# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/61 "2010-02-04T20:30:22Z")
Jane Fonda is the mother of Troy Garrity, the ‘ghetto white boy’ from the BARBERSHOP movies though in real life he grew up in a Santa Monica beachfront mansion and in Beverly Hills. ---
**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 4, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/62 "2010-02-04T20:33:47Z")
The Beverly Hillbillies aired from 1962 until 1971, much to the embarrassment of anyone from a rural state. ---
**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 4, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/63 "2010-02-04T20:34:19Z")
Hey! You said Beverly Hills! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/64 "2010-02-04T20:35:42Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Hey! You said Beverly Hills! Re-added it- looked it up and Fonda had homes in Santa Monica and in Beverly Hills. We’re copacetic now.😉 The domino is [QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] The Beverly Hillbillies aired from 1962 until 1971, much to the embarrassment to anyone from a rural state. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/65 "2010-02-04T20:42:34Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > The Beverly Hillbillies aired from 1962 until 1971, much to the embarrassment of anyone from a rural state. West Virginia is the only state in the Union to have acquired its sovereignty by proclamation of the President of the United States. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/66 "2010-02-04T20:45:00Z")
Bob Denver (of _Gilligan’s Island_ fame) spent the last two decades of his life living on a small mountain where he raised goldfish near Princeton, West Virginia. ---
**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 4, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/67 "2010-02-04T20:49:50Z")
West Virginia is the home of the New River Gorge Bridge, which is closed one day a year for a BASE jumping festival. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/68 "2010-02-04T20:50:32Z")
Princeton University’s Frist Campus Center is the stand-in for the exterior shots of Princeton Plainsboro Hospital, home of the fictional Dr. Gregory House. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/69 "2010-02-04T20:51:32Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > West Virginia is the home of the New River Gorge Bridge, which is closed one day a year for a BASE jumping festival. The Statue of Liberty could fit under the arch of the New River Gorge Bridge. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/70 "2010-02-04T20:51:55Z")
Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Brooke Shields graduated from Princeton University (in New Jersey). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/71 "2010-02-04T20:53:52Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > The Statue of Liberty could fit under the arch of the New River Gorge Bridge. Emma Lazarus wrote the poem “Give us your poor,” etc., on the tablet held by the Statue of Liberty. Damn. Y’all are fast. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/72 "2010-02-04T21:03:32Z")
That poem is properly titled _The New Colossus_, and contrasts “Liberty Enlightening the World” with the Colossus of Rhodes. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/73 "2010-02-04T21:05:46Z")
The smallest state has the longest name: The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/74 "2010-02-04T21:08:20Z")
Rhode Island was chartered by Roger Williams when he was expelled from the Puritan community in Boston. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/75 "2010-02-04T21:09:14Z")
Roger Williams won a Grammy for “Autumn Leaves”. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/76 "2010-02-04T21:11:49Z")
Many Slavic languages use the word _Listopad_, which means “falling leaves”, to refer to the month of November. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/77 "2010-02-04T21:17:39Z")
The Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions are the two NFL teams that play every Thanksgiving, which is in November in the US. ---
**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 4, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/78 "2010-02-04T21:20:34Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Many Slavic languages use the word _Listopad_, which means “falling leaves”, to refer to the month of November. Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was featured on the cover of Time Magazine, January 1938 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/79 "2010-02-04T21:29:46Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, was featured on the cover of Time Magazine, January 1938 No one has been Time Magazine’s Man of the Year more times than Joseph Stalin. ---
**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 4, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/80 "2010-02-04T21:56:45Z")
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