# 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:** 57
**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 19, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1121 "2010-02-19T14:46:25Z")
The musical _Chicago_ is based upon an actual Chicago murderess of the 1920s, though her name was changed. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1122 "2010-02-19T14:50:44Z")
The first Heisman Trophy winner, Jay Berwanger, played for the University of Chicago, which abolished its football program entirely a few years later. ---
**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 19, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1123 "2010-02-19T15:09:11Z")
A group of DePaul University music students formed a group called The Big Thing. When they got serious about recording, they moved to Los Angeles and changed their name to Chicago Transit Authority, later renamed Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1124 "2010-02-19T15:28:49Z")
Chicago has a statue of Lincoln in Grant Park and a statue of Grant in Lincoln Park. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1125 "2010-02-19T15:49:30Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Chicago has a statue of Lincoln in Grant Park and a statue of Grant in Lincoln Park. Shirley Chase’s hit “The Name Game” was co-written by her boyfriend (later husband) Lincoln Chase- which is why it contains the lyric “Lincoln Lincoln Bo Bincoln Banana Fana Fo Fincoln Fee Fi Mo Mincoln, Lincoln!” ---
**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 19, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1126 "2010-02-19T15:59:32Z")
Leslie Nielsen had a long career as a dramatic actor, but suddenly became a comic actor with his role in _Airplane!_, including the classic exchange: “Surely you can’t be serious?” “I am serious…and don’t call me Shirley.” ---
**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 19, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1127 "2010-02-19T16:23:44Z")
Since 2004, the top-rated TV series according to the Nielsen television ratings has been “American Idol”. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1128 "2010-02-19T16:27:52Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Since 2004, the top-rated TV series according to the Nielsen television ratings has been “American Idol”. William Broad, better known as Billy idol, was the lead singer of the British punk band Generation X. ---
**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 19, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1129 "2010-02-19T16:57:10Z")
**The Idolmaker** was a film about a rock manager who created a rock and roll idol, based loosely on the story of Fabian. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1130 "2010-02-19T16:57:21Z")
Billy the Kid’s real name was William Bonney. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1131 "2010-02-19T17:08:58Z")
Some biographers believe Billy the Kid was born William Bonney and was a cousin of Parley Pratt (a polygamist ancestor of Mitt Romney), while others maintain he was born Henry McCarty in the Irish slums of New York City, and most other aspects of his life (and death) have accounts that vary just as widely. ---
**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 19, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1132 "2010-02-19T17:09:34Z")
William, Duke of Normandy, won the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and was able, with the Pope’s blessing, to seize the throne of England, thereby winning the nickname “William the Conqueror.” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1133 "2010-02-19T17:12:27Z")
Just 100 miles away from the Irish slums of NYC are the Italian slums of Philadelphia, home of Fabiano Anthony Forte, who adopted the stage name “Fabian” for his appearances on _American Bandstand_, just as William Bonney / Henry McCarty adopted the stage name “Billy the Kid” for his bank robberies. Whew! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1134 "2010-02-19T17:18:16Z")
The Fabian Society was a British socialist movement whose members included George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells and the Woolfs, though there’s no evidence they ever played _Turn Me Loose_. ---
**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 19, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1135 "2010-02-19T17:21:15Z")
H.G. Wells, played by Malcolm McDowell, is the leading character in the Nick Meyer-directed 1979 time-travel thriller/romance _Time After Time_, in which he matches wits with Jack the Ripper on both Victorian London and Disco-era San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1136 "2010-02-19T17:22:59Z")
Painter Jackson Pollock was nicknamed “Jack the Dripper”. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1137 "2010-02-19T17:34:35Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Painter Jackson Pollock was nicknamed “Jack the Dripper”. There are four state capitals named after US Presidents: Jackson, MS; Madison, WI; Lincoln, NE; Jefferson City, MO. ---
**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 19, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1138 "2010-02-19T17:36:35Z")
“The drip” is a nickname for gonnorhea because one of the disease’s classic symptoms is a discharge from the urethra. ---
**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 19, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1139 "2010-02-19T17:43:49Z")
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are based in Atlanta, Ga., are a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1140 "2010-02-19T17:56:55Z")
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is the world’s busiest in terms of annual passanger volume, and has been every year since 2000. The city of Atlanta is sometimes described as “a bunch of buildings next to the Atlanta airport”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=56) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=58)