# 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:** 1930
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38589 "2018-05-03T21:34:08Z")
“Measure for Measure” teems with illicit sex. Its characters include a madam and a pimp, a young unmarried woman of good birth who is pregnant, and a high magistrate who schemes to bed a young novice from a nunnery. It was rarely produced in Victorian England. (Curiously, it was one of the first Shakespeare plays I owned, in the Folger paperback edition, which Piper Dad gave to me as a young teenager. I don’t think he was familiar with the themes of the play. 😉 ) ---
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Among any random group of 23 people, the odds are 50/50 that at least two of them have the same birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38591 "2018-05-03T23:04:09Z")
Trying to see the link? 😕 ---
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William \*\*Shakespeare \*\*was born on April 26, 1564, and died on April **23** , 1616, 3 days shy of his 52nd birthday. The cause of death is unknown, but an entry in the diary of John Ward, the vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford (where Shakespeare is buried), tells us that “Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted.” ---
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Anne Hathaway was the name both of William Shakespeare’s wife, and a current American actress. Although the actress was named after the playwright’s wife, they are not thought to be related. ---
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The USS **_Ward_,** which fired the first shots by an American ship at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, was struck by a Japanese kamikaze exactly 3 years later, and was abandoned and sunk by the destroyer USS _O’Brian_. The O’Brian was commanded by Captain **William** W. Outerbridge, who had been in command of the _Ward_ during her action off Pearl Harbor three years before. eta: I thought Elendil has ninja’ed me, but I got me an out. ---
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Anne Hathaway was 26, eight years older than 18 year old William Shakespeare when they married, leading to speculation that she entrapped him into marriage. However, Germaine Greer’s 2007 biography, _Shakespeare’s Wife_, points out that the age difference was not so unusual in the 1500’s and that she was from a wealthier family and was the better catch financially. Instead of Anne fitting the stereotype of the predatory older woman, Greer points out that Shakespeare writes of more than one predatory young man seducing a naive older woman. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38596 "2018-05-04T04:53:08Z")
_Shskespeare’s Will_ is a one-woman play, featuring Anne Hathaway describing her life and unconventional marriage with Shakespeare. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2018, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38597 "2018-05-04T12:37:57Z")
Anne Hathaway is mentioned but not seen in the 1998 Oscar-winning historical comedy _Shakespeare in Love_. Wealthy young London woman Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) feels betrayed when she learns that her lover, struggling playwright Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes), is actually married and has a wife back in Stratford. ---
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Anne Hathaway is a Brooklyn-born actress and singer. One of the world’s highest-paid actresses, she has received multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a British Academy Film Award, and an Emmy. Her breakthrough role was starring as Mia Thermopolis in the 2001 Disney movie _The Princess Diaries_. ---
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The company wholly owns GEICO, Dairy Queen, BNSF Railway, Lubrizol, Fruit of the Loom, Helzberg Diamonds, Long & Foster, FlightSafety International, Pampered Chef, and NetJets, and has major interests in many other companies. ---
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A _Constellation_-class starship, the USS _Hathaway_, appeared in a single episode of _Star Trek: The Next Generation_, but it was never stated after whom the obsolete and run-down Starfleet vessel was named. ---
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Nancy Kulp, who played Miss Jane Hathaway on the Beverley Hillbillies, ran for Congress in 1984 as a Democrat, from Pennsylvania. Buddy Ebsen, who played Jed, contacted her Republican opponent and volunteered to do a radio spot in his support, saying that Kulp was “too liberal”, which may have been 1980’s code for “too lesbian”. Kulp was hurt by Ebsen’s actions and commented “He’s not the kindly old Jed that you saw on the show…” ---
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KULP 106.6 FM & 1390 AM is a radio station licensed to El Campo, Texas. The station was established in 1947. Long before “America’s Most Wanted,” KULP Radio gave Sheriff “Buckshot” Lane an early morning 15-minute “program” six days a week, where he would tell individuals with warrants to turn themselves in. Many did. You would hear Buckshot say “It’s 7am, 56 degrees and John Johnson, if you’re listening, don’t make me come get you!” ---
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The Finland Station in St Petersburg was built as a train station for the rail line connecting Finland to St. Petersburg. Lenin returned to Russia via the Finland Station in April, 1917. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/38604 "2018-05-05T16:52:04Z")
Grand Central Terminal is a transportation depot on the east side of Manhattan. It opened in 1913, and was the third railway station to occupy the site. The first was Grand Central Depot, which opened in 1879. The second was Grand Central Station, which opened in 1899. Because all railroad lines now terminate at the site, it is officially known as Grand Central Terminal. Grand Central Station is now the name of the US Postal Service branch located next door to the terminal. ---
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Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a rapid transit system serving Newark, Harrison, Hoboken, and Jersey City in metropolitan northern New Jersey, as well as lower and midtown Manhattan in New York City. The PATH is operated by, and named after, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. PATH trains run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. ---
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Jersey is one of the four Channel Islands. Located just a few miles off the coast of France, they are the last remnant of the Duchy of Normandy. The Islands have been held by the English Monarchs and their ancestors longer than any other possession, predating the acquisition of England byWilliam the Bastard in 1066. ---
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The Jersey is a breed of small dairy cattle. The breed is popular for the high butterfat content of its milk and the lower maintenance costs attending its lower bodyweight, as well as its genial disposition. The Jersey is one of three Channel Island cattle breeds, the others being the Alderney – now extinct – and the Guernsey. ---
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The Channel Islands were relinquished without a fight to German occupiers during World War II, the only British territory to be under Nazi control throughout the war. > **[German occupation of the Channel Islands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_the_Channel_Islands)** > > The military occupation of the Channel Islands by Nazi Germany lasted for most of the Second World War, from 30 June 1940 until liberation on 9 May 1945. The Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey are two island countries and British Crown dependencies in the English Channel, near the coast of Normandy. The Channel Islands were the only de jure part of the British Empire to be occupied by Nazi Germany during the war. However, Germany's allies, Italy and Japan also occupied British terri... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1929) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1931)