# 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:** 2097
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41929 "2019-01-15T13:22:01Z")
New York politician Grover Whalen was named for Grover Cleveland. He was best known as “Mr. New York”, after being appointed by Fiorello La Guardia as Chairman of the Mayor’s Committee on Receptions to Distinguished Guests. He became a public celebrity easily recognized by his exquisitely groomed moustache and carnation boutonniere. In this capacity, in which he served until the early 1950s, he officially welcomed everyone from Charles Lindbergh to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd to Douglas MacArthur to New York and became master of the ticker tape parade. In 1935, he became president of the New York World Fair Corporation and put a familiar face on the 1939 New York World’s Fair. He was on the cover of Time magazine on May 1, 1939. He is mentioned in the Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg song “Lydia the Tattooed Lady”, the Cole Porter song “Let’s Fly Away”, the Bobby Short song “Sweet Bye and Bye”, as well as in the 1933 film _The Prizefighter and the Lady_, starring Myrna Loy and Max Baer. Grover Whalen is also mentioned in _Once in a Lifetime_, a play written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman in 1930. He is also mentioned in E.B. White’s essay “The World of Tomorrow.” Whalen titled his 1955 autobiography _Mr. New York_. ---
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Richard M. Nixon is the only U.S. president to have served in the Navy but not have a ship named in his honor. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41931 "2019-01-15T14:07:04Z")
Nixon reputedly paid for his tuition at the Duke University School of Law with poker winnings gained during his Navy service. ---
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The Duke University Lemur Center was established in 1966 and is the world’s largest sanctuary for rare and endangered prosimian primates. Sprawled across 85 acres in Duke Forest, it houses 15 species of lemurs, lorises from India and Southeast Asia, and bushbabies from Africa. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41933 "2019-01-15T15:38:04Z")
British historic royal dukedoms which are now not held by anyone include Albany, Albemarle, Avondale, Clarence, Connaught, Cumberland, Hereford, Kendal, Ross, St. Andrews, Strathearn, Sussex, Teviotdale and, perhaps most famously, Windsor. The Duke of Windsor was the former King Edward VIII, who reigned for most of “the year of three kings,” 1936. ---
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According to the U.S. Cattlemen’s Beef Board, the most popular breed of beef cattle in the US is the Black Angus, followed by the Charolais. The Hereford breed, which was instrumental in displacing the Longhorn as a major source of beef, now ranks third in the country. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41935 "2019-01-15T17:11:35Z")
Among many other roles, British actor Gary Oldman has played a spy (_Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy_), a terrorist (_Air Force One_), a crooked DEA agent (_Leon: The Professional_), a vampire (_Bram Stoker’s Dracula_), an assassin (_JFK_), a prime minister (_Darkest Hour_) and a wizard on the run (Sirius Black, in four _Harry Potter_ movies). ---
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Gary Oldman has played starring roles in costume dramas including Ludwig van Beethoven in _Immortal Beloved_ and Rosencrantz in _Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead_. He also played Bob Cratchit and Marley’s Ghost in _A Christmas Carol._ ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41937 "2019-01-15T19:11:20Z")
The Immortal Beloved (German “_Unsterbliche Geliebte_”) is the mysterious addressee of a love letter which composer Ludwig van Beethoven wrote on 6–7 July 1812 in Teplitz. Her identity is unknown, but the two candidates favored by most contemporary scholars are Antonie Brentano and Josephine Brunsvik. Beethoven never married or had known children, however. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41938 "2019-01-15T20:02:02Z")
Martin O’Malley, former mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland, and one of three major candidates for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2016, recently announced that he will not run again in 2020. He encouraged Beto O’Rourke, defeated in November in his bid for the U.S. Senate, to run for President instead. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41939 "2019-01-15T20:19:55Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > one of three major candidates for the Democratic nomination Aw, that’s so cute! 😉 [Count Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cornelius_O%27Rourke) (Russian: Иосиф Корнилович Орурк (О’Рурк), or Ioseph Kornilovich O’Rourke) (1772–1849) was a Russian nobleman of Irish ancestry. He was a military leader who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and achieved the rank of lieutenant general; he is noted in present-day Serbia, where he led a combined Russian and Serb army to defeat the Turks at Varvarin in 1810. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41940 "2019-01-15T20:28:03Z")
Journalist and political satirist P.J. O’Rourke spent some of his early career as a writer (and editor-in-chief) for _National Lampoon_, and was co-author of the book _National Lampoon’s 1964 High School Yearbook_, which was one of the inspirations for the film _National Lampoon’s Animal House_. Later, O’Rourke moved on to stints with a number of publications, including _Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, The Weekly Standard_, and _The Daily Beast_. He has also regularly appeared on NPR’s _Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!_, and has written several bestselling books, including _Parliament of Whores_. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41941 "2019-01-16T01:11:28Z")
PJ Masks is an animated children’s television series. The series is based on the Les Pyjamasques book series by Romuald Racioppo. The series debuted on the Disney Junior cable channel in the United States on September 18, 2015. In June 2016, a second season, consisting of another 52 11-minute segments began airing on January 15, 2018. The series is about Connor, Amaya, and Greg, three 6-year-olds who attend first grade. When night falls, they become the superhero team, the PJ Masks in order to fight villains such as Romeo, Luna Girl, and Night Ninja to keep them from ruining people’s day. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2019, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41942 "2019-01-16T03:53:55Z")
Journalist and political satirist P.J. O’Rourke is generally considered a conservative. Per Wiki, in 2009, he described the Presidency of Barack Obama as “the Carter Administration in better sweaters.” However, in 2016, he endorsed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. O’Rourke stated that his endorsement included her “lies and empty promises,” adding, “She’s wrong about absolutely everything, but she’s wrong within normal parameters.” ---
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O’Rourke was a proponent of Gonzo journalism; one of his earliest and best-regarded pieces was “How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink”, a _National Lampoon_ article in March 1979. ---
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Hunter S. Thompson was considered the founder of “gonzo journalism,” in which the journalist has no pretense of objectivity, and often becomes a part of the story itself. Thompson often used the pseudonym / alter-ego Raoul Duke in his writings. Cartoonist Garry Trudeau based the “Uncle Duke” character in _Doonesbury_ on Thompson, much to Thompson’s displeasure (though he apparently mellowed on the topic late in his life). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41945 "2019-01-16T14:25:10Z")
Before his Chakotay days, Robert Beltran played the title role in _Eating Raoul_, about a scheme to rob and kill swingers and sell their bodies to a dog food company. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41946 "2019-01-16T15:10:36Z")
Robert Beltran, who played the facially-tattooed Native American Cmdr. Chakotay throughout the entire run of _Star Trek: Voyager_, was reported to have been unhappy in the role, feeling he had little to do and disliking the technobabble the scripts called upon him and others to spout. ---
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It showed in his mailed-in performances, too. Kate Mulgrew was not the only actress to be cast as Captain Janeway. For the first two days of filming on the pilot episode, Genevieve Bujold, a Montreal native (like Shatner) who was best known for her film roles, played Captain Nicole Janeway, before (allegedly) quitting due to TV’s demanding work schedule. ---
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Montreal, with a population of 1.7 million, is the second-largest city in Canada, behind Toronto. Montreal was founded on an island in the St. Lawrence River, and was named after Mount Royal, a 3-peaked hill which is now in the heart of the city. Montreal is located about 120 miles east of Ottawa, the capital of Canada, and about 40 miles north of the Québec/Vermont border. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2096) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2098)