# 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:** 1956
**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:** [June 17, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39109 "2018-06-17T23:25:43Z")
Fort Saskatchewan was located in modern-day Alberta. It took its name from its location on the North Saskatchewan River, which starts in Alberta and joins the South Saskatchewan near Prince Albert. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2018, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39110 "2018-06-18T05:42:59Z")
Prince Albert II of Monaco was part of an Arctic expedition that reached the North Pole on 16 April 2006. He is the first incumbent head of state to reach the North Pole. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39111 "2018-06-18T11:35:27Z")
When Prince Albert II competed for Monaco in the two-man bobsleigh (or bobsled, take your pick) at the 1988, 1992, and 2002 Winter Olympics, the old “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?” jokes suddenly came back to life. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39112 "2018-06-18T17:43:17Z")
Prince Albert is an American brand of tobacco, introduced by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1907. Prince Albert is one of the more popular independent brands of pipe tobacco in the United States; in the 1930s, it was purportedly the second largest money-maker for Reynolds. It is now also available in the form of pipe-tobacco cigars. And, yes, you can still buy Prince Albert in a can. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39113 "2018-06-18T18:08:47Z")
At one time, there was a possibility that Prince Albert NWT would become the capital of the North-West Territories, when it looked like the railway would take the northern Yellowhead route, to a terminus in Prince Rupert, BC. However, the route for the CPR railway was shifted considerably southwards, in part to ward off annexation by grasping Yankees, so the capital is now at Regina, Sask. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39114 "2018-06-18T18:14:05Z")
(Another version of the story is that the CPR route was placed south to keep freight business from going to the Great Northern in the US.) Rupert of Hentzau, a supporting character in Anthony Hope’s _The Prisoner of Zenda_, was made the lead character in the sequel, _Rupert of Hentzau_, also set in his country of Ruritania. The story of the original book was “corrected” by George MacDonald Fraser as told by Sir Harry Flashman in _Royal Flash_. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39115 "2018-06-18T20:00:22Z")
Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the United States for twelve years, longer than anyone before or since. When his successor Harry Truman, Democrat of Missouri, took office, he sent a memo about an approved Federal appointment to a White House subordinate. The staffer asked, “Did the President make that appointment before he died?” and Truman responded, perhaps a little testily, “No, the President made it five minutes ago.” ---
**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:** [June 18, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39116 "2018-06-18T20:21:39Z")
Franklin Delano Marion “Frank” Burns was a captain in the original M_A_S\*H nov, but in both the movie and TV show he was a Major. He was played n the movie by Robert Duvall, and on TV by Larry Linville. i ---
**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:** [June 18, 2018, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39117 "2018-06-18T20:33:57Z")
Martin “Marty” Marion was a Major League Baseball shortstop and manager. Marion played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns between 1940 and 1953 and became the manager of the Chicago White Sox in 1954-1956. From 1940-50, Marion led the National League shortstops in fielding percentage four times and in 1947 he made only 15 errors for a .981 fielding percentage. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2018, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39118 "2018-06-18T21:54:00Z")
The Northern Cardinal has steadily expanded its range northward since the early 1800s. A backyard bird, it has benefited from bird feeders. Cardinals first nested in southern Connecticut around 1943, and in eastern Massachusetts in 1958. Over the past 30 years, it has spread to Northern Minnesota, Maine and southern Canada. It has also been introduced to California, Hawaii, and Bermuda. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39119 "2018-06-19T02:18:37Z")
_The Cardinal of the Kremlin_ is a Tim Clancy novel, sequel to \* The Hunt for Red October\*. It features Jack Ryan and revolves around a high-placed Soviet turncoat, the so-called Cardinal. > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > (Another version of the story is that the CPR route was placed south to keep freight business from going to the Great Northern in the US.) The two versions aren’t incompatible. The CPR had a clause in its contract guaranteeing that there would be no North-south rail connexion for 20 years after the completion of the mainline. That meant that immigrants would have to come from eastern Canada and Britain, rather than an easy rail journey north from the US. The Canadian government was very conscious of how Britain had lost the Oregon territory by US settlers flooding in, and didn’t want that to happen north of 49. But economics being what they are, artificial restrictions on immigration might not have worked if the rail line was too far north, so the settlements would be far from the 49th, leaving great unsettled areas ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39120 "2018-06-19T12:40:10Z")
In the five films of Tom Clancy novels in which Jack Ryan is a major character, four actors have played him, with only Harrison Ford doing it twice. The others are Alec Baldwin, Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39121 "2018-06-19T13:19:31Z")
CIA analyst and former Marine Jack Ryan does not appear in Tom Clancy’s 1986 novel _Red Storm Rising_, which seems to be out of continuity with most if not all of the other Clancy novels. The book deals with a non-nuclear World War III between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, waged primarily in West Germany, the North Atlantic and Iceland over the span of about a month. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39122 "2018-06-19T13:20:04Z")
[Alec Baldwin’s slam](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/broadway-orphans_b_3229873.html)of New York Times critic Ben Brantley for giving his show _Orphans_ such a bad review was so amazing that Lin-Manuel Miranda mentioned it in the 2013 Tony opening number, sung by Neil Patrick Harris: Oh! Broadway’s where famous people go. Though being famous doesn’t mean that you Will get a good review So Alec, write Ben Brantley if you want That’s entertaining too. ETA to tie it to the ninja’ed post: The song also included the line: Now here’s the kids from Christmas Story, Annie and her orphans So many child actors high on Red Bull and endorphins. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2018, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39123 "2018-06-19T16:24:47Z")
Red Bull is an energy drink sold by Red Bull GmbH, an Austrian company created in 1987. Red Bull has the highest market share of any energy drink in the world, with 6.302 billion cans sold in 2017. Red Bull is modeled after an existing energy drink named _Krating Daeng_, which was first introduced and sold in Thailand. In Thai, daeng means red, and a krating is a large species of wild bovine native to South Asia. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39124 "2018-06-19T16:38:46Z")
Red Bull was joked about in the Jim Carrey comedy _Yes Man_, about a man with a boring life who resolves to say “Yes” to every question he’s asked: [Yes Man - Red bull scene - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea1yl7CiT8A) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39125 "2018-06-19T16:42:03Z")
The anti-drug campaign slogan [“Just Say No”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Say_No) was allegedly created by Nancy Reagan, its popularizer, during her husband’s presidency, while she was visiting Longfellow Elementary School in Oakland, California. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39126 "2018-06-19T18:10:36Z")
In particle physics, an elementary particle is a particle with no substructure, thus not composed of other particles. Particles currently thought to be elementary include the fermions (quarks, leptons, antiquarks, and antileptons), which generally are “matter particles” and “antimatter particles”, as well as the fundamental bosons (gauge bosons and the Higgs boson), which generally are “force particles” that mediate interactions among fermions. ---
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Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the world’s first nuclear reactor. Part of the Manhattan Project, it was an unshielded and uncooled nuclear fission chain reaction that went off on 02 December 1942 in Chicago. The lack of shielding and cooling was not a problem, as this reaction was of low yield, at about half a watt. The experiment was led by Enrico Fermi, for whom fermions are named. ---
**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:** [June 19, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39128 "2018-06-19T21:39:34Z")
One World Trade Center (also known as 1 World Trade Center, 1 WTC or Freedom Tower) is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the sixth-tallest in the world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1955) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1957)