# 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:** 978
**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:** [April 17, 2014, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19545 "2014-04-17T07:42:57Z")
The Mercury Seven original astronauts were: USN Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett “Al” Shepard, Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998), the only astronaut of the Mercury Seven to walk on the Moon; USAF Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967), the second American to fly in space, and the first American to fly in space twice; USMC Colonel John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921), the first American to orbit the Earth, the fifth person in space, the oldest person to fly in space, and the only one to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs – Discovery (STS-95) and the last surviving member of the Mercury Seven; USN Commander Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013), the second American to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space; USN Captain Walter Marty “Wally” Schirra, Jr. (March 12, 1923 – May 3, 2007), the fifth American, and the ninth human, in space; USAF Colonel Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper, Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004), the first American to sleep in space and the last American to be launched alone to conduct an entirely solo orbital mission; and USAF Major Donald Kent “Deke” Slayton (March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993), grounded in 1962 by a heart murmur, he served as NASA’s director of flight crew operations from November 1963 to March 1972; docking module pilot of the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, in 1975 the oldest person to fly in space at age 51 until broken by John Young. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2014, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19546 "2014-04-17T11:49:06Z")
_Seventh Son of a Seventh Son_ is Iron Maiden’s seventh studio album. Of the eight tracks, seven are less than seven minutes long. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2014, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19547 "2014-04-17T12:40:15Z")
The New Orleans Saints have not reissued Archie Manning’s jersey #8 since he left the team midway through the 1982 season. Although it has not been formally retired, it is understood that no Saint will ever wear it again. ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19548 "2014-04-17T13:16:46Z")
Archie Comics major characters’ full names: Archie Andrews Veronica Lodge Betty Cooper Reggie Mantle Jughead Jones ---
**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:** [April 17, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19549 "2014-04-17T14:27:26Z")
Jughead’s given name is Forsythe. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19550 "2014-04-17T16:30:39Z")
Harley-Davidson motorcycle engine designs have had numerous nicknames, including Flathead, Knucklehead, Panhead, Shovelhead, Ironhead, and Fathead, but not Jughead. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19551 "2014-04-17T19:45:34Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > Though Ike Turner is best known for his many years as husband and musical partner of Tina, he played a crucial role in roots rock ‘n’ role and blues. It’s his band playing on “Rocket 88,” one of many contenders for the first rock ‘n’ roll record. He also played piano on several of Howlin’ Wolf’s earliest recordings. My favorite piece from his later career: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ITnwNNXan8](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ITnwNNXan8) In play: President John F. Kennedy had several nicknames. He was called “Jack” or “Johnny” by his brother Robert when they were alone; his wife Jacqueline’s pet name for him was “Bunny.” His Secret Service codename was “Lancer.” ---
**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:** [April 18, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19552 "2014-04-18T04:06:13Z")
Between its introduction in 1973 and 2008, over six million Mitsubishi Lancers and their variants have been sold. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19553 "2014-04-18T04:24:58Z")
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama narrowly carried the usually-Republican states of North Carolina and Indiana in November 2008, but lost both four years later. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19554 "2014-04-18T12:33:53Z")
Jim Nabors has sung the official state song, “Back Home Again in Indiana”, before every running of the Indianapolis 500 auto race since 1972, except when ill in 2007 and 2012. His performance at the 2014 race will be his last, due to his age and health. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19555 "2014-04-18T17:52:37Z")
“Going Home” is a pipe tune based on a melody from Dvorak’s “From the New World Symphony.” The tune is a popular choice for funerals, and was piped at Payne Stewart’s funeral. Notably, it was a misty day and the piper walked away into the mist while playing. He disappeared from sight, leaving only his footprints in the heavy dew. ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19556 "2014-04-18T22:28:13Z")
The track “Goin’ Home” from the Rolling Stones’ _Aftermath_ album was perhaps the first rock ‘n’ roll song to top the ten-minute mark in length (11:13) — certainly the first from a group whose recordings were released on a major label. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19557 "2014-04-18T22:38:25Z")
When Bob Dylan recorded his 11-minute opus “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” for his _Blonde on Blonde_ LP, the musicians on the session had no idea how long the song was supposed to be. They repeatedly built to a crescendo thinking the song was about to end, only to have Dylan embark on yet another verse. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19558 "2014-04-19T02:46:36Z")
Six years after his failed 1996 campaign for the Presidency, Bob Dole, Republican of Kansas, appeared in a Super Bowl ad for Pepsi with Britney Spears and a Golden Retriever. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yu5dIRv9Czc/hqdefault.jpg "Britney Spears Pepsi Commercial with Bob Dole [High Quality]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu5dIRv9Czc) ---
**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:** [April 19, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19559 "2014-04-19T12:39:04Z")
Bob Dole said that after losing the presidential election in 1996, he slept like a baby: woke up every two hours, crying. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19560 "2014-04-20T04:36:48Z")
Dole Pineapple originated as Castle & Cooke, founded by missionaries Samuel Northrop Castle and Amos Starr Cooke in 1851. Castle & Cooke was spun off out of the Dole Company in 1996. It now mostly concentrates on real estate and development. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19561 "2014-04-20T14:06:16Z")
The Guinness Book of World Records (2001) lists the pineapple maze at the Dole Plantation in Oahu, Hawaii as the world’s largest maze. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19562 "2014-04-20T15:53:55Z")
Barack Obama is the first President of the United States to have been born in Hawaii. He carried the state (which is heavily Democratic anyway) in both 2008 and 2012. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19563 "2014-04-20T16:47:54Z")
Barack Obama worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager, and now he can’t stand ice cream. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19564 "2014-04-20T17:30:46Z")
Baskin-Robbins created their “31 Flavors” slogan with the idea that a customer could have a different flavor every day of the month. The company has actually introduced more than 1,000 flavors since its founding in 1945. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=977) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=979)