# 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:** 1719
**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:** [March 20, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34367 "2017-03-20T17:37:54Z")
Robert De Niro, Matt Damon, Naomi Watts, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ryan Reynolds, Angelina Jolie, Joe Don Baker and Denzel Washington have all played CIA agents. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34368 "2017-03-20T23:10:04Z")
“Farewell, Angelina”, the 1965 album by Joan Baez, includes 4 songs written by Bob Dylan, including the title song. Dylan attempted to record the song “Farewell Angelina” only once, in 1965, did not try to record it again and did not release it until 1991. Meanwhile, Joan Baez has frequently included it in her concert repertoire, and it appears on two of her live albums. ---
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**Angelina** County Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport in Angelina County, Texas. It has two asphalt paved runways: 5,398 by 100 feet and 4,309 by 100 feet. While it used to have commercial flights to Houston and Dallas, the airport currently does not have any scheduled passenger airline service. ---
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In 2001, _Angelina Ballerina_, a British animated TV series based on a series of children’s books about a dancing mouse, was produced by HIT Entertainment in the United Kingdom. The series featured actress Finty Williams as the voice of Angelina, and her mother Judi Dench as Miss Lilly Mouseakova, Angelina’s ballet teacher. ---
**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:** [March 21, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34371 "2017-03-21T15:55:06Z")
Early in both her career and her first pregnancy, Judi Dench played Puck in a small production of Shakespeare’s _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_. Wracked by morning sickness, she had to barf almost every time she left the stage. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34372 "2017-03-21T18:24:36Z")
In 1935, Mickey Rooney played Puck in the film version of **A Midsummer Night’s Dream**. Others in the cast included Dick Powell, James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34373 "2017-03-21T22:36:45Z")
“The Autograph Hunter” is a 1939 Donald Duck cartoon; Donald sneaks past the security guard of a Hollywood film studio looking for stars to sign his autograph book. He finds **Mickey Rooney** , who plays tricks on him, and Shirley Temple, who signs her autograph and asks Donald for his autograph too. The security guard catches up with Donald but before he can eject him, Shirley Temple exclaims “Leave him alone! He’s Donald Duck!” When the studio’s stars hear that Donald is there, they all come running for his autograph,including Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, The Andrews Sisters, Charlie McCarthy, Stepin Fetchit, the Lone Ranger riding his horse Silver, Katharine Hepburn, Eddie Cantor, Lionel Barrymore, Bette Davis, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Joan Crawford and Charles Boyer. ---
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According to the Animaniacs in [“Yakko’s Universe”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J5rBxeTIk), _It’s a great big universe and we’re all really puny, We’re just tiny little specks about the size of Mickey Rooney. It’s big and black and inky And we are small and dinky It’s a big universe and we’re not._ ---
**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:** [March 22, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34375 "2017-03-22T00:05:15Z")
The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the Universe. Under this theory, space and time emerged together 13.8 billion years ago with a fixed amount of energy and matter that has become less dense as the Universe has expanded. ---
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When Bare Naked Ladies visited the set of “The Big Bang Theory” to perform the tune and film a video for it, they piled out of the van completely naked and even ran onstage in the buff! “We already knew this was going to be an interesting day,” creator Chuck Lorre said of that moment. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34377 "2017-03-22T02:17:39Z")
Peter Lorre’s daughter Catharine made headlines in 1979 after serial killer Kenneth Bianchi confessed to police investigators after his arrest that he and his cousin and fellow “Hillside Strangler” Angelo Buono, disguised as police officers, had stopped her in 1977 with the intent of abduction and murder, but let her go upon learning that she was the daughter of Peter Lorre. It was only after Bianchi was arrested that Catharine realized whom she had met. ---
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According to the fraudulent “Prophecy of St Malachy,” the last pope will be “Peter the Roman”, who ushers in the reign of the anti-Christ. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34379 "2017-03-22T03:21:37Z")
The most recent novel of British author Robert Harris, perhaps best known for _Fatherland_, is _Conclave_. Published in 2016, it details the near-future Vatican intrigues and politicking behind the selection of a new Pope after the death of a pontiff who sounds very much like - but is never named as - Pope Francis. ---
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Arlene Francis was known for wearing a heart-shaped diamond pendant, a gift from her husband Martin Gabel. She wore it on nearly all of her _What’s My Line?_ appearances. A mugger robbed her of the pendant as she was exiting a New York City taxi in 1988. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34381 "2017-03-22T13:49:41Z")
Arlene Pieper became the first woman to officially finish a marathon in the United States when she finished the Pikes Peak Marathon in Manitou Springs, Colorado, in 1959. She trained for a year,while at the same time taking care of their three children and helping to run the family business, a gym. Pieper was unaware of the groundbreaking nature of her marathon until she was contacted by a historian in 2009. ---
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Pike’s Peak has had several names, including Tava, a Ute word meaning “sun”, Heey-otoyoo, meaning “long mountain” by the Arapaho, _El Capitan_ (named so by the Spanish), James Peak (after Edwin James who summited the peak in 1820), Highest Peak by Zebulon Pike, the explorer, and later Pike’s Peak in honor of him. ---
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_El Capitan_ was an 1896 operetta in three acts by John Philip Sousa. The piece was Sousa’s first successful operetta and his most successful stage work. The march “El Capitan” became a standard work both for brass bands and a crossover into other genres; it and the operetta have nothing to do with Pike’s Peak or the Yosemite rock formation also called El Capitan. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/h5m4iJNyq0M/maxresdefault.jpg "SOUSA El Capitan (1896) - "The President's Own" United States Marine Band") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5m4iJNyq0M) ---
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The El Capitan Theater in Hollywood is owned by Disney Studios, and is the site for the premieres of most Disney features. ---
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Disney’s Hollywood Studios is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. It was originally called Disney-MGM Studios when it opened in 1989. It is the fifth most-visited theme park in North America (behind the three other Disney Parks in Florida, and Disneyland in California) and the eighth most-visited theme park in the world. ---
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Richard Nixon made his famous assertion “I am not a crook” in 1973 at the Associated Press Managing Editors annual conference, held at Disney’s Contemporary Resort in the freshly-opened Disney World. The building is famous for the monorail stop inside the lobby. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1718) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1720)