# 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:** 53
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1041 "2010-02-17T23:52:05Z")
Patrick Stewart wore a toupee when he played Sejanus, the Roman soldier who assumed dictatorial powers under Tiberius, in the 1970s BBC miniseries of Robert Graves’ _I CLAVDIVS_. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1042 "2010-02-17T23:55:34Z")
Powers Boothe won an Emmy portraying Jim Jones in _Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones._ ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1043 "2010-02-18T01:24:23Z")
Powers Boothe played Curly Bill Brocius, the infamous gunfighter, alongside Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer in _Tombstone_. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1044 "2010-02-18T01:30:54Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Powers Boothe played Curly Bill Brocius, the infamous gunfighter, alongside Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer in _Tombstone_. Joseph Wardell, aka “Curly Joe” DeRita, was Moe and Larry’s partner in “The Three Stooges Meet Hercules” and “Around the World in a Daze.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1045 "2010-02-18T01:47:19Z")
Jack Palance won an Oscar for playing Curly in _City Slickers_ and later played Curly’s identical twin Duke in the sequel; he had earlier played Count Dracula, a gladiator in _Bar Abbas_, and been the host of _Ripley’s Believe it or Not_ with his daughter Holly. ---
**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 18, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1046 "2010-02-18T01:53:58Z")
Holly Hunter earned a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, after which she moved to New York City and roomed with fellow actress Frances McDormand. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1047 "2010-02-18T02:19:46Z")
Scotsman Andrew Carnegie, who was for a time the richest man in the world, shared a bedroom with his mother until she died when he was 52, whereupon he married his secretary and fathered his only child (a daughter he named Margaret after his mother) in his early 60s. ---
**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 18, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1048 "2010-02-18T03:34:25Z")
Anthropologist Margaret Mead published _Continuities in Cultural Evolution_ while she was in her early 60’s. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1049 "2010-02-18T04:00:52Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Anthropologist Margaret Mead published _Continuities in Cultural Evolution_ while she was in her early 60’s. Not long before losing a tennis match to Billy Jean King in prime time, Bobby Riggs had trounced the #1 ranked woman player, Margaret Smith Court. ---
**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, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1050 "2010-02-18T04:01:46Z")
Margaret “The Iron Lady” Thatcher was the British prime minister at the time of the Falklands War, and was accused by an opposition politician of “glorying in slaughter.” ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1051 "2010-02-18T04:08:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Margaret “The Iron Lady” Thatcher was the British prime minister at the time of the Falklands War, and was accused by an opposition politician of “glorying in slaughter.” Marvel Comics superhero Tony “Iron Man” Stark was imprisoned by Asian guerillas in the original _Iron Man_ storyline. This was changed to Afghani Jihadis for the recent film. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1052 "2010-02-18T04:30:46Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > Marvel Comics superhero Tony “Iron Man” Stark was imprisoned by Asian guerillas in the original _Iron Man_ storyline. This was changed to Afghani Jihadis for the recent film. Sherlock Holmes’ friend Dr. Watson had served in the British Army, treating soldiers wounded in battle with Afghani tribesmen. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1053 "2010-02-18T04:41:30Z")
In _A Study in Scarlet_ Watson mentions his war wound as being in his shoulder “grazing the subclavian artery,” while _In The Sign of the Four_ he states that his wounded leg hurt, and in _The Noble Bachelor_, he says the bullet “in one of his limbs” bothered him. ---
**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, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1054 "2010-02-18T04:51:25Z")
Fans of the Conan Doyle stories disagree about many of their details, including how many times Watson was married, if he ever visited the U.S. or Australia, and why he seemed to get so many details wrong, to say nothing of Holmes’s childhood and college experiences. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1055 "2010-02-18T04:59:51Z")
Conan O’Brien’s thesis at Harvard was entitled “Literary Progeria in the works of Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner”; he traveled to Milledgeville, Georgia (O’Connor’s hometown) and Jackson, Missississippi (site of Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak) when researching but admitted in a later[commencement address](http://www.february-7.com/features/conan.htm) “during my discussions with Pauly Shore, it doesn’t come up much”. ---
**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 18, 2010, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1056 "2010-02-18T05:25:45Z")
Robert E. Howard’s first “Conan the Barbarian” story, “The Phoenix on the Sword”, appeared in _Weird Tales_ magazine in December, 1932. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1057 "2010-02-18T05:40:55Z")
According to St. Clement, the phoenix builds itself a nest of frankincense and myrrh. (I had a more amusing response to Sampiro’s post): > [@Sampiro](#): > > … he traveled to Milledgeville, Georgia (O’Connor’s hometown) and Jackson, Missississippi … Johnny Cash really did propose to June Carter on stage, though _after_ singing _Jackson_, not, as in the movie, in the middle of the song. The song concerns Jackson, Missississippi, of which the city is named after Pres. Andrew Jackson; the state takes its name (meaning “Gre-great river”) from a river named by a stuttering Ojibwe. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1058 "2010-02-18T06:19:11Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > According to St. Clement, the phoenix builds itself a nest of frankincense and myrrh. Winston Churchill’s government was toppled and he was replaced by Clement Attlee before the end of World War 2. ---
**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, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1059 "2010-02-18T14:03:59Z")
World War II broke out on Sept. 1, 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland. It ended on Sept. 2, 1945, with the Japanese surrender in Toyko Bay on the deck of the battleship USS _Missouri_. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1060 "2010-02-18T14:57:58Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > World War II broke out on Sept. 1, 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland. It ended on Sept. 2, 1945, with the Japanese surrender in Toyko Bay on the deck of the battleship USS _Missouri_. Maine, formerly part of Massachusetts, became a new state as part of the Missouri Compromise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=52) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=54)