# 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:** 923
**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:** [January 10, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18444 "2014-01-10T23:42:00Z")
The island of Molokai is known as the “Most Hawaiian Island.” ---
**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:** [January 11, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18445 "2014-01-11T00:02:23Z")
Three out of four of Canada’s extreme points are on islands: • easternmost point: Cape Spear, Newfoundland, on the North Arlantic; • southernmost point: Middle Island, Ontario, in Lake Erie; • northernmost point: Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, on the Arctic Ocean. Only the westernmost point is on the mainland: Boundary Mountain, Yukon. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2014, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18446 "2014-01-11T05:34:17Z")
The _ **eastern** _most point on the US mainland is _ **West** _ Quoddy Head, Maine. ([cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_points_of_the_United_States#Easternmost_points)) ---
**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:** [January 11, 2014, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18447 "2014-01-11T06:05:15Z")
James G. Blaine of Maine, a frequent Republican contender for the Presidency after the Civil War, served as Secretary of State under President James A. Garfield, and was with him when the President was shot in a Washington train station. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2014, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18448 "2014-01-11T07:10:43Z")
Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was the Republican candidate for vice-president in the 1860 election. He did not meet the presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln, until after they had been elected. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2014, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18449 "2014-01-11T07:39:21Z")
In chronological order of dates of their being shot, the four US Presidents were: 1865-04-14: Abraham Lincoln (died 1865-04-15) 1881-07-02: James A. Garfield (died 1881-09-19) 1901-09-05: William McKinley (died 1901-09-14) 1963-11-22: John F. Kennedy Kennedy, of course, died the day he was shot. Regarding their service in the military, Garfield and McKinley served in the US Army, Kennedy in the US Navy, and Lincoln in the Illinois Militia. Garfield, having served from 1861-1863, achieved the highest rank of them all: Major General. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18450 "2014-01-11T15:23:20Z")
The first US univerity for the education of African Americans was founded in Pennsylvania in 1854 by Rev. John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson, a Quaker. It was originally called Ashmun Institute after Jehudi Ashmun, a religious leader and social reformer, and later renamed Lincoln University. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18451 "2014-01-11T16:15:14Z")
Abraham Lincoln was married in an Episcopal service but belonged to no particular church. He once told a friend that he liked a preacher “to look as if he’s fighting bees.” ---
**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:** [January 11, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18452 "2014-01-11T18:28:27Z")
_ **USS Abraham Lincoln** _ (CVN-72), is the fifth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier and the second ship to have been named after Lincoln. She was commissioned on 11 Nov 1989 after launching from Newport News VA. There are ten carriers in the Nimitz class, and by subclass and commission date, and some nicknames, they are: 1975-05-05: CVN-68 _ **USS Nimitz** _ (standard military, uses only his surname) 1977-10-18: CVN-69 _ **USS Dwight D. Eisenhower** _ (Ike) 1982-03-13: CVN-70 _ **USS Carl Vinson** _ (call sign Gold Eagle) Subclass, Theodore Roosevelt: 1986-10-25: CVN-71 _ **USS Theodore Roosevelt** _ (the Big Stick, TR) 1989-11-11: CVN-72 _ **USS Abraham Lincoln** _ (Abe) 1992-07-04: CVN-73 _ **USS George Washington** _ (GW, G-Dub, Cell Block 73) 1995-12-09: CVN-74 _ **USS John C. Stennis** _ (Johnny Reb) 1998-07-25: CVN-75 _ **USS Harry S. Truman** _ (HST, Lone Warrior, Hairy Ass) Subclass, Ronald Reagan: 2003-07-12: CVN-76 _ **USS Ronald Reagan** _ (The Gipper) 2009-01-10: CVN-77 _ **USS George H. W. Bush** _ (Avenger) While all ten are Nimitz-class carriers, design differences within the class result in the subclasses Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2014, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18453 "2014-01-11T19:11:00Z")
The U.S. Navy warship attacked by Capt. Nemo in Jules Verne’s 1870 novel _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_ is the USS _Abraham Lincoln_. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18454 "2014-01-11T19:29:07Z")
The Paris restaurant, Le Jules Verne, at the Eiffel Tower, is known for its nice views of the city and is [is currently ranked #475 out of 9,205 Paris restaurants on TripAdvisor](http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g187147-d719141-Reviews-Le_Jules_Verne-Paris_Ile_de_France.html). (ETA: and currently with 1,534 reviews) ---
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Eiffel was hired by the French Panama Canal Company to design the locks for a proposed Panama Canal. When the company failed, Eiffel was caught up in the scandal and was found guilty of misappropriating funds, but got off on appeal. He had little to do with the financial management of the company – he was just a hired contractor – but his name made him a target for prosecution. ---
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Among [Wikipedia’s list of Eiffel’s works](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Eiffel#Works) are: - the church at Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico - San Sebastian Church, Manila, Philippines - Budapest Nyugati Pályaudvar (Western railway station), Budapest, Hungary - Ajfel Bridge On Skenderija Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18457 "2014-01-12T09:14:40Z")
Ali Promted his fight with Smoking Joe Fraizer with the ryhme “It will be a Killa and a Thrilla and a Chilla when I get The Gorilla in Manila” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18458 "2014-01-12T10:04:23Z")
Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, and FDR are three of the presidents whose lives were probably shortened from smoking. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2014, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18459 "2014-01-12T10:47:42Z")
Lesley Ann Warren was the youngest actor ever to have attended New York’s Actors Studio, when she was 17. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18460 "2014-01-12T16:16:18Z")
Warren Buffett attended college at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and got his Master’s Degree from Columbia. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18461 "2014-01-12T18:54:54Z")
Edith Wharton wrote her novel **Ethan Frome** originally in French, although she was a native English speaker. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18462 "2014-01-12T20:14:03Z")
Edith Wharton wrote in _The Age of Innocence_ (and I love to quote her), “Americans like nothing about culture so much as their speedy departure from it.” Think of that the next time you leave a concert. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18463 "2014-01-13T01:42:38Z")
Legendary costume designer Edith Head is tied with composer Alan Menken for third most Academy Awards won. Each of them have eight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=922) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=924)