# Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia

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William Randolph Hearst was a newspaper magnate of fantastic extravagance. He abandoned his plan to rescue Alfred Dreyfus from Devil’s Island in order to devote complete attention to the Spanish-American War, which he started almost singlehandedly. Although his circulation boomed during the War, he took huge losses, in part due to the expense of printing “Extras.” The _New York Journal_ printed up to 40 separate extra editions on some days.

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