# 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:** 63
**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, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1241 "2010-02-22T16:03:53Z")
Ted Williams won the Triple Crown in both 1942 and 1947, but shockingly, he didn’t win the American League MVP award either time. ---
**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, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1242 "2010-02-22T16:23:30Z")
There is a Ted Williams museum at Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays, even though Williams never played for that team. ---
**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, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1243 "2010-02-22T16:49:28Z")
The tunnel connecting Boston’s Logan Airport with South Boston and downtown is the Ted Williams Tunnel. Hey, it’s cold, steel, cylindrical … 😃 ---
**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, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1244 "2010-02-22T16:58:33Z")
The sail frigate USS _Constitution_, afloat since 1797 and now the oldest-commissioned vessel in the U.S. Navy, is moored in Charlestown, across the harbor from Boston. ---
**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, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1245 "2010-02-22T17:03:01Z")
When the Constitution was scheduled to be broken up in 1830, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.'s poem “Old Ironsides” was credited with saving her instead. “Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set ev’ry threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!” ---
**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, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1246 "2010-02-22T17:12:12Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > When the Constitution was scheduled to be broken up in 1830, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.'s poem “Old Ironsides” was credited with saving her instead. > > “Nail to the mast her holy flag, > Set ev’ry threadbare sail, > And give her to the god of storms, > The lightning and the gale!” A one-hit wonder calling himself “Oliver” reached the Billboard charts with his rendition of “Good Morning Starshine” from the Broadway musical “Hair.” ---
**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, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1247 "2010-02-22T17:19:46Z")
Contrary to legend, most historians do not believe that a young Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., then serving in a Massachusetts infantry regiment, shouted at President Lincoln to get down during Confederate Gen. Jubal Early’s 1864 attack on Ft. Stevens, one of the defenses of Washington, D.C. ---
**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 22, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1248 "2010-02-22T17:27:16Z")
In the comic strip _Bloom County_, Oliver Wendell Jones was the science nerd and computer hacker who did things like change the front page of _Pravda_ from “Gorbachev Urges Disarmament: Total! Unilateral!” to “Gorbachev Sings Tractors: Turnip! Buttocks!” ---
**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, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1249 "2010-02-22T17:34:22Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > In the comic strip _Bloom County_, Oliver Wendell Jones was the science nerd and computer hacker who did things like change the front page of _Pravda_ from “Gorbachev Urges Disarmament: Total! Unilateral!” to “Gorbachev Sings Tractors: Turnip! Buttocks!” Bill Wendell was the original studio announcer for “Late Night With David Letterman” on NBC TV. ---
**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, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1250 "2010-02-22T17:44:07Z")
\*Mr. Wendel \*was the title of a song by Arrested Development with a theme about whether material goods are essential to happiness. Mr. Wendel is a bum. ---
**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, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1251 "2010-02-22T17:45:44Z")
David Letterman’s first job as network TV host was a morning show on NBC. It premiered in June 1980 and was canceled in October – after it won two Emmy Awards. Bill Wendell replaced the original in-studio announcer, Bob Sarlatte. ---
**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, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1252 "2010-02-22T17:47:23Z")
David Letterman, a graduate of Ball State U. in Muncie, Indiana, broke into television as a local weatherman in Indianapolis. ---
**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, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1253 "2010-02-22T18:00:06Z")
As a TV weatherman, perhaps Letterman’s finest moment came when he predicted “hailstones the size of canned hams.” ---
**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, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1254 "2010-02-22T18:21:23Z")
The famous canned ham product called Spam, short for “spiced ham”, was introduced by Hormel Foods in 1937. ---
**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, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1255 "2010-02-22T18:24:05Z")
Openly gay Spam heir James Hormel was the subject of a major controversy in socially conservative circles when he was appointed by Clinton as ambassador to Luxembourg. (Luxembourg repeatedly said they didn’t care.) ---
**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, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1256 "2010-02-22T20:20:22Z")
New York governor DeWitt Clinton is largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal. ---
**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, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1257 "2010-02-22T20:37:13Z")
William DeWitt, Jr. is the managing partner of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team. His father, William, Sr. was the majority owner of the St. Louis Browns. The elder DeWitt sold the Browns to Bill Veek, former owner of the Cleveland Indians and future owner of the Chicago White Sox. ---
**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, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1258 "2010-02-22T20:39:47Z")
The St. Louis Browns only won one AL pennant, in 1944 when the best players were in the army. ---
**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 22, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1259 "2010-02-22T20:43:48Z")
With the Saints successful trip to the Super Bowl this year, 4 teams remain that have never made it to the Big Game. Those 4 teams are the Browns, Lions, Jaguars and Texans. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1260 "2010-02-22T20:50:08Z")
The Dallas Texans were an original American Football League franchise, but owner Lamar Hunt moved the team to Kansas City in 1963 and renamed the club the Chiefs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=62) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=64)