[fiddlerwoaroof]

Interesting, I thought I remembered something about this, but I always forgot the details. It's worth mentioning that you can discover a lot of these details by opening the edit menu, pressing the option key and seeing how the menu items change. On the Mac, the Option key is frequently used to distinguish related actions: e.g. clicking on the wireless or sound icon will display one menu while option-clicking on either icon will provide another, more detailed, menu.

[eltoozero]

Also you can force an unprompted shutdown/restart by holding option when selecting the Apple > shutdown/restart menu items.

Alt/Option also toggles the “quit” on dock context menu to “force quit” without waiting for the app to go unresponsive or invoking the command-ESC force quit dialog.