# 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:** 37
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/721 "2010-02-13T01:30:53Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > When Rosa Parks, a native of Tuskegee, left Montgomery she took a job at Hampton University, the alma mater of Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee Institute. In 1997, Bill Clinton offered a formal apology to the few remaining survivors of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments ---
**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 13, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/722 "2010-02-13T01:39:09Z")
A young Bill Clinton met President John F. Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden while visiting as part of the Boys Nation delegation from Arkansas. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/723 "2010-02-13T01:42:17Z")
John Kennedy was the only president to be survived by his grandmother (Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald, mother of his mother Rose [who the White House Rose Garden was not named for]). ---
**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 13, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/724 "2010-02-13T01:53:23Z")
Roses need 7 Gallons of water a week. It is better to water them deeply, 3 times a week, instead of once a day. ---
**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 13, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/725 "2010-02-13T02:22:18Z")
A gallon of water weighs 8.33 pounds. A gallon of ice, however, weighs only 7.65 pounds. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/726 "2010-02-13T02:28:53Z")
According to the Stetson company, a ten-gallon hat holds about three quarts of water. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/727 "2010-02-13T03:15:36Z")
Max Cleland, the Democrat triple amputee Vietnam veteran who served as senator from Georgia from 1997-2003, was a graduate of Stetson University in Florida (founded with endowments from the hat manufacturer and from the Deland baking soda fortune). ---
**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 13, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/728 "2010-02-13T03:43:26Z")
Among the graduates of Stetson University is Brian Bocock, who played pro baseball for the San Francisco Giants. ---
**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 13, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/729 "2010-02-13T05:29:52Z")
The liberal, author-wannabe, nemesis-of-Stewie dog in the Fox TV cartoon series _The Family Guy_ is named Brian Griffin. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/730 "2010-02-13T05:53:25Z")
Nemesis was worshiped as a spirit of vengeance- especially for hubris or betrayal- throughout the Greek and Roman world and in some places was considered a goddess in her own right and more ancient than Zeus and the Olympians. ---
**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 13, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/731 "2010-02-13T06:51:21Z")
_Star Trek Nemesis_ was the fourth, and final, movie to feature Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the rest of the cast from _Star Trek: The Next Generation_. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/732 "2010-02-13T09:50:32Z")
Bergamot, which is used to flavor Earl Grey tea, flowers in the winter. ---
**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 13, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/733 "2010-02-13T13:59:23Z")
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard often orders “Tea, Earl Grey, hot” from the replicator in his Ready Room aboard the USS _Enterprise_. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/734 "2010-02-13T14:09:41Z")
The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is the sole member of the Enterprise class. She will be mothballed when the USS Gerald Ford, lead ship of the Gerald Ford class, is commissioned. ---
**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 13, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/735 "2010-02-13T15:21:25Z")
The USS Hornet, the aircraft carrier that recovered the Apollo 11 astronauts, is now a floating museum docked at Alameda Point on San Francisco Bay. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/736 "2010-02-13T15:25:42Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > The USS Hornet, the aircraft carrier that recovered the Apollo 11 astronauts, is now a floating museum docked at Alameda Point on San Francisco Bay. The Green Hornet’s alter ego is millionaire Britt Reid, whose great uncle was John Reid, the Lone Ranger. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/737 "2010-02-13T15:54:57Z")
There was a 1970’s American Motors Corporation car called the Hornet whose name echoed that of the 1950’s Hudson Hornet. Hudson and Nash merged to form AMC in 1954. ---
**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 13, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/738 "2010-02-13T15:55:33Z")
AMC introduced the Pacer in 1975, was featured in Mike Myers _Wayne’s World_ ---
**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 13, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/739 "2010-02-13T18:45:37Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > AMC introduced the Pacer in 1975, was featured in Mike Myers _Wayne’s World_ Ford Motor Company has two plants in Wayne, Michigan. They assemble the Ford Explorer/Lincoln Navigator in one, and the Ford Focus in the other. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/740 "2010-02-13T18:49:41Z")
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