# 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:** 169
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3367 "2021-03-08T02:10:21Z")
Kiril Džajkovski, often credited as simply Kiril, is an internationally acclaimed Macedonian electronic musician and music composer. In the 1990s, Kiril moved to Australia and began experimenting with music, combining ethnic Macedonian music and electronic beats. This led to his first solo release, _Synthetic Theatre_ , an EP received extremely well by Australian independent radio stations. ---
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The Republic of North Macedonia, originally known as Macedonia, came into existence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It is a landlocked country, bordering Kosovo, Servia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Albania. ---
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1991 was the second full calendar year of George H.W. Bush’s Presidency. His son George W. Bush took office as President exactly a decade later. ---
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There have been two father-son duos who both held the office of President of the United States. John Adams was the second president; he served from 1897 to 1901. Later, his son, John Quincy Adams, served as the seventh president, from 1825-1829. As mentioned, George H.W. Bush, the 41st president, served from 1989-1993; his son, George W. Bush, served as the 43rd president from 2001-2009. ---
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_Quincy, M.E._ (also called Quincy) was an American mystery medical drama television series from Universal Studios that aired on NBC from 1976, to 1983. Jack Klugman starred in the title role as a Los Angeles County medical examiner who routinely engaged in police investigations. Quincy was originally broadcast as 90-minute telefilms as part of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie rotation in the autumn of 1976, alongside _Columbo_ , _McCloud_ and _McMillan._ The series proved popular enough that after four episodes of _Quincy, M.E_ . had aired during the 1976–1977 season in the extended format, _Quincy_ was spun off into its own weekly one-hour series. ---
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Los Angeles County, California includes 88 incorporated cities. The State of Ohio has 88 counties. ---
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“88” is neo-Nazi identifier. ---
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For those who don’t get it, the eighth letter of the alphabet is ‘H’ … 88 = HH = “Heil Hitler”. In play … The easiest way to differentiate the Nazi swastika from the Hindu swastika by observing in which direction the arms are bent. The arms on Nazi swastikas bend to the right; the original swastika of the Hindus and other Eurasian cultures bend to the left. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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Today there are over 450 Hindu Temples across the United States, spread across the country, with a majority of them situated on the east coast centered around the New York region which alone has over 135 temples. The next largest number are in Texas with 28 Temples and Massachusetts with 27 temples. ---
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In 2004 the adherents of Hinduism in the United States numbered about 1.5 million, or .5% of the population. In 2015, that number had risen to 2.23 million, or .7% of the population. ---
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Per Wiki, Hinduism is the world’s third-largest religion, with over 1.25 billion followers, or 15–16% of the global population. Hinduism is the most widely-professed faith in India, Nepal and Mauritius. Hinduism is estimated to be the second fastest-growing religion in the world after Islam. ---
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“per procurationem”, often abbreviated “p.p.” is a term used to indicate that someone else has signed a letter or document on behalf of the person who is responsible for the letter. It is more often used in Britain than in North America. The term procurationem is derived from the Latin word “procurare”, meaning “To take care of another’s affairs for him, or on his behalf; to manage; to take care of or superintend.” ---
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Curare is the common term for several types of paralytic alkaloid poisons, which are made from extracts from various plants, and have historically been used as a hunting poison by various indigenous peoples in Central and South America. Curare has also been used for medicinal purposes, to treat tetanus and strychnine poisoning, and as a paralyzing agent for surgical procedures. ---
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Per Wiki, the word ‘curare’ is derived from _wurari_, from the Carib language of the Macusi of Guyana, in northern South America. It has its origins in the Carib phrase “mawa cure” meaning of the Mawa vine, scientifically known as _Strychnos toxifera_. ---
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E.R. Braithwaite, a writer from Guyana, settled in London in the 1950’s and it was there that he wrote his best-selling novel, _To Sir, with Love_ (1959), which told of a Guyanese schoolteacher’s adventures in a tough London East End High School. A movie version of the book was made in 1967 starred Sidney Poitier. ---
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The title song of _To Sir, With Love_ was sung by the artist known as Lulu. Lulu was born in 1948 and was christened Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie. She later changed her name to Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, which was then shortened to Lulu. ---
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In 1948, Harry Truman won his one and only run for the Presidency and, after 1920, the Cleveland Indians won only their second (and so far, still most recent) World Series. ---
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, elected to the presidency four times, had three different running-mates as vice-presidential candidates. John Nance Garner was elected VP in the 1932 and 1936 elections, while Henry A. Wallace was on the ticket in the 1940 election. Harry S. Truman, a Missourian who was first elected to the Senate in 1934, became FDR’s running-mate in the 1944 election and assumed the presidency following the death of FDR in 1945. ---
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Although FDR was easily re-nominated in 1944, there was a major fight over the vice-presidential nomination, particularly in light of rumours over FDR’s health. The centrist-right members of the party thought Wallace as too leftist. A strong group emerged that fought for Truman to be nominated, leading to a contested ballot, which Truman eventually won. One of the leaders of the group who opposed Wallace, Senator Samuel Jackson, later said that he thought his tombstone should be inscribed: “Here lies the man who stopped Henry Wallace from becoming President of the United States.” ---
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Actor Samuel L. Jackson is a stutterer, and he discovered that cursing – in particular, using the curse “motherf\*\*\*er,” with which he has become strongly identified – was a way that he could control his stuttering. As [a 2019 _Vanity Fair_ article notes](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/06/samuel-l-jackson-shaft-motherfucker-stutter): > [@](#): > > “I stuttered for a long time, and it actually did help me stop. The word gave me something to focus on and released the pressure, and it really helped me get the rest of the sentence out,” said the 70-year-old Oscar nominee. “I’m not real sure why, but it’s easy for me to pronounce. It was spontaneous on how I discovered it—it was the word that hit me, and the word that kind of helped me stop stuttering with the d-d-d’s and b-b-b’s.” > [@](#): > > As an adult, Jackson still stutters sporadically, and continues to shout “motherfucker” or whisper it to stop his broken speech. “The word still helps me today,” he said. “I still stutter a little bit. I have days and I get through it.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=168) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=170)