# 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:** 2115
**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:** [February 16, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42289 "2019-02-16T00:54:26Z")
In Labatt Breweries v AG Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada held that the federal Parliament lacked the constitutional authority to prescribe the meaning of “lite beer” and “light beer.” (The federal trade and commerce power in Canada is much more restricted than the US equivalent commerce clause.) The decision is notable for reproducing, at p. 922, the beer label for “Labatt’s Special Lite”. > **[Labatt Breweries of Canada Ltd. v. Attorney General of Canada - SCC Cases](https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/5687/index.do)** > > This page contains a form to search the Supreme Court of Canada case information database. You can search by the SCC 5-digit case number, by name or word in the style of cause, or by file number from the appeal court. ---
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“The Primettes” was the original name of The Supremes; Berry Gordy of Motown agreed to sign the group on the condition that they changed their name. Diana Ross disliked “Supremes”, finding it too masculine, but the group went on to chart 12 number 1 hits, including “Baby Love” and “Stop! In The Name Of Love”. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2019, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42291 "2019-02-16T04:30:42Z")
Bob Woodward and William Armstrong’s secret inside source for their book _The Brethren_, about the Supreme Court of the United States during the late Sixties and early Seventies, was Associate Justice Potter Stewart, appointed to the court by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Stewart’s role did not become public until after he died. ---
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Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong was an American trumpeter, composer, and vocalist. When asked about his religion, Armstrong usually answered that he was raised a Baptist, always wore a Star of David, and was friends with the pope. He actually did wear a Star of David in honor of the Karnoffsky family, who took him in as a child and lent him the money to buy his first cornet. He was baptized a Catholic in the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in New Orleans and he met Pope Pius XII and Pope Paul VI during his career. ---
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Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong took the title song from the musical to #1 on the singles chart in May 1953, and also appeared in the movie, singing the tune as a duet with star Barbara Streisand. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42294 "2019-02-16T18:14:31Z")
Barbra Streisand changed the spelling of her name from “Barbara” when she was 18, early in her singing career. She has stated that she has never liked her given name, and wanted to change it, but felt that a major change would feel “false.” (She’s also stated that she was advised to change her unusual last name, and elected to change her first name, instead.) ---
**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:** [February 16, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42295 "2019-02-16T23:13:29Z")
Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau did not get along at all during the filming of _Hello, Dolly!_, and the (many) scenes of Matthau being irritated or fed up with Streisand’s character were not feigned. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42296 "2019-02-17T12:44:27Z")
While he is better known today for his movies, Walter Matthau won two Tony Awards: in 1962, as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for “A Shot in the Dark,” and in 1965 as Best Actor (Dramatic) for “The Odd Couple.” He recreated his part as Oscar Madison in the film version of The Odd Couple in 1968. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42297 "2019-02-17T19:16:45Z")
Marlon Brando played Fletcher Christian as both an aristocratic fop and a stranger to Capt. William Bligh in the 1962 epic _The Mutiny on the Bounty_, even though Christian came from relatively humble roots and was well-known to Bligh as a former shipmate. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42298 "2019-02-18T02:40:26Z")
Fletcher Christian lived for only 3 years after the mutiny on the Bounty, dying on Pitcairn Island at age 28. He was variously said to have died of natural causes, committed suicide, become insane or been murdered. Christian and his Tahitian wife, Maimiti, had two sons and a daughter, and still have living descendants on Pitcairn, as well as on Norfolk Island, where a number of them moved when Pitcairn became overcrowded. ---
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Norfolk is a county in England. The name is derived from the simple descriptive term, the “north folk” of East Anglia. ---
**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:** [February 18, 2019, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42300 "2019-02-18T05:41:58Z")
The coat of arms of the Duke of Norfolk features five lions, one of them (upper left, with the arrow) the royal lion of Scotland. This was an augmentation to the arms of Thomas Howard, second Duke of Norfolk, for his services at the 1513 Battle of Flodden, in which, by some accounts, he (or his archers) killed the Scottish king, James IV. > **[Duke of Norfolk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Norfolk#/media/File:Arms_of_the_Duke_of_Norfolk.svg)** > > Duke of Norfolk is a title in the peerage of England. The seat of the Duke of Norfolk is Arundel Castle in Sussex, although the title refers to the county of Norfolk. The current duke is Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk. The dukes have historically been Roman Catholic, a state of affairs known as recusancy in England. > All past and present dukes have been descended from Edward I. The son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; the earl was descended... ---
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The title duke comes from French _duc_, itself from the Latin _dux_, ‘leader’, a term used in republican Rome to refer to a military commander without an official rank (particularly one of Germanic or Celtic origin), and later coming to mean the leading military commander of a province. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42302 "2019-02-18T13:16:32Z")
[Voivode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voivode)or Vojvoda (/ˈvɔɪˌvoʊd/; Old Slavic, literally “war-leader” or “warlord”) is an Eastern European title that originally denoted the principal commander of a military force. It derives from the word vojevoda, which in early Slavic meant the bellidux, i.e. the military commander of an area, but it usually had a greater meaning. In Byzantine times it referred to mainly military commanders of Slavic populations, especially in the Balkans, first Bulgaria being established as permanent Slavic state in the region. Tchaikovsky’s later orchestral work, the symphonic ballad _The Voyevoda_, Op.78, was based on Alexander Pushkin’s translation of Adam Mickiewicz’s poem. It has the same name as the opera but is otherwise unrelated to it. Anton Arensky later produced his own operatic adaptation of the play as _A Dream on the Volga_. ---
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The Volga is the longest river in Europe, flowing through central Russia and into the Caspian Sea. Eleven of Russia’s 20 largest cities are located in the drainage basin. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42304 "2019-02-19T02:04:49Z")
The national flags of the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Chile, Cuba, Slovakia, Nepal, the Czech Republic, North Korea and Thailand each have just three colors: red, white and blue. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42305 "2019-02-19T02:21:00Z")
The national flags of Norway, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg also all have only red white and blue. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42306 "2019-02-19T02:27:31Z")
You missed a few. There are [29 countries](https://lizardpoint.com/flags/flags_Red_White_And_Blue.php) with r, w, &b: 1 Australia 2 Cambodia 3 Chile 4 Costa Rica 5 Croatia 6 Cuba 7 Czech Republic 8 Dominican Republic 9 Fiji 10 France 11 Iceland 12 Laos 13 Liberia 14 Luxembourg 15 Nepal 16 Netherlands 17 New Zealand 18 North Korea 19 Norway 20 Panama 21 Paraguay 22 Puerto Rico 23 Russia 24 Samoa 25 Serbia 26 Slovakia 27 Slovenia 28 United Kingdom 29 United States ---
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edit: 25 countries; Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominican Republic, and Paraguay include seals with additional colors. ---
**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:** [February 19, 2019, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42308 "2019-02-19T05:18:43Z")
I wrote “just three colors,” red, white and blue, which is not true of several of those added by others. In play: Per Wiki, Costa Rica plans to become a carbon-neutral country by 2021. By 2016, 98.1% of its electricity was generated from green sources, particularly hydro, solar, geothermal and biomass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2114) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2116)