# 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:** 54
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1061 "2010-02-18T15:19:42Z")
The explosion of the battleship USS Maine in Havana was the casus belli for the Spanish-American War. ---
**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, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1062 "2010-02-18T15:23:22Z")
The USS Missouri, on which the Japanese surrender was signed, was the last battleship in the world to be decommssioned on March 31, 1992. ---
**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, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1063 "2010-02-18T16:10:21Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > The USS Missouri, on which the Japanese surrender was signed, was the last battleship in the world to be decommssioned on March 31, 1992. In the game of Battleship, it takes 5 hits to sink an aircraft carrier, but only 2 hits to sink a PT boat. ---
**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 18, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1064 "2010-02-18T16:18:08Z")
Chrysler released the PT Cruiser for the 2000 model year. ---
**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, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1065 "2010-02-18T16:40:30Z")
Lee Iacocca led Chrysler through the late 1970s and early 1980s, appearing in many of its ads, and was widely mentioned as a possible candidate for President. ---
**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, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1066 "2010-02-18T17:00:39Z")
_Manchurian Candidate_, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury, was about a Presidential candidate. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1067 "2010-02-18T17:15:16Z")
_The Manchurian Candidate_ was remade in 2004 and starred Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, and Liev Schrieber. ---
**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, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1068 "2010-02-18T17:25:20Z")
Denzel Washington played an escaped slave in the 1989 Edward Zwick-directed drama _Glory_, winning an Oscar in what is considered by many to be the finest Civil War movie ever made. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1069 "2010-02-18T17:26:00Z")
During the Japanese occupation, Manchuria was named “Manchukuo”. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1070 "2010-02-18T18:12:03Z")
In the book _Random Harvest_ by James Hilton, the woman with whom Conway falls in love is a Manchurian. In the film, she is played by Jane Wyatt. ---
**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, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1071 "2010-02-18T18:14:45Z")
Jane Wyatt played Amanda, the mother of Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy. She also appeared on _Father Knows Best_. She died in 2006. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1072 "2010-02-18T18:16:47Z")
… upon realizing a timestamp problem … The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial (which should be named the 54th Regiment Memorial), featured in the closing scene of “Glory”, is on Boston Common, directly across from the State House. Shaw was buried in a trench with his men near Fort Wagner, SC, unlike most Union officers who were given what the Confederate general called “honorable burials”. Robert Lowell’s poem “To the Union Dead” referred to the memorial: "Two months after marching through Boston, half of the regiment was dead; at the dedication, William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes breathe. Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city’s throat." ETA: Disregard 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1073 "2010-02-18T18:35:37Z")
Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Spock, got the “Vulcan salute” (pinky with ring, index with middle, spread in a V with the thumb out) from watching the rabbi(?) as a boy make the initial letter of Yahweh during his blessing (the congregation isn’t supposed to look during that, but little boys in church/synagogue can’t keep their eyes closed and pay attention) ---
**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, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1074 "2010-02-18T18:38:37Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Spock, got the “Vulcan salute” (pinky with ring, index with middle, spread in a V with the thumb out) from watching the rabbi(?) as a boy make the initial letter of Yahweh during his blessing (the congregation isn’t supposed to look during that, but little boys in church/synagogue can’t keep their eyes closed and pay attention) Comedian Jackie Mason is a rabbi, as were his father and brothers. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1075 "2010-02-18T19:00:20Z")
Jackie Mason provided the voice of Rabbi Hyman Krustovski, father of Krusty the Klown (Herschel Krustovski), on “The Simpsons”. Yes, back to that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1076 "2010-02-18T19:06:58Z")
Krusty the clown has a superfluous thrid nipple, as does singer Lily Allen. ---
**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, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1077 "2010-02-18T19:09:46Z")
Krusty’s illegitimate half brother is Luke Perry, star of _Beverly Hills 90210_. ---
**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, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1078 "2010-02-18T19:29:28Z")
Perry is a family pet platyus/secret agent on the children’s program _Phineas & Ferb_ on the Disney Channel. His superior often calls him “Agent P.” ---
**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, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1079 "2010-02-18T19:36:06Z")
Cartoonist and entrepreneur Walt Disney was not, contrary to persistent rumor, cryogenically frozen and placed in a capsule beneath Disney World after his death. ---
**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 18, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1080 "2010-02-18T19:36:47Z")
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