# 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:** 42
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/821 "2010-02-15T07:41:27Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > James Jones’s “From Here to Eternity” takes its title from a line from one of Kipling’s “Barracks Room Ballads”: “Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity”. Raymond “Captain Sensible” Burns was a founding member of the British punk rock group The Damned. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/822 "2010-02-15T08:29:25Z")
George Burns, who played Sergeant Pepper in the movie flop of SPLHCB as well as God and the Devil in the Oh God movies, was born Nathan Birnbaum, one of 12 children of a cantor who died when Burns was a boy. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/823 "2010-02-15T13:38:43Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > George Burns, who played Sergeant Pepper in the movie flop of SPLHCB as well as God and the Devil in the Oh God movies, was born Nathan Birnbaum, one of 12 children of a cantor who died when Burns was a boy. Nitpick: George Burns played Mayor Kite (as in “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite”). Billy Preston played Sgt. Pepper (who had been a white guy in earlier scenes!) I wish to God I didn’t know that, because it would mean I hadn’t seen that movie! Pope John the 23rd was a sergeant in the Italian Army. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/824 "2010-02-15T14:28:39Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Pope John the 23rd was a sergeant in the Italian Army. Dick Sargent replaced Dick York in the 1969 season of _Bewitched_. ---
**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 15, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/825 "2010-02-15T14:55:52Z")
York Minster’s Great East window is the largest example of medieval stained glass in the world. ---
**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 15, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/826 "2010-02-15T15:04:05Z")
The north transept window at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Ky., is the world’s largest church stained glass window, measuring 67 feet in length by 24 feet wide. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/827 "2010-02-15T15:11:52Z")
The three-letter code for Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is CVG because the closest city to it is Covington, KY. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/828 "2010-02-15T15:22:21Z")
The Rush song _YYZ,_ an instrumental, is named after the three-letter code for Toronto Pearson International Airport. By the way, they being Canadian, the name of the song is prounounced, “Why-Why-Zed.” ---
**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 15, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/829 "2010-02-15T15:35:40Z")
Durango 95, an instrumental in the Ramones album Too Tough to Die is 55 seconds long. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/830 "2010-02-15T15:48:19Z")
Jethro Tull, who recorded “Too Old to Rock and Roll, Too Young to Die”, got their name from the 18th-century inventor of the seed drill and other innovations in agriculture. ---
**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 15, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/831 "2010-02-15T16:06:50Z")
North Dakota’s agriculture commissioner is Doug Goehring. ---
**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 15, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/832 "2010-02-15T16:14:15Z")
In 2001, Dakota Fanning became the youngest person to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award at the age of seven for her work in “I Am Sam”. ---
**Author:** ![Kingspades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecae2f/32.png) [@Kingspades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kingspades)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/833 "2010-02-15T16:31:35Z")
Fannings are small bits of leaf sifted out of higher grade teas. They are one step above the lowest grade: dust. ---
**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 15, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/834 "2010-02-15T16:34:41Z")
Midnight Oil’s album Diesel and Dust features the song Beds are Burning. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/835 "2010-02-15T16:39:23Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Midnight Oil’s album Diesel and Dust features the song Beds are Burning. Actor Marc Vincent took the more macho sounding name Vin Diesel while working as a nightclub bouncer. ---
**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 15, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/836 "2010-02-15T16:41:39Z")
Rats. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/837 "2010-02-15T17:45:20Z")
NBA player Shaquille O’Neal’s debut rap album was 1993’s _Shaq Diesel_, including the hit track “(I Know I Got) Skillz”. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/838 "2010-02-15T18:10:54Z")
Shaquille O’Neal played the title role, a genie, in the 1996 film _Kazaam_. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/839 "2010-02-15T18:13:08Z")
“I Dream of Jeannie,” featuring a genie, was the last TV series to be broadcast on NBC in black and white (the first season). ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/840 "2010-02-15T18:18:02Z")
[del]The O’ in an Irish male’s surname comes from “Ó/Ua” and means “grandson of.”[/del] Crap! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=43)