# 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:** 94
**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, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1861 "2010-03-10T22:15:32Z")
Jim Kirk served aboard the USS _Republic_ and the _Farragut_, and perhaps other Starfleet vessels, before assuming command of the _Enterprise_. ---
**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, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1862 "2010-03-10T22:26:56Z")
U.S. Admiral David Farragut, born the son of a slaveowning family in Tennessee, had a very long and distinguished naval career but is primarily remembered today for saying “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!” at the Battle of Mobile Bay. ---
**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, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1863 "2010-03-10T22:28:55Z")
The captain of the ironclad USS _Tecumseh_, sunk at the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay by a mine (torpedo), drowned when he courteously paused to permit the pilot of his ship to leave the turret first. ---
**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, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1864 "2010-03-10T23:13:10Z")
Dennis Wilson, the Beach Boys’ troubled drummer, drowned while diving from his boat, near Marina del Rey. ---
**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, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1865 "2010-03-10T23:34:05Z")
Dennis Wilson ‘hosted’ several members of the Manson family at his home on Sunset Blvd. and introduced Charles Manson to Doris Day’s son Terry Melcher who lived with Candice Bergen in a rented house on Cielo Dr. which would later be rented by Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1866 "2010-03-11T00:18:44Z")
While the lead performer of eponymous band \*Marilyn Manson \*is (obviously) the most well known, each of the various musicians who played in the band over the course of its history have adopted similar pseudonyms combining the names of both a serial killer and a renowned beauty. For example, original members Daisy Berkowitz and Madonna Wayne Gacy. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1867 "2010-03-11T00:35:32Z")
In the 1996 movie _EVITA_ a line was changed from the song RAINBOW TOUR as it appeared in the play: > [@](#): > > She can do what she likes it doesn’t matter much/ > she’s a New World madonna with a golden touch was changed to > [@](#): > > She’s Our Lady from the New World with a golden touch due to the fact Eva Duarte Peron was being played by, of course, Madonna. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1868 "2010-03-11T00:51:19Z")
“The Golden Touch” was the last short cartoon specifically directed by Walt Disney. ---
**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 11, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1869 "2010-03-11T01:27:18Z")
Walt Kelly worked on Disney’s **Fantasia** before starting his career writing and illustrating **Pogo**. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1870 "2010-03-11T01:31:44Z")
American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino starred as Celie on Broadway and the touring company versions of the musical _The Color Purple_. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1871 "2010-03-11T01:56:51Z")
Purple became associated with royalty in ancient times because only the very rich could afford the dye. Alexander the Great, the Ptolemic kings of Egypt and Roman emperors all wore purple robes. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1872 "2010-03-11T02:21:11Z")
Phoenicia’s (Tyre’s) trade in the eastern Mediterranean was founded on purple dye made from sea snails of the genus _Murex_. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1873 "2010-03-11T03:41:14Z")
Lydia of Philippi, mentioned in Acts, was a “seller of purple” (i.e. snail dye), though the lady with the Battle of Waterloo, Washington Crossing the Delaware, or the Wreck of the Hesperus[tattoos](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4zRe_wvJw8)was a different person altogether. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1874 "2010-03-11T04:15:00Z")
“Wreck of the Hesperus” is a track on George Harrison’s hit album _Cloud Nine_, produced by Electric Light Orchestra frontman Jeff Lynne. A recording session for Harrison and Lynne to cut a B-side track for “This Is Love”, another track from _Cloud Nine_, quickly wound up involving Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan, and evolved into The Traveling Wilburys project. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1875 "2010-03-11T05:15:26Z")
NASCAR legend Richard Petty provides the voice of “The King” (aka Strip Weathers) in Pixar’s movie “Cars.” Petty’s real wife provides the voice of “Mrs. The King.” ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1876 "2010-03-11T06:50:33Z")
“The Little King” (“le petit roi” in French) was a comic strip penned by “New Yorker” cartoonist Otto Soglow. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1877 "2010-03-11T11:27:57Z")
Louis XIV, greatest French King of them all (well, according to him in any case) suffered from horrendous haemorrhoids. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1878 "2010-03-11T11:59:35Z")
While working at a video store, Quentin Tarantino committed a malapropism and referred to Louis Malle’s “Au Revoir, Les Enfants” as “Reservoir Dogs.” That funny title stuck with him, and he used it as the title of the first movie he directed himself. ---
**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 11, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1879 "2010-03-11T13:28:32Z")
Tarantino has referred to actress Uma Thurman as his “muse,” and she starred in his two _Kill Bill_ movies. Both have said the relationship is platonic. ---
**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 11, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1880 "2010-03-11T13:37:14Z")
Penn Gilette of Penn and Teller was a big fan of Uma Thurman when she was just breaking in, and mentioned her at least once in everything he wrote until she became a star. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=93) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=95)