# Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1 "2010-02-04T08:12:06Z")

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It’s a game of my own devising and I expect the thread to sink beneath the horizon, but just in case, here’s how it works: I’ll post a piece of trivia, somebody will “play” off my trivia, then the next person tags onto that, etc., and let’s see how we can keep it going.

Simple rules:

1- You should make sure it’s true before using it to avoid “Cite?”

2- It should have something that can be played off both sides

3- You can decide what’s trivia or factoid or whatever- it basically just means it should be blip sized information.

Here’s how to play- imagine this is posted by several posters:

> [@](#):
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> Poster 1: Mickey Rooney has the longest film career in history- 84 years to date with several projects in development.
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> Poster 2: Mickey Rooney was the original choice to play Archie Bunker.
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> Poster 3: Archie Bunker’s chair is in the Smithsonian Institution.
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> Poster 4: The Smithsonian was founded with money willed to the U.S. by the illegitimate son of a British nobleman.
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> Poster 5: Omer Bhatti, the Norwegian rapper, is rumored to be the illegitimate son of Michael Jackson.
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> Poster 6: Michael Jackson’s THRILLER was the best selling album of all time.
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> Poster 7: Enrico Caruso was the first singer to become a millionaire from recordings.
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> Poster 8: Enrico Caruso was in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake.

Hopefully you get the idea- you can play off any part of the preceding piece of trivia. You can make a statement that is not necessarily true so long as you qualify it (i.e. I didn’t say Bhatti is Jackson’s son, just that he’s rumored to be, which is true) or you can go for a “not exactly but really close” connection (Thriller setting records and Caruso’s recording earnings are not exact matches but both have to do with distinctions in recording success, if that makes sense).

So, ready to play? I doubt it, but I’ve started threads that strangled on the cord before. I’ll be back with a piece of trivia: play off any part of it so long as you keep the thread going.

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