# 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:** 492
**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:** [February 16, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9828 "2025-02-16T03:20:03Z")
The Prince and Great Steward of Scotland is typically the heir apparent to the British Throne, at this time Prince William, who is also Prince of Wales. He, like most of his predecessors, also holds the Scottish titles of Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Lord of the Isles and Baron of Renfrew. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9829 "2025-02-16T03:53:05Z")
Paul Carrack is a British singer/keyboardist/songwriter, originally from Sheffield. Carrack sang on a number of hit songs in the 1970s and 1980s, with several bands, including “How Long” (with Ace), “Tempted” (Squeeze), “Silent Running” and “The Living Years” (Mike + the Mechanics), and “Don’t Shed a Tear” (solo). Carrack has also been a member of Nick Lowe’s Cowboy Outfit, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band, and the Bleeding Heart Band, which backed up former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9830 "2025-02-16T12:00:18Z")
The 1972 film Silent Running starred Bruce Dern. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9831 "2025-02-16T16:49:38Z")
In film circles, Bruce Dern holds the unique position of being the only person to kill John Wayne onscreen. He does this in _The Cowboys_ (1972). ---
**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:** [February 16, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9832 "2025-02-16T16:57:10Z")
John Wayne Airport, in Orange County, California, has relatively short runways, and also has to deal with noise-abatement regulations due to the communities just to the south of the airport. As a result, airliners departing in a southerly direction (using runway 20R) have to throttle up while holding at the end of the runway (with brakes applied), then release the brakes, leading to a jackrabbit start. After taking off, the planes must immediately make a steep climb, and reduce engine speed, as they pass over local neighborhods. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2025, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9833 "2025-02-17T01:12:06Z")
John Wayne’s third wife, Pilar Pallette, was Latina, and he was one of the few prominent American conservatives to support President Jimmy Carter in arranging for the handoff, by treaty, of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian government. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9834 "2025-02-17T06:25:21Z")
(Not in play) The same holds true for the Hollywood Burbank Airport. And the landings are no picnic either: planes drop quickly and land with a bounce on the runway, before breaking hard. (To be honest the planes don’t actually bounce, but it feels that way inside the cabin.) ---
**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:** [February 20, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9835 "2025-02-20T15:07:06Z")
(In play) John Wayne was nominated three times for the Best Actor Academy Award, winning for True Grit. The other two were for his roles in The Alamo and Sands of Iwo Jima. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9836 "2025-02-20T15:10:42Z")
One old nickname for the Liberal Party of Canada is “the Grits”. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9837 "2025-02-20T15:16:07Z")
The Liberal Party of New York was founded in 1944 as a splinter of the American Labor Party and members of the Communist Party USA over a disagreement of whether or not to support Franklin Roosevelt in the presidential election ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9838 "2025-02-20T16:54:41Z")
From 1924 to 1984, the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) has fielded 10 candidates in national presidential elections. Their best showing was in 1932, with 103,307 votes (.03%) won. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9839 "2025-02-20T17:10:45Z")
According to [thoughtCo.com](http://thoughtCo.com), the most lopsided president election in U.S. history was Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1936 victory against Republican Alfred M. Landon. Roosevelt won 98.5 percent or 523 of the 538 electoral votes up for grabs that year. www.thoughtco dot com ➜ [Most Lopsided Presidential Elections](https://www.thoughtco.com/landslide-presidential-elections-by-electoral-votes-3367489) ■ In his first (of 3) reelection FDR carried every state except for Maine and Vermont, and he got 60.8% of the popular vote. FDR was elected POTUS in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944. Also, Republican Ronald Reagan won the most electoral votes of any president in history, 525. But that was after seven more electoral votes were added to the prize. His 525 electoral votes represented 97.6 percent of all 538 electoral votes. Reagan carried every state except for Walter Mondale’s home state of Minnesota. He also did not carry Washington DC. Reagan got 58.8% of the popular vote. ---
**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:** [February 20, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9840 "2025-02-20T21:20:11Z")
At the funeral of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in January of 2025, among those who delivered eulogies and tributes were Steve Ford (son of the late former President Gerald Ford) and Ted Mondale (son of the late Walter Mondale, who had been Carter’s vice-president) – both of them delivered tributes to Carter which had originally been written by their fathers. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2025, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9841 "2025-02-22T03:55:10Z")
The Fathers of Confederation are the group of thirty-six politicians from the British North American provinces who put together the Confederation package between 1864 and 1867. The membership in the group is defined by having attended at least one of the three Confederation conferences: the Charlottetown Conference and the Quebec Conference, both in 1864, and the London Conference in 1866. The British North America Act, implementing their resolutions, was passed by the British Parliament in March 1867, and came into force on July 1, 1867. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9842 "2025-02-22T04:04:46Z")
Stephen Foster, the prolific songwriter, died January 13, 1864 of a neck cut. It is unknown how he cut his neck, whether by accident of suicide. He was only 37. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9843 "2025-02-22T04:28:18Z")
The London Conference finished the first stage of its work on Christmas Eve, 1866. One of the leading participants, John A. Macdonald, went to his hotel room and fell asleep in bed, reading the newspapers. He woke up with his bedsheets in flames from a candle that had tipped over. He suffered a serious burn on his arm and shoulder from the accident. So, the future Prime Minister of Canada spent Christmas Day 1866 bandaged up in his hotel room, dining on tea and toast. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9844 "2025-02-22T04:42:27Z")
How does this link to the previous post about Stephen Foster? ---
**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:** [February 25, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9845 "2025-02-25T10:17:01Z")
Clearly it does not. It looks to be a ninja that should have been corrected. I’ll play off of @Saint_Cad. We’re unsure if Stephen Foster’s death was a suicide. His neck cut might have been accidental. However, several of his songs in his final years foreshadow his death. In “_The Little Ballad Girl_” of 1860, the refrain includes the line, _ **'Tis my father’s song, and he can’t live long.** _ In “_Kiss Me Dear Mother Ere I Die_” published in 1869 after his death in January 1864, we have two lines, _ **Life’s chilling close is now drawing near** _ and the song’s final line, _ **Kiss me dear mother ere I die** _ Stephen Foster was sick with a fever when his neck was cut. He may have fallen and cut his neck, or he may have cut it on purpose. Foster was found still alive and he was brought to the hospital, but he died 3 days later. Stephen Foster was only 37. He was known as “the father of American music”. He wrote such classics as _Oh! Susanna_ (1848), _De Camptown Races_ (1850), _My Old Kentucky Home_ (1853), and _Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair_ (1854). ---
**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:** [February 25, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9846 "2025-02-25T12:42:50Z")
Ahem. > [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > whether by **accident** of suicide. > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > serious burn on his arm and shoulder from the **accident**. ---
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> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > One of the leading participants, **John** A. Macdonald, > [@Bullitt](#): > > We’re unsure if Stephen **Foster** ’s death was a suicide. Tying the previous two together and getting back on track… **John Foster** Dulles was the US Secretary of State during the Eisenhower administration. While SOS, Dulles was strongly anti-communist and anti-Soviet. In 1953, he was instrumental in instigating a coup d’état in Iran, and he did the same thing in Guatemala the next year. Suffering from cancer, he resigned in 1959 and died shortly thereafter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=491) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=493)