Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia

The French tooth fairy is actually a souris (mouse).

The Souris River crosses from Saskatchewan into North Dakota, where it is called the Mouse River. It then turns north and flows into Manitoba, where its name changes back to the Souris River.

Winnipeg, Manitoba was the first city in the world to develop the 911 emergency phone number.

Not so:

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Homer Simpson, not the brightest fictional character ever created, once asked in an emergency, “Quick, what’s the number for 911?”

But those people weren’t Americans. I said the first Americans to see these things were Army officers, which Lewis and Clark were. Is that where the confusion comes?

Anyway, moving on: The Greek bard Homer Has had his works translated more often and into more languages than any other person. That’s assuming he actually existed since some scholars speculate that Homer was not the name of one man but a group of poets using a collective name.

Okay, Charbonneau was an American, but I didn’t say all such things were seen first by Army officers. :cool:

Anyway, still in play: The Greek bard Homer has had his works translated more often and into more languages than any other person. That’s assuming he actually existed since some scholars speculate that Homer was not the name of one man but a group of poets using a collective name.

The Westminster cabinet system is based on collective solidarity. Once Cabinet makes a policy decision, all Cabinet members are required to support the collective decision, even if they had vociferously opposed the decision in the internal Cabinet debates.

According to Merriam-Webster the word vociferous dates back to the early 17th century.

“Merriam” refers to George and Charles Merriam, publishers. “Webster” refers to Noah Webster.

George Carlin was the first posthumous recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835, and he died on April 21, 1910. These dates coincide almost exactly with the perihelion dates for Halley’s Comet: November 16, 1835 and April 20, 1910.

No. You wrote, as I quoted, “The Lewis and Clark Expedition was an all-Army affair.” There were three people who were not in the Army, but were undoubted members of the expedition.

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Mark Twain, Amelia Earhart and Abraham Lincoln are real-world famous people who have appeared in various iterations of Star Trek.

Though not published in his lifetime, Mark Twain’s “Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism,” was a humorous speech on the subject of masturbation. He seemed to like it.

Okay, I give. Change it to “almost all-Army.”

Mark Wahlberg has a tattoo of Bob Marley on his left shoulder.

The three major Presidential candidates in 1992 - George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot - were all left-handed.

As a teen, Bill Paxton caddied for golf great Ben Hogan in Fort Worth, Texas.

Fort Worth’s newspaper, the Star-Telegram, is the nation’s oldest continuously operating online newspaper.

In early issues of Superman, Clark Kent worked as a reporter for the Daily Star.

Adolf Hitler esteemed Clark Gable above all other actors and during the war offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and return Gable, who had enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was flying combat missions over Germany, unscathed to him.