# 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:** 937
**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 6, 2014, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18724 "2014-02-06T14:02:49Z")
In the Episcopal Church and others, red is the color of Pentecost, symbolizing the flames which appeared above the Apostles as symbols of the Holy Spirit. ---
**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 6, 2014, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18725 "2014-02-06T16:41:01Z")
James A. Pike, controversial Episcopalian Bishop of California (who was also mentioned in #8803 of this thread) wrote a book about poltergeists that he sensed after his son’s suicide. ---
**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, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18726 "2014-02-06T18:04:04Z")
Otis G. Pike was a Democratic congressman from the eastern end of Long Island (solid Republican territory) for 18 years. He was best known for leading an investigation into the dealings of U.S. intelligence service. Pike died this year. ---
**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 6, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18727 "2014-02-06T18:11:50Z")
In his juvenile novel _Space Cadet_, Robert A. Heinlein wrote of Pike’s Peak being used as a launch ramp for spacecraft. ---
**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 6, 2014, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18728 "2014-02-06T18:15:27Z")
The Ohio Turnpike was completed in 1955, one year before the introduction of the Interstate Highway System. ---
**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 6, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18729 "2014-02-06T19:27:11Z")
The lead ship of the current class of U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarines is the USS _Ohio_. All but one of the class were named after states in the Union; the exception was the USS _Henry M. Jackson_, named after a noted pro-defense U.S. senator. ---
**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 6, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18730 "2014-02-06T23:44:58Z")
The first USS _Ohio_ was a merchant ship that was bought by the US government in 1813 and recommissioned as a Lake Erie cargo vessel. She was captured by British forces in 1814. ---
**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 7, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18731 "2014-02-07T02:05:13Z")
An _Ohio_-class Trident missile sub, the USS _Montana_, appeared in the James Cameron 1989 undersea thriller _The Abyss_. There has, in fact, never been a submarine of that name. ---
**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 7, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18732 "2014-02-07T02:20:24Z")
The University of Montana’s athletic teams, the Grizzlies, wear uniform colors of Gold, Silver and Copper. ---
**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 7, 2014, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18733 "2014-02-07T03:39:42Z")
“Silver” is one of a handful of words in the English language that has no commonly known rhyming words. (There is the obscure “chilver,” meaning a female lamb). ---
**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 7, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18734 "2014-02-07T04:37:01Z")
_Agnus_, as in _Agnus Dei_, the Lamb of God, was the answer to a _Jeopardy!_ question last night. ---
**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 7, 2014, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18735 "2014-02-07T12:29:17Z")
Alex Trebek has hosted _Jeopardy!_ continually since 1984, except for April 1, 1997 when Pat Sajak hosted the show once as part of an April Fools joke. ---
**Author:** ![MrsTango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e7dd6/32.png) [@MrsTango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrsTango)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18736 "2014-02-07T12:33:09Z")
Art Fleming was the first host of Jeopardy. ---
**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 7, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18737 "2014-02-07T12:39:22Z")
The _Jeopardy!_ Clue Crew began in 2001 and has included [Kelly Miyahara](https://www.google.com/search?q=kelly+miyahara&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=stL0UqO7CqaIygHJjoGgDQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAA&biw=1024&bih=648) and [Sarah Whitcomb](https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=648&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=NNP0UraZDsibygH75YCAAQ&q=Sarah+Whitcomb&oq=Sarah+Whitcomb&gs_l=img.3..0l4j0i24l6.4549.7606.0.8528.19.19.0.0.0.2.159.1727.15j4.19.0....0...1c.1.34.img..11.8.741.jqW5SlK9sYU). ---
**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 7, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18738 "2014-02-07T13:42:20Z")
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was one of the most powerful people at the court of Queen Anne, because of her strong personal friendship with the Queen. ---
**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 7, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18739 "2014-02-07T14:18:39Z")
The Marlboro Man is a figure used in tobacco advertising campaign for Marlboro cigarettes. In the United States, where the campaign originated, it was used from 1954 to 1999. ---
**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 7, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18740 "2014-02-07T23:52:47Z")
It costs tobacco companies approximately 5 cents to produce a pack of cigarettes. ---
**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 8, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18741 "2014-02-08T02:24:46Z")
A pack of smokes costs about $5.00. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2014, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18742 "2014-02-08T05:18:39Z")
The Marlboro Man died of lung cancer > **[The Marlboro Man Died of Lung Cancer?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/marlboro-manslaughter/)** > > Rumor: The actor who portrayed the 'Marlboro Man' died of lung cancer. ---
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Many people think that Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo died of lung cancer. While he had a tumor in his lung, the primary site of his cancer was the testes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=936) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=938)