# 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:** 92
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1821 "2010-03-10T02:13:32Z")
The line is also admired by real science fiction author Joan Vinge. Vinge was married to SF author Verner Vinge when she started writing. She had divorced from him (quite amicably, I understand) and remarried, but Vinge was too well established for her to change it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1822 "2010-03-10T02:25:58Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Mary Tyler Moore had a recurring role as Sam, Richard Diamond’s sultry answering service girl, on _Richard Diamond, Private Detective_ (1957). Her performance was particularly notorious, because her legs (usually dangling a pump on her toe) were always shown instead of her face. Diamond was played by David Jannsen, probably best remembered for _The Fugitive_ which was inspired by the Victor Hugo novel _Les Miserables_. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1823 "2010-03-10T02:41:28Z")
\*Les Miserables \*contains a sentence that is 823 words long. However, Marcel Proust wrote a single sentence in _À la Recherche du temps perdu_ that clocks in at 847. \*The Rotters Club, \*a novel by Johnathan Coe, includes a sentence of 13,995 words. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1824 "2010-03-10T03:07:20Z")
Marcel Marceau, the famous French mime, had the only spoken dialogue in Mel Brooks’s comedy \*Silent Movie. \* ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1825 "2010-03-10T03:27:41Z")
Marcel was the name of Ross’s capuchin monkey on several episodes of _Friends_. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1826 "2010-03-10T03:52:07Z")
On _Friends_, Rachel’s sisters Amy and Jill were played, respectively, by Christina Applegate and Reese Witherspoon. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1827 "2010-03-10T04:42:32Z")
In Genesis Rachel’s sister was Leah and both were married to their first-cousin Jacob. Leah’s biological children included Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, a daughter named Dinah, and her sons by a slave surrogate mother Gad and Asher. Rachel’s biological children were Joseph and Benjamin and by a surrogate Dan and Naphtali. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1828 "2010-03-10T05:39:20Z")
Benjamin Disraeli, the great Tory prime minister of 19th century Britain, was notorious for flattering Queen Victoria and did all he could to maintain her favor. He once said, “Everyone loves flattery, and with royalty, you must lay it on with a trowel.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1829 "2010-03-10T06:24:55Z")
Likenesses of Queen Victoria, Popes [Leo XIII](http://www.reload.ws/blog/CocaPope.jpg) and [Pius X](http://image.absoluteastronomy.com/images/encyclopediaimages/m/ma/mariani_pope.jpg), Sarah Bernhardt, and many other leaders and celebrities of the late 19th century appeared in advertisements for Vin Mariani, a medicinal Bordeaux that included between 6 and 7.2 mg of cocaine per ounce of wine. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1830 "2010-03-10T11:53:53Z")
Sara Bernhardt was raised at one point in a convent, and considered becoming a nun, but one of her mother’s lovers convinced her to be an actress. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1831 "2010-03-10T12:32:37Z")
Sarah Bernhardt once saved the widow Mary Todd Lincoln’s life by catching her as she was falling out of an ocean liner, or so they say. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1832 "2010-03-10T13:41:34Z")
The play **Cyrano de Bergerac** was written as a vehicle for Sarah Bernhardt (Rostand, the author was her lover – she was the first to portray Roxanne). ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1833 "2010-03-10T13:42:17Z")
The [Oasis of the Seas](http://www.oasisoftheseas.com/) is the largest ocean liner on the seas today. Among its many [amenities](http://everwas.com/2009/11/the-largest-ocean-liner-in-the-world.html)are 21 pools and a football-field sized indoor park. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1834 "2010-03-10T13:52:56Z")
An Olympic sized swimming pool is 50 meters long and, typically, 25 meters wide; an NFL football field is 360 feet long by 160 feet wide; a football pitch for an International Match sanctioned by FIFA must be at least 100-110 meters long and 64-75 meters wide. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1835 "2010-03-10T15:19:01Z")
Beatnik author Jack Kerouac was a superb high school athlete, and was offered a football scholarship by Notre Dame coach Frank Leahy. He turned it down to go to my alma mater,Columbia University. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1836 "2010-03-10T15:29:44Z")
After graduating from the University of Michigan Gerald Ford turn down offers to play football with the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions to coach at Yale and work on his law degree. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1837 "2010-03-10T15:42:34Z")
The Harvard-Yale football game is the oldest continuing rivalry in American football, although Yale has actually played Princeton more often. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1838 "2010-03-10T15:52:36Z")
Between them, Harvard and Yale have produced 11 U.S. presidents (George W. Bush received his bachelor’s degree from Yale, and his MBA from Harvard). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1839 "2010-03-10T15:54:39Z")
18th century novelists George Sand and George Eliot were both women. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1840 "2010-03-10T16:38:14Z")
Mad Magazine used to use the slang “It’s George” to indicate everything was all right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=91) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=93)