Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia

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In 1986 the Brattleboro Union High School marching band needed to raise money to get to Washington, D.C. They had been invited to perform in a big parade and looked at creative ways to raise the necessary funds for transportation, food, and lodging. One of the ways they tried to make some money was publishing a game called “Brattleboro Trivia.” It came with a playing board, plastic playing pieces (one looks like a UFO), dice, a bank’s worth of play money, and a set of trivia books with questions and answers about Brattleboro.

The object of the game was simple: be the first to “score $150.”

Each player got a trivia booklet. The questions and answers were contributed by the general public and divided into the categories of History, Sports, Music and Art, General Questions, and Business.

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The game Trivial Pursuit was created by two Canadian journalists in Montreal. The game was released in 1982.

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The very first hockey game in the world was played in Montreal on March 3rd, 1875 at Victoria rink

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Unsurprisingly, it ended in a fight.
In play:
After Halifax, Nova Scotia, Montreal has the largest number of Titanic victims buried in its cemeteries.

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The Halifax Explosion occurred on December 6, 1917, killing approx. 2,000 people and injuring 9,000. It was one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions ever, equivalent to 2.9 kilotons of TNT.

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The Halifax Explosion was the largest man-made explosion prior to the development of nuclear weapons. Nearly all structures within a half-mile radius, including the entire community of the Richmond district of Halifax, were completely obliterated. The Halifax Harbour floor was momentarily exposed by the volume of water that vaporized. A tsunami was formed by water surging in to fill the void, which rose up as high as 18 metres (60 ft) above the harbour’s high-water mark on the Halifax side. The Norwegian vessel SS Imo was carried onto the shore at Dartmouth by the tsunami.

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Edward Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax (and later 1st Earl of Halifax) was the British Ambassador to the USA for most of the duration of WWII.

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John Wayne starred in 14 movies about WWII between 1942 and 1966.

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President John F. Kennedy, reacting to a Time magazine cover story suggesting that his brother the Attorney General was the second-most-powerful man in the capital, joked, “Well, there’s only one way for you to go from here, and it ain’t up!”

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Beijing Capital International Airport is the busiest airport in Asia in terms of passenger volume, and the second-busiest in the world behind Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport. Its Terminal 3, built for the traffic surge for the 2008 Olympics, is the world’s second-largest terminal behind Dubai International Airport’s own Terminal 3.

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Adding details to this. Some sources don’t count 14 movies. I got 14 from this source: 590 World War II Trivia Quizzes | History

From Wikipedia’s list of John Wayne movies, here are the 14 movies about WWII released between 1942 and 1966 (emphases mine — Semper Fi).

Year: Movie (Role)
1942: Flying Tigers (Jim Gordon)
1942: Reunion in France (Pat Talbot)
1942: Pittsburgh (Charles “Pittsburgh” Markham)
1944: The Fighting Seabees (Wedge Donovan)
1945: Back to Bataan (Joseph Madden)
1945: They Were Expendable (Rusty Ryan)
1946: Without Reservations (USMC Capt Rusty Thomas)
1949: Sands of Iwo Jima (USMC Sgt John M. Stryker)
1951: Operation Pacific (“Duke” Gifford)
1951: Flying Leathernecks (USMC Major Dan Kirby)
1955: The Sea Chase (Karl Ehrlich)
1962: The Longest Day (Benjamin Vandervoort)
1965: In Harm’s Way (Rockwell Torrey)
1966: Cast a Giant Shadow (Mike Randolph)

ETA: Elvis’ play is still the last to play off of.

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Titanic survivors, surely?

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The Leuzinger High School Olympians, in Lawndale, California, are the only school which is allowed by the US Olympic Committee to use the team name of Olympians. The school’s team logo is the Olympic five rings. The school was established in 1932, the year of the first Los Angeles Olympics.

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No, victims. A lot of bodies were scooped out of the water by various ships that arrived in the following days, and those that could not be identified were taken to the next port and buried there.

The four rings in the Audi logo stand for the four companies in its prewar predecessor firm, Auto Union. The four participants in the 1932 merger were Horch (known for its Wehrmacht staff cars), Wanderer, DKW, and Audi itself (formed by August Horch when he left his own company in a dispute). Before the war, only Auto Union’s famous racing cars used the four-ring logo.

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What do “The Wanderer” by Dion and “Back in My Arms Again” by The Supremes have in common?

Both songs mention “Mary” and “Flo” by name. In Dion’s song, they’re two of his girlfriends. In “Back in My Arms Again,” they’re the real names of Diana Ross’s fellow Supremes, whom Diana disparages for giving her unwelcome and unwarranted advice.

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“The Wanderer” is an Old English poem, dated variously to the 6th, 9th and 10th centuries. It recounts the lament of an individual who has been forced into exile, away from the hall of his master.

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“The Happy Wanderer” is a popular song whose original lyrics were written by Florenz Friedrich Sigismund (1788-1857). The present tune was composed shortly after WWII. It is often mistaken for a German folk song but it is actually an original composition.

Sigismund’s sister Edith Möller conducted a small amateur children’s and youth choir in Schaumburg County, Northern Germany. She adapted Sigismund’s words for her choir. In 1953 a BBC radio broadcast of the choir’s winning performance at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod turned the song into an instant hit.

The amateur choir, many of whose original members were war orphans, turned into an unlikely international phenomenon in the following years. The group performed on many international tours under the name Obernkirchen Children’s Choir and recorded several albums. They made two appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show (November 29, 1964, and December 11, 1966).

Its lyrics:
*
I love to go a-wandering,
Along the mountain track,
And as I go, I love to sing,
My knapsack on my back.

Chorus:
Val-deri,Val-dera,
Val-deri,
Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Val-deri,Val-dera.
My knapsack on my back.

I love to wander by the stream
That dances in the sun,
So joyously it calls to me,
“Come! Join my happy song!”

I wave my hat to all I meet,
And they wave back to me,
And blackbirds call so loud and sweet
From ev’ry green wood tree.

High overhead, the skylarks wing,
They never rest at home
But just like me, they love to sing,
As o’er the world we roam.

Oh, may I go a-wandering
Until the day I die!
Oh, may I always laugh and sing,
Beneath God’s clear blue sky!
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Florence Foster Jenkins was an American opera singer who became (in)famous for her terrible singing ability in the 1930’s and 40’s. However, despite her complete lack of rhythm, pitch, and inability to stay on-key, she remained convinced of her talent and often compared herself to the greatest living opera singers of her day.

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Two-time British Prime Minister Winston Churchill mocked U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as “Dull, duller, Dulles.”

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The towns of Dull, Scotland and Boring, Oregon formalized a sister-city agreement in August, 2013. In celebration of the partnership, Oregon had its first Boring and Dull Day, a new state holiday,

Boring commemorated the holiday with an ice cream social in the local park that featured a bagpipe player, a barbershop quartet and a flag salute honoring the two towns.

The Shire of Bland in New South Wales, Australia is expected to make the partnership a three-way.

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Wayne Boring became the primary artist for the Superman from 1948 (when Siegel and Shuster left DC, though Boring had ghosted previously) until the mid-60s, when the mantle was turned over to Curt Swan. Boring’s work never lived up to his name, and is considered dynamic, exciting, and perhaps the definitive version of the character.