# 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:** 906
**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:** [December 12, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18103 "2013-12-12T00:18:16Z")
The 1964 film _Becket_ received **two** Academy Award Best Actor nominations: Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole. Burton received 6 other Oscar nominations in his career but never won; O’Toole has received 7 other Oscar nominations but has never won a competitive(\*) Oscar. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18104 "2013-12-12T00:48:17Z")
Peter O’Toole played T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”), who owned seven different Brough Superior motorcycles and died from injuries sustained while crashing one. Lawrence was 46 when he died of injuries in a single-vehicle crash (he had swerved to avoid two boys on the road). There is a [road-side memorial and tree in Clouds Hill, Wareham, Dorsett at the site of the crash](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/TE_Lawrence_fatal_motorcycle_crash_memorial_tree.png). Most motorcycle crashes are single-vehicle crashes almost exclusively caused by rider error, like Lawrence’s. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18105 "2013-12-12T15:47:28Z")
In Canada, legislative jurisdiction over Beacons, Buoys, Lighthouses, and Sable Island, is exclusively reserved to the federal Parliament. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2013, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18106 "2013-12-12T16:21:07Z")
The Bouys were a one-hit wonder with the song “Timothy,” probably the highest charting song about cannibalism in the history of the top 40. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2013, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18107 "2013-12-12T17:12:20Z")
> [@echo7tango](#): > > Peter O’Toole played T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”), who owned seven different Brough Superior motorcycles and died from injuries sustained while crashing one. Lawrence was 46 when he died of injuries in a single-vehicle crash (he had swerved to avoid two boys on the road). > > There is a [road-side memorial and tree in Clouds Hill, Wareham, Dorsett at the site of the crash](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/TE_Lawrence_fatal_motorcycle_crash_memorial_tree.png)… Too bad that’s not better maintained. President John F. Kennedy asked members of his national security team to read Barbara Tuchman’s _The Guns of August_, a history of the outbreak of World War I, to gain a better understanding of the risks of accidental war. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18108 "2013-12-13T00:24:30Z")
John Wayne holds the record for the actor with the most leading parts – 142. In all but 11 films, he played the leading part. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18109 "2013-12-13T02:52:15Z")
John Paul Jones’s last command in the U.S. Navy, the ship of the line USS _America_, was turned over to the French Navy upon completion due to lack of funds to equip and operate it. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18110 "2013-12-13T03:13:52Z")
Litigants in the Supreme Court of Canada and the federal courts have the constitutional right to use either English or French in all pleadings and oral submissions to the courts. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18111 "2013-12-13T03:22:14Z")
Forget either/or… In 1935, the Chicago Cubs had both (Woody) \*\*English \*\*AND (Larry) \*\*French \*\*on their roster. They won the pennant. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18112 "2013-12-13T04:12:22Z")
Approached with the script for the pilot of _Family Affair_, Sebastian Cabot originally didn’t want to do it and didn’t care for the writing or his part – a stereotypical, staid, dignified English butler – but the money being offered was better than decent, so he reluctantly agreed. The series sold, and for the next five seasons he endeared himself to a generation of viewers as the manservant Mr. **French**. Cabot became bored with the role and the show very early. He confided that both he and Brian Keith were bored to the point of exhaustion for the last two seasons. Once the show ended, he appeared on talk shows and even a game show or two to break a serious typecast. ---
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Brian Keith was a former US Marine who served during WWII as a tail gunner on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers. Keith was only 55 years old when he died in 1997. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound two months after his daughter Daisy took her own life. ---
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There were three actors who joined the US military in WWII after winning an Oscar: James Stewart, Clark Gable, and Van Heflin. All served in the Army Air Force in Europe. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18115 "2013-12-13T21:01:30Z")
In December 2009, Texas native and Van Morrison employee Gigi Lee gave birth to a son who she asserted was Morrison’s and who she named after him. Lee announced the birth of the child on Morrison’s official website although Morrison subsequently has denied paternity of the child. It was revealed in December 2011 that Lee died from throat cancer in October 2011 and her son had died previously in January 2011, from complications of diabetes. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18116 "2013-12-13T22:55:02Z")
The maternal grandfather of Bruce Lee, born Lee Jun Fan, was a German. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18117 "2013-12-13T23:16:03Z")
About one in six Americans have German ancestry, making it the largest single ancestry group in the nation. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18118 "2013-12-13T23:18:27Z")
Chris Pine’s ancestry includes German, and his maternal grandfather was an attorney who was elected president of the Hollywood Bar Association. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18119 "2013-12-14T01:39:42Z")
> [@echo7tango](#): > > Brian Keith was a former US Marine who served during WWII as a tail gunner on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers. Keith was only 55 years old when he died in 1997… He couldn’t have served in WWII if he was 55 in 1997. Wiki says he was 75: [Brian Keith - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Keith) In play: Chris Pine is only the latest person to play a captain of a starship _Enterprise_; others include Jeffrey Hunter, William Shatner, Alan Ruck, Tricia O’Neil and Patrick Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18120 "2013-12-14T03:16:08Z")
Alan Rock was the Canadian federal Minister of Justice who introduced the law requiring the registration of all long-guns in Canada. Handguns have had to be registered for several decades. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2013, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18121 "2013-12-14T06:07:26Z")
J. Edgar Hoover is buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. The small fence around his tomb is marked by the seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which he long led. ---
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