# 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:** 934
**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 31, 2014, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18664 "2014-01-31T20:39:07Z")
Chocolateer Milton S. Hershey and his wife Kitty had tickets for the madien voyage of the RMS Titanic. However, they canceled their reservations due to last minute because of Hershey’s business matters. Later, they booked passage to New York City on the German luxury liner America. The Hershey Museum displays a copy of the check Hershey wrote to the White Star Line as a deposit for a first class stateroom on the Titanic. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2014, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18665 "2014-01-31T22:58:31Z")
Milton S. Hershey first came to fame through the sales of his famous… caramels. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18666 "2014-02-01T00:16:08Z")
The Hershey Tropical Bar was designed after the WWII military requirements for a chocolate bar that can be issued to troops and does not melt at 90 degrees. (Wish they still had it, like they did in the 1970s - it was pretty good.) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18667 "2014-02-01T00:49:46Z")
The street lights in downtown Hershey, Pennsylvania are shaped like Hersey’s Kisses ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18668 "2014-02-01T01:50:22Z")
**Kisses for My President** was a 1964 comedy starring Fred McMurray as the husband of the first woman president, who has to take on the role of first lady. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18669 "2014-02-01T02:23:58Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > One of the better known analyses of the 1920 election is in author Irving Stone’s book about defeated Presidential candidates, _They Also Ran._ Stone rated James W. Cox as superior in every way over Warren Harding… Nitpick: James M. Cox: [James M. Cox - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cox) In play: James M. Cox, Democratic candidate for President in 1920, was a former Ohio newspaper editor, just as his Republican opponent, Warren G. Harding, was. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18670 "2014-02-01T04:40:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Nitpick: James M. Cox If you stand upside down, the W becomes an M. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18671 "2014-02-01T06:39:41Z")
Nancy Kerrigan, an ice skater whose life was turned upside-down after an attack possibly instigated by Tonya Harding, has a brother who was charged with manslaughter after their father’s 2010 death. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18672 "2014-02-01T07:12:11Z")
Olympic figure skater Dorothy Hamill won the gold medal in 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria. Although she was raised in Connecticut, she was born in Chicago. She was the last single skater to win the Olympics without a triple jump. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18673 "2014-02-01T08:20:35Z")
Frederick Mayer escaped from Nazi Germany to the U.S., but he and other young Jewish men sought revenge by enlisting in the OSS, and returning to the enemy’s heartland under cover, conducting operations in and near Innsbruck, Austria. He was eventually arrested and tortured, but helped negotiate German surrender. Still living, he is a candidate for the Congressional Medal of Honor. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18674 "2014-02-01T08:29:28Z")
Although the medal is sometimes erroneously referred to as the Congressional Medal of Honor, the original and official name is simply the “Medal of Honor”. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18675 "2014-02-01T16:12:56Z")
Although research is made difficult by the loss of the archives, it is known that three women who fought with the army in the French Revolution were decorated with the order of the Legion of Honor: Virginie Ghesquière, Marie-Jeanne Schelling and a nun, Sister Anne Biget. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18676 "2014-02-01T17:05:31Z")
Sister Anne is a character in the story “Bluebeard”. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18677 "2014-02-01T17:08:20Z")
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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18678 "2014-02-01T22:48:58Z")
It has been suggested that the story of “Bluebeard” is based on the real-life Breton wife-murderer, Gilles de Rais. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18679 "2014-02-02T01:34:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > One of the better known analyses of the 1920 election is in author Irving Stone’s book about defeated Presidential candidates, _They Also Ran._ Stone rated James W. Cox as superior in every way over Warren Harding, claiming the former would have made a much better president; the author argued that there was never a stronger case in the history of American presidential elections for the proposition that the better man lost. OOP: Next time you plagiarize from wikipedia you should at least get his initital right. Breton as spoken in Brittany is a Celtic, and incidentally endangered, language. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18680 "2014-02-02T02:45:10Z")
No NBA organization has won more titles than the 17-time World Champion Boston Celtics. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2014, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18681 "2014-02-02T03:27:27Z")
**Deadman** was comic featuring the adventures of Boston Brand, a circus acrobat who was shot during his act. He began the search for his killer, with the ability to take over the bodies of the living so he could interact with the real world. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2014, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18682 "2014-02-02T05:03:33Z")
The heroic Lt. Ezra Dahlquist rigs a deadman switch to keep members of the Space Patrol planning a military coup from breaking into the A-bomb armory where he has holed up in Robert Heinlein’s 1949 short story “The Long Watch.” ---
**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:** [February 2, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18683 "2014-02-02T14:49:30Z")
The Black Watch is the name of a former Highland regiment of the British Army, now a battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The origin of the name is not known, other than it was formed as a watch brigade after the 1715 uprising to help keep the peace in Scotland. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=933) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=935)