# 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:** 936
**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 4, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18704 "2014-02-04T04:01:23Z")
The Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers have played in the most Super Bowls, eight each. ---
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Missed the edit window, but I will add that the Cowboys and Steelers have played the most Super Bowls against each other: they have played three times. The Steelers won X and XIII, and the Cowboys won XXX. ---
**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 4, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18706 "2014-02-04T05:23:58Z")
With their Grey Cup win last November, the Saskatchewan Roughriders have finally ended the tie for number of Grey Cups wins with the Queen’s Golden Gaels: both had three wins each. ---
**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 4, 2014, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18707 "2014-02-04T05:27:21Z")
The Queen’s husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born on the Greek island of Corfu in 1921. ---
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Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen, was born in Zanzibar, Tanzania. He was only 45 years old when he died in 1991. ---
**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 4, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18709 "2014-02-04T14:21:32Z")
Queen Anne was the last English or British monarch to use the Royal Veto. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18710 "2014-02-04T17:17:47Z")
The wildflower Queen Anne’s Lace is actually the flower of the wild carrot. Domestic carrots are a subspecies of this plant. ---
**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 4, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18711 "2014-02-04T17:53:55Z")
Captain Carrot in Terry Pratchett’s **Discworld** novels has the surname of his adopted family, Ironfoundersson. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18712 "2014-02-04T19:54:04Z")
Both Saugus, Massachusetts and Batsto, New Jersey claim to have been the site of the first iron foundry in America. ---
**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 5, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18713 "2014-02-05T00:09:33Z")
“Cold Iron” is a Kipling poem that uses the theme of iron as opposed to Christ’s redemption of sinners. ---
**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 5, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18714 "2014-02-05T00:34:43Z")
Adolf Hitler was awarded the Iron Cross while serving in World War I. When he became _Fuhrer_ of Germany, he saw to it that the Nazi swastika appeared in the middle of the Iron Cross. ---
**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 5, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18715 "2014-02-05T02:52:41Z")
The Victoria Cross was first issued in 1856 to honor participants in the Crimean War. ---
**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 5, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18716 "2014-02-05T03:13:04Z")
Queen Victoria’s beloved husband and first cousin Albert was the only man in British history to be awarded the title Prince Consort. ---
**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 5, 2014, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18717 "2014-02-05T05:11:56Z")
The British mathematician Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) invented the symbols for “is less than” [\<] and “is greater than” [\>]. ---
**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 5, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18718 "2014-02-05T23:49:16Z")
Robert Recorde invented the = sign in 1557. ---
**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 6, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18719 "2014-02-06T00:56:51Z")
Henry Martyn Robert, seeing a meeting fall into chaos, sat down and wrote his own guide on parliamentary procedure, **Robert’s Rules of Order.** ---
**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 6, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18720 "2014-02-06T03:08:38Z")
Henry Martyn Robert served in the US Army during the Civil War, where he was assigned to the Corps of Engineers and worked on the defenses of Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and several New England ports. He eventually rose to the rank of Brigadier General. After his retirement from the Army in 1901, he chaired a board of engineers that designed the Galveston, Texas seawall following the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. ---
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King Henry of Portugal (1512-1580) was also a Roman Catholic Cardinal. Upon becoming King in 1578, he attempted to renounce his vows so that he could marry and produce an heir, but Pope Gregory XIII refused to release him from his vows. ---
**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 6, 2014, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18722 "2014-02-06T10:27:35Z")
Cardinals are princes of the Church appointed by the Pope. He generally chooses bishops, but not all cardinals are bishops. Domenico Bartolucci, Karl Josef Becker, Roberto Tucci and Albert Vanhoye are examples of 21st-century non-bishop cardinals. ---
**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 6, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18723 "2014-02-06T13:27:36Z")
Cardinals (the birds) were named after cardinals (the church dignitaries) because the latter wear bright red outfits, which were the same color as the former’s feathers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=935) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=937)