# 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:** 33
**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:** [August 30, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/641 "2025-08-30T18:22:30Z")
A “cigarette boat,” also known as a “go-fast boat,” is a powerboat with a long, narrow “planing” hull, meaning that when the boat is operating at speed, much of the hull is above the water’s surface, supported by hydrodynamic lift. The name “cigarette boat” comes from Cigarette Racing Team, a company founded by Don Aronow, which began producing a particular style of go-fast boat in 1969. The name may also be reflective of the shape of the boat’s hull (long and narrow, like the shape of a cigarette). Such boats are used for racing, but their speed has also made them a choice for smuggling of various contraband merchandise. [![](https://cigaretteracing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Finals_KITH_SUMMER25__CIGARETTE_BOATSTILLS_42_X_EXTERIOR_19769-scaled.jpg) ](https://cigaretteracing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Finals_KITH_SUMMER25__CIGARETTE_BOATSTILLS_42_X_EXTERIOR_19769-scaled.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/642 "2025-08-30T18:50:41Z")
Candy cigarettes are a candy introduced in the late 19th century, made of chalky powdered sugar (sometimes of bubblegum or chocolate), wrapped in paper and packaged and branded so as to resemble cigarettes. Candy cigarettes’ existence on the market has long been controversial because research has shown that they prime children to take up smoking real (tobacco) cigarettes. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Candy_cigarette_display_in_shop.jpg/250px-Candy_cigarette_display_in_shop.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Candy_cigarette_display_in_shop.jpg/250px-Candy_cigarette_display_in_shop.jpg) Another example are chocolate cigars, also a candy aimed at children. [![](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/peanuts/images/1/1b/19590530.gif/revision/latest?cb=20130819164946) ](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/peanuts/images/1/1b/19590530.gif/revision/latest?cb=20130819164946) ---
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Just hours before signing a trade embargo with Cuba that remains in effect even to this day, President John F. Kennedy had his head of press, Pierre Salinger, acquire some 1,200 Cuban Petit Upman cigars for the president’s personal use. He literally opened the box of cigars and then signed the executive order making them illegal for anyone else to acquire. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/644 "2025-08-31T02:02:35Z")
Although there were numerous presidential directives starting with George Washington, the first Executive Order to be called as such and (retroactively) numbered was written by Abraham Lincoln. Executive Order 1 established a provisional court in occupied Louisiana and appointed Charles A. Peabody as the judge. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/645 "2025-08-31T02:08:49Z")
George Washington is the only President of the United States to appoint the entire membership of the Supreme Court, although Franklin D. Roosevelt came close, appointing all but one of the justices during his three full and one partial terms in office (1933-1945). ---
**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:** [August 31, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/646 "2025-08-31T02:13:41Z")
The Supreme Court of the United States is sometimes referred to by the acronym _ **SCOTUS** _; use of this acronym in reference to the Court in the media and public discourse has become more common over the last 20 years. Similar acronyms which have become popularized in recent decades are _ **POTUS** _ (President of the United States) and _ **FLOTUS** _ (First Lady of the United States). ---
**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:** [August 31, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/647 "2025-08-31T02:48:41Z")
The acronym “POTUS” was still unfamiliar enough to most of the public that it had to be explained in the first episode of the NBC political drama _The West Wing_, which premiered on Sept. 22, 1999. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/648 "2025-08-31T03:21:26Z")
“The White Potus” was a pre-taped sketch that appeared on _Saturday Night Live_ during the show’s 50th season. It parodied the popular HBO series, _The White Lotus_, replacing lead characters with satirical versions of persons associated with the President of the United States (“POTUS”), as portrayed by current and former cast members of SNL. [!] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o\_1GzmjOvKQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_1GzmjOvKQ) ---
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SNL commonly stands for Saturday Night Live, but it also stands for Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia National Laboratories’s roots lie in World War II’s Manhattan Project which built the world’s first atomic bombs. Sandia National Laboratories began in 1945 as Z Division, the ordnance design, testing, and assembly arm of Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1948 it became Sandia Laboratory and, in 1949, Sandia Corporation was established as a Western Electric company to manage the laboratory. In 1956 a second site was opened in California’s Livermore Valley. Later, in 1979, Congress made Sandia a Department of Energy national laboratory. In 1993 Sandia Corporation became a wholly owned subsidiary of Martin Marietta (later Lockheed Martin Corporation). ---
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The first electric utility in the USA was the Edison Illuminating Company, founded by Thomas Edison in 1880. It was designed to bring electric lighting directly into a business or home. But because it used direct current using 110 volts from generation to final destination, power plants had to be built in the middle of cities and could only supply customers less than a mile from the plant. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/651 "2025-08-31T18:08:00Z")
Thomas Edison’s first laboratory in Menlo Park NJ. Menlo Park CA, just south of San Francisco, was not named after Menlo Park NJ. Its name is derived from the anglicized spelling of Irish Gaelic ‘Mionloch’, meaning ‘small lake’ in County Galway, Ireland. However, Menlo Park NJ is named after Menlo Park CA. The Menlo Park CA train station holds the record as the oldest continually operating train station in California. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/652 "2025-08-31T18:22:58Z")
Sir James Galway is an Irish flute player. Early in his career, Galway played in orchestras, but decided to embark on a solo career in the 1970s. Galway plays a traditional classical repertoire, as well as modern compositions, and has collaborated with folk and rock bands including the Chieftains and Pink Floyd; he was a featured soloist on the original soundtracks for _The Lord of the Rings_ films. Despite his surname, Galway is not from County Galway (which is in the western region of the Republic of Ireland); he was born and raised in Belfast, in Northern Ireland. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/653 "2025-08-31T22:31:36Z")
According to ➜ `https://stagemusiccenter.com/music-school-blog-winchester-acton-ma/flute-the-oldest-musical-instrument` ■ , the flute is one of the oldest instruments ever created. Flutes from Neanderthal and European caves have been discovered dating back 60,000 and 40,000 years, respectively. The Neanderthal flute had been made from the left thigh bone of a young cave bear. The European cave flute was made from a vulture bone. Various names for a flute player include flutist, flautist, fluter, or flutenist. ---
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Anjelica Huston wears a red dress in her cameo appearance in the 1992 Robert Altman film _The Player_, something she never does in real life. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/655 "2025-09-01T03:30:24Z")
Anjelica Huston has appeared in five movies directed by Wes Anderson. In three of those, she portrayed a woman separated from her husband (_The Royal Tenenbaums_, divorcee; _The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou_, separated; _The Darjeeling Limited_, widowed); in the other two she voiced a poodle (_Isle of Dogs_) and narrated the open (_The French Dispatch_). ---
**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:** [September 1, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/656 "2025-09-01T04:24:33Z")
Walter Huston won an Academy Award in 1949 for Best Sporting Actor for his role as Howard in _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_. Walter’s son John Huston won an Academy Award in 1949 for Best Director for _The Treasure of the Sierra Madre_. John’s daughter Anjelica Huston won an Academy Award in 1986 for Best Sporting Actress for her role as Maerose Prizzi in _Prizzi’s Honor_. As such, Anjelica Huston is a third-generation Academy Award winner. Only two families, the Coppolas and the Hustons, have had three generations of Academy Award winners. The Hustons were the first, in 1986. The Coppolas achieved it in 2004 (Carmine in 1975, Francis Ford in 1971, and Sofia in 2004). ---
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> [@Bullitt](#): > > Only two families, the Coppolas and the Hustons, have had three generations of Academy Award winners. The Hustons were the first, in 1986. The Coppolas achieved it in 2004 (Carmine in 1975, Francis Ford in 1971, and Sofia in 2004). (Not in play: the Coppolas, in fact, have two third-generation members who have won Academy Awards; Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Coppola) is Carmine’s grandson, and won a Best Actor Oscar for _Leaving Las Vegas_.) ---
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In 1977, animation studio Rankin/Bass released a made-for-television movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s _The Hobbit_. The film featured an eclectic cast of actors providing voices, including Orson Bean (Bilbo), John Huston (Gandalf), Richard Boone (Smaug), Hans Conried (Thorin), Otto Preminger (Thranduil, the “Elvenking”), Cyril Ritchard (Elrond), and Brother Theodore (Gollum). ---
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_The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring_ (2001) featured four members of the main cast who were also appearing in other blockbuster cinematic franchises at the time: - Ian McKellen (Gandalf) also appeared as Magneto in _X-Men_ (2000) and subsequent sequels - Hugo Weaving (Elrond) also appeared as Agent Smith in _The Matrix_ (1999), _The Matrix: Reloaded_ (2003), and _The Matrix: Revolutions_ (2003) - Orlando Bloom (Legolas) also appeared as Will Turner in _Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl_ (2003) and subsequent sequels - Christopher Lee (Saruman) also appeared as Count Dooku in _Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones_ (2002) and _Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith_ (2003) ---
**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:** [September 1, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/660 "2025-09-01T14:33:02Z")
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