# 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:** 68
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1341 "2010-02-24T16:19:51Z")
Rock Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., in Winnetka, Illinois in 1925. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1342 "2010-02-24T16:28:50Z")
Bob Haggart and Ray Bauduc of the Bob Crosby Orchestra wrote, performed, and popularized the jazz tune “Big Noise from Winnetka”, performed only by whistling, a bass, and a drum set. ---
**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 24, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1343 "2010-02-24T16:35:25Z")
Thanks, **Eutychus** , for enlightening me about the Pizza Planet truck. Cool. The Cleveland Orchestra’s home is the neoclassical Severance Hall, in the University Circle area of Cleveland, Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1344 "2010-02-24T16:38:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Thanks, **Eutychus** , for enlightening me about the Pizza Planet truck. Cool. > > The Cleveland Orchestra’s home is the neoclassical Severance Hall, in the University Circle area of Cleveland, Ohio. Grover Cleveland avoided service in the Civil War by paying someone else to take his place- a common and perfectly legal arrangement at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1345 "2010-02-24T16:45:21Z")
The campaign for the 1888 election in which incumbent Grover Cleveland ultimately lost to Benjamin Harrison (before being returned to the White House four years later) provides the backdrop of the Disney film _The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band_. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1346 "2010-02-24T16:49:04Z")
Cleveland’s election in 1884 was one of the dirtiest in US history. Cleveland was charged with fathering a child out of wedlock (he was smart enough to admit to it, defusing the issue), but Republicans chanted “Ma, Ma, Where’s my Pa?” Cleveland supporters meanwhile went after Republican candidate Blaine with the chant, “Blane, Blane, James G. Blane. The continental liar from the state of Maine” and “Burn this letter!” (referring to a scandal). Blane ended up losing because someone called the Democratic party the party of “Rum, Romanism, and rebellion.” The “Romanism” lost the Catholic vote and especially the Irish Catholic vote, which went heavily for Cleveland, giving the key state of New York to Cleveland. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1347 "2010-02-24T16:50:50Z")
Winston Churchill once (apocryphally) described the traditions of the Royal Navy as “Rum, sodomy, and the lash”. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1348 "2010-02-24T16:53:09Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Winston Churchill once (apocryphally) described the traditions of the Royal Navy as “Rum, sodomy, and the lash”. Rum Tum Tugger, who was merely a finicky and indecisive cat in T.S. Eliot’s poem, is generally played as a preening, Mick Jaggeresque rock star cat in productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats.” ---
**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 24, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1349 "2010-02-24T16:53:59Z")
Rum was indeed a popular drink in the Napoleonic-era Royal Navy. Gaining promotion, fame and fortune in the Navy are important themes in Jane Austen’s novel _Persuasion_. Two of Austen’s brothers served in the Navy, both eventually rising to the rank of admiral. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1350 "2010-02-24T16:59:55Z")
Jane Austen’s _Pride and Prejudice_ has been filmed a number of times, including in a Bollywood version titled “Bride and Prejudice” starring Aishwarya Rai and Martin Henderson. ---
**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 24, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1351 "2010-02-24T17:05:19Z")
Martin Sheen is now appearing in a Los Angeles revival of the Frank D. Gilroy-written drama _The Subject of Roses_, playing the father of the character he played in its original 1964 staging. ---
**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 24, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1352 "2010-02-24T17:05:23Z")
Jane Austen’s brother Henry wrote that the author liked dancing “and excelled at it.” Austen herself was proud of her talent as a seamstress. ---
**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 24, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1353 "2010-02-24T17:06:41Z")
Martin Sheen appeared in a TV commercial as the older version of his son, Charlie Sheen. ---
**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 24, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1354 "2010-02-24T17:08:56Z")
The two Sheens also appeared in _Wall Street_ as father and son, and in a scene of _Hot Shots!_ that parodied the elder Sheen’s role in _Apocalypse Now_. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1355 "2010-02-24T17:20:31Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Martin Sheen is now appearing in a Los Angeles revival of the Frank D. Gilroy-written drama _The Subject of Roses_, playing the father of the character he played in its original 1964 staging. Nitpick: The correct title is [_The Subject Was Roses_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Subject_Was_Roses). Back to the game: > [@](#): > > The two Sheens also appeared in Wall Street as father and son, and in a scene of Hot Shots! that parodied the elder Sheen’s role in Apocalypse Now. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen gained fame through writing, radio broadcasting, and appearing on television. His program _Life is Worth Living_ debuted on the old DuMont Network in 1951 and ran until '57. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1356 "2010-02-24T17:20:32Z")
The vaudeville act of Gallagher and Shean, one of the top acts of the 1910’s and 20’s, was based around their song “Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean”, and its famous refrain “Absolutely, Mister Gallagher? Positively, Mister Shean!”. ---
**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 24, 2010, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1357 "2010-02-24T17:41:46Z")
Actress Megan Gallagher, a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, appeared twice on _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ and once on _Voyager_. ---
**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 24, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1358 "2010-02-24T17:43:50Z")
The name Megan is short for Margaret, which means “pearl.” ---
**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 24, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1359 "2010-02-24T17:45:03Z")
Margaret Thatcher was the first female leader of the Conservative Party and the first female British prime minister. Her death was prematurely and erroneously announced a few weeks ago. ---
**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 24, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1360 "2010-02-24T18:01:32Z")
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