# 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:** 96
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1901 "2010-03-11T23:30:34Z")
The name Simpson means, ultimately, Son of Simon. ---
**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 12, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1902 "2010-03-12T00:20:37Z")
St. Simon Stylites spent 39 years atop a platform on a large pillar, setting an unbreakable the record for flagpole sitting even before it became a sport in the 1920s\*. \*One of my favorite dirty jokes that snuck by the censors in early talkies was the exchange in **42nd Street** : Male Dancer: Want to sit on my lap? Female Dancer: I ain’t no flagpole sitter. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1903 "2010-03-12T01:31:45Z")
In 1966, the IRA blew up Nelson’s Pillar, a statue on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, which honored British naval hero Lord Nelson. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1904 "2010-03-12T02:19:33Z")
Lord Horatio Nelson was killed at The Battle of Trafalgar by a sniper. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1905 "2010-03-12T02:35:21Z")
At the Battle of Copenhagen Nelson, believing he could win the battle, famously responded to a signal meaning “retreat” by holding his telescope to his blind eye and saying " I really do not see the signal, Damn the signal" and sailed ahead into the battle, which he won. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1906 "2010-03-12T03:12:23Z")
One of Tommy Chong’s most popular comic creations was an elderly blues musician named Blind Melon Chitlin’. ---
**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 12, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1907 "2010-03-12T03:37:08Z")
“Eyesight to the Blind” is the one cover song on the Who’s album **Tommy** ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1908 "2010-03-12T03:44:22Z")
In her autobiography Tina Turner said that when she sang the song/played the character of the _Acid Queen_ in the movie version of _Tommy_ she had no idea what acid (in the LSD sense) was (which I found hard to believe since her husband was a major drug user, she was in California and the music scene in the 60s, and she even toured with the Rolling Stones, but so she said). ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1909 "2010-03-12T05:01:44Z")
“Turner”, a common English surname, was originally given to one who spun a lathe to earn his daily bread. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1910 "2010-03-12T05:07:24Z")
David Gates wrote and sang such hits as “Guitar Man” and “Baby I’m a Want You” for the soft rock band Bread. ---
**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 12, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1911 "2010-03-12T06:14:09Z")
Matt “Guitar” Murphy is an accomplished blues guitarist, though he may be best known for his membership in the Blues Brothers Band, and playing Aretha Franklin’s husband in the “Blues Brothers” movies. ---
**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 12, 2010, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1912 "2010-03-12T06:24:34Z")
NM ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1913 "2010-03-12T08:56:57Z")
Audie Murphy was the most decorated American soldier of WW2 and played himself in the movie version of his autobiography, _To Hell and Back_; while his acting career never took off, in the 1960s and through his death in 1971 he raised awareness of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (dismissed as cowardice by some) when he discussed his own battle with the illness. ---
**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 12, 2010, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1914 "2010-03-12T14:38:20Z")
_The Search for Bridey Murphy_ was a best selling (supposedly) nonfiction book about a woman who remembered a past life in Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1915 "2010-03-12T15:00:24Z")
Everybody knows that Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. Most people don’t know he’s the patron saint of Nigeria, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1916 "2010-03-12T16:23:17Z")
A portion of present-day Nigeria was known as the Oil Rivers Protectorate from 1891 to '93. ---
**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 12, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1917 "2010-03-12T16:40:09Z")
The Oregon State Justice Department has a special unit devoted to fighting Nigerian financial scams. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1918 "2010-03-12T16:46:20Z")
In the “Smokey and the Bandit” movies, Jackie Gleason played corrupt, blustering Sheriff Buford T. Justice. ---
**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 12, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1919 "2010-03-12T16:51:10Z")
Although the U.S. Cabinet has had an attorney general from the earliest days of the republic, the Justice Department was not created until 1870. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1920 "2010-03-12T16:53:02Z")
… and Big Enos was played by 6’8" Pat McCormick, better known as Johnny Carson’s head writer on “The Tonight Show”. A native of the Cleveland suburb of Rocky River, his work provided the impetus for the popularity of Cleveland jokes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=95) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=97)