# 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:** 72
**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 25, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1421 "2010-02-25T18:13:27Z")
Conan Doyle was knighted not for writing the Holmes stories, but for his services as a doctor during the Boer War. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1422 "2010-02-25T18:38:36Z")
Concentration camps were invented by the British for use in the Boer War. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1423 "2010-02-25T18:56:24Z")
British Boer War hero, Boy Scouts founder, and extreme eccentric\* Robert Baden-Powell was so obsessed with the play Peter Pan he named his daughter Wendy and his son Peter. \*How weird was he? He didn’t marry until he was 55 but when he did he slept on his wife’s balcony each night regardless of the weather, and we won’t even go into his love of ‘naked boys swimming’. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1424 "2010-02-25T19:13:11Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > British Boer War hero, Boy Scouts founder, and extreme eccentric\* Robert Baden-Powell was so obsessed with the play Peter Pan he named his daughter Wendy and his son Peter. > \*How weird was he? He didn’t marry until he was 55 but when he did he slept on his wife’s balcony each night regardless of the weather, and we won’t even go into his love of ‘naked boys swimming’. George Young and Harry Vanda, the leaders of the Sixties pop band the Easybeats (“Friday on My Mind”), later performed together as "Flash ‘n’ the Pan. Young’s brothers Angus and Malcolm founded AC/DC. ---
**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 25, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1425 "2010-02-25T20:02:07Z")
Malcolm McDowell made his name as an actor in edgy English films such as \*If… \*and _A Clockwork Orange_. He also appeared in sf classics such as _Time after Time_, in which he played a nebbishy but heroic H.G. Wells, and _Star Trek: Generations_, in which he played the villain Soran. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1426 "2010-02-25T20:25:57Z")
David Wells and Don Larsen, who each pitched a perfect game for the New York Yankees, both attended Point Loma High School, in San Diego, CA. ---
**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 25, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1427 "2010-02-25T20:28:48Z")
David Wells once wore one of Babe Ruth’s Yankee’s caps while pitching. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1428 "2010-02-25T20:41:15Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Jeannette Rankin of Wyoming, the first woman to serve in the House, cast votes against US entry into both World Wars. In 1941, hers was the only such vote. Nitpick: Rankin was from [Montana](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanette_Rankin). [Quote=RealityChuck] David Wells once wore one of Babe Ruth’s Yankee’s caps while pitching. [/Quote] Babe Ruth’s nicknames included “The Sultan of Swat” and “The Bambino”. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1429 "2010-02-25T20:45:15Z")
The Swat district in Pakistan once had an actual Sultan. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1430 "2010-02-25T21:02:41Z")
Bangladesh was known as East Pakistan until it became a separate country in 1971. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1431 "2010-02-25T21:09:08Z")
Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan assassinated in 2007, received her undergraduate degree at Harvard (comparative government) and did graduate study at Oxford (political philosophy and economics). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1432 "2010-02-25T21:10:48Z")
Known as “Pinkie” at Harvard, Ms. Bhutto was also a reporter for the student-run _Harvard Crimson_, although she never joined the Lampoon. ---
**Author:** ![Redwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1433 "2010-02-25T21:27:59Z")
Pinkie is the counterpart of the Brain from the cartoon series Animaniacs (Warner 93-98). ---
**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 25, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1434 "2010-02-25T21:36:16Z")
> [@Redwing](#): > > Pinkie is the counterpart of the Brain from the cartoon series Animaniacs (Warner 93-98). On _Pinky And The Brain_ (not “Pinkie”), the character The Brain is based on the look and voice of Orson Welles. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1435 "2010-02-25T21:40:52Z")
Maurice LaMarche, who performs the voice of The Brain, dubbed the dialogue of Vincent D’Onofrio (now best known for LAW AND ORDER SVU) when he portrayed Orson Welles in the Tim Burton movie _ED WOOD_; the movie that was giving Welles trouble in that scene was _Touch of Evil_. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1436 "2010-02-25T21:59:14Z")
Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens was nicknamed “the Rocket.” When his younger, smaller brother Henri joined the Canadiens, he was nicknamed “the Pocket Rocket.” ---
**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 25, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1437 "2010-02-25T22:09:00Z")
The “Pocket Rockit” is a battery-operated “headphone amplifier” for electric guitars, and is about the size of a bar of soap. ---
**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 25, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1438 "2010-02-25T22:23:36Z")
In a Google search for “pocket Rocket” the first entry is for a motorized mini-bike. The second entry is for a sex toy. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1439 "2010-02-25T22:40:47Z")
Charles Rocket was the anchor on “Weekend Update” on the disasastrous 1980-81 season of “Saturday Night Live.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1440 "2010-02-25T23:07:32Z")
Charles Rocket died by slitting his throat, an act which in Spanish was once translated loosely as ‘_Degüello_’, which was the name of a Mexican army bugle tune blown to signal the final assault on the Alamo and was also a name give to a breed of Spanish work dogs now known as Perro de Presa Canario. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=71) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=73)