# 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:** 93
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1841 "2010-03-10T16:46:08Z")
The Comics Code forced E.C. to shut down most of their profitable war and horror comic books. The zany, satirical “Mad” was among the few titles that survived. Publisher William Gaines turned it into a magazine so that it wouldn’t be subject to the Comics Code. And as long as he ran it, Mad had no advertisements. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1842 "2010-03-10T16:48:25Z")
The USAF fighter squadron in which Robert Wagner and Robert Mitchum served in 1958’s formulaic _The Hunters_ also used “George” to mean “OK”. The movie used F-84F’s to simulate Chinese MiG-15’s, but the F-86’s used by the “good guys” were real. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1843 "2010-03-10T17:05:42Z")
Robert Wagner (not the actor mentioned above) represented New York as a United States Senator from 1927 to '49. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1844 "2010-03-10T17:21:36Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > Sarah Bernhardt once saved the widow Mary Todd Lincoln’s life by catching her as she was falling out of an ocean liner, or so they say. I’ve read a lot about the President and Mrs. Lincoln over the years, and have never heard that. Thomas Jefferson wrote the first set of rules for the U.S. Senate when he was Vice President during John Adams’s administration. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1845 "2010-03-10T17:49:30Z")
The oldest functioning constitution in the world is that of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It was originally written, almost single-handed, by John Adams. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1846 "2010-03-10T17:53:11Z")
Four U.S. states are technically commonwealths: Massachusetts, Virginia, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands are also commonwealths, but not in the same legal sense, as they are non-state U.S. territories. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1847 "2010-03-10T18:26:17Z")
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) in North Adams has no permanent collection of art. All exhibits are temporary and are removed for newer ones (though they just added one that will be there for several years). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1848 "2010-03-10T18:32:14Z")
The former North Adams State College is now the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA). ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1849 "2010-03-10T18:33:32Z")
John Quincy Adams was the only US President to serve in Congress following his term in executive office. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1850 "2010-03-10T18:38:38Z")
John Quincy Adams is also the only former President to appear as appellate counsel before the U.S. Supreme Court, when he argued - successfully - for the freeing of the rebellious slaves of the _Amistad_. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1851 "2010-03-10T18:59:10Z")
Quincy Jones wrote and performed a number called _The Streetbeater_ in the early 1970s that is far better known as the _Sanford and Son Theme_. (It was not written for the series but chosen to be the theme later.) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1852 "2010-03-10T21:01:20Z")
Sanford Ballard Dole served as President of the Republic of Hawaii, then was the first territorial governor of the island grouping that eventually became the USA’s fiftieth state. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1853 "2010-03-10T21:10:50Z")
SC Governor Terry Sanford, now divorced, is free to visit his girlfriend in Argentina openly now. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1854 "2010-03-10T21:23:37Z")
Argentina still refers to the islands which it invaded in 1982 as the Malvinas; Great Britain, which recaptured them, still refers to them as the Falklands. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1855 "2010-03-10T21:33:18Z")
The Falklands War featured the only time that a nuclear submarine has sunk an enemy ship - the Argentine cruiser _ARA General Belgrano,_ a survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack under its former name _USS Phoenix_, sunk by _HMS Conqueror_. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1856 "2010-03-10T21:35:57Z")
Though many people think of penguins as Antarctic birds, they are also found in Southern Africa, South America, and several parts of Oceania. The Falkland Islands are home to one of the world’s largest colonies of rockhopper penguins. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1857 "2010-03-10T21:59:47Z")
In the 1980 movie _The Blues Brothers_, Sister Mary Stigmata (played by Kathleen Freeman) was referred to as “The Penguin.” ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1858 "2010-03-10T22:03:04Z")
The Youngstown State University athletic teams are nicknamed Penguins. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1859 "2010-03-10T22:07:22Z")
Youngstown is in eastern Ohio. Ohio was the 17th state to join the Union, and is now led by Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democratic former Congressman first elected in 2006 and now seeing reelection. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1860 "2010-03-10T22:08:13Z")
Jim Tressel coached Youngstown State to two Division 1-AA national championships before moving up to Ohio State. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=92) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=94)