# 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:** 2057
**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:** [November 24, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41129 "2018-11-24T03:12:46Z")
His pronunciation must’ve amused the other people watching the movie. Legendary actress and singer Ethel Merman’s enduringly popular appearance in \*Airplane! \*as the delusional Lt. Hurwitz, the poor bastard who thinks he’s Ethel Merman, was her last screen role. ---
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Ethel Merman was notorious for her vulgar vocabulary and for using cuss words at a time when few ladies did so. While rehearsing a guest appearance on NBC’s The Loretta Young Show, Merman exclaimed, “Where the hell does this go?” Young, who was a devout Catholic, advanced towards her waving an empty coffee can, saying, “Come on Ethel. You know my rules. That’ll cost you a dollar.” To which Merman replied “Ah, honey, how much will it cost me to tell you to go fuck yourself?!” ---
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> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Ethel Merman was notorious for her vulgar vocabulary and for using cuss words at a time when few ladies did so. While rehearsing a guest appearance on NBC’s The Loretta Young Show, Merman exclaimed, “Where the hell does this go?” Young, who was a devout Catholic, advanced towards her waving an empty coffee can, saying, “Come on Ethel. You know my rules. That’ll cost you a dollar.” To which Merman replied “Ah, honey, how much will it cost me to tell you to go fuck yourself?!” That’s hilarious! In play: _The Young and the Restless_, an American television soap opera, was first broadcast on March 26, 1973. Set in the fictional Wisconsin town of Genoa City, the show initially focused on two families: the wealthy Brooks family and the working-class Foster family. Those two families were written out in the 1980s and were replaced by the Abbott family and the Williams family. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41132 "2018-11-24T15:30:05Z")
Comedian Foster Brooks had a recurring role as Mr. Sternhagen, Mindy’s boss on Mork & Mindy. ---
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Foster Brooks once appeared on the Tonight Show back when Carson was the host. He didn’t do a stand-up routine, as he had never appeared before. Instead, he came on as an interview guest, posing as a tax expert there to explain the new tax laws. It was very convincing and it took awhile to realize that the guy was a comedian and not just a drunk guest. ---
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The description of Britain’s policy of non-intervention in European alliance in the latter part of the 19th century was described at the time as “splendid isolation”. The phrase was coined by a Canadian politician, George Foster. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41135 "2018-11-24T18:51:37Z")
Foster’s Lager was created by two Irish-American brothers, William M. and Ralph R. Foster, who arrived in Melbourne from New York in 1886. They began brewing Foster’s Lager in November 1888, and made it available to the public from February 1889. The lager was first exported in 1901, when bottles were sent to Australian combatants in the Boer War. ---
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Lord Melbourne, British Prime Minister and mentor to the teenage Queen Victoria, was portrayed by English actor Rufus Sewell in the UK Masterpiece Theatre TV series _Victoria_. Sewell also starred in Amazon’s _The Man in the High Castle,_ playing Obergruppenführer John Smith, a Nazi in a world where the Axis powers won World War II ---
**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:** [November 24, 2018, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41137 "2018-11-24T20:39:02Z")
Stephen King’s novel The Dead Zone was made into a movie starring Christopher Walken as Johnny Smith and into a TV series starring Anthony Michael Hall as the character. ---
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_Paste Magazine_ has ranked Johnny Smith the sixth out of eight creepiest Christopher Walken performances, the creepiest being Captain Koons from _Pulp Fiction_. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2018, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41139 "2018-11-25T03:32:22Z")
Stephen King’s novel _The Dead Zone_ includes references to a fictional Congressional investigation into Smith’s case led by a real person, then-Congressman William Cohen, a Republican of Maine (King’s home state), who in real life would go on to be elected to the U.S. Senate and later serve as one of Bill Clinton’s Secretaries of Defense. ---
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Cadillac Mountain, in Maine, is the highest peak on the East Coast. It is named after the explorer, Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac. The Cadillac car company is also named for him. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2018, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41141 "2018-11-25T17:29:50Z")
Cadillac Mountain is located in Acadia National Park, but it also located within the municipality of Bar Harbor, Maine. From October 7 through March 6, it is the first place to view sunrise in the United States. > **[Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park](https://acadiamagic.com/cadillac-mountain.html)** > > Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, at 1,530 feet (466 meters), is the highest point along the North Atlantic seaboard and the first place to view sunrise in the United States from October 7 through March 6. It is one of over 20 mountains on... ---
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Acadia, covering what is now Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and parts of Maine And New Brunswick, was one of the colonies of New France. The parts making up most of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick wereceded to Britain permanently in the Treaty of Utrecht, 1715, but the French kept except for the island of Cape Breton, Ile St-Jean (PEI) and St Pierre and Miquelon. ---
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_ **East** _port, Maine is the most eastern city in the United States. But the easternmost point in yhe contiguous US is a place called _ **West** _ Quoddy Head, Maine. ---
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Quoddy Head, Maine is also the closest point in the U.S. to the African continent, beating the easternmost part of Florida in that category by over 1,000 miles. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2018, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41145 "2018-11-25T20:32:55Z")
A _New York Times_ analysis in late 1992 found that the only state in which Ross Perot’s candidacy made a difference in the Electoral College that year was Maine. Had Perot not been in the race, incumbent President George H.W. Bush would likely have won the state; as it happened, Bill Clinton won it. But Clinton would have won the Presidency even without Maine’s electoral votes. ---
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The Treaty on European Union, informally called the Maastricht Treaty, founded the European Union. It was signed on 7 February 1992 by the members of the European Community in Maastricht, Netherlands. ---
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Ternhaven Cellars in Greenport, Long Island, closed in 2007. It was the easternmost of several vineyards on the island’s North Fork, a narrow strip that points eastward to the Atlantic and Europe, and was well known for its sign reading “Last winery before France”. In fact, “last winery before Portugal” would have been more accurate (though perhaps less catchy) since Long Island and Portugal are both on the 40th parallel north, while Bordeaux, France, is on the 44th parallel north and several hundred miles further east. ---
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Long Island is the 11th-largest island in the United States, with a land area of 1,401 square miles. It is larger than Rhode Island, which has a land area of 1,214 square miles. Four counties of the State of New York are on Long Island: Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2056) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2058)