# 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:** 959
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19164 "2014-03-13T04:37:08Z")
The first commandant of the US Marine Corps was Major Samuel Nicholas. He held the position from 1775 to 1783. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19165 "2014-03-13T04:41:57Z")
The CMC (Commandant of the Marine Corps) when I enlisted was Robert H. Barrow, and the CMC when I retired was CE Mundy. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19166 "2014-03-13T04:53:13Z")
Frodo, Sam, Peregrine and Merry were captured by a barrow-wight but saved by Tom Bombadil. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19167 "2014-03-13T04:59:09Z")
Tom Bombadil does not appear in the _Lord of the Rings_ movie trilogy; however, the extended edition of _The Two Towers_ does contain a scene where Merry & Pippin are captured by Old Man Willow. Whereas it’s Treebeard (not Tom) who saves them, Treebeard does admonish the ancient, evil tree using Tom’s dialogue taken directly from the book. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19168 "2014-03-13T05:04:55Z")
The landmark Twin Towers, the World Trade Center in New York City, opened on 04 Apr 1973. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19169 "2014-03-13T05:08:01Z")
In _Twelfth Night_, Viola and Sebastian are twin brother and sister. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19170 "2014-03-13T05:30:54Z")
The viola is the middle voice of the violin family and is tuned a perfect fifth below the violin, and an octave above the cello. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19171 "2014-03-13T13:38:49Z")
The mandocello has eight strings in four paired courses, tuned in fifths like a mandolin, but is larger, and can be described to be to the mandolin what the cello is to the violin. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19172 "2014-03-13T14:04:55Z")
The balalaika is a Russian folk stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular body and typically strung with three strings. The body of the balalaika has tops of either spruce, evergreen, or fir; and backs made of three to nine wooden sections (usually maple). ---
**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 13, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19173 "2014-03-13T17:19:30Z")
Howard Hughes’s famed gargantuan wooden airplane, “The Spruce Goose,” was actually made of birch. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19174 "2014-03-13T17:42:31Z")
Reece “Goose” Tatum, once a Negro Leagues baseball teammate of Satchel Paige, went on to be the first “Clown Prince of Basketball” as one of the original members of the Harlem Globetrotters. Some sources credit him with inventing the hook shot. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19175 "2014-03-13T18:27:21Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Howard Hughes’s famed gargantuan wooden airplane, “The Spruce Goose,” was actually made of birch. She (the airplane), should have been named the Birch Bitch, then. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19176 "2014-03-13T18:33:48Z")
Despite being popular on FM radio, the Rolling Stones’ “Bitch” was never released as a single. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19177 "2014-03-13T21:07:38Z")
Meredith Brooks’ song _Bitch_, from 1997, however, was released as a single and made it up to #2 on the U.S. Billboard charts. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19178 "2014-03-13T21:37:15Z")
The urban dictionary’s definition for that B word includes this: Person who rides specifically in the middle of a front-seating only car meant for 2 passengers or less. > **[Urban Dictionary: bitch](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bitch)** > > one of the most versatile words in the english language; it is used to express a multitude of emotions; anger, anticipation, despair, endearment, envy, excitement, fear, horror, joy, shock, surprise, warning; all achieved by one's enunciation and... ---
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The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City. It was founded in 1910, and its current president is Marc Morial. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19180 "2014-03-14T02:14:19Z")
Marc Morial was mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002. Two accomplishments of Morial’s administration dealt with professional sports: NBA basketball returned to the city after Morial orchestrated negotiations for the league’s Charlotte Hornets to relocate there. Secondly, following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Morial persuaded the organizers of a large automotive exposition to change its date so that Super Bowl XXXVI (held at the Louisiana Superdome) could be played one week later than originally scheduled, enabling the NFL to keep its post-season tournament fully intact. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19181 "2014-03-14T03:10:27Z")
The NBA was originally known as the Basketball Association of America. The first championship team was the Philadelphia Warriors, who defeated the Chicago Stags in 1947. ---
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Jerry West, who played in the NBA from 1960-1974, has several nicknames including “Mr. Clutch”, for his ability to make a big play in a clutch situation, such as his famous buzzer-beating 60-foot shot that tied Game 3 of the 1970 NBA Finals against the New York Knicks; “The Logo”, in reference to his silhouette being incorporated into the NBA logo; and “Zeke from Cabin Creek”, after the creek near his birthplace of Chelyan, West Virginia. ---
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Bob “Gilligan” Denver spent the last two decades of his life on a mountaintop near the tiny town of Princeton, West Virginia, with his wife Dreama and their autistic son, Colin. His wife remains there where she administers are a charity she founded for autistic children. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=958) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=960)