# 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:** 926
**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, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18504 "2014-01-16T19:51:49Z")
The name “Floyd” is derived from the Welsh name, “Lloyd.” In Welsh, double “l l” is pronounced “thl” (roughly), which is difficult for native English speakers to pronounce, leading to some variations. ---
**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, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18505 "2014-01-16T20:04:20Z")
Edward Elgar wrote “The Enigma Variations” a series of 14 variations on a theme. The basis of each variation he refused to uncover during his lifetime. ---
**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, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18506 "2014-01-16T21:02:27Z")
His Majesty King Edward VII was a lover of Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill. The young Winston supposedly realized something was up when he noticed that his mother came back from lunch with the King with her stockings on different legs than before (he had noticed that the fabric on one stocking leg was slightly torn). She was considered quite a beauty in her day: [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Jennie\_Jerome,\_Lady\_Randolph\_Churchill.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Jennie_Jerome,_Lady_Randolph_Churchill.jpg) ---
**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 16, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18507 "2014-01-16T21:16:35Z")
In Gone With the Wind, Scarlett refers to Melanie as a “bluestocking.” The word refers to the Blue Stockings Society, an informal women’s social and educational movement in England in the mid-18th century. ---
**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, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18508 "2014-01-16T21:17:16Z")
Cole Porter’s last musical, _Silk Stockings_, was based on the the Melchior Lengyel story \*Ninotchka \*and the 1939 film adaptation it inspired. The musical involves special envoy Nina Yaschenko, who is dispatched from the Soviet Union to rescue three foolish commissars from the pleasures of Paris, but who succumbs to them herself. ---
**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, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18509 "2014-01-16T21:29:03Z")
Gary Cole provided the voice of a hardass FBI agent in the season premiere of the FX animated spy comedy _Archer_ earlier this week. ---
**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 16, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18510 "2014-01-16T21:40:46Z")
Gary Coleman is parodied in the musical Avenue Q, as he is presented working as the superintendent of the apartment complex where the musical takes place. In the song “It Sucks to Be Me”, he laments his fate, and everyone agrees he is the winner, having the suckiest life: BRIAN Yo, GARY! GARY COLEMAN I’m comin’! I’m comin’! PRINCETON Oh my God! It’s Gary Coleman! GARY COLEMAN Yes I am! (sung) I’m Gary Coleman from TV’s Diff’rent Strokes I made a lotta money that got stolen by my folks! Now I’m broke and I’m the butt of everyone’s jokes, but I’m here – the superintendent! On Avenue Q – ALL It sucks to be you. KATE MONSTER You win! ALL It sucks to be you. BRIAN I feel better now! GARY COLEMAN Try having people stopping you to ask you “What you talkin’ 'bout, Willis?” It gets old. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18511 "2014-01-16T22:06:26Z")
Singer-songwriter-producer Lenny Kravitz is the son of Roxie Roker, who played the sophisticated Helen Willis on _The Jeffersons_, and was named for his paternal uncle who was a posthumously much honored hero killed in the Korean War. ---
**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, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18512 "2014-01-16T22:16:23Z")
Jesse Brown was the first African-American aviator in the United States Navy, a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the first African-American naval officer killed in the Korean War. After he was shot down at the Chosin Reservoir, he was trapped in his Corsair and died of his injuries despite the Medal of Honor efforts to free him of his white wingman, Thomas Hudner, who landed next to him. ---
**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 17, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18513 "2014-01-17T01:48:11Z")
The Victoria Cross has been cast from two cascables from cannon captured at the Siege of Sevastopol. There is enough metal left to make about 80 more VCs. ---
**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 17, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18514 "2014-01-17T01:48:44Z")
USS _Chosin_, a guided-missile cruiser named after the arduous Korean War campaign, was commissioned in 1991 and is still on active duty with the United States Navy. > **[USS Chosin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chosin)** > > USS Chosin (CG-65) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy. She is named in honor of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir of the Korean War. Commissioned in 1991, she is currently serving in the Pacific Fleet, based at San Diego. The cruiser has participated in Operation Southern Watch, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. She is the first US Navy ship to bear this name. > In March 2003, Chosin was assigned to Cruiser-Destroyer Group One. > In... Ninja’d! There is some controversy as to whether the Victoria Cross is still being made from metal from captured Russian cannon. > **[Author explodes myth of the gunmetal VC](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1506463/Author-explodes-myth-of-the-gunmetal-VC.html)** ---
**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 17, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18515 "2014-01-17T03:08:22Z")
Once when actress Victoria Principal was on an airplane, the pilot came on over the loudspeaker and threatened not to land the plane unless Victoria told him “Who Shot J.R.?” during the summer before the third season of _Dallas_. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18516 "2014-01-17T07:08:52Z")
Victoria Principal was the first female lover of Anthony Perkins, who became involved with her on the set of _The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean_ in his late 30s after therapy to change from homosexual to heterosexual. ---
**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 17, 2014, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18517 "2014-01-17T10:20:43Z")
Lucky guy. In play: the Alamo fell to Santa Ana one year before Queen Victoria began her reign in 1837. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18518 "2014-01-17T14:54:00Z")
Henry VIII’s will designated who would become ruler after his death, setting up the reign of Queen Mary I as the UK’s first undisputed ruling queen. Henry prevented any changes to the line of descent as set down by declaring any discussion of changes to be treason. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18519 "2014-01-17T16:02:29Z")
RMS Queen Mary 2, the largest ocean liner (not cruise ship) ever built, is the only ship in regular transatlantic service between Southampton and New York. Despite being a British symbol, she was built in STX Europe Chantiers de l’Atlantique, in Saint-Nazaire, France, and her owner, Cunard Lines, is owned by Miami’s Carnival Corporation. ---
**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 17, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18520 "2014-01-17T16:31:41Z")
Mary J. Blige’s job before she became a singer was directory-assistance operator. Thus the title of her debut album “What’s the 411?” ---
**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 17, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18521 "2014-01-17T17:33:30Z")
The most recent Queen Mary, formerly Mary of Teck, was grandmother to the current British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18522 "2014-01-17T17:45:30Z")
“The entomological discovery of the 20th century”, by Fred and Norah Urquhart, Kenneth Brugger, and Catalina Trail, over 38 years of work, established the migration route of the monarch butterfly from the US and Canada into Mexico. ---
**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 17, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18523 "2014-01-17T18:00:14Z")
Francis Urquhart, played by Ian Richardson in the British version and Kevin Spacey (the character is renamed “Underwood”) in the American version, is the villain of the political thriller _House of Cards_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=925) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=927)