# 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:** 979
**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 21, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19565 "2014-04-21T00:03:19Z")
J.K. Rowling mentioned in _Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone_ that Albus Dumbledore had defeated the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, leading many readers to surmise that their clash was somehow tied to the fall of Nazi Germany. Later books showed that this was not the case, although Grindelwald did have totalitarian ideas for the wizarding world. ---
**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 21, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19566 "2014-04-21T02:05:40Z")
Gellert Grindelwald attended the Durmstrang Institute for Magical Learning, a school similar to Hogwarts, but which concentrates on the Dark Arts. It is believed to be located in Scandinavia. ---
**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 21, 2014, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19567 "2014-04-21T03:35:18Z")
Barack Obama has read every Harry Potter book. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19568 "2014-04-21T03:44:34Z")
The unofficial nickname of Stoke City Football Club is “The Potters”, referring to the ceramics industry of Staffordshire. They are the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts County. ---
**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 21, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19569 "2014-04-21T04:11:47Z")
Notts County are the oldest professional league club in the world, having been formed in 1862. The club initially played at Park Hollow in the grounds of the old Nottingham Castle. ---
**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 21, 2014, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19570 "2014-04-21T04:48:05Z")
The Toronto Argonauts, founded in 1873, are the oldest professional sports club in North America still operating under their original name. ---
**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 21, 2014, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19571 "2014-04-21T05:09:16Z")
The Cincinnati Reds are the oldest Major League baseball team, having been founded in 1869. The team has variously been known as the Reds, the Red Stockings, and the Redlegs (the name used by the team in the 1950s during the height of anti-Communism). ---
**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 21, 2014, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19572 "2014-04-21T09:33:27Z")
The Green Bay Packers, founded 1919 (joined the NFL in 1921), is the oldest NFL franchise in continuous operation with the same name in the same location. Only two teams currently in the NFL, the Decatur Staleys (founded in 1919, now the Chicago Bears) and the Chicago Cardinals (founded 1898, now the Arizona Cardinals), are founding members. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19573 "2014-04-21T10:18:10Z")
The Chicago White Sox baseball team was involved in a scandal in 1919 (called the “Black Sox Scandal”), where some of the players allegedly took bribes to throw the series that year, that lead to the appointment of a single Commissioner of Baseball. Federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was the first commissioner. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2014, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19574 "2014-04-21T13:26:51Z")
The Allman Brothers Band’s “Mountain Jam” is an 40-minute jam session based upon Donovan’s single “There is a Mountain.” ---
**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 21, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19575 "2014-04-21T14:11:31Z")
Chokecherry jam or jelly is made from the chokecherry, a native berry growing in Saskatchewan. It does not grow on mountains. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19576 "2014-04-21T20:00:25Z")
The Cranberry is one of the few fruits native to North America. ---
**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 21, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19577 "2014-04-21T22:05:52Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The unofficial nickname of Stoke City Football Club is “The Potters”, referring to the ceramics industry of Staffordshire… So is the high school football team in East Liverpool, Ohio, a town settled by many Staffordshire ceramics workers. In play: The President of the United States of America is considered the _de facto_ head of state of the country, but is not actually designated as such in the Constitution. ---
**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 22, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19578 "2014-04-22T00:27:24Z")
Each of the seven members of the Swiss Federal Council is considered a head of state of the Swiss Confederation. Each member is head of a federal executive department, but the head of state position is communal. ---
**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 22, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19579 "2014-04-22T01:30:47Z")
The Prime Minister of Canada is the de facto head of the federal executive, but does not have any independent constitutional powers or authority. The position of prime minister is only mentioned once in the Constitution, in a provision which ceased to have any effect two decades ago. The provision authorised him to call a meeting. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19580 "2014-04-22T03:17:18Z")
The position of Prime Minister is not mentioned at all in the Australian Constitution. ---
**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 22, 2014, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19581 "2014-04-22T03:19:17Z")
The Constitution of the United States defines only one crime, that of treason. ---
**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 22, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19582 "2014-04-22T21:34:34Z")
The United States Bill of Rights consists of ten amendments to the US Constitution. There were initially twelve amendments proposed, but two did not pass. One would have specifically assigned one member of the House of Representatives to every 30,000 people. The second amendment would have prohibited members of Congress from having their salaries raised during their terms in office. ---
**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 22, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19583 "2014-04-22T21:42:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The second amendment would have prohibited members of Congress from having their salaries raised during their terms in office. This amendment was eventually revived and ratified in 1992, becoming the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – 202 years, 7 months and 12 days after its initial proposal. ---
**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 23, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19584 "2014-04-23T03:23:31Z")
The Charlottetown Accord, signed in principle by the First Ministers of Canada in 1992, consisted of a package of constitutional amendments. It was put to a national referendum and was defeated. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=978) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=980)