# 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:** 32
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/621 "2010-02-11T23:45:18Z")
[Gertie the Dinosaur](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY40DHs9vc4), a 1914 animated film, was made before animation cels and required literally thousands of individual pen and ink drawings by “America’s Greatest Cartoonist” Winsor McKay. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/622 "2010-02-12T02:21:17Z")
On September 3, 1914, Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) succeeded Pope Pius X as the 258th pope. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/623 "2010-02-12T02:35:09Z")
Pius IX was the pope who declared the matter of Papal Infallibility (on ex cathedra matters) and who extended the church’s ban on abortion to include _inanimate_ (i.e. “not yet quick”) fetuses, both in 1869. (He is also the namesake of Pio Nono Avenue in Macon, Georgia, though I honestly don’t know why it was named that.) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/624 "2010-02-12T02:52:55Z")
[Not a domino, but regarding the above: as a matter of curiosity I looked it up and in case anybody else is interested, the reason Macon, GA has a Pio Nono Ave. is because there was a Jesuit school named that in the 1870s; the school still exists but is now St. Joseph’s.) ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/625 "2010-02-12T03:05:48Z")
In The Godfather III, Cardinal Lamberto of Sicily, was elected Pope John Paul I in 1979. Approximating real life, Albino Luciani, Patriarch of Venice was elected Pope John Paul I in 1978. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/626 "2010-02-12T03:12:02Z")
> [@Rafe\_Hollister](#): > > He was a 6-time All-Star and won the 1982 World Series, striking out Gorman Thomas of the **Milwaukee Braves** for the final out. Sutter was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006. Wow, the Brewers get no respect. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/627 "2010-02-12T03:13:19Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > In The Godfather III, Cardinal Lamberto of Sicily, was elected Pope John Paul I in 1979. Approximating real life, Albino Luciani, Patriarch of Venice was elected Pope John Paul I in 1978. The title of the film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is a quote from the poem “Eloisa to Abelard” by Alexander Pope. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/628 "2010-02-12T03:14:01Z")
Too late. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/629 "2010-02-12T03:18:08Z")
> [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > In The Godfather III, Cardinal Lamberto of Sicily, was elected Pope John Paul I in 1979. Approximating real life, Albino Luciani, Patriarch of Venice was elected Pope John Paul I in 1978. An albino is someone with unusually light skin, hair and eyes. ETA: damn, too slow… ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/630 "2010-02-12T03:39:50Z")
Although now better known as a poet, Alexander Pope also published translations of Homer’s Illiad and The Odyssey. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/631 "2010-02-12T03:43:53Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Although now better known as a poet, Alexander Pope also published translations of Homer’s Illiad and The Odyssey. Ronald Reagan played Grover Cleveland Alexander in “The Winning Team.” ---
**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 12, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/632 "2010-02-12T03:56:32Z")
Grover Cleveland, the only man to serve nonconsecutive terms as President, served on the board of trustees of Princeton University after leaving the White House, and is buried in the Princeton cemetery. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/633 "2010-02-12T04:00:32Z")
Princeton-by-the-Sea, near Half Moon Bay California, is the site of the famous Maverick’s surfing contest (being held this weekend). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/634 "2010-02-12T04:00:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Grover Cleveland, the only man to serve nonconsecutive terms as President, served on the board of trustees of Princeton University after leaving the White House, and is buried in the Princeton cemetery. Woodrow Wilson, our only PhD president, was the 13th president of Princeton University, from 1902-10. ---
**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 12, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/635 "2010-02-12T04:12:01Z")
Wilson’s tomb in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., is engraved with the coats of arms of the U.S. and of Princeton University; Wilson is the only President buried in Washington. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/636 "2010-02-12T04:22:34Z")
Wilson’s real first name was Thomas; Woodrow was his middle name. ---
**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 12, 2010, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/637 "2010-02-12T04:37:06Z")
Musician Thomas Dolby’s real name is Thomas Robertson. He was sued by Dolby Laboratories over his stage name, and reached a settlement in which he agreed to use the name Dolby only in conjunction with his first name, Thomas. Ironically, Dr. Ray Dolby, the founder of Dolby Laboratories, has a son named Thomas. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/638 "2010-02-12T04:44:47Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Musician Thomas Dolby’s real name is Thomas Robertson. He was sued by Dolby Laboratories over his stage name, and reached a settlement in which he agreed to use the name Dolby only in conjunction with his first name, Thomas. > > Ironically, Dr. Ray Dolby, the founder of Dolby Laboratories, has a son named Thomas. Thomas Dolby married “Dynasty” starlet Kathleen Beller; he also received credit, as “Tom Dolby,” for playing the keyboards on Foreigner’s “4” album. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/639 "2010-02-12T04:51:31Z")
The part of Blake Carrington on _Dynasty_ was originally played by George Peppard, who left the role because he felt the character was too unsympathetic. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/640 "2010-02-12T05:16:24Z")
George Peppard played Hannibal Smith in the 1980s TV show _The A-Team_; Liam Neeson plays Hannibal Smith in the 2010 big screen remake. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=33)