# 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:** 31
**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, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/601 "2010-02-11T20:00:20Z")
In the movie _Casablanca_, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) inspires the crowd in Rick’s Cafe Americain by telling the band to play the _Marseillaise._ ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/602 "2010-02-11T20:00:25Z")
[del]_Peter Graves_ is the name of a book by William Pène du Bois, who worked at the _Paris Review_ with George Plimpton.[/del] The movie _Casablanca_ is based on a play called _Everybody Comes to Rick’s_. ---
**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, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/603 "2010-02-11T20:17:23Z")
In 1996, owner/trainer/vet William Livingston entered and ran Rick’s Natural Star, a lowly $3000 claiming horse who hadn’t run in 15 months nor won in 3 years, in the Breeders’ Cup Turf against the world’s best turf horses. [He lost by 200 lengths](http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/star-outsider-crashes-cup-party-1359781.html). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/604 "2010-02-11T21:04:53Z")
William Livingston, the first revolutionary governor of New Jersey, was one of the signers of the US Constitution. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/605 "2010-02-11T21:08:50Z")
New Jersey was named after the Channel Island, Jersey. ---
**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, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/606 "2010-02-11T21:12:29Z")
Matthew Webb was the first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids. On August 25, 1875, he swam from Dover to Calais in less than 22 hours. ---
**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, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/607 "2010-02-11T21:19:07Z")
Stella Taylor (1929-2003), called “The Swimming Nun” because she’d once been a novice, swam the English channel twice in her 40s and made three attempts to swim from the Bahamas to Miami (she never made it, saying the shark cage she was in slowed her down, but she did set records for age and distance swimming). ---
**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 11, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/608 "2010-02-11T21:19:51Z")
When Jack Webb (creator of _Dragnet_) died, he was given a funeral with full police honors, and the LAPD retired Joe Friday’s badge number (714). ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/609 "2010-02-11T21:37:50Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Stella Taylor (1929-2003), called “The Swimming Nun” because she’d once been a novice, swam the English channel twice in her 40s and made three attempts to swim from the Bahamas to Miami (she never made it, saying the shark cage she was in slowed her down, but she did set records for age and distance swimming). Jeanine Deckers (properly Sister Luc Gabriel, popularly Soeur Sourire) recorded the song _Dominique_ and became known as “the Singing Nun” in 1963. ---
**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, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/610 "2010-02-11T21:52:11Z")
Georgia forward Dominique Wilkins was originally drafted by the Utah Jazz, but never played for them. ---
**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 11, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/611 "2010-02-11T22:01:43Z")
Lenny Wilkens has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice: as a player, and as a coach. ---
**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, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/612 "2010-02-11T22:09:03Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Lenny Wilkens has been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice: as a player, and as a coach. Lenny Bruce’s autobiography was entitled “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People.” ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/613 "2010-02-11T22:14:38Z")
Lenny Bruce is mentioned in the songs; ‘La Vie Boheme’, ‘A Simple Desultory Philippic’, ‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’ and ‘End of the World as We Know it’ amongst many many others. ---
**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 11, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/614 "2010-02-11T22:24:25Z")
Bruce Sutter was one of the best closing pitchers in baseball history, playing for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves from 1976 to 1988. He was a 6-time All-Star and won the 1982 World Series, striking out Gorman Thomas of the Milwaukee Braves for the final out. Sutter was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006. ---
**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 11, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/615 "2010-02-11T22:43:54Z")
The St Louis Cardinals have retired the jersey #42 twice, Bruce Sutter "Ol Engine # 42, as Jack Buck used to call him. Also Major League Baseball retired Jackie Robinson’s #42 in honor of breaking the color line in 1947. ---
**Author:** ![Kingspades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Kingspades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingspades)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/616 "2010-02-11T22:46:21Z")
Seven U.S. states (North Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Virginia) count the Northern Cardinal as the state bird, more than any other species. ---
**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, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/617 "2010-02-11T23:00:00Z")
For many years, the leader of the Catholic Church in the Philippines was Cardinal Sin- to be specific, Cardinal Jaime Sin. ---
**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 11, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/618 "2010-02-11T23:05:24Z")
The Cardinal Sins, also known as the Seven Deadly Sins, are wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. ---
**Author:** ![Kingspades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Kingspades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingspades)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/619 "2010-02-11T23:15:48Z")
Unlike most mammals, the hair of sloths grows away from the extremeties to better protect them from the elements while hanging upside down. ---
**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, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/620 "2010-02-11T23:17:18Z")
Visitors on tours of Grand Canyon Caverns can see 15 foot tall statue of a Giant Ground Sloth (named Gertie) in one of the underground chambers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=32)