# Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 4, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657 "2010-02-04T08:12:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 132
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2621 "2010-04-06T21:12:03Z")
American Airlines became the first airline to offer electronic ticketing, through its SABRE system, way back in 1960. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2622 "2010-04-06T21:15:34Z")
The VC 118 was a modified version of the commercial DC-6. After Truman left the White House, the VC-121, a modified version of the Lockheed Electra, was used as the presidential airplane. In 1959, Eisenhower began using a VC-137, a modified version of the Boeing 707, as the first presidential jet. ---
**Author:** ![jrbor76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9e8a1a/32.png) [@jrbor76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrbor76)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2623 "2010-04-06T21:36:38Z")
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to fly in an aircraft while in office. During World War II, Roosevelt traveled on the Dixie Clipper, a Pan Am-crewed Boeing 314 flying boat to the 1943 Casablanca Conference, in Morocco. ---
**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 6, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2624 "2010-04-06T21:51:44Z")
Theodore Roosevelt was the first ex-President to fly in an airplane, when he flew as a passenger aboard a Wright biplane for four minutes over a St. Louis airfield in 1910. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2625 "2010-04-06T22:49:55Z")
Roosevelt Island in NYC used to be called “Welfare Island” (and prior to that “Blackwell’s Island” and was where the city placed mental institutions, jails, and hospitals for patients with communicable diseases (like smallpox). Now it’s a fashionable residential area. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2626 "2010-04-06T23:06:15Z")
The Roosevelt Island Tramway was opened in 1976 to temporarily link the island with Manhattan while a subway connection was being constructed. By the time the subway station was finally opened in 1989, the tram was too popular to be discontinued. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2627 "2010-04-07T00:39:13Z")
The Roosevelt Island Tramway is adjacent to the Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge. The Simon & Garfunkel song better known as “Feelin’ Groovy” is actually titled “59th Street Bridge Song”. ---
**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 7, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2628 "2010-04-07T00:44:30Z")
Paul Simon the former U.S. senator from Illinois, and Paul Simon the singer, both appeared together on an episode of _Saturday Night Live_, pretending to be surprised to see each other. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2629 "2010-04-07T01:33:37Z")
Rounding out the “Paul Simon (disambiguation)” page, there is also a British drummer named Paul Simon, who probably secretly wishes the more famous Paul Simon musician had kept the stage name “Jerry Landis.” ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2630 "2010-04-07T01:37:04Z")
Simoniz, a brand of car wax, was introduced in 1935. The wax became populart with car dealers, who soon began to refer to the washing and waxing of cars prior to delivery as “Simonizing.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2631 "2010-04-07T01:40:30Z")
A can of Simonize was one of the Old Man’s Christmas gifts in **A Christmas Story.** ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2632 "2010-04-07T03:59:15Z")
Denise Richards was implausibly cast as a brilliant nuclear physicist with the even MORE implausible name of Christmas Jones, in the James Bond flick \*\*\*The World Is Not Enough. * * * ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2633 "2010-04-07T04:28:59Z")
Eric Christmas was a popular character actor who often played priests and butlers; he was a scene stealer in _Harold and Maude_ (as the priest) and even has a couple of great scenes in the _Porkys_ movies as the principal. ---
**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 7, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2634 "2010-04-07T04:41:07Z")
Lloyd Christmas was the name of Jim Carrey’s idiotic limo driver character in the sublimely goofy _Dumb and Dumber_. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2635 "2010-04-07T04:48:39Z")
Lloyd was the name of the name of the imbecilic airplane mechanic on _Wings_ played by Thomas Haden Church, who later starred in _Ned and Stacey_ and was nominated for an Oscar for _Sideways_. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2636 "2010-04-07T06:24:50Z")
The British Lloyd’s insurance company started out as (or rather, in) a sailor’s and ship owner’s coffee bar of London, in 1688. “Lloyd’s” is the name of that place, rather than any of the founders. ---
**Author:** ![cucuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@cucuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cucuy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2637 "2010-04-07T07:30:49Z")
According to wikipedia, Lloyds of London has insured exotic items including Keith Richard’s nose, Celine Dion’s vocal cords, Tina Turner’s legs, and America (“Ugly Betty”) Ferrera’s smile. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2638 "2010-04-07T07:33:39Z")
Liberace had his fingers insured through Lloyds of London for several million dollars; Betty Grable is said to have insured her legs against scars or other things beyond normal aging that might devaluate her career. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2639 "2010-04-07T11:57:28Z")
Liberace was born in West Allis, Wisconsin and he studied at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2640 "2010-04-07T12:49:48Z")
The fictional city of Rome, Wisconsin from **Picket Fences** clearly was related to **Eerie, Indiana** – they had the same high school principal; the Eerie weatherman was the coronor in Rome; and Matthew Brock in Rome was the same boy as Simon Holmes in Eerie (probably kidnapped and brainwashed). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=131) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=133)