# 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:** 1961
**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 28, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39209 "2018-06-28T20:23:54Z")
The elusive crooner Johnny Favorite in the 1987 supernatural horror movie _Angel Heart_, starring Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro, was loosely based on Frank Sinatra. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39210 "2018-06-28T20:58:19Z")
The character Johnny Fontane in _The Godfather_, played by lounge singer Al Martino, was also based on Frank Sinatra, and his own well-known Mob connections. ---
**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 29, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39211 "2018-06-29T01:22:54Z")
Al Martino served with the United States Navy in World War II, during which he was part of, and injured in, the Iwo Jima invasion. After the war, he began his singing career in local nightclubs in his hometown of Philadelphia. He later moved to New York City, and won first place on the television show _Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts_. As a result, he won a recording contract and recorded “Here in My Heart”. The song spent three weeks at No. 1 on the US pop charts in June 1952, and later in the year also reached the top of the UK charts. It was number one in the first UK Singles chart, published by the _New Musical Express_ on November 14, 1952, putting him into the Guinness Book of World Records. ---
**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 29, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39212 "2018-06-29T01:43:28Z")
President Harry S. Truman’s last full year in office was 1952. He considered running for another term but decided not to, in part due to his very low poll ratings and what he knew would be a difficult campaign against war hero and likely GOP nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower. ---
**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 29, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39213 "2018-06-29T13:36:25Z")
Will Truman of Will & Grace had romantic relationships with three women before coming out as gay: his high school girlfriend Claire, his college girlfriend Grace, and Diane, with whom he had a one-night stand (his only sexual encounter with a woman) after he and Grace broke up. ---
**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 29, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39214 "2018-06-29T15:13:17Z")
Diane Lane was 13 when she turned down a role in _Runaways_ on Broadway to make her feature-film debut opposite Laurence Olivier in George Roy Hill’s _A Little Romance_ (1979). Lane won high praise from Olivier, who declared her “The New Grace Kelly” ---
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Lois Lane is a fictional character who is the love interest of Superman. Lane is a journalist who works at the Daily Planet newspaper in Metropolis. Lane is one of many characters in the Superman comics with the initials of ‘L L’. Other characters with these initials include Superman’s nemesis Lex Luthor, Superman’s first girlfriend Lana Lang, and Linda Lee, the secret identity of Supergirl. ---
**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 29, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39216 "2018-06-29T23:36:59Z")
Lex Luthor is science advisor to President John F. Kennedy in the alternative-history superhero graphic novel _Red Son_, in which the infant Kal-El lands in the Soviet Union and not the United States, and when grown becomes a mainstay of the Stalinist state. ---
**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 29, 2018, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39217 "2018-06-29T23:55:51Z")
Jasper Fforde’s 2001 novel _The Eyre Affair_ is an alternative history; set in 1985, England and Imperial Russia have continued to fight the Crimean War for more than a century. ---
**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 30, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39218 "2018-06-30T00:38:43Z")
Robert Harris’s _Fatherland_ is an alternative-history novel set in 1964 Berlin. German _Fuhrer_ Adolf Hitler is preparing for his first summit meeting with U.S. President Joseph Kennedy, as an SS officer investigates the suspicious deaths of several senior Nazi Party officials. ---
**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 30, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39219 "2018-06-30T02:23:17Z")
When Arnold Schwarzenegger was running for Governor of California, Austrian media sent reporters to cover the campaign. One of them was heard to say after listening to Arnie’s stump speech: “There’s no way I can file a report on his speech back home. He was a typical U.S. politician, talking all the time about ‘leadership’. You know what that translates into …” ---
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The ‘Arnold Palmer’ is a non-alcoholic drink made by combining lemonade and iced tea. Palmer himself preferred the mixture to be 3 parts unsweetened iced tea to 1 part lemonade; when mixed equal parts tea and lemonade, the drink is sometimes called a ‘Half & Half.’ An alcoholic version of the drink, generally made with vodka is called a ‘John Daly.’ ---
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“Fat Free Half-and-Half” has been called the “perfect oxymoron.” While regular Half-and-Half is a combination of regular milk and cream and contains about 12% fat, the fat-free concoction contains skim milk, corn syrup, cream and “less than 0.5 percent of the following: Carrageenan, Sodium Citrate, Dipotassium Phosphate, Mono and Diglycerides, Vitamin A Palmitate. ---
**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 30, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39222 "2018-06-30T19:39:28Z")
The half-and-half version of the Arnold Palmer features as the drink of preference of the Terrible Two, a duo of pre-teen pranksters in the Terrible Two series. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39223 "2018-07-01T02:03:11Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > When Arnold Schwarzenegger was running for Governor of California, Austrian media sent reporters to cover the campaign. > > One of them was heard to say after listening to Arnie’s stump speech: “There’s no way I can file a report on his speech back home. He was a typical U.S. politician, talking all the time about ‘leadership’. You know what that translates into …” After Ahnuld was elected, one late-night comic said, “Finally, someone who can explain Republican civil-rights policies in the original German!” In play: David Palmer, Democrat of California, was the first of several fictional Presidents of the United States to appear on the Kiefer Sutherland real-time counterterrorism thriller TV series _24_. ---
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Kiefer Sutherland is the son of Donald Sutherland, and Shirley Douglas, Canadian actors. He is the grandson of Tommy Douglas, former Premier of Saskatchewan, who led the introduction of medicare. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39225 "2018-07-01T12:03:41Z")
Boxer [James “Buster” Douglas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Douglas) was best know for taking the title from the heretofore-undefeated Mike Tyson on February 11, 1990 in Tokyo to win the undisputed heavyweight title. The only casino to offer odds on the bout had Douglas at 42-1. Douglas lost the title to Evander Holyfield in his next fight. ---
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Traditionally in Japan, the home of the Emperor is considered the capital. Since 1869, Tokyo has been considered Japan’s capital, although the National Diet has never legislated Tokyo as the capital. Prior to Tokyo, Kyoto was the home of the Emperor, from 1180-1868. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2018, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/39227 "2018-07-01T19:47:23Z")
Akihito of Japan, crowned in 1989, is the only reigning emperor in the world. After announcing that his age and poor health were making it difficult for him to carry out his official duties, the National Diet or parliament passed a bill allowing him to abdicate. He did not already have that right under Japanese law; neither will his successors, unless another bill is passed. ---
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On January 8, 1992, while attending a banquet hosted by the then Prime Minister of Japan, Kiichi Miyazawa, President George H. W. Bush ducked under the table, vomited into Miyazawa’s lap, and then fainted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1960) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1962)