# weird trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2010, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603 "2010-01-04T10:07:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**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:** [January 7, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/121 "2010-01-07T20:48:54Z")
> [@Carl\_Corey](#): > > Different Jefferson Davis. Here’s the guy: [Jefferson C. Davis - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_C._Davis) ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/122 "2010-01-08T02:40:16Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The commanding officer of the US Army forces that captured John Brown at Harper’s Ferry was Robert E. Lee. Assisted by JEB Stuart. Completely concidentally. Aw, someone got it. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/123 "2010-01-08T02:43:35Z")
> [@Carl\_Corey](#): > > Different Jefferson Davis. Nothing gets past you! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/124 "2010-01-08T04:56:58Z")
The famous footage of Evel Knievel’s crash after trying to jump the fountains at Caesar’s Palace was shot by Linda Evans. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/125 "2010-01-08T06:09:45Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones were roommates at Harvard. And together were the model for the male protagonist of “Love Story”. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/126 "2010-01-08T10:17:36Z")
Tommy Lee Jones was Oliver Barrett’s roommate in **Love Story**. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/127 "2010-01-08T12:03:28Z")
> [@Gesturing\_Mildly](#): > > Creed from The Office is really named Creed, and was in The Grass Roots. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFZsrs32Co](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnFZsrs32Co) at 1:40-something. Actually, several of the Office cast have the same first name as their characters: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386676/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386676/) ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/128 "2010-01-08T13:49:34Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#): > > Singer \*\*Minnie Ripperton’s \*\*popular song, “Lovin’ You” (is easy cuz you’re beautiful) is about her baby daughter - **Maya Ru** dolph. Close. I heard something similar and checked it out on IMDB. Their bio of Maya states: “Here Minnie recorded “Lovin’ You”, her most famous single, in which one can hear her sing “Maya, Maya, Maya” at the end of the song; Riperton claimed that this song was used as a lullaby for Maya.” ---
**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:** [January 8, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/129 "2010-01-08T14:19:42Z")
A British member of Parliament doesn’t actually resign if she wishes to leave office early. Instead, she’s appointed to a minor royal post, which renders her ineligible to serve in the House of Commons. The post has no salary and no duties. If there are several resignations on the same day, the former MP may hold the post for just hours or even minutes: [Chiltern Hundreds - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiltern_Hundreds) John Roberts isn’t Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. His title is Chief Justice of the United States. 28 U.S. Code 1. George Washington had a favorite dog named Sweetlips. The 16th President once, at his sons’ request, issued a document which read, in its entirety, “The doll Jack is pardoned by order of the President. A. Lincoln.” ---
**Author:** ![acetylene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@acetylene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acetylene)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/130 "2010-01-08T15:55:14Z")
What do these people have in common? Alanis Morissette Robert Goulet Madonna Hillary Clinton Celine Dion Angelina Jolie Jack Kerouac Beyonce Knowles They all share a common ancestor: [Zacharie Cloutier](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacharie_Cloutier) ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/131 "2010-01-08T16:34:55Z")
Actor Tom Cruise gets shot onscreen in the western Young Guns. > [@aruvqan](#): > > Frog right nitpick: Right, frog. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/132 "2010-01-08T17:01:57Z")
> [@LiveOnAPlane](#): > > … the Thing is played by James Arness … Who’s brother is _Mission Impossible_’s [Peter Graves](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Graves_%28actor%29#Personal_life). > [@lost4life](#): > > Close. … Yup, > [@](#): > > … According to the liner notes from Riperton’s compilation CD Petals, the melody for “Lovin’ You” was created as a distraction for her daughter (Maya Rudolph) when she was a baby so that Minnie and her husband Richard could hang out. Maya was in the studio with her mother on the day the song was recorded and Riperton can be heard singing her daughter’s name at the end of the song, but only in the unedited or album version of the song. …[RIGHT][CITE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovin%27_You#Setting)[/RIGHT] CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/133 "2010-01-08T17:13:50Z")
Ed Harris wears a headset throughout much of these movies: The Abyss Apollo 13 The Right Stuff The Rock The Truman Show and Former Notre Dame Coach Charlie Weis and NFL Hall of Fame QB Joe Montana were roomates when they were students at Notre Dame. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/134 "2010-01-08T18:18:19Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Here’s some trivia on your “trivia” trivia: > > The “trivium” were “the lower division of the seven liberal arts at medieval universities, consisting of grammar, rhetoric, and logic.” Over time, the word evolved into the modern “trivia”, meaning minute factual details, often thought insignificant. The other four liberal arts, if I have this correct, were mathematics, geometry, astronomy, and harmonics, known collectively as the _quadrivium_. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/135 "2010-01-08T19:00:34Z")
Peter O’Toole played King Henry II twice, in 1964’s _Becket_ and 1968’s _The Lion in Winter_. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/136 "2010-01-08T19:08:08Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Peter O’Toole played King Henry II twice, in 1964’s _Becket_ and 1968’s _The Lion in Winter_. Helen Mirren played both Queen Elizabeth and Queen Elizabeth II. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/137 "2010-01-08T20:28:44Z")
I’d love it if, with a few sfx, they could show DCI Jane Tennison being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in front of a portrait of Queen ELizabeth I. Mirren could do all three parts. Heh. Cate Blanchett has played Queen Elizabeth twice, in _Elizabeth_ and _Elizabeth: The Golden Age_. I once read an interview with the director, who hopes to make a series of movies about the Virgin Queen with Blanchett starring well into old age. Blanchett also plays a masked CSI technician in _Hot Fuzz_; Peter Jackson plays a violent guy dressed as Santa Claus in the same movie. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/138 "2010-01-08T23:26:24Z")
David Prowse,the actor who was in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars,was also the actor who played the bodyguard for the old man in A Clockwork Orange. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2010, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/139 "2010-01-08T23:36:58Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > David Prowse,the actor who was in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars,was also the actor who played the bodyguard for the old man in A Clockwork Orange. He was also the bodyguard to Hotblack Desiato in the BBC TV version of _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603/140 "2010-01-09T03:47:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Peter O’Toole played King Henry II twice, in 1964’s _Becket_ and 1968’s _The Lion in Winter_. He holds the record for the most nominations for an Oscar (8 for Best Actor) without actually winning one. His co-star in _Becket_, Richard Burton, has the second most nominations (6 for Best Actor, 1 for Best Supporting Actor) without winning. They were both nominated for Best Actor for their performances in _Becket_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-trivia/523603.md?page=8)