# 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:** 401
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8008 "2023-11-19T15:48:24Z")
_Marge vs the Monorail_ was the first of many episodes to feature a cameo by Leonard Nimoy. ---
**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 19, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8009 "2023-11-19T22:56:15Z")
Leonard Nimoy was originally from Boston. Several non-canon _Star Trek_ novels have given Cmdr. Spock’s mother, Amanda Grayson, Boston roots. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8010 "2023-11-19T23:03:20Z")
Winona Ryder, who played Amanda Grayson in the 2009 _Star Trek_ reboot, is just six years older than Zachary Quinto, who played her son, Spock. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8011 "2023-11-19T23:04:10Z")
When he was starting out in Hollywood, Nimoy drove cab to make ends meet. One of his passengers was a young senator from Boston, JFK. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8012 "2023-11-19T23:57:39Z")
**Aside.** I just want to quote _The Simpsons_. I’ve heard those things are awful loud! _It rides as gently as a cloud_ Is there a chance the track could bend? _Not on your life, my Hindu friend._ The ring came off my pudding can! _Take my penknife, my good man! I swear that it’s your only choice! Throw up your hands and raise your voice! Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!_ But Springfield’s streets are cracked and broken… ---
**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 20, 2023, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8013 "2023-11-20T00:57:51Z")
To bring knoodler and northern\_piper’s trivia together Wynona Ryder started in the Season 4 premier of Drunk History. The episode was called _Boston_. ---
**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 20, 2023, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8014 "2023-11-20T01:05:38Z")
Winona Ryder was born Winona Laura Horowitz in 1971 in Winona County, Minnesota. She was named after her birthplace and Laura Huxley, a family friend who was the wife of writer Aldous Huxley. Other family friends included Timothy Leary (Ryder’s godfather), poet Allen Ginsburg, and novelist Philip K. Dick. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8015 "2023-11-20T03:50:29Z")
In the 1968 _Dragnet_ episode “The Big Prophet”, Liam Sullivan played Brother William Bentley, leader of the Temple of the Expanded Mind, a thinly fictionalized version of Dr Timothy Leary. Bentley held forth for the entire half-hour on the rights of the individual and the benefits of LSD and marijuana, while Joe Friday argued the contrary. ---
**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 20, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8016 "2023-11-20T17:23:05Z")
The actual name of Big Brother, the Stalinesque dictator in George Orwell’s dystopic sf novel _1984,_ is never revealed. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8017 "2023-11-20T19:46:51Z")
Cory Doctorow is the author of _Little Brother_, a YA novel that explores Orwellian themes of government control. ---
**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 20, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8018 "2023-11-20T21:18:12Z")
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was so involved in the various initiatives of the administration of his older brother, President John F. Kennedy, that a common White House joke at the time was, “Little Brother is watching you.” ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8019 "2023-11-20T22:29:20Z")
Initially John F Kennedy did not want to appoint his younger brother to the Attorney General position in his cabinet, but their father insisted. ---
**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 21, 2023, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8020 "2023-11-21T02:42:03Z")
In 1960, John F. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, was the first Catholic person elected President of the United States; in 2020, Joe Biden, Democrat of Delaware, became the second. ---
**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 21, 2023, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8021 "2023-11-21T03:13:59Z")
Of the 45 men who have held the office of President of the United States, 43 are known to have professed some manner of Christian faith; there is apparently no verified information about a professed religious faith or denomination for Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Of the 43 Christian Presidents, 35 were Protestant, four were Nontrinitarian Unitarians, two were Roman Catholic, and two were Restorationists. ---
**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 21, 2023, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8022 "2023-11-21T03:21:30Z")
Singer John Denver’s birth name was Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. His father, USAF Captain Henry John “Dutch” Deutschendorf Sr., was a pilot who flew the Convair B-58 Hustler. The Hustler was the first operational bomber capable of Mach 2 flight. Dutch Deutschendorf set a number of air speed records in a Hustler in 1961, when John Denver turned 17. John Denver supported Jimmy Carter in his campaign in the 1976 Presidential election. An avid pilot, Denver was killed in a single-fatality crash while piloting a recently purchased light plane in 1997 at age 53. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8023 "2023-11-21T05:42:10Z")
Jimmy Carter is the oldest former POTUS, at age 99. Second oldest was George H.W. Bush, who lived to be 94 years old. Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan both lived to the age of 93, and Herbert Hoover was 90 at the time of his death. No other president lived to be 90. ---
**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 21, 2023, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8024 "2023-11-21T09:06:21Z")
The POTUS with the most children, with 15 children, was John Tyler. ---
**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 21, 2023, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8025 "2023-11-21T13:36:41Z")
Five Presidents fathered no biological children: George Washington, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, and James Buchanan. Buchanan, who never married, adopted his niece, Harriet Lane. Washington adopted the two children from the first marriage of his wife, Martha. Jackson adopted the nephew of his wife, Rachel, and was also the legal guardian to a number of other children. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8026 "2023-11-21T21:11:17Z")
Buchanan was rumored to have had relations with William R. King, a Southern Democrat who served as vice president under the previous administration. The two men lived together after Buchanan left the White House. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/8027 "2023-11-21T22:02:48Z")
There were rumours, but King died two weeks into his term as VP, so didn’t live with Buchanan later. King was sworn into office in Havana, where he had gone for health reasons. Came home shortly afterwards and died in his plantation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=400) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=402)