# 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:** 55
**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 18, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1081 "2010-02-18T19:52:22Z")
On February 23, 1995, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 30.28 to close at 4003.33 – the Dow’s first-ever close above 4000. ---
**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 18, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1082 "2010-02-18T20:13:07Z")
“Dreaming of 4000” is a song on the Electric Light Orchestra’s third album, _On the Third Day_. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1083 "2010-02-18T20:13:29Z")
The only company to have been on the Dow Jones 30 Industrials list since its inception is General Electric. ETA: … which pioneered electric lighting. 😃 ---
**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 18, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1084 "2010-02-18T20:16:14Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > ETA: … which pioneered electric lighting. 😃 (Nice save. 😉 ) ---
**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 18, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1085 "2010-02-18T20:42:08Z")
General William T. Sherman led Union troops on a celebrated “March to the Sea” in late 1864, from Atlanta to Savannah, Ga., demonstrating the inability of the Confederate government to protect its own heartland. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1086 "2010-02-18T20:43:58Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The only company to have been on the Dow Jones 30 Industrials list since its inception is General Electric. > > ETA: … which pioneered electric lighting. 😃 [del]Charles Brush of Cleveland designed a dynamo for powering arc lamp streetlights. A high school in the Cleveland suburb of Lyndhurst is named for Brush, and its sports teams are called the Arcs in honor of his invention.[/del] Atlanta (formerly Terminus) received its successive names because it was the terminal point of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1087 "2010-02-18T20:44:20Z")
Sherman’s middle name was Tecumseh, a Shawnee Native American chief that fought the Americans in Tecumseh’s War and The War of 1812 in Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1088 "2010-02-18T20:46:45Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Sherman’s middle name was Tecumseh, a Shawnee Native American chief that fought the Americans in Tecumseh’s War and The War of 1812 in Ohio. In addition to his popular Nero Wolfe series, Rex Stout wrote several mystery novels featuring a detective named Tecumseh Fox. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1089 "2010-02-18T20:58:56Z")
The wife of the Romulan villain Nero from the 2009 reboot Star Trek film was played by actress Scottie Thompson, previously best known as Dr. Jeanne Benoit on the television series NCIS. ---
**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 18, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1090 "2010-02-18T21:15:48Z")
Nero didn’t fiddle when Rome burned – fiddles weren’t invented, and he was out of town at the time. He rushed to the city and led efforts to help its victims. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1091 "2010-02-18T21:16:49Z")
Joan Benoit Samuelson won the first Olympic women’s marathon in Los Angeles during the 1984 Games… ETA: … which occurred twenty-four years after Abebe Bikila took the gold in the 1960 Rome Olympics! ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1092 "2010-02-18T21:23:29Z")
Joan Jett and Lita Ford were members of the all-girl rock band, the Runaways. ---
**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 18, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1093 "2010-02-18T21:25:16Z")
The movie Runaway featured Gene Simmons as an evil robot making guy. ---
**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 18, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1094 "2010-02-18T21:26:59Z")
“Runaway” has been the title of hit songs by a number of artists, including Del Shannon, Bon Jovi, and Janet Jackson. ---
**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 18, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1095 "2010-02-18T21:36:37Z")
Janet Jackson had a “wardrobe malfunction” and showed her bare breast while performing during a Super Bowl halftime show with Justin Timberlake, resulting in a large fine being imposed by the FCC. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1096 "2010-02-18T21:37:08Z")
[del]Del Shores is the writer of the plays _Southern Baptist Sissies_, _Sordid Lives_, _Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife_ and _Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got the Will_, all of which are set in Texas.[/del] Janet Jackson was born in Gary Indiana and has been married twice- first to James DeBarge and then to Rene Elizondo (a marriage that was kept secret for several years). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1097 "2010-02-18T22:09:33Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > [del]Del Shores is the writer of the plays _Southern Baptist Sissies_, _Sordid Lives_, _Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife_ and _Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got the Will_, all of which are set in Texas.[/del] > > Janet Jackson was born in Gary Indiana and has been married twice- first to James DeBarge and then to Rene Elizondo (a marriage that was kept secret for several years). Canadian singer R. Dean Taylor, best known for “Indiana Wants Me,” co-wrote the Supremes’ hit “Love Child.” ---
**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 18, 2010, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1098 "2010-02-18T22:12:09Z")
AN ASIDE > [@Sampiro](#): > > [del]Del Shores is the writer of the plays _Southern Baptist Sissies_, _Sordid Lives_, _Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife_ and _Daddy’s Dyin’, Who’s Got the Will_, all of which are set in Texas.[/del] Suddenly, the thread title, about your mother, from a couple years back make sense! CARRY ON ---
**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 18, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1099 "2010-02-18T22:54:02Z")
Cheap Trick’s song, “I Want You To Want Me”, failed to chart as a single in the U.S. when released as a studio recording in 1977. But, the live version, from their _Cheap Trick at Budokan_ concert album, became their biggest-selling single in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1100 "2010-02-18T23:17:26Z")
Michael Moore dropped in on Cheap Trick’s Rick Neilsen at his home in Rockford, Illinois as part of his 1996 documentary _The Big One_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=54) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=56)