# 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:** 916
**Author:** ![STERY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@STERY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/STERY)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18303 "2013-12-29T15:50:07Z")
Alamogordo,New Mexico is known for its connection with the Trinity test,the first explosion of a nuclear(atomic)bomb,and also for the Atari video game burial in 1983. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18304 "2013-12-29T15:50:22Z")
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, NM, the site of their first customer, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS). ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18305 "2013-12-29T16:08:33Z")
Paul Allen also founded Vulcan, Inc., an investment and project management firm that was itself a co-founder of DreamWorks Animation. ---
**Author:** ![STERY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@STERY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/STERY)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18306 "2013-12-29T17:01:08Z")
Peculiarities in the orbit of Mercury,led the 19th century French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier to propose the existence of a planet,which he called “Vulcan”. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18307 "2013-12-29T19:05:19Z")
The Hawker Siddeley Vulcan (or Avro Vulcan) was a jet bomber that first flew one of its earliest flights at the 1958 Farnborough air show. ---
**Author:** ![STERY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@STERY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/STERY)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18308 "2013-12-29T20:50:29Z")
The title Baron Farnborough has been created twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.The second creation on 11 May 1886 was for the constitutional theorist Sir Erskine May.He died six days later making this the second shortest-lived peerage title in British history after the barony of Leighton. ---
**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:** [December 29, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18309 "2013-12-29T21:33:46Z")
**Hey Landlord** was a 60s comedy starring Will Hutchens as a young man who inherited an apartment building in New York City. Comedian Sandy Baron played his best friend, Chuck Hookstratten. ---
**Author:** ![STERY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@STERY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/STERY)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18310 "2013-12-29T22:42:55Z")
“Hey There Delilah” was a 2007 hit for the American indie pop group Plain White T’s.The song was written by frontman Tom Higgenson after meeting Delilah DiCrescenzo,an American steeplechaser and cross country runner. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18311 "2013-12-29T23:56:20Z")
Alamo/Alamogordo … hmm … seems to be stretching the rules a bit. In play: In 1968, the Tom Jones (born Thomas John Woodward) song “Delilah” reached No. 1 in Germany and Switzerland, No. 2 in Britain but only No. 3 in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18312 "2013-12-30T00:03:38Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Alamo/Alamogordo … hmm … seems to be stretching the rules a bit. Okay, please forgive my persnicketiness. Seems there were also other words that worked too. Still in play: In 1968, the Tom Jones (born Thomas John Woodward) song “Delilah” reached No. 1 in Germany and Switzerland, No. 2 in Britain but only No. 3 in the US. ---
**Author:** ![STERY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@STERY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/STERY)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18313 "2013-12-30T00:31:03Z")
The American amateur golfer Bobby Jones Jr(1902-71)was a lawyer by profession.His middle name was ‘Tyre’. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18314 "2013-12-30T01:09:55Z")
James Earl Jones was the first African-American actor to play the President of the United States on film, in _The Man_ (1972). ---
**Author:** ![STERY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@STERY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/STERY)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18315 "2013-12-30T02:12:35Z")
“Arms and the Man” is a comedy play by George Bernard Shaw,which first premiered in 1894.Its title comes from the opening words of Virgil’s Aeneid.The play is set during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2013, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18316 "2013-12-30T03:17:13Z")
Must you have “ **Stery** ” appear in bold at the top of every one of your posts…? In play: The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, established in 1961 as part of the U.S. State Department, was abolished in a bureaucratic reorganization in late 2005. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18317 "2013-12-30T07:26:51Z")
Canada has strict gun controls for both long-arms and hand-guns. A person with a hand-gun permit is legally allowed to have the hand-gun only at their home, at their gun range, and in transit between those two locations. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18318 "2013-12-30T13:12:46Z")
There are several versions of the text of the Second Amendment, each with capitalization or punctuation differences. Differences exist between the drafted and ratified copies, the signed copies on display, and various published transcriptions. As passed by the Congress and preserved in the National Archives: _A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed_. As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, then-Secretary of State: _A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed_. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18319 "2013-12-30T14:18:39Z")
The full name of Ted McGinley’s character on Married…with Children was Jefferson Milhouse D’Arcy. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18320 "2013-12-30T14:26:25Z")
The character of Milhouse Van Houten on _The Simpsons_ is allergic to honey, wheat, dairy and non-dairy, mistletoe, holly, the red part of candy canes and his own tears. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18321 "2013-12-30T16:55:05Z")
“Tears are not enough” was a single produced by a group of Canadian musicians to raise money for famine relief in Africa in 1985-86. ---
**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:** [December 30, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18322 "2013-12-30T17:17:33Z")
The Canadian Pacific coast was, by mutual consent, patrolled by warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I, when Canada and Japan were allies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=915) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=917)