# 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:** 45
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/881 "2010-02-16T03:06:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > That was Joseph Hooker, not McClellan. Actually, it was John Pope. The Pope in 1941 was Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, or Pius XII. ---
**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 16, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/882 "2010-02-16T03:12:44Z")
Pope Pius XII, who died in 1958, suffered from episodes of chronic hiccups. ---
**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 16, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/883 "2010-02-16T03:18:36Z")
The longest recorded continuous hiccup attack lasted 68 years, suffered by Charles Osborne, who finally found relief in 1990…a year before he died. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/884 "2010-02-16T03:33:51Z")
In 1982 Ozzie Osbourne was arrested for urinating on a memorial to the soldiers who died at the Alamo (he did not urinate on the Alamo itself as some accounts reported) and was banned from San Antonio for a decade. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/885 "2010-02-16T04:45:05Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > In 1982 Ozzie Osbourne was arrested for urinating on a memorial to the soldiers who died at the Alamo (he did not urinate on the Alamo itself as some accounts reported) and was banned from San Antonio for a decade. Comedienne Carol Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/886 "2010-02-16T05:17:55Z")
Carol Burnett appeared as Eunice Higgins on a few episodes of _Mama’s Family_, a show whose creator (Dick Clair) willed his points in the show to fund research at ALCOR, the cryonics insitute that froze his remains. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/887 "2010-02-16T05:47:22Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Carol Burnett appeared as Eunice Higgins on a few episodes of _Mama’s Family_, a show whose creator (Dick Clair) willed his points in the show to fund research at ALCOR, the cryonics insitute that froze his remains. In the final episode of “Magnum PI,” Higgins admits being Robin Masters… then later smirks, “I lied,” leaving the matter unresolved forever. ---
**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 16, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/888 "2010-02-16T06:04:51Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > Actually, it was John Pope… I’d checked on Google and found several citations to Hooker. James McPherson in the Pulitzer-winning _The Battle Cry of Freedom_ doesn’t say; maybe you’re right. Clint Eastwood played Det. “Dirty Harry” Callahan, whose famous weapon was a .357 Magnum. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/889 "2010-02-16T06:37:50Z")
Magnum condoms are targeted at men with larger erections, not those that are 3.57 inches long. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/890 "2010-02-16T07:40:08Z")
Erector sets were first sold by A.C. Gilbert in 1913 and were manufactured in New Haven, CT; later they were sold and manufactured in Lancaster PA and now they are of foreign manufacture. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/891 "2010-02-16T12:31:03Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Erector sets were first sold by A.C. Gilbert in 1913 and were manufactured in New Haven, CT; later they were sold and manufactured in Lancaster PA and now they are of foreign manufacture. Irish singer Raymond O’Sullivan scored several huge hits in the Seventies under the name “Gilbert” O’Sullivan. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/892 "2010-02-16T12:35:28Z")
[Raymond James Stadium, in Tampa, has a pirate ship](http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/0/n/r/TampaBayPirateShip.jpg) at one end with working cannons\*. \*Ok, they are just used to make noise and don’t actually fire anything. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/893 "2010-02-16T13:58:59Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > [Raymond James Stadium, in Tampa, has a pirate ship](http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/0/n/r/TampaBayPirateShip.jpg) at one end with working cannons\*. > \*Ok, they are just used to make noise and don’t actually fire anything. Pirate Henry Morgan, namesake of a popular brand of rum, was the subject of John Steinbeck’s novel “Cup of Gold.” ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/894 "2010-02-16T14:11:14Z")
One of the main characters in Steinbeck’s novella _The Wayward Bus_ is obsessed with Clark Gable; another, named Carson, wants everyone to call him Kit. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/895 "2010-02-16T14:35:59Z")
Carson Wyler is Garrison Keillor’s alter ego in some of his radio sketches during _The Prairie Home Companion_. ---
**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 16, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/896 "2010-02-16T14:56:22Z")
Inspired by the movie _The Dirty Dozen_, the 1967 TV series _Garrison’s Gorillas_ was about a group of convicts that went on commando missions behind enemy lines. ---
**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 16, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/897 "2010-02-16T14:58:36Z")
William Lloyd Garrison published the anti-slavery newspaper, the weekly _Liberator_, more than three decades, from 1831 until after the end of the Civil War in 1865. During that 35 years, 1,820 issues, Garrison did not fail to publish a single issue. ---
**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 16, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/898 "2010-02-16T15:09:59Z")
David Lloyd George, who was born in Wales, was the British prime minister during World War I. After his wife’s death, he married his mistress of 30 years, which caused great tension between him and his children. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/899 "2010-02-16T15:12:36Z")
Wales and Bhutan are the only countries to have a dragon on their flag. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/900 "2010-02-16T15:25:36Z")
Darryl Dragon, the son of orchestra conductor Carmen Dragon, was given the nickname “Captain Keyboards” by the Beach Boys. He later married singer Toni Tennille, with whom he recorded several big hits. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=46)