# 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:** 2079
**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:** [December 20, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41569 "2018-12-20T15:22:08Z")
Felton and Fowler’s Best, Worst, and Most Unusual book, published on November 1, 1976, rated the World Trade Towers as the worst place to work. ---
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F. W. Woolworth created the concept of the “Five and Dime” or “Five and Ten” store, selling discount items for a nickel or dime. On 21 June 1879, Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first successful five-cent store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, after a failed attempt with a store he opened on 22 February 1879, in Utica, New York. Frank soon brought his brother Charles Sumner “Sum” Woolworth into the business. Well-known dime store companies included: ``` Ben Franklin Stores Butler Brothers Duckwall-ALCO W. T. Grant H.L. Green John's Bargain Store (sometimes called "Cheap John's") S.S. Kresge Co. S. H. Kress & Co. Morgan and Lindsey J.G. McCrory's McLellan Stores G.C. Murphy Neisner's J.J. Newberry's Sprouse-Reitz TG&Y Walton's Five and Dime Woolworth's ``` ---
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The 1974 album by The Eagles, _On the Border_, contains a song entitled ‘James Dean.’ The song, mostly written by Jackson Browne, is an ode to Dean. It contains the iconic lyrics ‘too fast to live, too young to die’, which references the life and abrupt death of Dean. The song was also released as a single; the flip side was ‘Good Day in Hell’. ETA: ‘James Dean’ was originally going to appear on the 1973 Eagles album _Desperado_. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41572 "2018-12-20T15:28:21Z")
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean takes place inside a small Woolworth’s five-and-dime store in a small Texas town, where an all-female fan club for actor James Dean reunites on September 30, 1975 to honor the twentieth anniversary of the actor’s death. The store is 62 miles away from Marfa, where James Dean filmed Giant in 1955. ---
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Jimmy Ray Dean was an American country music singer, television host, actor, and businessman. He was the creator of Jimmy Dean sausage. ---
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Raymond “Ray” Stantz, PhD is a fictional character from the Ghostbusters franchise. He was portrayed by Dan Aykroyd in both live action films, and voiced by Frank Welker in the animated series. Dan Aykroyd has a cameo appearance in the 2016 version of Ghostbusters as “Cabbie”. ---
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Dan Aykroyd, who is a native of Ottawa, Ontario, was one of the original ‘Not Ready for Prime Time Players’ of _Saturday Night Live_. He has appeared in a number of movies and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the 1989 film _Driving Miss Daisy_. He is also the co-founder of the House of Blues and the Crystal Head vodka brand. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41576 "2018-12-20T16:50:20Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Felton and Fowler’s Best, Worst, and Most Unusual book, published on November 1, 1976, rated the World Trade Towers as the worst place to work. Do you recall why? In play: Morgan Freeman, who played the dignified chauffeur in _Driving Miss Daisy_, has over the course of a long career also played a U.S. Army brigadier general (_Outbreak_), a former slave (_Glory_), a hitman (_Nurse Betty_), a homicide detective (_Se7en_) and the President of the United States (_Deep Impact_). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41577 "2018-12-20T16:58:44Z")
Morgan Freeman, who also played God in _Bruce Almighty_, is one of a number of famous actors with pilot’s licenses. Harrison Ford is the most active and notable within the aviation community, but others include Angelina Jolie, Clint Eastwood, Kurt Russell, John Travolta, Tom Cruise, and Dennis Quaid. ---
**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:** [December 20, 2018, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41578 "2018-12-20T17:05:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Do you recall why? Workers said there was something “creepy” about the towers. Some people hated going up and down in the elevators. Little did they know. In play: In Stephen King’s novella Rita and the Shawshank Redemption" “Red” is described as a middle-aged red-haired Irishman." However, Morgan Freeman wanted to play the character so badly he was willing to audition for the role. And he got it! ---
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The Morgan Motor Company is a family-owned British motor car manufacturer that was founded in 1910 by Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan. Morgan is based in Malvern Link, an area of Malvern, Worcestershire, and employs 177 people. Morgan has stated that they produce in excess of 1300 cars per year, all assembled by hand. The waiting list for a car is approximately six months, and has sometimes been as long as ten years. ---
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NFL wide receiver Stanley Morgan played for the New England Patriots from 1977 to 1989, and for the Indianapolis Colts for the 1990 season. He appeared in one Super Bowl, on January 26, 1986, where he and the Patriots got waxed by the Chicago Bears in their first Super Bowl appearance by a score of 46-10. Super Bowl XX had the most lopsided score, with a point differential of 36 points, until Super Bowl XXIV when the San Francisco 49ers crushed the Denver Broncos, 55-10. That 45 point differential is still the largest ever in the Super Bowl. ---
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The investment banking firm Morgan Stanley came into being in 1935, after the Glass-Steagal Act separated commercial banking and investment banking in the U.S. Morgan Stanley was thus a spinoff from J.P. Morgan & Co., which had elected to focus on commercial banking; among the founders of Morgan Stanley was Henry Sturgis Morgan, grandson of J.P. Morgan. In 1997, Morgan Stanley merged with Dean Witter Discover & Co. (which had, itself, been spun off from Sears). ---
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The extended family of J.P. Morgan, like many wealthy American families of the Gilded Age, married into the English aristocracy. His niece, Mary Ethel Burns, married Lewis Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt; his nephew, Walter Spencer Morgan Burns, married Ruth Evelyn Cavendish-Bentinck, granddaughter of the Duke of Portland. ---
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In European nobility, a viscount (and a viscountess) was one rank below a count and one rank above a baron. ---
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Barron Trump was born in 2006 and is the only child of Donald Trump with Melania. He is fluent in English, and Slovene. ---
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Yugoslavia, or “Land of the Southern Slavs”, was originally named The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. ruled by the Serbian dynasty of Karađorđević, which previously ruled the Kingdom of Serbia under Peter I from 1903 (after the May Overthrow) onward. Peter I became the first king of Yugoslavia until his death in 1921. He was succeeded by his son Alexander I, who had been regent for his father. He was known as “Alexander the Unifier” and he renamed the kingdom “Yugoslavia” in 1929. ---
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Peter Charles Corrigan, who ran for County Executive of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (the greater Cleveland area) last month as a Republican, is no relation to Peter Charles Corrigan, a Democrat and a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the same county. ---
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Portions of the 2012 superhero movie _The Avengers_ were filmed in and around Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland’s Public Square acted as a stand-in for exterior shots set in Stuttgart, Germany (the fight between Loki, Captain America, and Iron Man), while the Lakeside Court House was used for the interior shots of the gala in that scene. Many local residents were extras in those scenes, including our own Elendil’s Heir. 😃 ---
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