# 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:** 39
**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 14, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/761 "2010-02-14T01:08:14Z")
_Rrrr!_ Go Juliet! 😉 The term “Pollyanna” now usually means someone whose optimism is excessive to the point of naivete or refusing to accept the facts of an unfortunate situation. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/762 "2010-02-14T01:14:38Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > _Rrrr!_ Go Juliet! 😉 [NOT FOR CONSIDERATION IN PLAY] [Indeed- this is him the year they married.](http://www.cuirmale.nl/history/img/maxwell-caulfield5.jpg)😉 FOR PLAY: The original Disney movie of Pollyanna featured veteran actors Agnes Moorehead, Adolphe Menjou and Jane Wyman; a mostly black cast remake featured Butterfly McQueen, Brock Peters and Phylicia Ayes Allen-Rashad in the same roles. ---
**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 14, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/763 "2010-02-14T02:00:42Z")
Brock Peters played a traitorous Starfleet admiral in _Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country_, and later played Cmdr. Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks)'s father in _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine._ ---
**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 14, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/764 "2010-02-14T02:10:25Z")
Dale Peters played bass on the James Gang song _Funk #49_. ---
**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 14, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/765 "2010-02-14T02:26:03Z")
Dale Evans was Roy Rogers’s wife, and appeared in many movies with him as a singing cowgirl. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/766 "2010-02-14T02:48:42Z")
Dale Evans’s horse was named Buttermilk. ---
**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 14, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/767 "2010-02-14T03:23:28Z")
Buttermilk’s distinctive taste comes from it being fermented. It was traditionally popular in warm climates such as the American South because it spoiled more slowly than regular milk. ---
**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 14, 2010, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/768 "2010-02-14T05:08:58Z")
Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States, whose birthday was yesterday, often drank a glass of buttermilk and ate an apple for lunch in the White House. ---
**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 14, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/769 "2010-02-14T05:43:44Z")
Abraham Lincoln is claimed by three states: Kentucky (where he was born), Indiana (where he grew up), and Illinois (where he lived as an adult). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/770 "2010-02-14T06:21:06Z")
Mary Todd Lincoln, a compulsive shopper, purchased more than 1,000 pairs of gloves while First Lady. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/771 "2010-02-14T06:45:05Z")
Doper **Mangetout** collects pictures of [lost gloves](http://www.atomicshrimp.com/st/content/lost_gloves). ---
**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 14, 2010, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/772 "2010-02-14T07:05:03Z")
In episode 7 of _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_, entitled “You’re No Fun Anymore”, a giant man-eating blancmange from space attempts to win the Wimbledon tennis tournament. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/773 "2010-02-14T07:14:11Z")
Henry VIII was one of the first famous tennis enthusiasts; he built a court at Windsor Castle and played the game with Anne Boleyn among other partners. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/774 "2010-02-14T09:00:41Z")
“Eight Arms to Hold You” was the working title for what became the Beatles film “Help!”. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/775 "2010-02-14T10:12:16Z")
_SOS_ replaced _CQD_ as the international distress call. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/776 "2010-02-14T10:22:54Z")
S.O.S Pads, now manufactured by Clorox Corp, were intentionally named with the final period missing, so that the name could be trademarked. The name stands for “Save Our Saucepans”. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/777 "2010-02-14T10:25:57Z")
Harold Bride and Jack Phillips, the wireless operators for the Titanic, sent both CQD and SOS as distress signals; Phillips died in the sinking but Bride managed to swim to a lifeboat. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/778 "2010-02-14T11:18:17Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Harold Bride and Jack Phillips, the wireless operators for the Titanic, sent both CQD and SOS as distress signals; Phillips died in the sinking but Bride managed to swim to a lifeboat. Morgan Robertson’s 1898 book _Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan_ depicts a shipwreck with an eerie amount of similarities with the Titanic. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/779 "2010-02-14T11:29:43Z")
_Clash of the Titans_ has been remade with Sam Worthington as Perseus, Ralph Fiennes as Hades and Liam Neeson as Zeus and is scheduled for an April 1, 2010 release. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/780 "2010-02-14T13:06:17Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > _Clash of the Titans_ has been remade with Sam Worthington as Perseus, Ralph Fiennes as Hades and Liam Neeson as Zeus and is scheduled for an April 1, 2010 release. In their first season in the American Football League, the New York Jets were called the New York Titans. Their first coach was Hall of Fame quarterback Sammy Baugh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=40)