# 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:** 139
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2761 "2010-04-11T21:21:14Z")
[del]The third eye, called _chakra_ in Hindi, symbolizes enlightenment and is symbolized by the red dot commonly painted on the foreheads of Hindus, most notably women.[/del] Peter Jackson has a project inexplicably underway to direct a remake of _The Dam Busters_, inevitably using CGI instead of real Lancasters this time. No decision has been announced as to the name of Wing Commander Guy Gibson’s dog, named “N-word” in the original, also used as a significant code word. ---
**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 11, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2762 "2010-04-11T21:33:13Z")
William T. Riker held the rank of Starfleet commander during the decade he served as first officer of the USS _Enterprise_ under Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, and was promoted to captain when he assumed command of the USS _Titan_. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2763 "2010-04-11T21:41:01Z")
The remake of _Clash of the Titans_ was not originally going to be 3-D. It was only after the success of \*Avatar \*that they added 3-D effects. Release the Kraken! ---
**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 11, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2764 "2010-04-11T22:02:05Z")
Director James Cameron has directed both the biggest and the second-biggest movies of all time, _Avatar_ and _Titanic_, respectively. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2765 "2010-04-11T22:20:31Z")
Cameron Diaz, though born in CA, is of Puerto Rican decent, not Mexican. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2766 "2010-04-11T22:24:44Z")
Boston Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell, though born in Puerto Rico, is of Cuban descent, not English. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2767 "2010-04-11T22:32:21Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > Cameron Diaz, though born in CA, is of Puerto Rican decent, not Mexican. > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Boston Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell, though born in Puerto Rico, is of Cuban descent, not English. :smack: She’s of Cuban descent, not Puerto Rican. Your’s still stands, **Elvis**. Sorry about that! Damn… I was thinking “Cuban” and wrote “Puerto Rican”. I blame it on multitasking while watching The Masters. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2768 "2010-04-11T22:37:23Z")
Well, the flags are almost the same. Easy mistake. 😃 Last year’s Masters winner, Angel Cabrera, is of Argentinian descent, remarkably enough for someone who lives in Argentina. His nickname is El Pato (The Duck) for his awkward gait. ---
**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 11, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2769 "2010-04-11T23:11:48Z")
Howard the Duck – a first-class comic book series – has had its reputation destroyed by the failure of the film, a project of George Lucas. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2770 "2010-04-11T23:20:17Z")
The film _Howard the Duck_, probably the second-best-known film set in Cleveland other than _Major League_, scorned as it was otherwise, did provide major early career boosts to both Tim Robbins and Lea Thompson. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2771 "2010-04-11T23:22:58Z")
When Drew Carey, whose sitcom most often began with the cast lipsynching “Cleveland Rocks”, and when Carey was a celebrity contestant on _Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?_ he donated his $500,000 winnings to the Cleveland public library. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2772 "2010-04-11T23:45:02Z")
The other songs used in the credits for “The Drew Carey Show” were “Moon Over Parma” and “Five O’Clock World”. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2773 "2010-04-12T02:23:05Z")
Ernie Anderson, later known for such enunciations as “The LOVE Boat” during his career as an ABC staff announcer, appeared on Cleveland television in the mid-1960’s as late-night movie host Ghoulardi. One feature of his schtick was mocking Parma for its residents’ propensity to wear white socks, eat kielbasa, and install plastic flamingos on their lawns. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2774 "2010-04-12T02:35:28Z")
In the wild, flamingos tend to have white feathers, and become pink only if they eat large quantities of shrimp or other red shellfish. Zookeepers usually add red dye to the food given to captive flamingos. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2775 "2010-04-12T03:09:49Z")
The crimson-colored dye carmine is made with cochineal, an insect. It goes back as far as the Aztecs/Mayans but is becoming popular again due to concerns about artificial food additives. ---
**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 12, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2776 "2010-04-12T03:09:56Z")
The Flamingo Hotel (as the Pink Flamingo) in Las Vegas was financed by gangster Bugsy Siegel as the first of the major gambling hotels that now define the city. ---
**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 12, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2777 "2010-04-12T03:38:04Z")
“Hotel California” was one of the Eagles’s biggest hits ever, and still gets a lot of airplay. Don Henley and others in the band have given conflicting explanations over the years for the meaning of the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2778 "2010-04-12T05:34:07Z")
Lanford Wilson’s play “Hot l Baltimore” (the “E” in “hotel” having burnt out in the hotel’s marquee) became a Norman Lear sitcom that ran for all of 13 episides in 1975. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2779 "2010-04-12T07:13:28Z")
One of the great mysteries in literary biography is the reconstruction of Edgar Allan Poe’s final week. He boarded a ship from Richmond to Baltimore on September 27 1849 then was not seen for a few days until he showed up October 3 outside of a Baltimore tavern completely disoriented, wearing shabby dirty clothes that did not fit (even in his poorest days Poe was known for being a sharp dresser), and speaking in incoherent gibberish save for repeatedly shouting the name “Reynolds” (a name which meant nothing to anybody). He died 4 days later, never really regaining his senses. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2780 "2010-04-12T11:38:56Z")
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