# 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:** 972
**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:** [April 3, 2014, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19425 "2014-04-03T23:57:14Z")
Professional bowler Earl Anthony amassed records of 41 titles and six bowler of the year awards on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. ---
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Of all the British Governors General of Canada, the two who have remained in popular memory are Lord Stanley (later the Earl of Derby), who donated the Stanley Cup for hockey, and Earl Grey, who donated the Grey Cup for football. Stanley and Grey have eclipsed in the popular memory such Governors General as the Earl of Durham and the Earl of Elgin, who merely invented and implemented the concept of responsible government, which gave the elected officials control of the government, rather than the Crown. ---
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Joe Kapp is the only quarterback ever to have started a Rose Bowl game, a Grey Cup game, and a Super Bowl game. ---
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Joe Pendleton was the name of the lead character of the 1941 movie _Here Comes Mr. Jordan_ and its Warren Beatty 1978 remake, _Heaven Can Wait_. ---
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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Joe Pendleton was the name of the lead character of the 1941 movie _Here Comes Mr. Jordan_ and its Warren Beatty 1978 remake, _Heaven Can Wait_. In that 1978 remake, Pendleton’s LA Rams make it to the Super Bowl and beat the Pittsburgh Steelers. In the real 1979 NFL season, the Rams played against the Steelers in Super Bowl XV, but they lost 31-19. ---
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> [@Bullitt](#): > > In that 1978 remake, Pendleton’s LA Rams make it to the Super Bowl and beat the Pittsburgh Steelers. In the real 1979 NFL season, the Rams played against the Steelers in Super Bowl XV, but they lost 31-19. Correction: it was Super Bowl XIV. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/19431 "2014-04-04T04:18:57Z")
Austin Pendleton is a very respected acting teacher who acts in character parts on film. Like James Earl Jones, he first started acting in part to deal with a severe stutter. When his English friend, Jonathan Lynn, writer/director of the British series _Yes, Minister_, asked him to portray an inept defense attorney in the movie _My Cousin Vinnie_, Pendleton left his stutter in, and the entire cast and crew fell apart laughing; Costas Mandylor, who played one of the “two yutes” on trial, can be seen covering his mouth in what looks like worry, but in real life was laughter. ([Scene](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7jswx_my-cousin-vinny-opening-statement_fun)) ---
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> [@Sampiro](#): > > Austin Pendleton is a very respected acting teacher who acts in character parts on film. Like James Earl Jones, he first started acting in part to deal with a severe stutter. When his English friend, Jonathan Lynn, writer/director of the British series _Yes, Minister_, asked him to portray an inept defense attorney in the movie _My Cousin Vinnie_, Pendleton left his stutter in, and the entire cast and crew fell apart laughing; Costas Mandylor, who played one of the “two yutes” on trial, can be seen covering his mouth in what looks like worry, but in real life was laughter. ([Scene](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7jswx_my-cousin-vinny-opening-statement_fun)) A funny scene in one of my favorite movies. However, weren’t the two yutes Ralph Macchio and Mitchell Whitfield? In play: Austin, TX is home to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. The US National Archives and Records Administration has [13 presidential libraries and museums](http://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/). ---
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**Austenland** is a novel by Shannon Hale. The main character, Jane Hayes, is a New Yorker who visits a Jane Austen theme park. The film starred Keri Russell, and was produced by Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight books. ---
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Kurt Russell began his career as a child actor in the late 50’s and 60’s, primarily as a guest star on TV shows including _The Fugitive, Gilligan’s Island, Gunsmoke, Our Man Higgins, Sugarfoot, The Eleventh Hour,_ and _The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters._ ---
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Actress Keri Russell read for the part of Lois Lane for Superman Returns (2006) but lost the part to Kate Bosworth. ---
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Kate Russell is a technology reporter for the BBC ---
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In the movie, “The Bare-Foot Executive”, Kurt Russell plays a lowly cog in a tv studio, trying to move up the corporate ladder. At one point, he pitches an idea for a new tv show: since shows about doctors, dogs, and President Lincoln have all been ratings successes, he suggests a show featuring Abe Lincoln’s doctor’s dog. ---
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Russell Baker was a long-time humor/satire columnist for the New York Times, winning Pulitzer Prizes for his commentary and for his memoir, **Growing Up** ---
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Baker, California is a small town south of Death Valley and along I-15 in southern California. It was founded as a station on the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad in 1908, and was named after Richard C. Baker, business partner of Francis Marion Smith in building the railroad. https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.5194467,-116.3512127&z=9&output=embed&dg=ntvb&q=Baker,%2BCA&cid=171167914470452043143505775407225577571 ---
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Richard Haldane, Lord Haldane, was a leading member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the early part of the 20th century. His decisions on Canadian federalism greatly weakened the role of the federal government vis-à-vis the provinces, earning him the nickname, “the wicked stepfather of Confederation.” ---
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Many of the “wicked stepmothers” that plagued the children in Grimms’ fairy tales were, in earlier versions, written as the characters’ biological mothers. ---
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In the original Grimm version of Cinderella, the wicked step sisters tried to fit into the glass slipper, but their feet wouldn’t fit, so they cut off parts of their feet. The prince was fooled into thinking that the step sisters (one at a time, he wasn’t very bright) fit the shoe, so he took them up on his horse to take them to the palace to marry him, but the birds, friends of Cinderella, twittered at him to look down and he saw the blood flowing out of the slipper and thus he saw that they were cheating. He did this with both of the stepsisters, one at a time. When he finally got Cinderella and they were married, the birds swooped down on the wicked stepsisters and the wicked stepmother and pecked out their eyes. And they lived happily ever after. ---
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That’s pretty Grimm. 😃 Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born one year apart, and they died four years apart almost 80 years later. In their 50s they moved to Göttingen, in the Kingdom of Hanover. In their 60s they moved to Berlin, where they lived the final years of their lives. The brothers were very close. ---
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In addition to collecting fairy tales with his brother, Jacob Grimm was an accomplished philologist. He developed Grimm’s Law, a set of rules that explained how consonants changed from Proto-Indo-European into Proto-Germanic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=971) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=973)