# 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:** 961
**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 16, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19204 "2014-03-16T21:37:29Z")
While waiting for our flights home in December 1985 at the end of our college semester in London, several friends and I paged each other at our various gates using the Heathrow Airport public address system, with real names but ever-more-fanciful titles including “Professor,” “Doctor,” “Congressman” and “Senator.” (We didn’t get in trouble, fortunately). ---
**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 16, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19205 "2014-03-16T22:04:16Z")
Heathrow Airport Holdings owns and operates London Heathrow Airport, Aberdeen Airport, Glasgow Airport and Southampton Airport. It also used to own airports in London Stansted, Edinburgh, Naples, London Gatwick and Glasgow Prestwick. ---
**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 16, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19206 "2014-03-16T22:16:30Z")
London, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Southampton, Edinburgh, and Cambridge are all potential cargo destinations in Euro Truck Simulator 2. ---
**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 17, 2014, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19207 "2014-03-17T01:52:30Z")
The title for oldest English settlement in New York state is claimed by both Southold and Southampton on Long Island, which were founded in 1640. (The Dutch settled New Amsterdam in 1609). ---
**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 17, 2014, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19208 "2014-03-17T05:28:34Z")
Southeast of London in England are the white cliffs of Dover, but more dramatic and beautiful white cliffs, especially those that can be seen from land instead of requiring the viewer to be on the water, are west of Dover and south-southeast of London, in East Sussex, and east of Brighton, in between Seaford and Eastbourne. These cliffs are called the Seven Sisters ([Wikipedia link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters,_Sussex)). Images: [https://www.google.com/search?q=seven+sisters+white+cliffs&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=GYYmU4DzDMbK2AWDzIGgBA&ved=0CAgQ\_AUoAA&biw=1024&bih=648](https://www.google.com/search?q=seven+sisters+white+cliffs&client=safari&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=GYYmU4DzDMbK2AWDzIGgBA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAA&biw=1024&bih=648) IMHO, they are truly pretty. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19209 "2014-03-17T13:49:28Z")
Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base hosts the Department of Defense’s largest military mortuary, and is the traditional site for the return of the bodies of service personnel killed in combat to the US. For a time early in the Second Gulf War, the Bush administration forbade photographs of flag-draped coffins in the Dover AFB reception area. ---
**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 17, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19210 "2014-03-17T14:30:59Z")
The Seven Sisters white cliffs in Dover appear in a scene at the end of the World War II drama _Atonement_, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. ---
**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 17, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19211 "2014-03-17T14:49:22Z")
The Seven Sisters white cliffs are often what is shown when a movie or TV show shows “the white cliffs of Dover”, even though Seaford is some 80 miles west of Dover and is much closer, some 13 miles, to Brighton. Yeah, so it’s really “the white cliffs of Seaford” (or Eastbourne). (Or Brighton) ---
**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 17, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19212 "2014-03-17T16:31:27Z")
Eric Johnson’s most popular single, “Cliffs of Dover”, won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental in 1992. ---
**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 17, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19213 "2014-03-17T16:55:08Z")
The “Dream Team”, the US Mens Olympics basketball team of 1992 in Barcelona, had a star-studded 12-man roster. Managed by Chuck Daly were: Larry Bird Magic Johnson Patrick Ewing teammates John Stockton & Karl Malone Charles Barkley David Robinson Chris Mullin Scottie Pippen Clyde Drexler Christian Laettner was the only college player on the team. The pièce de résistance on the team was, of course, Michael Jordan (Pippen’s teammate). (USA flag displayed incorrectly in the team photo in [this image](http://www.interbasket.net/players/usa/1992_dream_team.jpg)) ---
**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 18, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19214 "2014-03-18T01:21:09Z")
While I was stationed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, I ran across a plane ticket lying on the ground made out for basketball coach Digger Phelps, who was currently in Germany running basketball clinics. I turned it in to the base American Express office, which had issued the ticket. ---
**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 18, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19215 "2014-03-18T02:10:50Z")
As a NATO installation Ramstein is home to 22 NATO countries’ forces, with American, German, Canadian, British, French, Belgian, and Dutch forces making up the bulk of them. ---
**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 18, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19216 "2014-03-18T04:13:32Z")
The Royal 22nd Regiment of the Canadian Army are nicknamed the “Van Doos”, as an attempt by Anglos to pronounce the regimental number in French. ---
**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 18, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19217 "2014-03-18T13:30:43Z")
The Royal 22nd Regiment of the Canadian Army is an infantry regiment and the most famous francophone organization of the Canadian Forces. The regiment comprises three Regular Force battalions, two Primary Reserve battalions, and a band, making it the largest regiment in the army. The ceremonial home of the regiment is La Citadelle in Quebec City, where the regimental museum is housed. The regiment is nicknamed the Van Doos, a corruption of _vingt-deux_, French for “twenty-two.” The regimental HQ is located in Quebec City, with all three of its regular battalions stationed at various bases in the province of Quebec. The regiment serves as the “local” infantry regiment for Quebec. ---
**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 18, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19218 "2014-03-18T13:57:35Z")
La Citadelle, located not far from the site of the old residence of the French governors of New France, is the official residence of the Governor General on Quebec. ---
**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 18, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19219 "2014-03-18T15:14:38Z")
La Citadelle is also the official residence of the Queen of Canada, Elizabeth II, when she is visiting Quebec. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19220 "2014-03-18T18:03:45Z")
Carnival Line’s first cruise ship, the _Mardi Gras_, was the former Canadian Pacific Lines’ transatlantic liner _RMS Empress of Canada_. After being sold in a fleet update, she became _Olympic_, _Star of Texas, Lucky Star_ and finally _Apollon_. ---
**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 18, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19221 "2014-03-18T20:27:43Z")
_The Lone Star Showdown_ is the fierce rivalry between Texas’ two largest universities, Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin. The name applies to all men’s and women’s head-to-head competitions in any sport. The name was trademarked in 1996 but no longer applies because A&M moved to the SEC in the 2011-2012 academic year while UT remains in the Big 12. ---
**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 19, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19222 "2014-03-19T02:19:34Z")
The Big 12 Conference has 10 members (Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Christian, Texas Tech and West Virginia). The Big 10 Conference has 12 members (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin). Two more schools, Maryland and Rutgers, will be joining the Conference later this year. ---
**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 19, 2014, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19223 "2014-03-19T02:32:53Z")
The Pac-12 conference was created after the disbanding of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), whose principal members founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) in 1959, and went by the names Big Five, Big Six, Pacific-8, Pacific-10, and became the Pacific-12 in 2011. There are 12 schools in the Pac-12 (someone please double-check my math here): Arizona, Arizona State, Cal-Berkeley, Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington, and Washington State. Yep, that’s 12. I guess they know how to count in the Pac-12! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=960) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=962)