# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2010, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/261 "2010-02-07T22:38:37Z")
Gene Kelly didn’t think much of Debbie Reynolds as a dancer, and had the sound of her taps dubbed in in “Singin’ in the Rain.” ---
**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:** [February 7, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/262 "2010-02-07T22:40:26Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > \*Somewhere in Time \*with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour was filmed at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego. Not so. Although the book was set there, the movie was filmed elsewhere: [Grand Hotel (Mackinac Island) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Hotel_%28Mackinac_Island%29) Debbie Reynolds took her daughter Carrie to meet and be photographed with President Richard Nixon. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/263 "2010-02-08T00:19:12Z")
One of the eulogies at Richard Nixon’s funeral was delivered by then-California Governor Pete Wilson ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/264 "2010-02-08T01:21:12Z")
When Richard Nixon’s daughter Julie married David Eisenhower (Ike’s grandson for whom Camp David was named) the best man was Fred Grandy, best known for playing Gopher on _The Love Boat_ and later a Congressman from Iowa. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/265 "2010-02-08T01:39:40Z")
Camp David was originally known as Shangri-La, after the hidden paradise in the 1933 novel _Lost Horizon_ by British author James Hilton. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/266 "2010-02-08T03:29:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Camp David was originally known as Shangri-La, after the hidden paradise in the 1933 novel _Lost Horizon_ by British author James Hilton. The role of George Conway in the 1973 film version of Lost Horizon was played by Michael York, who later would play Basil Exposition in the _Austin Powers_ film series. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/267 "2010-02-08T03:42:05Z")
When soaked in water the seeds of several basil varieties become gelatinous, and are used in Asian drinks and desserts such as falooda or Sherbet. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/268 "2010-02-08T03:48:08Z")
The formal name of Moscow’s St. Basil’s Cathedral is Cathedral of Intercession of Theotokos on the Moat. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/269 "2010-02-08T05:01:29Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > The formal name of Moscow’s St. Basil’s Cathedral is Cathedral of Intercession of Theotokos on the Moat. The silly novelty song “Winchester Cathedral” by the New Vaudeville Band won the 1966 Grammy award for Best Rock and Roll Recording. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/270 "2010-02-08T05:28:09Z")
[not for dominoes, just for trivia: Winchester Cathedral was the Number 1 hit the day I was born.] Winchester Cathedral was where Bloody Mary married her cousin King Philip I of Naples, who later became King Philip II of Spain (among many other titles) when his father retired. While married to Mary he was also styled King Philip I of England _jure uxoris_ (“by right of marriage”) but this ended the moment Mary died. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2010, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/271 "2010-02-08T05:34:11Z")
Queen Mary thought she was pregnant twice; the second time it turned out to be what historians now believe is the tumor that killed her. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/272 "2010-02-08T05:54:18Z")
The Queen Mary is now permanently docked in Long Beach, California. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/273 "2010-02-08T05:58:08Z")
One of the people burned for heresy under Queen Mary was Perrotine Massey, who gave birth while being burned at the stake ([woodcut](https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/25056/1/P00051.jpeg)); the child was also tossed into the flames, which led to charges of murder being levied twenty years later. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/274 "2010-02-08T08:37:19Z")
Jeanne d’Arc was burned for heresy after a trial where her testimony was so precocious that George B. Shaw used it word-for-word in a play. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/275 "2010-02-08T09:20:46Z")
John Dark was associate producer of the 1967 film “Casino Royale”, which had a movie tie-in book that followed a completely different plot. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/276 "2010-02-08T09:26:06Z")
Barry Nelson played James Bond in the 1954 broadcast version of _Casino Royale_. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/277 "2010-02-08T09:27:08Z")
David Niven played James Bond in the 1967 _Casino Royale_ with Woody Allen as Bond’s nephew Jimmy Bond. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/278 "2010-02-08T09:34:26Z")
Early in his career, Woody Allen was a writer for television shows, including The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show and the Sid Caesar Hour. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/279 "2010-02-08T13:36:28Z")
At seven months, Conan O’Brien’s tenure as host of “The Tonight Show” was the shortest ever. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/280 "2010-02-08T14:13:29Z")
Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian, committed suicide. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=15)