# 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:** 500
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9988 "2025-04-08T16:24:24Z")
The song “Have a Cigar” by Pink Floyd is a direct repudiation of how the band was received following the success of their single, “Money”. It begins with a first-person account welcoming the band to “Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. You’re gonna **go-far**.” Further lyrics describe the executive failing to understand, asking them “Oh, by the way, which one’s Pink?” The vocalist on the song is Roy Harper, a well-known session player, and one of outside vocalists used by Pink Floyd. The other two are Claire Tory (“The Great Gig in the Sky”), and Andriy Khlyvnyuk (“Hey Hey Rise Up”). ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9989 "2025-04-08T17:15:55Z")
_Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii_ is a 1972 concert film. Except for the crew, there was no audience. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9990 "2025-04-08T17:29:46Z")
_The Order of the Stick_ is a long-running web comic strip, about the adventures of a party of Dungeons & Dragons characters. Among the adversaries to the group of heroes is another adventuring group, the Linear Guild, all of whom are “opposites” to their counterparts in the Order of the Stick. In the Order of the Stick, the party’s wizard is an elf named Vaarsuvius (the character’s name based on the volcano Mt. Vesuvius); Vaarsuvius’s “opposite” in the Linear Guild is a half-elf wizard named Pompey – whose name is, of course, based on the city of Pompeii, which was wiped out by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9991 "2025-04-08T21:39:58Z")
Scott Glenn played Stick, the man who taught Matt Murdock how to use his enhanced senses (other than sight) as well as hand to hand combat in the TV series Daredevil. ---
**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 10, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9992 "2025-04-10T16:33:27Z")
Scott Glenn served in the US Marine Corps, for 3 years. His military survival skills came in handy when filming for 1979’s _Apocalypse Now_ when he was in the Philippines, which served as the backdrop for Vietnam, and a bad typhoon hit. He and some of the crew were on an isthmus and the heavy rains and storms turned it into an isolated island. Scott Glenn and a production assistant named Doug Claybourne, both former Marines, took the lead in recovering the situation and setting up camp facilities for the film crew until the storms subsided and they could continue filming. _Apocalypse Now_ is considered one of the greatest films ever made. It has been assessed as director Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece and it appeared on various best-of films in 20th-century and of all time lists. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress as “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9993 "2025-04-10T17:21:31Z")
R. Lee Ermey had a brief (blink and you miss it) uncredited role as a helicopter pilot in _Apocalypse Now_. ---
**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 10, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9994 "2025-04-10T17:49:39Z")
The R. Lee Ermey Musical Highway is in Palmdale, CA. If you drive eastbound on it at 45mph the rumble strips in the road will try to sound out the Marine Corps Hymn. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9995 "2025-04-10T18:00:34Z")
Out of play: [Here you go](https://youtu.be/gLNEOyruUF8?si=U7jWa-HLT3uwLkx0&t=351). 6:37 if you want to get straight to the music. ETA: I was watching this video as Bullitt make his post so kismet. ---
**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 10, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9996 "2025-04-10T18:04:39Z")
Too funny. I haven’t been to it yet but it’s sort-of on the way from SF to LA which I drive maybe 2-4 times a year. One of these days… ---
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9997 "2025-04-11T02:28:41Z")
Per Wiki: Former U.S. Marines drill instructor Lee Ermey was originally hired as a technical advisor [for _Full Metal Jacket_]. Ermey asked [director Stanley] Kubrick if he could audition for the role of Hartman. Kubrick, who had seen Ermey’s portrayal of drill instructor Staff Sergeant Loyce in _The Boys in Company C_ (1978), told Ermey that he was not vicious enough to play the character. Ermey improvised insulting dialogue against a group of Royal Marines who were being considered for the part of background Marines in order to demonstrate his ability to play the character and to show how a drill instructor attacks individuality in new recruits. Upon viewing the videotape of these sessions, Kubrick offered Ermey the role, realizing he “was a genius for this part.” Kubrick incorporated the 250-page transcript of Ermey’s rants into the script. Ermey’s experience as a drill instructor during the Vietnam War proved invaluable; Kubrick estimated that Ermey wrote 50% of his character’s dialogue, particularly the insults. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9998 "2025-04-11T02:56:26Z")
At one late night drinking and gambling party, Charles II saw how many empty wine bottles were cluttering the room. He told a servant to “take away those dead marines,” slang for empty bottles. His brother James, colonel-in-chief of the Royal Marines, sensed an insult and asked Charles why he used that phrase. Charles, ever quick-witted, replied “Because they have done their service to their King, and once cleaned will be ready for further service.” ---
**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 11, 2025, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/9999 "2025-04-11T04:33:54Z")
We’re almost to 10,000 posts again… In play — The British Royal Marines, officially the Corps of Royal Marines, trace their origins back to the formation of the “Duke of York and Albany’s maritime regiment of Foot” in 1664. That’s 111 years before the US Marine Corps birth year of 1775. They were formed at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company, while the US Marines were formed in a bar (and were proud of that). They have close ties with allied marine forces, particularly the United States Marine Corps and the Netherlands Marine Corps. They saw extensive action on D-Day in June 1944. ---
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Chautauqua Lake is a long, narrow lake located in extreme western New **York**. The southern tip of the lake is a few miles north of the Pennsylvania state line, and the northern end is less than 10 miles from the shore of Lake Erie. Despite its proximity to the Great Lakes, however, the Chautauqua drains to the southeast, where it eventually flows into the Allegheny River. The Allegheny, of course, is a major tributary of the Ohio River, which flows into the Mississippi River, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico, well over 1,000 miles from Chautauqua Lake. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/10001 "2025-04-11T15:48:43Z")
According to Wiki, the name “Gulf of Mexico” (Spanish: _golfo de México_; French: _golphe du Mexique_, later _golfe du Mexique_) first appeared on a world map in 1550 and a historical account in 1552. No American leader insisted it ought to be called the “Gulf of America” until 2025. ---
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The first known world map was made in Babylon approximately 2600 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/10003 "2025-04-11T17:58:19Z")
The oldest surviving terrestrial globe is the Erdapfel, made by Martin Behaim in 1492. It does not include the Americas. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/10004 "2025-04-11T19:25:31Z")
The name Erdapfel can be translated as Earth Apple. Behaim’s globe’s name may be inspired by the Reichsapfel, the Imperial Orb which was part of the regalia of the Holy Roman Empire. The name is not related to the modern meaning of Erdapfel in southern Germany and Austria, which is “potato”—potatoes had not yet been brought from America to Europe when this globe was named. ---
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The distant-future decay and long fall of the Galactic Empire is at the heart of Issac Asimov’s _Foundation_ sf trilogy. The Imperial capital is Trantor, an almost entirely urbanized world, known as an [ecumenopolis.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenopolis) ---
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After Mace Windu’s failed attempt to arrest Chancellor Palpatine in _Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,_ Palpatine frames it as an assassination attempt and an attempted coup, and forms the Galactic Empire from the remnants of the Galactic Republic. ---
**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 12, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/10007 "2025-04-12T05:32:16Z")
Ian McDiarmid portrayed Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious. He also portrayed Arthur in _Dirty Rotten Scoundrels_ (1988) with Steve Martin and Michael Caine, and Glenne Headly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=499) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=501)