# 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:** 235
**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:** [November 5, 2021, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4687 "2021-11-05T03:26:40Z")
Leslie Nielsen, whose career was revived by his starring role in _Airplane_, was the younger brother of Erik Nielsen, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada. During Erik’s time in office, Leslie Nielsen and many other actors of Canadian origin appeared in _The Canadian Conspiracy_, a mockumentary about a supposed conspiracy to infiltrate American culture through the entertainment industry. Canadian and Canadian-American film and TV personalities appearing in the film include Lorne Greene, Lorne Michaels, John Candy, Tommy Chong, Peter Jennings, Margot Kidder, Anne Murray, William Shatner, Martin Short and Donald Sutherland,. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4688 "2021-11-05T15:38:35Z")
Paul Anka, who was born in 1941 in Ottawa, Ontario, recorded and released the song “Diana” in 1957. It went to #1 on both the American and Canadian music charts, and remains one of the best-selling singles ever recorded by a Canadian artist. In 1958, at the age of 17, he had four more singles in the Top 20. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4689 "2021-11-05T16:04:56Z")
Paul Anka has five daughters - all of who’s first names start with A Alexandra, Amanda, Alicia, Anthea and Amelia ---
**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:** [November 5, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4690 "2021-11-05T16:12:59Z")
Paul Anka wrote the theme song for _The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson_, entitled “Johnny’s Theme.” Anka, who was 21 years old at the time, based the song on an earlier song he had written, which went by the titles “Toot Sweet” (an instrumental) and “It’s Really Love” (with lyrics). Anka offered Carson the opportunity to write new lyrics for “his” version of the song, in order for Carson to share songwriting credit (and royalties) for it. Both men earned an estimated $200,000 a year in royalties for the song during Carson’s tenure on _The Tonight Show_. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2021, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4691 "2021-11-06T07:11:07Z")
Not bad… ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4692 "2021-11-06T16:54:18Z")
Back to Kenobi\_65 Alexander Courage wrote the theme music for Star Trek: The Original Series and Gene Roddenberry wrote the lyrics. “What?” you say? “It’s an instrumental!” Roddenberry wrote the lyrics without Courage’s permission so that he could take half of the royalties. Link to Bullitt - What Roddenberry did was bad. I’ve heard the lyrics sung to the music exactly once - on the Dr. Demento Show by the Doctor himself. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4693 "2021-11-06T19:21:52Z")
What link to Bullitt? What bad did Roddenberry do? ---
**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:** [November 6, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4694 "2021-11-06T19:25:36Z")
‘Dr. Demento’ is the persona created by DJ Barry Hansen, which he originated in 1970. Specializing in playing novelty or unusual recordings, the show went into national syndication in 1974, which lasted until 2010. A weekly show is still broadcast online. The show is credited with discovering “Weird Al” Yankovic, among others. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4695 "2021-11-06T19:38:01Z")
Out of play He effectively stole half the royalties from Courage ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4696 "2021-11-06T22:24:24Z")
> The show is credited with discovering “Weird Al” Yankovic, among others. Are you sure you don’t mean _ **blamed** _? In play: Weird Al’s actual name is Alfred Matthew Yankovic. He is not related to Frankie Yankovic, the accordion-playing Polka King, although the two were friends until Frankie’s death in 1998. He gave himself the “Weird Al” nickname while doing shifts as a DJ at radio station KCPR, the campus radio station at Cal Poly, because of his penchant for playing music that was, well, kind of weird _(think of artists like Spike Jones, Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, Allan Sherman, Shel Silverstein, Frank Zappa)_… and it just kind of stuck. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [November 7, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4697 "2021-11-07T16:28:14Z")
Frank Zappa (1940-1993) was born in Baltimore. He suffered a variety of illnesses as a child, including asthma, earaches, and sinus problems. A doctor attempted to treat his sinusitis by inserting a pellet of radium in each nostril. Perhaps coincidentally (or not), various references to the nose appear in his cover art and song lyrics. In _Drafted Again_, Zappa sang “Leave my nose alone, please…” And an unreleased 1970 song was entitled _A Snail in My Nose_. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2021, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4698 "2021-11-07T16:57:20Z")
Musician Frank Zappa was an extremely prolific recording artist, releasing 62 albums during his lifetime. Although many of Zappa’s albums charted on the U.S. charts, he only had one single which reached the top 40 in the U.S.: “Valley Girl,” his 1982 collaboration with his then-teenaged daughter, Moon, which reached #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2021, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4699 "2021-11-07T22:38:46Z")
Several of the valley girls from the original movie (1983) made cameos in the 2020 musical remake of “Valley Girls”. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2021, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4700 "2021-11-08T05:15:27Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Out of play > He effectively stole half the royalties from Courage Oooooh… and that would be a violation of the Prime Directive. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4701 "2021-11-09T15:28:01Z")
The 1983 movie _Valley Girl_ failed to garner any 1984 Oscar nominations. _Terms of Endearment_ won the Oscar for Best Picture; Jack Nicholson and Shirley Maclaine won Best Actor and Best Actress for their roles in that movie, while John Lithgow and Debra Winger were also nominated for those awards for their performances in the same movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4702 "2021-11-09T16:35:23Z")
Only one man named Oscar has ever won an Oscar. This person was renowned lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II _(1895-1960)_, and he did it twice. His first win came in 1942 for Best Original Song (_ **"The Last Time I Saw Paris"** _, co-written with James Kern for the movie _Lady Be Good_). Four years later, in 1946, he completed his set of book-ends when he partnered with Richard Rodgers to take home his second statuette in the same category with _ **"It Might As Well Be Spring"** _ from the movie _State Fair_. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4703 "2021-11-09T17:02:40Z")
Although the modern gender-neutral trend has been to refer to all those who act, regardless of sex, as “actors,” the Academy Awards, or Oscars, still maintain separate categories for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. As consolidating the categories would mean half as many people could win each year, and as some believe there are still important substantive differences between the acting of men and women, it seems likely that the distinction will remain. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4704 "2021-11-09T17:16:57Z")
Thirteen people have won Academy Awards for both Best Actor/Actress, and Best Supporting Actor/Actress. The six men who have won both the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor Awards are Jack Lemmon, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington. The seven women who have won both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Awards are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Maggie Smith, Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, Cate Blanchett, and Renee Zellweger. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4705 "2021-11-09T17:44:28Z")
Jeanne Eagels became the first posthumous Academy Award nominee at the second Academy Awards when nominated for Best Actress after dying, possibly from delirium tremens. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/4706 "2021-11-09T19:30:54Z")
The Rev. Jeanne Leinbach is the first female rector, or top priest, of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in the Diocese of Ohio. The parish was founded in Cleveland in 1846 and is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=234) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=236)