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:** 28
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/541 "2010-02-11T01:46:42Z")
well poot ---
**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, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/542 "2010-02-11T01:47:03Z")
The Marx Brothers’ real names in order of birth were Leonard (Chico), Adolph (Harpo), Julius Henry (Groucho), Milton (Gummo), and Herbert (Zeppo). ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/543 "2010-02-11T01:49:32Z")
Marilyn Manson was born Brian Hugh Warner on January 5, 1969. HIs stage name came from names of actress Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson. ---
**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 11, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/544 "2010-02-11T01:55:31Z")
January 5th is **Sausage Day** in Clitheroe, England–celebrated due to the local love of sausages. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/545 "2010-02-11T02:06:55Z")
Traditionally, sausage casings were made of the cleaned intestines, or stomachs in the case of haggis and other traditional puddings. ---
**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, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/546 "2010-02-11T02:14:37Z")
Five presidents have been members of Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Club: the Adamses, the Roosevelts, and JFK. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/547 "2010-02-11T02:27:12Z")
BAH. ---
**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 11, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/548 "2010-02-11T02:48:38Z")
Blood pudding is actually a sausage. The “pudding” refers to the addition of grains, raisins or currents, and spices often found in dessert puddings. ---
**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, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/549 "2010-02-11T03:10:20Z")
The origin of the statement “Whoever cares for law or for sausage should never see either being made” was made by Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (the state referred to by the Nazis as “the Second Reich”). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/550 "2010-02-11T03:45:53Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > The origin of the statement “Whoever cares for law or for sausage should never see either being made” was made by Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (the state referred to by the Nazis as “the Second Reich”). The capital of North Dakota was named after German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in a bid to attract German investment. (The same ruse was used for Otto Von Fargo.) ---
**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 11, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/551 "2010-02-11T03:52:10Z")
The _Bismarck_ was one of the most feared German battleships of World War II; the _Tirpitz_ was her sister ship. The British sank them both. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/552 "2010-02-11T04:42:23Z")
Beat-boxer Biz Markie’s real name is Marcel Theo Hall. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/553 "2010-02-11T05:04:51Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Beat-boxer Biz Markie’s real name is Marcel Theo Hall. Marcel’s Proust’s “A La Recherche du Temps Perdu” literally means “In Search of Lost Time,” but has usually been translated into English as “Remembrance of Things Past.” ---
**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, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/554 "2010-02-11T05:35:35Z")
The Moody Blues second album, _In Search of the Lost Chord_, included the song _Legend of a Mind_, which is more commonly referred to by its opening lyrics- “_Timothy Leary’s dead…_”. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/555 "2010-02-11T05:48:15Z")
The Beatles’ Come Together was originally written as a campaign song for Timothy Leary in his aborted bid for office. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/556 "2010-02-11T07:47:43Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > The Beatles’ Come Together was originally written as a campaign song for Timothy Leary in his aborted bid for office. Billy Preston was considered by many to have been the “fifth Beatle.” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/557 "2010-02-11T12:08:28Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Billy Preston was considered by many to have been the “fifth Beatle.” “O Brother Where Art Thou” was a serious movie that a famous comedy director hoped to make, in Preston Sturges’ film “Sullivan’s Travels.” ---
**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 11, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/558 "2010-02-11T14:56:07Z")
Veronica Lake, who co-starred in Sullivan’s Travels, was famous for her “peekaboo” hairstyle. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/559 "2010-02-11T15:06:39Z")
Peekaboo is the name of the mischievous cat in the comic strip “Rose Is Rose.” ---
**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, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/560 "2010-02-11T15:17:23Z")
Picabo (pronounced “peekaboo”) Street is an American skier who won a gold medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=29)