# 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:** 182
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3627 "2021-04-25T18:23:01Z")
Dog bites requiring treatment are a fairly common emergency room presentation. Cat bites are also common, as are human bite injuries often caused by punching someone in the mouth after a drinking misadventure. The main thing with bites is to clean them thoroughly. One does not generally want to stitch them tightly closed because of the risk of creating an abscess or closed-off subdermal infection. Cat saliva, for example, can contain _Pasteurella_ bacteria which often causes infection, so antibiotics are often given for bites. One tries to minimize the amount of stitching. Human bites to the hand require an X-ray to look for tooth fragments and Boxer’s fractures, a common injury of the bone proximal to the baby finger. The question of possible rabies may also arise, especially with bat, raccoon and rat bites. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3628 "2021-04-25T18:27:20Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > The Anatolian Shepherd Dog is a livestock guardian dog, in charge of watching over a flock and protecting the defenseless animals from predators. Even though the Anatolian Shepherd Dog has likely been around for thousands of years, the Turks never exported them until the 20th century, because the considered them to be so valuable. > > Note: Had never heard of them, but a most handsome dog: [https://cdn.akc.org/content/article-body-image/asd.png](https://cdn.akc.org/content/article-body-image/asd.png) They are indeed. The Cheetah Conservation Fund has a very successful program placing the dogs with African farmers to scare off cheetahs who might otherwise prey on their flocks and then be shot by the farmers: [https://cheetah.org/canada/about-us/what-we-support/livestock-guarding-dogs-program/](https://cheetah.org/canada/about-us/what-we-support/livestock-guarding-dogs-program/) ---
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In 2012, an11-year-old cheetah named Sarah from the Cincinnati Zoo broke her previous record, covering 100 meters at a peak speed of 61 mph (98 kph) in 5.95 seconds. Olympian Usain Bolt, who holds the (human) world record, is much slower by comparison: 100 meters in 9.58 seconds. ---
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The first person to break the 10-second mark in a 100-meter race was Bob Hayes, who accomplished the feat in 1963. However, because the race had a following wind of 11 mph, the time was not officially recognized. 3 more men broke the mark in 1968; all 3 were timed using ‘hand-timers’. The first person to ‘officially’ break the 10-second mark at low altitude using electronic timing was Carl Lewis, who did so in 1983. ---
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Bob Hayes, who was a world-class sprinter as well as an excellent football player (he was a wide receiver), is the only athlete to have won an Olympic gold medal as well as an NFL Super Bowl ring, and be an inductee in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. ---
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Over the course of a long career, British actor Bob Hoskins has played, among other things, a gangster (_The Long Good Friday_), a pirate (_Hook_), a Communist Party leader (_Enemy at the Gates_) and a hardboiled detective (_Who Framed Roger Rabbit_). ---
**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:** [April 26, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/3633 "2021-04-26T17:44:37Z")
Percy Kellick Hoskins was the chief crime reporter for the British newspaper the Daily Express in the 1950s. Hoskins earned a mixture of notoriety and admiration within his profession due to the stance he took regarding suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams. Hoskins was the only reporter with a national paper to support Adams when arrested in 1956, while the rest of the press unanimously assumed Adams’s guilt. Hoskins’s stance was seen by his peers as career suicide, but, in the end, Adams was acquitted. During the trial, Hoskins befriended Adams, and when Adams died in 1983, he bequeathed Hoskins £1,000. Hoskins gave the money to charity. ---
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A “bodkin” is normally a type of pin or blunt needle, but in _Hamlet_, Shakespeare uses “bare bodkin” in the “To be, or not to be” soliloquy to mean an unsheathed dagger, suitable for committing suicide. ---
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_Strange Brew_ is a 1983 comedy film, starring Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as Bob and Doug McKenzie, the stereotypical Canadian characters which they had originated on the sketch comedy series SCTV. _Strange Brew_’s story is loosely based on Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_ – the movie takes place in and around Elsinore Brewery, where the brewery owner was killed by his brother, and now appears as a ghost. Bob and Doug, themselves, are analogous to the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern characters. ---
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There has been considerable speculation about the possible sources for _Hamlet_. Shakespeare may have been influenced by Thomas Kyd’s _Spanish Tragedy_, a revenge tragedy which was popular in the 1580s. Kyd may also have written a play called _Hamlet_, which was mentioned by Thomas Nashe in his list of playwrights in 1589. Shakespeare may have relied upon this now lost play as a source (the so-called _Ur-Hamlet_). On the other hand, there are three different published versions of Shakespeare’s _Hamlet_: the First Quarto (1602), the Second Quarto (1604) and the First Folio (1623). The First Quarto is much shorter than the Folio version. It may have been Shakespeare’s first version of _Hamlet_, originally written in the 1580s, and thus is itself the _Ur-Hamlet_. Alternatively, given the timing of its publication, more than a decade after Nash’s list of plays, it may be Shakespeare’s first draft, but influenced by the _Ur-Hamlet_. Like the play itself, the issue influences and _Ur-ness_ leads to considerable speculation and interpretation. ---
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Ogden Nash (1902-1971) was an American poet well known for his light, humorous verses and unconventional rhyming schemes. One of his longer poems was a tribute to baseball greats, written in alphabetical order. Entitled “Line-Up for Yesterday,” the verse was published in _Sport_ magazine in 1949. Some lines from the poem include: A is for Alex The great Alexander; More Goose eggs he pitched Than a popular gander. C is for Cobb Who grew spikes and not corn. And made all the basemen Wish they weren’t born. R is for Ruth. To tell you the truth, There’s just no more to be said, Just R is for Ruth. The complete text of the poem can be found [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-Up_for_Yesterday). ---
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Newfoundland joined Confederation as Canada’s tenth province in 1949. Newfoundland had been an autonomous Dominion, with the same status as Canada, Australia and the other Dominions, but went bankrupt during the Great Depression and surrendered responsible government for British financial aid. ---
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In November of 1930 during the depths of the Great Depression, gangster Al Capone opened a soup kitchen in Chicago. Capone’s soup kitchen served breakfast, lunch and dinner to an average of 2,200 Chicagoans every day, and 5,000 people on Thanksgiving Day. Every day, the soup kitchen served 350 loaves of bread, 100 dozen rolls, 50 pounds of sugar and 30 pounds of coffee. ---
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The American actor Robert De Niro, playing Al Capone in the 1987 Brian De Palma crime drama _The Untouchables_, is said to have worn silk underwear, as Capone did, to really get into the part. ---
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Scottish actor Sean Connery only received one Academy Award nominiation over the course of his career – a Best Supporting Actor nomination for portraying Irish cop Jimmy Malone in _The Untouchables_ in 1987; Connery did win the award that year. ---
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Sean Connery has two small tattoos on his right arm . One says **“Scotland forever”** , the other “ **Mum and Dad.”** He got them when he enlisted in the Royal Navy at the age of 16 on 1946. He was supposed to be serving a 7-year team, but was discharged from the navy at the age of 19 on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, a condition that affected most of the males in previous generations of his family. ---
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Sean Connery, who passed away on October 31, 2020, was recognized as “The Greatest Living Scot” in a 2004 poll. He was also named as “Scotland’s Greatest Living National Treasure” in a 2011 survey. Thus far, my extensive research has yielded no successors to either honor. ---
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The royal coat of arms of Scotland, a red lion on a yellow field, is incorporated into the coat of arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. > **[Royal arms of Scotland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_arms_of_Scotland)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > The royal arms of Scotland is the official coat of arms of the King of Scots first adopted in the 12th century. > With the Union of the Crowns in 1603, James VI inherited the thrones of England and Ireland and thus his arms in Scotland were now quartered with the arms of England (which was itself quartered with France) with an additional quarter for Ireland also added (the arms would continue to alter in later years). Though the kingdoms of Eng... > **[Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_coat_of_arms_of_the_United_Kingdom)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > The royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, or the royal arms for short, is the arms of dominion of the British monarch, currently King Charles III. These arms are used by the King in his official capacity as monarch of the United Kingdom. Variants of the royal arms are used by other members of the British royal family, by the Government of the United Kingdom in connection with the administration and government of the country, and some courts... ---
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The logo for the English rock band Queen was created by the band’s singer, Freddie Mercury, who had a degree in art and design. The logo, which is loosely based on the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, features references to the zodiac signs of the band’s members: the lions represent John Deacon and Roger Taylor (both Leos), the crab represents Brian May (Cancer), and the fairies represent Mercury (Virgo). [![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e1/7b/ef/e17befde19dcb4c4890e01fcc19400d7.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e1/7b/ef/e17befde19dcb4c4890e01fcc19400d7.jpg) ---
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The royal coat of arms of England, [[Album] The royal coat of arms of England ![](https://i.imgur.com/9EMlWxM.jpeg?fb "The royal coat of arms of England") ](https://imgur.com/a/UcBrUWe) is among the first coat of arms ever used. It dates from the 12th century during the Third Crusade, 1189-1192 (also known as the Kings’ Crusade). This coat of three lions has not been altered since it was formed by Richard the Lionheart during his reign in the High Medieval Period. The earliest surviving representation of a shield displaying three lions is on Richard the Lionheart’s Great Seal. The three lions represent his three principal positions as King of the English, Duke of Normandy, and Duke of Aquitaine. This design forms the basis of several emblems of English national sports teams, such as the England national football team. It endures as one of the most recognisable national symbols of England. Richard the Lionheart was born in 1157. He reigned from 1189 until his death in 1199. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=181) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=183)