# 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:** 925
**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 15, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18484 "2014-01-15T03:22:30Z")
Finland is the most sparsely populated country in the European Union, with only 16 inhabitants per square kilometer. ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18485 "2014-01-15T03:55:35Z")
I would feel uncomfortably crowded there. Canada’s population density is a more manageable 3.6 per square kilometre. (You don’t want to know what we do with the 0.4 people.) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18486 "2014-01-15T04:29:27Z")
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote “The Song of Hiawatha” in trochaic tetrameter, like the folk poem Kalevala, the national epic of Finland and its province Karelia, that he learned while spending a summer in Sweden. Trochee is a rhythm natural to the Finnish language, since Finnish words are normally accented on the first syllable, although it makes English sound stilted. ---
**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 15, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18487 "2014-01-15T05:16:40Z")
J.R.R. Tolkien, a philologist and linguist before he was an author of Middle-earth fiction, was a great admirer of the Finnish language. Sindarin and Quenya, his Elvish languages, have elements of Finnish in them. ---
**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 15, 2014, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18488 "2014-01-15T06:44:48Z")
Finnish athletes have won more Summer Olympic medals per capita than any other nation. Finnish athletes are second only to Norway for the number of Winter Olympic medals per capita. ---
**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 15, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18489 "2014-01-15T18:08:34Z")
Finland was the only country on the European mainland not completely pacified/conquered by the Draka in the S.M. Stirling alternate-history novel, **Under the Yoke**. ---
**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 16, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18490 "2014-01-16T01:55:30Z")
I’m not sure whether we’ve gotten off track, as it’s not clear if **Northern Piper’s** post after mine was a play or just a comment. But anyway: > [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > Finland was the only country on the European mainland not completely pacified/conquered by the Draka in the S.M. Stirling alternate-history novel, **Under the Yoke**. Legendary screenwriter Stirling Silliphant (_In the Heat of the Night_) studied martial arts with Bruce Lee during the late 1960s. ---
**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 16, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18491 "2014-01-16T02:55:33Z")
Monty Python’s Flying Circus suggested in its Philosophy Department sketch that every male in Australia is named Bruce. ---
**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 16, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18492 "2014-01-16T02:58:01Z")
Bruce Willis’ first name is Walter. Bruce is his middle name. Walter Bruce Willis. ---
**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 16, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18493 "2014-01-16T03:41:34Z")
Bruce Willis had a singing career(!). In 1987 he released the album, _The Return of Bruno_. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18494 "2014-01-16T03:55:05Z")
Bruce is the family name of the Earl of Eglin. ---
**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 16, 2014, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18495 "2014-01-16T04:15:45Z")
Eglin Air Force Base is in the Florida panhandle, near the west end of it, and about 150 miles west of Tallahassee. The units stationed at Eglin include 20 SCS, the 20th Space Control Squadron, whose mission includes tracking near-earth and deep space objects in earth’s orbit. ---
**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 16, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18496 "2014-01-16T15:02:29Z")
The 8th Earl of Elgin (not Eglin) served as Governor General of the Province of Canada in the 1840’s. His decision to grant Royal Assent to the Rebellion Losses Bill marked the inauguration of responsible government in Canada. It also triggered the burning of the Parliament buildings by an angry mob of Anglos. ---
**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 16, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18497 "2014-01-16T15:35:20Z")
James Earl Jones – who turns 83 this Friday! – was the first established celebrity to appear on _Sesame Street_. ---
**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 16, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18498 "2014-01-16T15:51:36Z")
Oscar the Grouch was originally orange. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18499 "2014-01-16T16:09:10Z")
Timmy Turner, the young boy from “The Fairly Oddparents” is allergic to oranges. ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18500 "2014-01-16T16:33:02Z")
Tina Turner at one time had her legs insured for 3.2 million dollars ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18501 "2014-01-16T16:48:20Z")
Betty Grable’s legs were insured by Twentieth Century Fox for $1 million with Lloyd’s of London. ---
**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 16, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18502 "2014-01-16T17:08:11Z")
nm - ninja’d ---
**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 16, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18503 "2014-01-16T17:30:23Z")
Underwriting members of Lloyd’s of London are called “names” in the parlance of the firm. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=924) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=926)