# Trivia Dominoes III — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 12, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952 "2025-04-12T05:32:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/1 "2025-04-12T05:32:42Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Trivia Dominoes II — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia — continued! (Part 1) - #10007 by Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/10007). Previous discussions: - [Trivia Dominoes II — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia — continued! (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950) ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2 "2025-04-12T06:32:12Z")
**Trivia Dominoes III** , the game continues! Some history: ● On 04 Feb 2010, the original thread; by @ **Sampiro** (with game rules) — ➜ [Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657) ■ ● On 25 Jan 2020, the final post, post #46,181, in that original thread; by @ **Elendil\_s\_Heir** ➜ [Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia - #46181 by Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/46181) ■ ● On 25 Jan 2020, the second thread is created by @ **Bullitt** , Trivia Dominoes II ➜ [Trivia Dominoes II — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia — continued! (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950) ■ ● On 11 Apr 2025, the third thread (here), and the game continues… The last play by @ **Bullitt** was this — > [@Trivia Dominoes II — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia — continued! (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/10007): > > Ian McDiarmid portrayed Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious. He also portrayed Arthur in _Dirty Rotten Scoundrels_ (1988) with Steve Martin and Michael Caine, and Glenne Headly. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/3 "2025-04-12T06:40:09Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > **Trivia Dominoes III** … The **system** is instead calling this **Trivia Dominoes II (part 2)**… Play on! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/4 "2025-04-12T14:39:08Z")
From 1956 to 2023, actor Michael Caine has appeared in either movie or TV roles every year, with the exception of these years: 1973, 1989, 1993, and 2019. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/5 "2025-04-12T19:29:19Z")
Bill Clinton was sworn in as US President on January 20, 1993. At age 46, he was the second-youngest president to be elected to the office, and the third-youngest president ever. John F. Kennedy was 43 when he was elected, and Theodore Roosevelt was 42 when he assumed office following the death of William McKinley. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/6 "2025-04-12T19:40:23Z")
Bill Clinyon and Donald Trump are the same age, both born in 1946. When Trump began his second term, he was the oldest person elected to the presidency. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/7 "2025-04-12T19:52:48Z")
James Clinton and George Clinton (no relation to Bill Clinton) were both sons of Charles Clinton, who emigrated from Ireland to the American Colonies, and served as a colonel during the French and Indian War in the 1750s. Charles’ sons and grandsons played important roles in the early United States: - James was a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War - George was the first governor of the state of New York, and was the fourth U.S. Vice President (serving during Thomas Jefferson’s second term) - James’s son, DeWitt Clinton, served as mayor of New York City, and governor of New York - George’s son, George Clinton Jr., served as a member of the New York State Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives ---
**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:** [April 12, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/8 "2025-04-12T19:59:13Z")
George Clinton served as Vice-President under Thomas Jefferson and then under James Madison. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/9 "2025-04-13T02:00:09Z")
> [@Trivia Dominoes II — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia — continued! (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/10007): > > Ian McDiarmid portrayed Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious. He also portrayed Arthur in _Dirty Rotten Scoundrels_ (1988) with Steve Martin and Michael Caine, and Glenne Headly. I read this to say that Ian McDiarmid portrayed Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, Arthur _and_ Glenne Headly. 😉 In play: Bill Clinton has often told the story that, when Hillary Rodham walked up and introduced herself to him in the Yale Law School library, he was so taken with her that he forgot his own name. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/10 "2025-04-13T16:20:31Z")
During one term, Bill Clinton cut lots of classes, probably because he was already politicking. When exam time came, he managed to borrow class notes from one of the other students to study from. He got a higher mark on the exam than the student who loaned her notes. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/11 "2025-04-14T13:22:40Z")
As a young child in the 1970s I noticed driver wrist watches by a company named Clinton. They were packed in water, like the picture in this old magazine ad. I was amazed. • [![](https://i.imgur.com/zX3TF0R.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/zX3TF0R.jpg) • Per wiki, in 1981 the Clinton Watch Company of Chicago acquired the Benrus brand of wrist watches from the Wells-Benrus company, and they renamed the business to the Benrus Watch Company. ➜ [Benrus - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benrus#History) ■ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/12 "2025-04-14T15:11:55Z")
As far as history knows, the very first wristwatch was designed for the Queen Caroline Murat of Naples in 1810 by Abraham-Louis Breguet. At this time, while men kept their watches on a chain attached to their pocket, women were still wearing them on chains around their necks. Patek Philippe, another popular name in luxury watches, designed a bracelet watch for the Countess Koscowicz of Hungary in 1868. This concept of the wrist watch came by the pilot Alberto Santos Dumont as he wished to be able to check the time while keeping both hands in use while flying. As such, his friend, the famous Louis Cartier designed him the Cartier Santos-Dumont in 1904. Simultaneously, the first men’s wristwatch was born as well as the first pilot’s watch. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/13 "2025-04-14T15:25:49Z")
Phillippe Cousteau, son of famed French oceanographer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau, was himself an accomplished diver, oceanographer, cinematographer, and pilot. Phillippe collaborated with his father on numerous documentaries in the 1960s and 1970s, until his 1979 death in the crash of a seaplane. ---
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The seaplane used in the ABC TV show _Fantasy Island_, which ran from 1977-84, was a 1967 Grumman Widgeon. ---
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Freddie Widgeon is a recurring PG Wodehouse character, appearing in two short story collections (_Young Men in Spats_ and _Eggs, Beans and Crumpets_) and in one novel (_Ice in the Bedroom_). He is noted for his repeated pattern of falling in love with girls and then running into difficulties, as well as his adhesion to the “Code of the Widgeons”, a type of misguided _noblesse oblige_. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2025, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/16 "2025-04-15T09:11:03Z")
A widgeon is a type of duck. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/17 "2025-04-15T14:53:48Z")
In November 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey revealed his preference for using the DuckDuckGo search engine rather than Google, stating, “I love @DuckDuckGo. My default search engine for a while now. The app is even better!” ---
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“Duck Duck Goose” is a common playground “chase” game in the United States. In portions of the midwestern U.S., particularly Minnesota, children play a variation of the game, called “Duck, Duck, Gray Duck,” in which the verbal signal for the chase to begin is “gray duck,” rather than “goose.” ---
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The “Spruce Goose” or Hughes H-4 Hercules, Howard Hughes’s white elephant of a long-distance air transport, was actually almost entirely made of birch. It flew only once, on Nov. 2, 1947, off Long Beach, Calif. with Hughes himself at the controls. It flew low enough that there is still some controversy as to whether it truly flew or depended instead upon ground effect (although it was over water). It remains the largest flying boat ever made and has, since 1993, been on display at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum near Portland, Ore. ---
**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:** [April 15, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/20 "2025-04-15T16:59:13Z")
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum is considered the world’s largest museum of its kind. Over 8 million people visit it each year. The facility has two locations; one is in the heart of the Smithsonian complex in Washington DC, and the other can be found in Virginia near Washington Dulles Airport. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=2)