# Trivia Dominoes II — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia — continued! (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 25, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950 "2020-01-25T08:18:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 105
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2083 "2020-09-09T13:06:58Z")
Gotcha, thanks. Best to have at least a word or two in common, as in the OP’s example, I think. Playing off **Railer13** ’s post: The trunk of the 2017 Chevy Malibu, unlike previous cars in the series, does not include an interior handhold for ease in closing the trunk. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2084 "2020-09-09T15:06:08Z")
The Chevy Malibu is one of several currently available models that are named after cities. Other examples include the Dodge Durango, the Chrysler Pacifica, the Hyundai Santa Fe and Hyundai Tucson, the Kia Sedona, and the Toyota Tacoma. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2085 "2020-09-09T20:13:50Z")
_The Aquanauts_ was a short-lived ABC TV series showing the adventures of two divers in southern California. Actor Jeremy Slate developed health problems after all the time in the water and had to leave the show, replaced by future Tarzan Ron Ely. It also changed its setting from diving to running a diving shop and was renamed _Malibu Run_ ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2086 "2020-09-09T23:46:00Z")
Malibu is a liqueur brand, marketed by Pernod Ricard, which is made with coconut-flavored rum. It was originally introduced in the 1980s, as a way to make it simpler for bartenders to make pina coladas. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2087 "2020-09-10T13:23:46Z")
One critic joked that Michael Landon’s Christian-themed Eighties fantasy drama TV series _Highway to Heaven_ ought to be called _Jesus of Malibu_. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2088 "2020-09-10T14:29:37Z")
Michael Landon (1936-1991) was best known for his roles in _Bonanza_, _Little House on the Prairie_, and the aforementioned _Highway to Heaven_. According to Wikipedia, Landon appeared on the cover of _TV Guide_ 22 times, second only to Lucille Ball. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2089 "2020-09-10T17:18:39Z")
Lucille Ball’s natural hair color was brown, not the iconic red hair for which she is most known. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2090 "2020-09-10T19:09:58Z")
My play is off of red / Reds. Actor Michael Douglas earned his first Oscar in 1976, not as an actor, but as one of the producers of the best picture winner, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. Earlier for college, Douglas had attended UCSB, the University of California, Santa Barbara, one of the ten officially recognized campuses and the fourth oldest in the UC system. By year of establishment the ten UCs are: 1864 UCSF, San Francisco 1868 UC Berkeley 1905 UC Davis 1909 UCSB 1919 UCLA 1954 UC Riverside 1960 UCSD, San Diego 1965 UC Irvine, dedicated on 20 Jun 1965 UCSC, Santa Cruz 2005 UC Merced Other notable UCSB alumni include actress _Gwyneth Paltrow_, underwater explorer and RMS Titanic discoverer _Robert Ballard_, former NBA player and coach _Brian Shaw_, ESPN broadcaster _Lon McEachern_, sports talk show host _Jim Rome_, NASA astronaut _Leroy Chiao_, MLB pitcher and 2012 World Series Champion _Barry Zito_, attorney _Ed Masry_ of the Erin Brockovich case, former Cincinnati Reds second baseman _Skip Schumaker_, and molecular biologist and Nobel laureate _Carol Greider_, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the enzyme telomerase in 1984. Telemorase helps to protect the end of the human chromosome from DNA damage or from fusion with neighbouring chromosomes. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2091 "2020-09-10T19:25:51Z")
Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed’s comic strip, _Bloom County_, premiered on December 8th, 1980. Some of the strip’s original characters, such as Steve Dallas and Cutter John, had originated in _The Academia Waltz_, the comic strip which Breathed had created for _The Daily Texan_, the student newspaper at the University of Texas, when Breathed was a student there. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2092 "2020-09-10T21:03:31Z")
The North American T-6 Texan races in its own class at the Reno National Air Races each year. For the 1970 movie _Tora! Tora! Tora!_, T-6 Texans were modified into Mitsubishi Zero replicas. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2093 "2020-09-11T12:05:00Z")
Jean Reno is an international film star, barely recognized by Americans, since he made only a few American films – including the title role in “Leon, the Professional”. He was born Spanish as Juan Moreno, in Morocco, and adopted French nationality. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2094 "2020-09-11T14:39:29Z")
Jean Reno’s American profile has improved quite a bit since costarring in _Leon: The Professional, The Pink Panther, Godzilla, Mission: Impossible, The Da Vinci Code_ and _Ronin_. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2095 "2020-09-11T14:53:19Z")
Janet Reno, the first female Attorney General, was also the longest serving Attorney General of the 20th century from 1993 to 2001. She was President Clinton’s third choice after the two nominees before her were passed over because of hiring undocumented nannies. She was confirmed unanimously by the Senate (98-0) ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2096 "2020-09-11T15:02:23Z")
Reno, Nevada, bills itself as “The Biggest Little City in the World”. The city was established in 1868 along the banks of the Truckee River. It was named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the Civil War. With a population of about 255,000, it is the second-largest city in Nevada and the 85th largest city in the United States. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2097 "2020-09-11T19:05:39Z")
_Anything Goes_ was a Broadway musical the premiered with Ethel Merman in the lead female role of Reno Sweeney, who was based at least partially on evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2098 "2020-09-11T19:17:31Z")
The “MacPherson strut” is an automotive suspension system, originally developed by an automotive engineer at General Motors, Earle S. MacPherson, in the 1940s. MacPherson struts, or designs derived from it, are now widely used as the front suspension system on automobiles, as it can provide the steering pivot as well as a suspension mounting for the wheel. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2099 "2020-09-12T11:35:48Z")
Harvey “Pop” Hollinger opened the world’s first used comic book shop in 1939 in Concordia Kansas. Hollinger worked his way through McPherson College as an itinerant photographer, then gained an exposure to comics in 20 years of teaching school. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2100 "2020-09-12T14:37:49Z")
McPherson, Kansas was named after Union General James Birdseye McPherson. General McPherson was killed at the Battle of Atlanta, facing the army of his old West Point classmate John Bell Hood. McPherson was the second-highest-ranking Union officer killed in action during the war. Sedgwick County, located about 40 miles south of McPherson, was named after Major General John Sedgwick, who was the highest-raning Union officer killed in action during the Civil War. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2101 "2020-09-12T16:50:56Z")
Edie Sedgwick was an actress and model in the 1960s, primarily known for working with Andy Warhol on a number of his avant-garde films. She also had a relationship (possibly romantic) with Bob Dylan, and is believed to have been the inspiration for several of his songs, including _Just Like a Woman_ and _Like a Rolling Stone_. Sedgwick had a troubled life, and was a substance abuser; she died from an overdose of barbiturates in 1971, at age 28. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/2102 "2020-09-12T17:00:57Z")
The phrase “caviar to the general”, from _Hamlet_ Act 2 is used to denote a good thing unappreciated by the ignorant. The “general” refers to the masses or multitude; the 1603 Folio edition reads “caviar to the million”. Caviar was a novel delicacy at the end of the 16th century and Hamlet implies that it is unpalatable to those who have not acquired a taste for it. Ninja’d! ETA Andy Warhol’s comment that Campbell’s soup was his favorite has been called “mostly a fib” by NYT writer Blake Gopnik. “He cooked gourmet meals. In the 1950s, he served pheasant under glass to a friend for Thanksgiving; in the ’70s, a favorite recipe was linguine with _caviar_.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=104) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=106)