# Trivia Dominoes II — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia — continued! (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 25, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950 "2020-01-25T08:18:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 366
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7308 "2023-07-29T04:28:26Z")
Along with Leonard Nimoy and writer-producer Nat Segaloff, de Lancie formed and recorded _[Alien Voices](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Voices)_, a collection of audio dramas based on classic science fiction and fantasy stories, such as _[The Time Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine)_ and _[The Lost World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World_(Doyle_novel))_. _**(I once had a small part in ‘The Lost World’ when our community theater group performed it as a live-from-stage radio broadcast)**_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [July 29, 2023, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7309 "2023-07-29T10:16:30Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > _Hoosiers_ is very loosely based on “The Milan Miracle,” the story of the 1954 Milan High School basketball team, which won the state championship on a last-second shot by Bobby Plump. Milan also made it to the state championship game in 1953. The town of Hickory is fictional, and is based off New Richmond, Indiana, a town of 333 in Montgomery County. The town has multiple signs paying homage to its fictional name, including, “Welcome to New Richmond, AKA ‘Hickory,’ movie Hoosiers filmed here 1985”. New Richmond’s downtown was used for the town scenes in the movie. _Comments — good trivia, @knoodler !_ _FYI, the town of Milan, Indiana is pronounced “MY-lin”._ _Also, in Indianapolis’s Broad Ripple district, Bobby Plump has a bar called Plump’s Last Shot. Lots of memorabilia in it, it’s worth a stop._ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7310 "2023-07-29T15:42:44Z")
Thanks **Bullitt**! During and following _Star Trek_, Nimoy released five albums of musical vocal recordings on Dot Records. The first, _Mister Spock’s Music From Outer Space_, was filled with songs by “Mister Spock”, Nimoy’s character on the show. The second, _Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy_, was split into songs by Mister Spock (A-side) and songs covered by Leonard Nimoy (B-side), including “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.” His final three albums are popular folk songs of the era and cover versions of popular songs, sung as himself. [![](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C4MFSzji5yA/ULVxzgeoFJI/AAAAAAAAJF8/JRz3LzHmXB0/s1600/spockg3.jpg) ](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C4MFSzji5yA/ULVxzgeoFJI/AAAAAAAAJF8/JRz3LzHmXB0/s1600/spockg3.jpg) ---
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Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998), a pediatrician whose 1946 book _Baby and Child Care_ is one of the best-selling books of the 20th century, won an Olympic gold medal in 1924 in rowing. Spock was a student at Yale at the time. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7312 "2023-07-29T18:09:25Z")
I’m playing off of audio dramas. The first talkies, or motion pictures with sounds, started in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures became commercially practical. Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve. The first commercial screening of short motion pictures using sound-on-film technology took place in 1923. The last silent feature film was The Poor Millionaire in 1930. It was produced by Richard Talmadge (1892-1981), who also starred as both the hero and the villain in the film. Ninja’d - badly! Leonard Nimoy was born in 1931, so, after the final silent movie. ---
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_Silent Movie_ is a comedy film from 1976, directed by and starring Mel Brooks. A parody of silent film comedies, the film contains only one line of spoken dialogue: the word “Non!”, uttered by French mime artist Marcel Marceau. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7314 "2023-07-29T21:35:14Z")
Marcel Marceau appeared in the 1968 sexploitation film _Barbarella_ as Professor Ping. He speaks several lines of dialogue. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2023, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7315 "2023-07-29T23:50:00Z")
The Stanley Kubrick-directed sf drama _2001: A Space Odyssey_, released in 1968, depicted Clavius Base, a major American base on the Moon, a year before the actual landing of the Apollo 11 astronauts. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7316 "2023-07-30T00:30:07Z")
Clavius Crater is a key plotpoint in the Asimov short story, “The Key”, a puzzle mystery involving Wendall Urth. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7317 "2023-07-30T02:31:00Z")
Tom Hanks has long been into sf and the space program; his production company, named after the facility in _2001: A Space Odyssey,_ is called Clavius Base. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7318 "2023-07-30T04:47:31Z")
In the movie _Apollo 13_ the crew plays “Spirit in the Sky” after their successful launch, but in reality the crew played the theme from Stanley Kubrick’s _2001: A Space Odyssey_— which had just come out in 1968 and also inspired the name of their command module, _Odyssey_ (also so named for its Homeric significance). ---
**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:** [July 30, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7319 "2023-07-30T22:47:07Z")
Stanley Kubrick nominated himself alone for the Oscar for the visual effects in _2001: A Space Odyssey,_ and won, irritating those who had actually done the groundbreaking work, including Douglas Trumbull. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7320 "2023-07-31T02:27:44Z")
The preview for the _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ episode “The Jem’Hadar” made it appear as if TNG’s USS _Enterprise_ was going to be destroyed in that episode, but it turned out to be another ship of the same class: The USS _Odyssey_. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2023, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7321 "2023-07-31T04:42:38Z")
Actors Alexander Siddig and Nana Visitor, who both co-starred on _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_, began dating, and then got married, during the show’s run. The two of them had a son together in 1996; Visitor’s pregnancy was written into her character’s storyline in the series. ---
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Alexander Siddig played the role of the Angel Gabriel in the film _The Nativity Story_. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7323 "2023-07-31T05:46:00Z")
Jon Hamm plays the Angel Gabriel in the second season of _Good Omens._ ---
**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:** [July 31, 2023, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7324 "2023-07-31T08:35:59Z")
NFL quarterback Roman Gabriel was the second overall draft pick out of North Carolina State University in the 1962 NFL draft. Number one overall was Ernie Davis, a running back out of Syracuse. Ernie Davis was diagnosed with leukemia that same year, and he died shortly after at age 23 without ever playing in a professional game. Roman Gabriel is notable for being the first NFL quarterback of Filipino-American descent. In 1969 he was the MVP of the NFL, and in 1970 he was the MVP of the Pro Bowl. _Comment only:_ _I’m part Filipino, I was born there, and as a young kid I thought that Roman Gabriel being Filipino was pretty cool. My favorite color as a kid was blue, and he played for the LA Rams who wore blue and white in the early 1970s. The Rams were a winning team in the 1970s._ _And for those reasons that’s how I, a kid living in Upstate New York, became a Rams fan. I lived and died with my beloved Rams (mostly, I died)._ _In 1979 I moved to San Francisco, and lived within a mile of Candlestick Park. The San Francisco 49ers were a winning team in the 1980s. And the Rams, then owned by Georgia Frontiere, were making terrible organization-wide decisions (like the way they released Fred Dryer)._ _That’s why, as a kid in 1984, I jumped ship and became a Niners fan._ Here’s a nice bit of trivia: Fred Dryer originally auditioned for the role of Sam Malone in Cheers. Dryer was one of three finalists to play Cheers barman Sam Malone, alongside William Devane and Ted Danson. Malone was originally conceived as a former New England Patriots wide receiver, which is why Dryer was considered for the role. _I’ll include that last bit in my play._ ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7325 "2023-07-31T09:04:03Z")
_Cheers_ aired for 11 seasons, and earned a top-ten Nielsen rating in 8 of those 11 years. It was the #1 rated show in its ninth season. Its series finale in 1993 was the most watched single TV episode of the 1990s. However, the show was almost cancelled after its first season, when it finished 74th out of 77 in the ratings. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2023, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/7326 "2023-07-31T10:41:02Z")
In 2011, in a readers poll in Rolling Stone magazine, the theme song from Cheers was voted the best theme song ever created. The song was written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart-Angelo, and performed by Portnoy in 1982. On [_www.garyportnoy.com_](https://www.garyportnoy.com/cheers-story-cheers-theme-song), you can find the final NBC Thursday Night Cheers Theme that was recorded at Paramount Studios on August 13, 1982. (To find it, search for “This is the final NBC Thursday Night Cheers Theme”). You can also find the full-length version of the “Cheers” theme as well as other songs considered for the theme song. “Cheers” premiered on NBC on September 30, 1982. It was launched to tremendous critical acclaim, although it got off to a very slow start in the ratings. In the end, Cheers ended up running for 11 seasons and [_is among the longest-running TV sitcoms, by duration. The list includes_](https://screenrant.com/longest-running-tv-sitcoms-duration-ranked/#friends-1994-2004---10-years-236-episodes): 236 episodes; 10 years/seasons: Friends 259 episodes; 10 years/seasons: Married with Children 253 episodes; 10 years/seasons: The Jeffersons 275 episodes; 11 years/seasons: Cheers 264 episodes; 11 years/seasons: Frasier 256 episodes; 11 years/seasons: MASH 246 episodes; 11 years/seasons: Will & Grace 250 episodes; 11 years/seasons: Modern Family 260 episodes; 11 years/seasons: Murphy Brown 260+ episodes; 12+ years/seasons: Bob’s Burgers 262 episodes; 12 years/seasons: Two and a Half Men 259 episodes; 13 years/seasons: King of the Hill 279 episodes; 13 years/seasons: The Big Bang Theory 250 episodes; 13 years/seasons: The Love Boat 353+ episodes; 18+ years/seasons: American Dad! 166 episodes; 18+ years/seasons: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia 110+ episodes; 23+ years/seasons: Curb Your Enthusiasm 409+ episodes; 24+ years/seasons: Family Guy 325+ episodes; 26+ years/seasons: South Park 750+ episodes; 33+ years/seasons: The Simpsons ---
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1982 marked the first full calendar year of the Reagan Administration. Ronald Reagan, Republican of California, defeated incumbent President Jimmy Carter, Democrat of Georgia, in the 1980 U.S. presidential election. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=365) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=367)