# 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:** 71
**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:** [June 13, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1402 "2020-06-13T14:51:06Z")
David Frost was an English television host, comedian, and writer. Born in 1939, he first achieved fame by hosting the satirical program _That Was The Week That Was_ in 1962. Later, he became known for interviewing important political figures, especially his interviews with former President Richard Nixon in 1977. Frost died of a heart attack in 2013 while aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1403 "2020-06-13T17:44:11Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Tønsberg is a city in southern Norway. The city “appears” in several of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films: > > - In _Thor_ (2010), it is the location of an invasion by Frost Giants during the Viking era > - In _Captain America: The First Avenger_ (2011), it is where a sect of Odin worshippers has hidden the artifact then known as the Tesseract > - In Avengers: Endgame (2019), it is the location of New Asgard, where Thor and other survivors of the destruction of Asgard have settled > > However, the actual city of Tønsberg does not appear in any of the films; in _Endgame_, the Scottish village of St Abbs was used to stand in for Tønsberg. Tønsberg, Norway — looks quite scenic. But Tønsberg is in the southeast, near Oslo, and not near the Atlanterhavsveien (map, [https://is.gd/nTCq9g](https://is.gd/nTCq9g)). David Frost was aboard the MS _Queen Elizabeth_ when he died. According to [cruiseCritic.com](http://cruiseCritic.com), when a cruise passenger dies at sea, the cruise ship company’s protocol includes the requirement to carry body bags and maintain a morgue. Employees are trained to provide emotional and logistical support to grieving loved ones. Employees are trained to help deal with the details of repatriating a body and contacting a funeral home. The first order of business is removing the body from the boat. The receiving port (and country) issues the death certificate, which is the first step in repatriating the body. [When a Passenger Dies at Sea: What You Need to Know](https://is.gd/Ph1xkN) \<\< [cruiseCritic.com](http://cruiseCritic.com) article The article begins with, > [@](#): > > People die every day, even on vacation, even on a cruise. Sadly, this happens more often than one might think. According to the Broward County Medical Examiner’s Office, which is where any deaths on cruise ships that stop at Fort Lauderdale’s Port Everglades must be reported, some 91 people have died on cruise ships that arrived in Fort Lauderdale between 2014 and 2017. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1404 "2020-06-14T04:31:06Z")
Several of the cast of _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ had worked for David Frost, and in the sketch “Timmy Williams Coffee Time” they parodied his towering ego, relentless narcissism and deep-down phoniness: [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6qglgt](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6qglgt) ---
**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:** [June 14, 2020, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1405 "2020-06-14T04:51:28Z")
David Frost was the only person to have interviewed all eight British prime ministers serving between 1964 and 2016 (Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron) and all seven U.S. presidents in office between 1969 and 2008 (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush). ---
**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:** [June 14, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1406 "2020-06-14T16:03:17Z")
Six United States Presidents have lived into their 90s: John Adams, Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter. Carter, whose age is currently 96 years, 8 months, and 13 days, is the longest-lived of all 45 presidents. John Kennedy was the shortest-lived of all the presidents. He was just 46 years old when he was assassinated in 1963. ---
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Only three presidents—John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama—have had poets read at their inaugurations. For Kennedy’s inauguration, Robert Frost had written a special poem, but, blinded by the glare of sun shining on snow, he was unable to read it and instead recited “The Gift Outright” from memory. Frost was often regarded as a New England Yankee poet, but he was actually born in San Francisco. One of his best-known poems, “The Road Not Taken”, was written in England, inspired by walks in Gloucestershire with writer Edward Thomas. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1408 "2020-06-14T18:40:51Z")
Robert Frost was nominated **31** **times** for the Nobel Prize in Literature. ---
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> [@Bullitt](#): > > Robert Frost was nominated **31** **times** for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Cross-reference from [nobelPrize.org](http://nobelPrize.org): [https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show\_people.php?id=3248](https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=3248) Robert Frost Lastname/org: Frost Firstname: Robert Gender: M Year, Birth: 1874 Year, Death: 1963 Nominee in 31 nominations: Literature 1950 by American academy of arts and letters Literature 1952 by Edwin Harrison Cady Literature 1953 by Hjalmar Gullberg Literature 1954 by Selander Literature 1955 by Cecil Day Lewis Literature 1957 by The PEN-Club Literature 1958 by Leon Edel Literature 1958 by John Nash Douglas Bush Literature 1958 by Alfred Harbage Literature 1958 by Howard Mumford Jones Literature 1958 by W Cabell Greet Literature 1960 by Hans Galinsky Literature 1960 by Nils Erik Enkvist Literature 1960 by Walter Havighurst Literature 1961 by Pearl Buck (Walsh) Literature 1961 by Andrew Chiappe Literature 1961 by Frederick Wilcox Dupee Literature 1961 by Donald France Literature 1961 by Moses Hadas Literature 1961 by Carlos Baker Literature 1961 by Wystan Hugh Auden Literature 1961 by Several professors Literature 1962 by C Lewis Literature 1963 by Wallace Stegner Literature 1963 by Lewis Leary Literature 1963 by Carl Woodring Literature 1963 by Frederick Albert Pottle Literature 1963 by George Healey Literature 1963 by Moses Hadas Literature 1963 by Donald Frame Literature 1963 by M Abrams ---
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American critic, novelist, and literary and social historian Walter Havighurst wrote over 30 books, including biographies of Gen. George Rogers Clark, Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill. He died in Richmond, Indiana in 1994. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1411 "2020-06-14T21:52:13Z")
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, although now irreversibly entwined with the American west through his buffalo-hunting exploits and his famed “Wild West Show”, was actually born in Iowa Territory in what is now the little Mississippi River town of Le Claire (IA), and lived for a short time in his father’s hometown of Toronto Township, Ontario, Canada before returning as a youth with his family to America, who settled in what was then the Kansas Territory. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
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Cody, Wyoming is named for Buffalo Bill Cody. Buffalo Bill helped to found the settlement in 1896. Cody is in northwestern Wyoming, about 400 miles NW of the capital, Cheyenne, in the southeast corner of the state. Map \>\> [Google Maps](https://is.gd/Wp53En). Cody is the 11th-largest Wyoming city, by population, and Cheyenne is the 1st. Rank City Population 1 Cheyenne 63,243 2 Casper 58,756 3 Gillette 33,056 4 Laramie 32,178 5 Rock Springs 23,633 6 Sheridan 17,825 7 Green River 12,278 8 Evanston 11,953 9 Riverton 11,069 10 Jackson 10,483 11 Cody 9,761 12 Rawlins 8,975 13 Lander 7,621 14 Torrington 6,717 15 Douglas 6,402 ---
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Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show included such western figures as Annie Oakley, Wild Bill Hickok, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, and Geronimo. His show did world tours and played to the King of England, among others. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1414 "2020-06-15T02:55:41Z")
_Buffalo Bill_ was a situation comedy which ran on NBC from 1983-1984, starring Dabney Coleman as “Buffalo” Bill Bittinger, an egotistical talk-show host on a TV station in Buffalo, New York. Coleman’s co-stars on the series included Joanna Cassidy, Geena Davis, Max Wright, John Fiedler, Charlie Robinson, and Meshach Taylor. The show was critically acclaimed, and received 11 Emmy nominations during its brief run, but was cancelled during its second season. Brandon Tartikoff, who was head of NBC at the time, called the cancellation of the show his biggest professional regret. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1415 "2020-06-15T03:55:46Z")
The Coleman company was founded by William Coffin Coleman, who began selling gasoline pressure lamps in 1900 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. In 1905, Coleman gas lamps were provided as a demonstration to provide light for the first night football game west of the Mississippi River, a game between Cooper and Fairmount (now called Sterling College and Wichita State University). ---
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Cooper (IA) is a small town (approx population 50) in Greene County, Iowa. They achieved national notoriety in 1981 when, for their centennial, they announced that they would accept applications from people who wished to be ‘adopted’ as Cooper’s 51st citizen, and a committee of three town members appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in June 1981 to ‘interview’ him with regard to his qualifications — such as ‘had he ever worn overalls’, ‘had he ever milked a cow’, and ‘did he know the difference between an apple pie and a cowpie’. _(eta…Carson was the eventual honoree, although he was a no-show at the centennial celebration itself)_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1417 "2020-06-15T09:39:45Z")
Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, only about 80 miles from Cooper. A century ago, Cooper was bigger than Corning, but the town was then nearly destroyed by fire. ---
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The first woman ever to host _The Tonight Show_ was Arlene Francis, in 1962. She was a guest host filling in for Johnny Carson. ---
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According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tonight_Show), Jay Leno has hosted more episodes of _The Tonight Show_ than any other person, including Johnny Carson. And only once during Leno’s tenure as host did another person (Katie Couric) serve as guest host for an episode. ---
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American broadcaster Katie Couric, born Jan. 7, 1957, is exactly one year younger than actor David Caruso, born that day in 1956, and four years older than U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-N.D.), born that day in 1961. ---
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In the year 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei observed the four largest moons of Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. These were the first objects found to orbit a planet other than the Earth. They are now called the Galilean Moons. By some calendars, Galileo discovered these moons on the 7th of January, 1610. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=70) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=72)