# How's about another trivia thread?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-about-another-trivia-thread/582016>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 15, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-about-another-trivia-thread/582016 "2011-05-15T19:07:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-about-another-trivia-thread/582016/1 "2011-05-15T19:07:15Z")

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Hey, why not. It’s been awhile, and I just found out a new factoid: The Frank Sinatra standard _Nancy (With The Laughing Face)_ was written by none other than Phil Silvers (of the old Sgt. Bilko TV series) in about 1944. As far as I know, he never wrote any other songs, or at least none I’ve ever heard of. I discovered this fact while recording a John Coltrane album this morning.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-about-another-trivia-thread/582016/2 "2011-05-15T21:24:44Z")

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Moving thread from IMHO to The Game Room.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-about-another-trivia-thread/582016/3 "2011-05-16T00:04:37Z")

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I adore this one.

The first conscript in World War II was the son of the first conscript in World War I.

Alden C. Flagg Jr., of Boston, held the first number drawn in the U.S. peacetime draft lottery of 1940.

His father, Alden C. Flagg, had drawn the first number in the draft of 1917.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-about-another-trivia-thread/582016/4 "2011-05-16T00:07:25Z")

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This is considered a game? Okie-dokie, then.