Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia

::feels like chopped liver:: :frowning: :wink:

Chopped liver is rarely thought of as a Thanksgiving dish.

Turkey was probably not served at the first Thanksgiving meal.

The first Thanksgiving feast probably featured lobster, duck, and seal.

The father of the protagonist of the Stones’ song Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown was a sealing wax manufacturer.

Mormon leader Brigham Young’s wife Ann Eliza wrote a tell all (by 19th century standards- rated G by today’s standards) book when she divorced him called “Wife Number 19: My Life in Mormon Bondage”. (How she chose the number is unknown as she was actually at least his 27th wife and not his 19th.)

Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young is the great-great-great-grandson of Brigham Young.

Retired NFL quarterback Jim McMahon went to Brigham Young University, though he is not Mormon.

To tie up a loose end here…

In 1855, thirty Mormon missionaries from Salt Lake City were sent to Las Vegas to protect the mail route from Los Angeles, later setting of The Big Lebowski, to Salt Lake City and set up a settlement.

Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel built the Flamingo in Las Vegas in 1946 and was murdered the following year.

Benjamin was the youngest of Joseph’s brothers who sold him into slavery in the book of Genesis.

Genesis was a progressive rock band whose albums included Foxtrot, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and Selling England by the Pound.

Phil Collins, formerly of Genesis, denies rumors that In the Air Tonight was about a drowning.

Phil Collins set a celebrity divorce record in the UK for ‘most money per year of marriage’ when he recently paid his third wife $48 million (USD) after 6 years together.

Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine had one of the shortest celebrity marriages – 32 days.

32 is the atomic number of Germanium.

Germanium is used in chemotherapy and in making polyester.

The John Waters film Polyester was filmed in Odorama/Smell-O-Vision and featured a scratch-and-sniff card to be used by audience members during specific scenes.