# 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:** 496
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9908 "2025-03-10T16:26:50Z")
Reynolds Wrap was ubiquitous in kitchens in the 1960s. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9909 "2025-03-10T16:55:26Z")
Car wraps, made of vinyl and meant to substitute for repainting your car, lasts for about 5 years though variables such as climate and garaging you car will make your time vary so YMMV. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9910 "2025-03-11T04:22:28Z")
The only food available in The Village, in the AMC/ITV 2009 miniseries remake of the surreal British Sixties spy drama _The Prisoner,_ was wraps. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9911 "2025-03-14T18:34:05Z")
The role of “Number Two”, the chief administrator of the Village in the 1960’s _The Prisoner_, was held by more than seventeen different actors. The first one was played by Guy Doleman. The last was played by Leo McKern. ---
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As a teenager, Australian actor Leo McKern worked for a time in a factory, where he suffered an accident which damaged his left eye, ultimately resulting in the removal of the eye, and its replacement with a glass eye. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9913 "2025-03-15T02:38:00Z")
In addition to his role on _The Prisoner_, Leo McKern is perhaps best known for playing the Leader of the Loyal Opposition in the Duchy of Grand Fenwick in _The Mouse That Roared_ (1959), and as a grumpy but skillful London barrister in the British courtroom dramedy _Rumpole of the Bailey_ (1975-1992). ---
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McKern also played a corrupt lawyer, Thomas Cromwell, who tempts Sir Thomas More in _A Man for All Seasons_. The ironic contrast between that role and the later role as the professionally virtuous Rumpole was striking. ---
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Author John Mortimer was initially unenthusiastic about Leo McKern’s casting as Rumpole, but changed his opinion upon seeing him at rehearsal. McKern himself was not happy at being remembered mainly for playing Rumpole, being proud of his roles in theater, including Shekespeare’s Iago and Gloucester, and Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. ---
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W. S. Gilbert (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) once wrote that to find out whether Bacon wrote Shakespeare’s plays, people were going to dig up both Bacon’s and Shakespeare’s coffins, have actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree recite Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy between them, and note which corpse rolled over. ---
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The earliest known example of the phrase “to turn in one’s grave” is a House of Commons speech in 1801 warning Britain against giving too much power to France during the preliminaries to peace following the revolutionary wars: “Thus have we done a thing altogether unknown in the history of this country ; a thing which would have scared all former politicians ; a thing, which, if our old Whig politicians were now to hear, they would turn in their graves.” ---
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Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, William Seward of New York and Salmon P. Chase of Ohio were all Whigs who became Republicans in the years before the Civil War. The Whig Party split, north and south, over slavery; the Republican Party was antislavery (but not actually abolitionist) until well into the Civil War. ---
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In the UK, the term “Whig” began as a short form of _whiggamore_, a term originally used by people in the north of England to refer to (cattle) drovers from western Scotland who came to Leith to buy corn. The Gaelic-speaking Scottish cattle drivers would call out “Chuig” or “Chuig an bothar”—meaning “away” or “to the road”; this sounded to the English like “Whig”, and they came to use the word “Whig” or “Whiggamore” derisively to refer to these people. ---
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In terms of both acreage and value, corn is the most valuable crop produced in the USA. Over 90 million acres of corn are planted and harvested each year, and the Department of Agriculture estimated that in 2022, the United States produced $88.4 billion of corn. ---
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American corn, or maize, evolved from a wild grass called teosinte, which is native to southern Mexico and was domesticated by indigenous peoples nine thousand years ago. It still grows there today. ---
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Corn smut is what you get when corn is infected with the fungus Mycosarcoma maydis. Culinarily the infected corn kernels are known as huitlacoche or “Mexican truffles” and is used in Mexican cooking, ---
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The first full-size corn maze is believed to have been created in Annville, Pennsylvania, in 1993 (although other sources dispute this). In the UK, they’re called maize mazes. ---
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Simon Cameron, a notoriously corrupt political boss, was the only Pennsylvanian in the first Lincoln Cabinet. Lincoln believed he owed Cameron a Cabinet seat for Cameron’s vitally-important support at the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago, and named him Secretary of War. ---
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The only two cabinet members to be impeached are William Belknap, Secretary of War under Grant and Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security under Biden. Neither were convicted. ---
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President US Grant was ticketed for riding horses too fast on Washington, DC streets, but he was never arrested, most historians believe. ---
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Cary Grant was born Archibald Alexander Leach. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=495) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=497)