Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia

Chuck roast is one of the cheaper cuts of beer, often used for pot roasts.

I choose to play off of beer! :smiley:
Anchor Steam beer is brewed and bottled only in San Francisco. Every single bottle, of every type of Anchor Brewing Company’s beer. Anchor Brewing can be traced all the way back to the California gold rush, when German brewer Gottlieb Brekle arrived in San Francisco with his family for the 1849 Gold Rush. Anchor Brewing is one of the last remaining breweries to produce California common beer, also known as Steam Beer, a trademark owned by the company.

Jack Cassidy was offered the role of news anchor Ted Baxter on Mary Tyler Moore. He turned it down, but later guest starred as Ted’s brother, Hal.

Modern steam beer, also known as California common beer, was originated by Anchor Brewing Company, which trademarked the term Steam Beer in 1981 - Anchor Steam Beer.

Early pictures of the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs include him sitting on a floor with a bottle of Anchor Steam Beer next to him:
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Besides the well-known metropolis of Alaska, the only American town named Anchorage is located 12 miles from any nafvigable waterway. Anchorage, Kentucky, is named for The Anchorage, the estate of riverboat captain and early resident James W. Goslee, and was chosen to honor him when the city incorporated in 1878. There were former towns named Anchorage in Wisconsin and Texas, both now ghost towns.

The Sultana was a Mississippi River side-wheel riverboat. On April 27, 1865, the boat exploded in the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. An estimated 1,800 of her 2,427 passengers died when three of the boat’s four boilers exploded and she burned to the waterline and sank near Memphis, Tennessee.

Arguable, the first shots of the Civil were fired upon the Star of the West - a paddlewheel sloop running supplies to Fort Sumter that was fired upon by students from the Citadel.

American General Thomas Sumter was nicknamed the “Carolina Gamecock,” for his fierce fighting style against British soldiers after they burned down his house during the Revolution. After the war, Sumter served in Congress for South Carolina until 1810.

On the day of the great Chicago fire, there was also a fire that destroyed Peshtigo, Wisconsin. The death toll in Peshtigo was at leat 5 times as high as the loss of life in Chicago. The Chicago fire probably ki8lled no more than 300 people, while the death toll in Peshtigo was at least 1,500 and probably a great deal more. The date of both was Otober 8, 1871. A rainless three-month drought in the midwest contributed to both fires.

The cause of the Peshtigo fire is unknown, though most likely it was caused by a lightning strike. Some hypotheses say it may have been a meteor landing in the dry fields, but that’s not accepted by most experts.

By the time the Peshtigo Fire was over, an area approximately twice the size of Rhode Island had burned.

Bowmen in the Middle Ages were not told by their officers to “Fire,” but to “Loose.”

Benjamin Franklin argued for the training of bowmen during the American Revolution, arguing that bows and arrows were “good weapons, not wisely laid aside” and that in addition to being able to fire many more times in a minute than a musket they did not depend on gunpowder. The idea had other advocates as well, but it never came to pass as military archers require far more time and natural skill than do musket soldiers.

Swords still are official weapons in US military official arsenals. They are mostly used in ceremonies.

The Watervliet Arsenal, built in 1813 on the Hudson opposite Troy, New York, is the oldest continuously used arsenal in the United States. It was built to support the War of 1812.

Frederick Vanderbilt inherited “only” $10 million from his father and grandfather (roughly north of 150 million in 2016 ), making him along with his brother George the poorest of the Vanderbilt sons. He scandalized his family when he married a divorcee who was a decade his senior and barren and some members of the family would have nothing to do with her and his own mother attempted unsuccessfully to have his inheritance from his father withheld.
He and his wife built a rambling mansion on the Hudson at Hyde Park, a near neighbor of FDR’s family. Unlike his brothers and nephews, who spent the rest of their lives spending their inheritances and leaving less to their heirs than they received, Frederick multiplied his many times through good management and by the end of his life he was by far the richest of the family and, since he and his wife had no children, was often sucked up to by his nephews and nieces. He left most of his estate (well over $1 billion in 2016 USD) to charity.

A Speakers’ Corner is an area where open-air public speaking, debate and discussion are allowed. The original and most noted is in the northeast corner of Hyde Park in London, England. Speakers here may talk on any subject, as long as the police consider their speeches lawful. Contrary to popular belief, there is no immunity from the law, nor are any subjects proscribed, but in practice the police tend to be tolerant and therefore intervene only when they receive a complaint.

Cool. I grew up nextdoor to Watervliet NY!

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The city of Hyde Park, Utah is in the north central part of the state. It is about a 1-hour drive from the Golden Spike National Historic Site. The city was named in honor of William Hyde, one of the first settlers to arrive in the area on April 23, 1860. The name choice also evoked Hyde Park in London, England which was the homeland of many early settlers.

Winstead Sheffield Glenndenning Dixon Weaver, better known as Doodles Weaver, was the vocalist for Spike Jones’ band, which was very popular in the 1940-50’s for its parody versions of songs, that featured a variety of non-musical instruments such as train whistles and cowbells. Weaver was an uncle of actress Sigourney Weaver, and he shot himself to death, despondent over declining health.

Sigourney Weaver is one of only 11 actors to be nominated for both a Supporting and Lead Acting Academy Award in the same year, but for two different movies (Working Girl and Gorilla’s in the Mist)