# 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:** 62
**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 21, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1221 "2010-02-21T19:38:46Z")
Huston Street is a relief pitcher (closer) for the Colorado Rockies. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1222 "2010-02-21T19:48:57Z")
Picabo (pronounced “Peek-a-boo!”) Street won a gold medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1223 "2010-02-21T20:18:18Z")
Forties film star Veronica Lake was known as the “peekaboo girl” due to her hairstyle. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1224 "2010-02-21T20:30:05Z")
Peekapoo’s, crossbreeds created by breeding either a Pekingese and a Poodle or by breeding two Peekapoos, are not yet acknowledged as a breed by the AKC but are becoming extremely popular among apartment dwelling pet owners. ---
**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 21, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1225 "2010-02-21T21:14:46Z")
President George H.W. Bush became more popular after he lost to Bill Clinton in his 1992 campaign for reelection; his poll ratings rose in the months between the election and Inauguration Day. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1226 "2010-02-21T21:17:39Z")
Freshman orientation at George Washington University in DC is called “The Washington Inauguration”. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1227 "2010-02-22T01:45:29Z")
George Washington was one of the richest men in the United States in terms of net worth but he was so land-poor he had to borrow money to get to his inauguration. Land poor: a term for farmers and planters whose wealth is in real estate but not liquid ---
**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 22, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1228 "2010-02-22T02:11:31Z")
_Rich Land, Poor Land_ was a book by economist Stuart Chase. Chase also published an article titled _A New Deal for America_ a week before Franklin Roosevelt first used the phrase. ---
**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 22, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1229 "2010-02-22T03:39:23Z")
Salmon P. Chase of Ohio served as President Lincoln’s first Secretary of the Treasury and unsuccessfully schemed to steal the GOP’s 1864 nomination from him, but Lincoln nevertheless named him Chief Justice of the United States. In that capacity, he presided over Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate in 1868, never quite losing his hunger for the White House. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1230 "2010-02-22T03:39:46Z")
The original anchor on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update introduced the segment with the tagline “I’m Chevy Chase and you’re not”. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1231 "2010-02-22T03:47:54Z")
Chevy Chase is a suburb of Washington D.C., a ‘Chase’ is a privately owned unenclosed game preserve. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1232 "2010-02-22T03:59:58Z")
The famous Chevy bow-tie logo is a stylized Swiss cross. Louis and Gaston Chevrolet were originally from Geneva. ---
**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 22, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1233 "2010-02-22T04:10:08Z")
The Chevy logo was based upon some wallpaper one of the Chevrolet brothers found in a hotel room while he was traveling. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1234 "2010-02-22T04:47:30Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > The Chevy logo was based upon some wallpaper one of the Chevrolet brothers found in a hotel room while he was traveling. Even with a hotel, the highest rent a Monopoly player will ever have to pay for landing on Mediterranean Avenue is $250. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1235 "2010-02-22T05:36:23Z")
Monopoly was invented by Charles Darrow, a Philadelphia heating and cooling salesmen who was laid off during the Depression, who tweaked earlier unpatented versions and gave the spaces the names of Atlantic City landmarks; the game made him a multimillionaire. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1236 "2010-02-22T08:43:44Z")
Atlantic City’s Marven Gardens, possibly acronymic for neighboring MARgate City and VENtnor City, is misspelled as “Marvin Gardens” on the Monopoly game board. ---
**Author:** ![cucuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@cucuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cucuy)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1237 "2010-02-22T08:52:36Z")
Two of the most popular space aliens are given the name of “Marvin”: Marvin the Android and Marvin the Martian. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1238 "2010-02-22T11:39:36Z")
American composer Marvin Hamlisch is one of only 10 people to have won an Emmy Award, Grammy Award, an Oscar and a Tony Award. He is only one of two to have won all of those and a Pulitzer Prize. Richard Rodgers is the other. ---
**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 22, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1239 "2010-02-22T14:00:49Z")
Richard Nixon, Republican of California, served two terms as Vice President under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and when Ike was ill was the first Vice President to chair a meeting of the National Security Council. He was narrowly defeated by John F. Kennedy when he ran for President in 1960. ---
**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 22, 2010, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1240 "2010-02-22T15:13:14Z")
The National Security Council was established by the National Security Act of 1947. That single act was also responsible for the creation of the Air Force, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Joiint Chiefs of Staff and the merging of the Navy and War Departments into a single Department of Defense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=61) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=63)