# 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:** 35
**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, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/681 "2010-02-12T18:34:14Z")
Anderson Cooper’s mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, used to market her own brand of blue jeans. ---
**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, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/682 "2010-02-12T18:42:25Z")
Vanderbilt University in Nashville is a charter member of the Southeastern Conference. They are the only private school in the SEC and by far the smallest, with almost half the undergraduate population of the next largest school, Ole Miss. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/683 "2010-02-12T18:51:12Z")
The Grand Ole Opry, broadcast from the Nashville, Tennessee is the longest running live radio broadcast. ---
**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, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/684 "2010-02-12T19:03:40Z")
[del]Vanderbilt University was founded by “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt, then the richest man in the United States, even though he considered education beyond literacy a waste of time; it was to appease his much younger second wife (who was also his second cousin; his first wife was his first cousin).\* \*Also to get revenge on a dead enemy but that’s a long story I won’t go into here.[/del] The Parthenon in Nashville, built for the city’s centennial exhibition in 1897, is a full scale replica of the original in Athens and includes a statue of the goddess Pallas Athena. ---
**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, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/685 "2010-02-12T19:13:34Z")
James H. Clark, a founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape Communications, commissioned construction of the _Athena_; at its 2004 delivery, it was the largest yacht in the world. ( And just because I liked it so much, but was beaten to the punch: “The “#18 Classic Red Wagon” has been produced by the company known today as Radio Flyer for more than seventy years; its shape is a registered trademark.” ) ---
**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 12, 2010, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/686 "2010-02-12T19:20:03Z")
Netscape was the first popular web browser. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/687 "2010-02-12T19:24:00Z")
WorldWideWeb was the first web browser of any kind, invented by Tim Berners-Lee for CERN in 1991. ---
**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, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/688 "2010-02-12T19:53:23Z")
The term cobweb comes from the obsolete word coppe, meaning “spider.” ---
**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, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/689 "2010-02-12T19:54:31Z")
Pro skier “Spider” Sabich was killed by his lover, Claudine Longet, wife of singer Andy Williams. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/690 "2010-02-12T20:02:25Z")
Andy William’s only Billboard #1 hit was the single “Butterfly” a cover of a Charlie Gracie record on which Andy supposedly imitated Elvis Presley. ---
**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, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/691 "2010-02-12T20:12:23Z")
Andy Williams was among the first singers to own and perform at a dinner theater in Branson, Missouri; others include Roy Clark, Tony Orlando, John Davidson and Yakov Smirnov. ---
**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, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/692 "2010-02-12T20:19:09Z")
Clay Aiken, who also has his own theater in “So You Settled For” Branson, was NOT a winner of “American Idol”. He was narrowly beaten by Ruben Studdard. ---
**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, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/693 "2010-02-12T20:20:10Z")
Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser, was seated in the U.S. Senate even though, at 29, he was legally too young. ---
**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 12, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/694 "2010-02-12T20:28:09Z")
“The Betrothed,” Rudyard Kipling’s poem about cigars, contains the line, “There’s peace in a Larranaga, there’s calm in a Henry Clay.” Both Larranaga and Henry Clay were brands of cigars that still exist today. ---
**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, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/695 "2010-02-12T20:30:46Z")
British folk/blues singer Roy Harper provided the vocals on Pink Floyd’s song “Have a Cigar.” ---
**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, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/696 "2010-02-12T20:34:55Z")
Sigmund Freud, who is said to have said “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar” (a reference to potential phallic imagery), had to have most of his jaw bones removed in later years due to oral cancer caused by his 20 cigar per day smoking habit. ---
**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, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/697 "2010-02-12T20:36:41Z")
In the Book of Judges, Samson slew hundreds of Philistines with the jaw bone of a donkey. ---
**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 12, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/698 "2010-02-12T20:42:12Z")
Lyle Lovett’s album _Joshua Judges Ruth_ was released in 1992 by MCA Records. ---
**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 12, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/699 "2010-02-12T20:47:45Z")
Lyle Lovett’s Moritat - a Translation of the Moritat of Mackie Messer (BKA, Mack the Knife) - was used over the closing credits of Quiz Show. ---
**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, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/700 "2010-02-12T20:49:25Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Lyle Lovett’s Moritat - a Translation of the Moritat of Mackie Messer (BKA, Mack the Knife) - was used over the closing credits of Quiz Show. Every year, the best faculty member at Columbia University receives the Mark Van Doren award, named for the English professor played by Paul Scofield in “Quiz Show.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=34) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=36)