# 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:** 1621
**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:** [October 24, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32407 "2016-10-24T19:06:36Z")
Actor Geoffrey Rush’s middle name is Roy. Rush is the youngest amongst the few people who have ever won the “Triple Crown of Acting”: the Academy Award, the Primetime Emmy Award, and the Tony Award. Rush does not have a Grammy Award. Other such winners include: Jack Albertson Anne Bancroft Ingrid Bergman Shirley Booth Ralph Burns Ellen Burstyn Melvyn Douglas Bob Fosse Jeremy Irons Jessica Lange Frances McDormand Liza Minnelli Helen Mirren Thomas Mitchell Al Pacino Christopher Plummer Vanessa Redgrave Jason Robards Geoffrey Rush Paul Scofield Maggie Smith Maureen Stapleton Jessica Tandy Tony Walton ---
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The middle group of consonants in the Greco-Roman alphabet are H K L M N. Those are the only five consonantal phonemes in the Hawaiian alphabet, an odd coincidence since the Greeks and Romans knew nothing about Hawaii. Those five consonants and the next five (P R S T V) are the only consonants in Finnish. The Greeks and Romans knew nothing about Finland, either. (J was not distinct from I until the 15th century, and Q was the Roman equivalent to the Greek K.) ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32409 "2016-10-24T20:23:25Z")
On November 26, 1939, the Soviet Red Army shelled Russia’s own village (a false flag plot) Mainila and then claimed that the fire originated from **Finland** , giving the USSR ostensible cause to launch a war (the so-called “ Winter War”) against Finland a few days later. Years after the incident, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wrote that the Mainila shellings were organized by Artillery Marshal Grigory Kulik. In 1994, Russian President Boris Yeltsin denounced the Winter War, agreeing it had been a war of aggression. As the war began, the Soviet Red Army invaded Finland and quickly advanced to the Mannerheim Line, an action judged as illegal by the League of Nations. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32410 "2016-10-25T00:19:50Z")
The American Liberty **League** was an American political organization formed in 1934, primarily of wealthy business elites and prominent political figures because they opposed the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Following the landslide re-election of Roosevelt in 1936, it sharply reduced its activities and disbanded entirely in 1940. ---
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The Justice Society of America was an attempt by All American Comics of the 1940s to use their Superheroes to compete with their sister company DC/National Periodicals. The series ended in the 1951, but DC revived the concept with the Justice League of America in the late 50s. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32412 "2016-10-25T04:44:59Z")
Actor Mickey Rourke was born in Schenectady NY in the early 1950s. ---
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In _Star Trek: Enterprise,_ Starfleet Captain Jonathan Archer, played by Scott Bakula, is born in Schenectady New York in 2112. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2016, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32414 "2016-10-25T08:54:32Z")
The Schenectady Locomotive Works built the _Jupiter_ of the Central Pacific Railroad in 1868. The _Jupiter_ was one of two steam locomotives to take part in the “Golden Spike Ceremony” on 10 May 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah to celebrate the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. The golden spike now lies in the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32415 "2016-10-25T10:06:58Z")
Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Florida is the only ballpark in the US to host four minor league baseball teams simultaneously. The Jupiter Hammerheads (Miami Marlins affiliate) and Palm Beach Cardinals (St. Louis Cardinals affiliate) of the Florida State League share tenancy, with one or the other hosting a home game most summer nights, while the Gulf Coast League Marlins and Cardinals (Rookie level) use it for day games. ---
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For MLB’s Spring Training, 15 teams play in the Cactus League in and near Phoenix AZ, and the remaining 15 teams play in the Grapefruit League in and near Jupiter FL (although the Grapefruit League teams are fairly spread out in Florida, from Kissimmee to Fort Myers). > **[Spring Training | Cactus & Grapefruit Leagues | MLB.com](https://www.mlb.com/spring-training)** > > The Official Site of Major League Baseball ---
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Every so often three of the planet Jupiter’s moons (Io, Ganymede and Callisto) cross in front of their parent planet at the same time. This rare alignment, known as a triple eclipse, happens only once or twice a decade. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32418 "2016-10-25T13:28:53Z")
N/M ---
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Ganymede is Jupiter’s largest moon and the largest moon in our Solar System. It is over (slightly) 2x the mass of Earth’s Moon, and it is slightly larger than Titan, a moon of Saturn. Galileo discovered Ganymede in 1610. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/32420 "2016-10-25T13:38:11Z")
Saturn Girl (Imra Ardeen) is a fictional character appearing in DC comic books. A talented telepath from the 30th century, Imra first appeared in Adventure Comics #247 as a founding member of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Imra’s “Saturn Girl” title refers to her homeworld of Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn. ---
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The independent GM brand of Saturn cars were built in Spring Hill, Tenn., not far from the 1864 Civil War battlefield site. The brand was discontinued in the depths of the 2008-2009 financial crisis. ---
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In Greek mythology, the Titans were a set of gods which preceded the Olympians. The lease of the Titans, Kronos (Saturn in Latin mythology) had overthrown his own father, Uranus, and feared that the same fate would happen to him, with his children overthrowing him. Rather than practising birth control, he adopted the expedient of swallowing whole all of his children as they were born. Finally, his wife, Rhea (who was also his sister), tired of losing her children. When the youngest, Zeus, was born, she hid him away and gave Kronos a small boulder swaddled as a baby. Kronos was taken in and swallowed the boulder. When Zeus grew up, he challenged his father, right on schedule. He surreptitiously fed Kronos an emetic, which made him vomit up all of his children, now fully grown. They joined Zeus in his rebellion. After 10 years of battle, Zeus and his siblings were successful and overthrew the Titans. They threw them down to Tartaurus and took their position on Mount Olympus, with Zeus as King of the gods. ---
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On December 3, 1904, Himalia, the largest irregular satellite of Jupiter, was discovered by astronomer Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California. Himalia is named after a mythical nymph who bore three sons of **Zeus** (the Greek equivalent of Jupiter). ---
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In Greek mythology, as a baby the hidden Zeus was fed by the goat Amalthea. One of Jupiter’s moons is named Amalthea. ---
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Baby Zeus broke off one of Almathea’s horns. It magically filled with food, and is called the “cornucopia” or “horn of plenty.” ---
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