# 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:** 49
**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 17, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/961 "2010-02-17T04:00:10Z")
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream empire started in a converted gas station near Burlington, Vt. They sold their interests to an international conglomerate a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/962 "2010-02-17T05:05:45Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ben & Jerry’s ice cream empire started in a converted gas station near Burlington, Vt. They sold their interests to an international conglomerate a few years ago. Wallace Stevens wrote a poem about death entitled “The Emperor of Ice Cream.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/963 "2010-02-17T05:50:10Z")
George Wallace’s main speechwriter during his first gubernatorial campaign and office was Asa Earl Carter, a KKK member and white supremacist who later wrote _The Outlaw Josey Wales_ and the (fraudulent) memoir _The Education of Little Tree_ (by which time he had changed his name and denied having been in the Klan). ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/964 "2010-02-17T07:16:37Z")
Howard Carter, who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamen, worked for an Earl of Carnaervon married to the illegitimate daughter of Alfred Charles de Rothschild. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/965 "2010-02-17T11:59:34Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Howard Carter, who discovered the Tomb of Tutankhamen, worked for an Earl of Carnaervon married to the illegitimate daughter of Alfred Charles de Rothschild. Howard Stern and Bill O’Reilly are both 6’5", and both studied broadcasting at Boston University. ---
**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 17, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/966 "2010-02-17T13:34:10Z")
Dick Clark studied broadcasting at Syracuse University. ---
**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 17, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/967 "2010-02-17T14:31:40Z")
Gen. George Rogers Clark captured the British outposts of Vincennes and Kaskaskia during the American Revolution before he turned 30; his younger brother William rose to fame with Meriwether Lewis. ---
**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 17, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/968 "2010-02-17T14:43:50Z")
Clark’s nutcracker is named after explorer William Clark. It’s usual habitat is pine forests abouve 3,000 feet. It is also known as Clark’s Crow and Woodpecker Crow. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/969 "2010-02-17T14:44:45Z")
George Rogers was the Heisman Trophy winner as the most outstanding player in NCAA football in 1980. ---
**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 17, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/970 "2010-02-17T14:44:56Z")
The county high school in Winchester, Ky., is George Rogers Clark High School. ---
**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 17, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/971 "2010-02-17T14:53:25Z")
The Boston Brahmin Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester replaced Dr. Frank Burns on the long-running Korean War sitcom _M_A_S_H\*. \*He was played by David Ogden Stiers. ---
**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 17, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/972 "2010-02-17T15:00:20Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Clark’s nutcracker is named after explorer William Clark. It’s usual habitat is pine forests abouve 3,000 feet. It is also known as Clark’s Crow and Woodpecker Crow. MST3K’s Crow T. Robot has been voiced by Trace Beaulieu, Bill Corbett, and Paul Chaplin. ---
**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 17, 2010, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/973 "2010-02-17T15:17:33Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > MST3K’s Crow T. Robot has been voiced by Trace Beaulieu, Bill Corbett, and Paul Chaplin. In one of the most demeaning job changes in TV history, Trace Beaulieu went from MST3K to being head “writer” of _America’s Funniest Home Videos_. ---
**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 17, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/974 "2010-02-17T15:28:27Z")
**blondebear** skipped the three preceding posts. I think the next poster should play off my post about Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester. ---
**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 17, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/975 "2010-02-17T15:32:30Z")
Suggestion: Everyone preview their posts before submitting, checking the very last one before the final Submit Reply. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/976 "2010-02-17T15:36:44Z")
David Emerson was the optical supervisor for _Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie._ ETA: while we’re at it, y’all skipped my post #867 back on page 18. Work that in, dangit! 😃 ---
**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 17, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/977 "2010-02-17T15:50:46Z")
_King David’s Spaceship_ is a science-fiction novel set in the same sf universe as Niven and Pournelle’s classic first-contact tale _The Mote in God’s Eye_. ---
**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 17, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/978 "2010-02-17T15:56:20Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > **blondebear** skipped the three preceding posts. I think the next poster should play off my post about Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester. Check the transistion between posts 967, 968, and 969. Who skipped who? ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/979 "2010-02-17T16:05:45Z")
Johannes Kepler’s 1630 narrative _Somnium_ was considered by Carl Sagan and Issac Asimov to be the first true example of science fiction. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/980 "2010-02-17T16:22:58Z")
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