# Trivia Dominoes III — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 12, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952 "2025-04-12T05:32:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/261 "2025-06-01T18:53:31Z")
On January 1, 1983, the internet as we know it today was created as ARPANET became fully converted to TCP/IP. ---
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On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, going up in the shuttle Challenger. ---
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Dr. Sally Ride, the first female NASA astronaut, died of pancreatic cancer in 2012. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom the next year by President Barack Obama, and was featured on an American quarter-dollar coin in 2022. > **[The new Sally Ride quarter has a lot of symbolism – Sally Ride Science](https://sallyridescience.ucsd.edu/the-new-sally-ride-quarter-has-a-lot-of-symbolism/)** ---
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/264 "2025-06-02T00:49:09Z")
When Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman to go into space, supporters wore t-shirts and held signs saying “Ride Sally Ride!”, a play on the lyrics of the song “Mustang Sally,” popularized by Wilson Pickett in 1966. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/265 "2025-06-02T01:21:58Z")
General George Pickett, CSA was under investigation for illegally executing Union Army soldiers. He fled to Canada with his family but returned when General Ulysses S. Grant, USA had the investigation ended. ---
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The 10th Parliament of Lower Canada was the shortest parliament in Canadian history. It sat from April 11, 1820 to April 24, 1820. It was dissolved automatically by the death of George III. ---
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The US Air Force Academy is supported by the 10th Air Base Wing. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/268 "2025-06-03T18:26:14Z")
Frank and Teressa Bellissimo are known for serving what they called “Buffalo-Style wings” at The Anchor Bar in Buffalo, NY, the mid-1960s. Up the road, John Young had been serving fried chicken wings in his “mumbo” sauce years earlier, later claiming Frank got his idea after eating at John’s “Wings 'N Things” restaurant. The Bellisimos would later market their signature hot sauce as “Frank’s RedHot.” ---
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The American TV show Wings premiered April 19, 1990 and starred Steven Weber and Tim Daly. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/270 "2025-06-03T19:01:22Z")
_Wings_ was a 1927 silent film, about two friends who become American fighter pilots during World War I, both of whom are in love with the same woman. The film starred Charles “Buddy” Rogers and Richard Allen as the pilots, and Clara Bow as their love interest; it won the very first Academy Award for Best Picture – at that time, the award was called the “Academy Award for Outstanding Picture.” ---
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Buddy Holly’s given name was Charles Hardin Holley. ‘Buddy’ was a childhood nickname given to him by his mother. A typo in his first record contract left out the ‘e’ in his last name, and his stage name became Buddy Holly. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/272 "2025-06-04T14:14:49Z")
Buddy Rich is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time, despite never learning how to read sheet music. He preferred to listen to the drum parts played in rehearsal by whoever was his drum roadie at the time and relying on his excellent memory. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/273 "2025-06-04T21:59:18Z")
Jerry Seinfeld made comedic use of three excerpts from drummer Buddy Rich’s legendarily ill-tempered, secretly-recorded [rants against members of his band.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWP77C4StLs) ---
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Jerry is the only cast member of _Seinfeld_ to appear in every episode. The character of Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) was added after the pilot, reputedly because neither Seinfeld or co-creator Larry David knew how to write for a woman. David has said they brought Louis-Dreyfus onto the set and simply pointed a camera at her and said, “Go.” Seinfeld has credited his ex-girlfriend Carol Leifer for helping to create the Elaine character. ---
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_Fridays_ was a late-night sketch comedy show which ran on ABC from 1980 to 1982, and which was created in response to the success of NBC’s _Saturday Night Live_. Among the show’s ensemble cast members were Michael Richards and Larry David, who later, and more famously, worked together on _Seinfeld_. ---
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Actor Larry Wilcox is perhaps best known for his role in the police TV series CHiPS, where he and fellow actor Erik Estrada were motorcycle police officers for the California Highway Patrol in the show. Larry Wilcox is a veteran of the Vietnam War and he is a US Marine (Once a Marine, always a Marine). He served with the 12th Marine Regiment, or the 12th Marines, which means he was in Marine artillery (as was I). The Marine artillery regiments are the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 14th Marines. ---
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Larry Wilcox played Corporal Mulligan in the M_A_S\*H episode “The General’s Practitioner”. Mulligan, like Wilcox in real life, was from Wyoming. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/278 "2025-06-08T16:24:37Z")
A mulligan is a second chance to perform an action, usually after the first chance went wrong through bad luck or a blunder. Most commonly associated with golf, the origins are unclear, although some point to golfer David Mulligan, who reportedly overslept and rushed to make his tee time; others attribute the word to John A. “Buddy” Mulligan, a locker room attendant at Essex Fells Country Club in New Jersey. ---
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The _Essex_-class aircraft carriers were the most numerous class of capital ships of the 20th century, with 24 serving in the U.S. Navy, and 14 seeing combat in World War II. None were lost to enemy action, although several were badly damaged, perhaps most notably USS _Franklin_. Several later served as recovery ships for the NASA space program, including the class ship and USS _Valley Forge, Lake Champlain, Randolph, Yorktown, Kearsarge, Wasp, Boxer, Hornet, Bennington, Princeton_ and _Ticonderoga_. President Richard M. Nixon came aboard _Hornet_ to welcome home the returning Apollo 11 astronauts in July 1969: [Apollo 11 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11#/media/File:President_Nixon_welcomes_the_Apollo_11_astronauts_aboard_the_U.S.S._Hornet.jpg) ---
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On March 6, 1998, President Bill Clinton signed a bill drafted by Senator Leahy of Vermont that would increase support for research and outreach efforts on Lake Champlain. The bill also included a single line declaring Lake Champlain a Great Lake, a designation that would allow for the states of Vermont and New York to access federal funding for research and education. However, 18 days later, Lake Champlain’s Great Lake status was rescinded. The bill still accomplished what it ultimately set out to do, which was to establish a Sea Grant office for Lake Champlain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=15)