# 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:** 34
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/661 "2010-02-12T16:08:44Z")
Alexander Hamilton had two **boys** named Philip Schuyler Hamilton; the oldest was killed in a duel in Weehawken, **New Jersey** in 1801 a short walk from the spot where his father was killed in the duel with Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804, by which time Hamilton and his wife had named their last baby Philip Schuyler Hamilton after his dead big brother. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/662 "2010-02-12T16:15:02Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Alexander Hamilton had two **boys** named Philip Schuyler Hamilton; the oldest was killed in a duel in Weehawken, **New Jersey** in 1801 a short walk from the spot where his father was killed in the duel with Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804, by which time Hamilton and his wife had named their last baby Philip Schuyler Hamilton after his dead big brother. Prosecutor Hamilton Burger only got a conviction once, on the TV series “Perry Mason”; and even then, it turned out Perry’s client was an impostor. ---
**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 12, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/663 "2010-02-12T16:20:34Z")
White Castle popularized the fast food burger, rescuing it from the poor reputation ground beef had developed by making the food prep area visible, and using an all-white and stainless steel motif inside the restaurant to symbolize cleanliness. ---
**Author:** ![Kingspades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Kingspades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingspades)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/664 "2010-02-12T16:30:25Z")
Sometimes referred to as castles, rooks in the game of chess originally symbolized chariots; the Persian word meaning “chariot” is _rokh_. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/665 "2010-02-12T16:31:38Z")
Kal Penn, star of “Harold and Kumar go to White Castle”, is now a White House staffer - Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/666 "2010-02-12T16:34:34Z")
[del]John Willard Marriott sold root beer and chili from a rolling cart in downtown D.C. and when it became a success opened a small burger and Mexican food place called _The Hot Shoppe_, which expanded to a second location in Baltimore which expanded into an international conglamerate of hotels, restaurants, catering contracts, management companies and other interests.[/del] Kal Penn’s co-star John Cho starred as Sulu in the most recent _STAR TREK_, taking over from openly gay actor and Japanese internment camp survivor George Takei. ---
**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 12, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/667 "2010-02-12T17:01:30Z")
The TV cartoon series George of The Jungle included segments featuring Tom Slick and Super Chicken. ---
**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 12, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/668 "2010-02-12T17:06:58Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > The TV cartoon series George of The Jungle included segments featuring Tom Slick and Super Chicken. George of the Jungle was animated by Jay Ward, who also created the breakfast cereal spokes-characters Cap’n Crunch, Quisp, and Quake for Quaker Oats. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/669 "2010-02-12T17:10:32Z")
All five of George Foreman’s sons are named George. Aside to Sampiro: we used to live for Fridays when I was a kid in parochial school in Montgomery county, MD. That was the only day we got a lunch that wasn’t brought from home in a bag: we got a burger form Hot Shoppes, Jr… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/670 "2010-02-12T17:13:38Z")
The excellent film documentary “When We Were Kings” shows the environment surrounding the “Rumble in the Jungle” title bout in Kinshasa, Zaire between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, who was at his physical and charismatic prime. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/671 "2010-02-12T17:16:51Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The excellent film documentary “When We Were Kings” shows the environment surrounding the “Rumble in the Jungle” title bout in Kinshasa, Zaire between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, who was at his physical and charismatic prime. The New York City borough of Brooklyn is also called Kings County. ---
**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 12, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/672 "2010-02-12T17:28:45Z")
Brownstone rowhouses are prevalent in many parts of Brooklyn, including Bedford-Stuyvesant. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/673 "2010-02-12T17:36:00Z")
One-legged Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant was forced to surrender New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York. ---
**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 12, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/674 "2010-02-12T17:41:13Z")
Peter Stuyvesant is the villain in the musical _Knickerbocker Holliday_ by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson. He sings the famous song _September Song_. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/675 "2010-02-12T17:48:40Z")
September 1752 was the shortest month in British history, being just 19 days long. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/676 "2010-02-12T17:49:30Z")
Kurt Weill’s opera _The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny_, set in Alabama, is entirely in German, with the sole exception of the brothel madam’s aria “Moon of Alabama”, which is in English. When the Doors released it as “Alabama Song”, Jim Morrison changed the line “Oh, show me the way to the next pretty boy” to " … little girl". ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/677 "2010-02-12T17:56:02Z")
Kurt Weill’s \*Mack the Knife \* was a hit for Bobby Darrin and for Louis Armstrong in the late 1950s. ---
**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 12, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/678 "2010-02-12T18:19:02Z")
Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the Moon, still lives in his home state of Ohio but rarely makes public appearances. ---
**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 12, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/679 "2010-02-12T18:20:46Z")
Neill Armstrong was head coach of the Chicago Bears from 1978-1981. ---
**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 12, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/680 "2010-02-12T18:34:09Z")
Neal Anderson was with the Bears from 1986-1993 and had the unenviable task of following Walter Payton as starting running back. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=35)