# 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:** 75
**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 26, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1481 "2010-02-26T19:31:51Z")
That’s “Lincoln beat Douglas” in the last sentence, obviously. :smack: ---
**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 26, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1482 "2010-02-26T19:46:01Z")
Stephen Douglass was an actor on Broadway, best known for his performance of Shoeless Joe Hardy in the original production of _Damn Yankees_ ---
**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 26, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1483 "2010-02-26T19:53:08Z")
Stephen Girard was a wealthy Philadelphia businessman and supporter of the Revolutionary cause, accused - perhaps falsely - of having his unfaithful wife locked up in an insane asylum in the play _The Insanity of Mary Girard_. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1484 "2010-02-26T19:55:28Z")
[del]Gwen Verdon solidified her fame as the greatest dancer on Broadway for her portrayal of Lola, the girlfriend of “Mr. Applegate” (Satan) in _Damn Yankees_, which was her first work with Bob Fosse, her future husband.[/del] Mary Todd Lincoln was committted to an insane asylum, after Abraham’s murder, by her son, Robert Todd Lincoln. ---
**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 26, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1485 "2010-02-26T20:17:59Z")
In an epiisode of the TV series _Route 66_ Tod and Buzz help a woman recently released from a mental hospital. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1486 "2010-02-26T20:31:51Z")
Route 66, despite the lyrics by Bobby Troup (who later played a doctor on _Emergency_), did not wind from Chicago to LA, but to Santa Monica. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1487 "2010-02-26T20:42:31Z")
Martin Milner from the series _Route 66_ later starred in the Jack Webb series _Adam 12_ with Kent McCord, who later starred in the lamentable sci-fi series [_Battlestar_]\* Galactica 1980\*. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1488 "2010-02-26T20:47:31Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Martin Milner from the series _Route 66_ later starred in the Jack Webb series _Adam 12_ with Kent McCord, who later starred in the lamentable sci-fi series [_Battlestar_]\* Galactica 1980\*. In the Pixar movie _ **Cars** _, Lightning McQueen is stranded in the little town of Radiator Springs, along Route 66. ---
**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 26, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1489 "2010-02-26T20:51:31Z")
In _Revenge of the Sith_, Palpatine, revealed as Darth Sidious, secretly issues Order 66 for all clone troopers to turn on and kill the Jedi knights who are accompanying them. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1490 "2010-02-26T20:57:46Z")
Phillips Petroleum named its gasoline Phillips 66 after the fuel was being tested on Route 66 and the driver noticed that the car was going 66 miles per hour. ---
**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 26, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1491 "2010-02-26T21:03:28Z")
Waite Phillips, also an oil baron (but apparently unrelated to the Phillips Petroleum company founders), donated 127,000 acres of his favorite ranch in New Mexico to the Boy Scouts of America, together with an office building as part of its endowment. After his death in early 1964, the ranch was renamed Philmont Scout Ranch, which it remains to this day. ---
**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 26, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1492 "2010-02-26T21:14:45Z")
The Lone Ranger’s horse’s name is Silver, Tonto’s is Scout, and Dan Reid’s (the Lone Ranger’s nephew) horse is named Victor. ---
**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 26, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1493 "2010-02-26T21:43:09Z")
Dan Reid’s son, Britt, became the costumed crime-fighter, The Green Hornet. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1494 "2010-02-26T21:45:54Z")
On _Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids_ (a series that earned its producer and creator Bill Cosby was awarded a doctorate in education) _The Brown Hornet_ was a superhero on the show-within-the-show. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1495 "2010-02-26T21:51:58Z")
Bill Cosby ran on the track team and played football at Philadelphia’s Temple University. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1496 "2010-02-26T21:59:32Z")
Shirley Temple (Black) was appointed ambassador to Ghana by President Gerald Ford. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1497 "2010-02-26T22:10:32Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Shirley Temple (Black) was appointed ambassador to Ghana by President Gerald Ford. Sleazy talk show host Maury Povich was the son of veteran Washington sportswriter Shirley Povich, who continued cranking out his column until he was 92 years old. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1498 "2010-02-26T22:44:45Z")
Maurice Morning “Maury” Wills of the Los Angeles Dodgers stole 104 bases in 1962 to set the modern Major League Baseball record. The Washington Senators had 99 steals as a team, good enough to lead the American League that year. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1499 "2010-02-26T23:03:22Z")
Irish-American gangster Jimmy Burke and some accomplices stole nearly $6 million in cash and jewelry at Kennedy Airport, in the famous “Lufthansa Heist.” The story of this robbery was told, in fictionalized form, in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas.” ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1500 "2010-02-26T23:39:06Z")
James Burke (different guy than the gangster mentioned above) is a British science broadcaster best-known for his _Connections_ television series. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=74) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=76)