# 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:** 95
**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, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1881 "2010-03-11T14:06:21Z")
Teller is one of the few people in the US whose passport bears a single name. “Teller” is his full identity. ---
**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, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1882 "2010-03-11T14:41:20Z")
Hungarian born physicist Edward Teller, widely known as “the father of the hydrogen bomb,” was a fervent advocate of the SDI (“Star Wars”) missile defene program. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1883 "2010-03-11T15:44:37Z")
Edward Teller served as a professor of physics at George Washington University from about 1935 to 1941. ---
**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, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1884 "2010-03-11T16:59:37Z")
Notable alumni of George Washington University include Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Colin Powel, J. Edgar Hoover, Alec Baldwin and Courtney Cox Arquette. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1885 "2010-03-11T17:00:27Z")
When Ronald Reagan was shot, he was taken to George Washington University Hospital. ---
**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, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1886 "2010-03-11T17:05:47Z")
George Washington was nominated by John Adams in 1775 to become commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. He left the room while the nomination was debated, and accepted with great reluctance, warning his fellow members of the Continental Congress that he did not think himself up to the challenge. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1887 "2010-03-11T17:24:22Z")
(I for one think that was an air he put on, but whatever …) The student cheering section at George Washington University, whose teams are nicknamed the Colonials, is called “The Colonial Army”. ---
**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, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1888 "2010-03-11T17:37:50Z")
\*\*\*Variety \*\*\*columnist Army Archerd was the first reporter to reveal that Rock Hudson was suffering from AIDS. ---
**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, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1889 "2010-03-11T19:10:14Z")
Roy Scherer Jr.'s screen name, Rock Hudson, was taken from the Rock of Gibraltar, and the Hudson River. ---
**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, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1890 "2010-03-11T19:46:15Z")
The team colors of the New York Mets are the same colors as the flag of the Dutch East India Company, who underwrote Henry Hudson’s voyage to explore the New 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:** [March 11, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1891 "2010-03-11T19:55:35Z")
Henry Clay of Kentucky was a great Whig statesman and an early political role model of both Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. A noted orator, he served in both Houses of Congress (including as Speaker of the House) and as Secretary of State, but never won the Presidency. ---
**Author:** ![Rafe\_Hollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Rafe\_Hollister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rafe_Hollister)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1892 "2010-03-11T20:23:13Z")
In the early part of the 20th Century, a niche market emerged for high-iron content clay. The clay was sold mail order and consumed by people (the urge to eat dirt is called “geophagy”) who were anemic due to a hookworm infection. ---
**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, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1893 "2010-03-11T20:28:34Z")
In 1894, long before Jann Wenner, Texas humorist William Sidney Porter (better known as O. Henry) founded a magazine called _ **Rolling Stone** _. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1894 "2010-03-11T20:44:53Z")
The name “O. Henry” is thought to have come from “Ohio Penitentiary”, where convicted bank embezzler Porter was the “writer in residence”. ---
**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, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1895 "2010-03-11T20:45:44Z")
Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan surrendered, along with his men, near East Liverpool, Ohio, after a long cavalry raid through Indiana and Ohio. He later broke out of the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, returned to the fighting and was then killed in action. ---
**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, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1896 "2010-03-11T21:01:38Z")
Liverpool is the third largest port in the UK after London and Bristol (though not in terms of use) and its most famous former residents included the Beatles (the Fab Four as well as Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best) and- by some accounts- Adolf Hitler\*. \*Hitler’s brother Alois and his wife and son lived in Liverpool; the son, William Patrick Hitler, later claimed his Uncle Adolf lived with them there in 1913-1914 when W.P. was a baby; biographers are mixed in acceptance of this story. ---
**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, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1897 "2010-03-11T21:29:05Z")
The nautical vernacular “shipshape and Bristol-fashion”, meaning “everything on board is tied down and securely squared away”, comes from the record tidal range of the bay of Bristol. Ships moored there, even ways off the shore, would often run gently aground at low tide and rest on their sides, so if the cargo happened to be loose it would cause much spillage, not to mention apoplectic fits from its owner. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1898 "2010-03-11T21:36:17Z")
The Dovells’ 1961 hit “Bristol Stomp” refers to a new dance originating in the Philadelphia suburb of Bristol, PA. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1899 "2010-03-11T22:56:46Z")
Dave Bristol managed four Major League Baseball teams during his career – the Cincinnati Reds, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves, and San Francisco Giants. ---
**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, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1900 "2010-03-11T23:23:15Z")
The Cerne-Abbas Giant in Dorset, England is a hill carving 180 ft. high with a 12 ft. erection; though often referred to as ancient its age is only verifiable to the 17th century. Some locals were very upset when a similar sized likeness of [Homer Simpson](http://www.hilavitkutin.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/homer-cerne-abbas-giant.jpg)(sans 12 ft erection) was carved next to it as a promotion for the Simpson movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=94) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=96)