Trivia Dominoes III — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia

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Per Wiki:

“The ‘Seven Sisters’ [also] refers to a group of seven private liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that were historically women’s institutions of higher education. Five remain women’s colleges: Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College. Of the other two Vassar College became coeducational in 1969, and Radcliffe College’s undergraduate functions were absorbed by Harvard College when the institutions merged in 1999. The name ‘Seven Sisters’ is a reference to the Greek myth of the Pleiades, goddesses immortalized as stars in the sky: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope.”

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The movie, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, won an Oscar for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture at the 1955 Academy Awards in Los Angeles, CA. Composers Adolph Deutsch and Saul Chaplin were the honorees to accept the award.

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Ninja’d by @knoodler (again!) but my play still works.

In England, the Seven Sisters are a series of iconic, undulating white chalk sea cliffs in East Sussex. They are west of Dover and are also part of the ‘white cliffs of Dover’ — these Seven Sisters are the west end of those white cliffs.

I’ve been there — I was there in Feb 2012. They’re just east of Seaford and this spot is reached by a small farm road and a small parking lot at DD coordinates ▲ 50.762785, 0.131556.

Park there, walk east a little bit, and look to the east.

Added — not my pic; this is a web pic but I took a pic similar to this, from this same vantage point.

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Dover, Delaware is one of four ‘alliterative’ US state capital cities that have the same first letter as the state in which they are located. The other three are Honolulu (Hawaii), Indianapolis (Indiana), and Oklahoma City (Oklahoma).

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If you look closely in several scenes in the 2025 DC Studios movie Superman, you can see the Delaware state flag flying over Metropolis. The city’s canonical location in any particular state has varied over the years; most frequently, if the state is specified at all, it is said to be Delaware or New York State.

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Metropolis is a small city on the southern edge of the state of Illinois, on the banks of the Ohio River. The city was founded in 1839, and was given its grandiose name by its founders, who believed that its river location would make it an important transportation hub.

The city currently only has about 6,000 residents, but it has gained fame – and become a tourist attraction – due to sharing its name with the fictional city in Superman comics: a 15-foot-tall statue of the Man of Steel stands in front of the county courthouse, and the city hosts a “Superman Celebration” every summer.

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Superman was invented by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster in their teens in their hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. The city now has an outdoor sculpture of Siegel, Shuster, Joanne Siegel (who was the inspiration for Lois Lane) and everyone’s favorite Kryptonian not far from City Hall. Much of the recent Superman movie was filmed in Cleveland.

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The chemical element 36Kr, Krypton, is a chemically inert noble gas that was discovered in Britain in 1898. In 1960 the official length of the meter was defined to be 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of light emitted in the vacuum using krypton-86.

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In 1988 Mark Waid, an editor at DC Comics, unearthed a forgotten storyline written by Jerry Siegel in 1940 and illustrated by the Joe Shuster Studio titled “The Secret of the K-Metal.” It was conceived as part of a trilogy, The K-Metal From Krypton. Reasons why the story was never published are unknown, although speculation suggests that plot elements the publishers may have seen as potentially damaging to the franchise, such as Superman revealing his secret identity to Lois Lane, were reasons for it being shelved.

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There are at least nine different California cities that have a street named Lois Lane:

Lois Lane, Auburn CA
Lois Lane, Bakersfield CA
Lois Lane, Citrus Heights CA
Lois Lane, Cool CA — that’s pretty cool, I didn’t know there was a Cool CA; it’s only 6½ miles SE of Lois Lane, Auburn CA!
Lois Lane, Oakley CA
Lois Lane, Palo Alto CA
Lois Lane, Placerville CA
Lois Lane, Suisun City CA
Lois Lane, Vallejo CA

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In choral music, there are four voice types/ranges. From highest to lowest:

  • Soprano (female)
  • Alto (female)
  • Tenor (male)
  • Bass (male)

Operatic music includes an additional two, intermediate voice types:

  • Mezzo-soprano (female)
  • Baritone (male)
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Differences between a tenor and a baritone include that tenors have voices with a range typically from C₃ to C₅, and baritones are a little lower with a range typically from A₂ to A₄.

I’ve sung both in my choir.

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The world’s largest choir, according to Guinness Book of World Records, consisted of 121,440 persons, organized by The Art of Living in Chennai, India, on January 30, 2011. They sang in unison for over five minutes.

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The song We Are the World was released on 07 March 1985 to raise funds for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. With sales in excess of 20 million physical copies, it is the eighth-best-selling single of all time.

Many famous artists performed.

Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Tina Turner and Billy Joel sang the first verse;

Michael Jackson and Diana Ross sang the first chorus;

Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson and Al Jarreau sang the second verse;

Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Steve Perry and Daryl Hall sang the second chorus;

Jackson, Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, and Kim Carnes sang the bridge;

and Dan Aykroyd, Harry Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Mario Cipollina, Johnny Colla, Sheila E., Bob Geldof, Bill Gibson, Chris Hayes, Sean Hopper, Jackie Jackson, La Toya Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Randy Jackson, Tito Jackson, Waylon Jennings, Bette Midler, John Oates, Jeffrey Osborne, Anita Pointer, June Pointer, Ruth Pointer, and Smokey Robinson sang in the chorus.

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What actually happened to all of that money raised by rock stars with that song, and other fundraising efforts to ease the famine in Ethiopia, is … complicated. Producer Bob Geldof himself knew that, in order to get aid to the people, he would have to be complicit in, or at least look the other way at, Ethiopia’s ruling military junta and/or the warlords involved in it. “I’ll shake hands with the Devil on my left and on my right to get to the people we are meant to help,” he admitted. Still, while some of the money almost certainly went to buy weapons, a goodly portion of it actually did wind up on the ground via food aid, as well as dams, nurseries, tents, etc. The biggest “win,” however, from all of this effort was via awareness: it forced Western government to consider African famines as issues that needed to be addressed, rather than ignored.

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On the morning of January 29th, 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer, who lived across the street from Grover Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California, began firing a rifle from a window in her family’s house at the school ground, where children were lined up, waiting for the school’s doors to be opened. Spencer fired 36 times, killing the school’s principal and custodian, and injuring eight children and a police officer, before barricading herself in the house for several hours; during that time, she spoke on the phone with a newspaper reporter, and said that she committed the shooting because, “I don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day.”

On that same day, Bob Geldof and Johnnie Fingers of the Irish band The Boomtown Rats were doing an interview at a college radio station in Atlanta. Sitting next to the station’s news telex machine, Geldof saw a news bulletin about the shooting, and Spencer’s flippant quote about her motivation inspired him to write the song “I Don’t Like Mondays.”

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Continuing the subject of Brenda Spencer:

Spencer is widely regarded as the first school shooter in America. She used an automatic rifle and ammunition given to her as Christmas gift by her father, a gift that Brenda said was given to her in the hopes that she would kill herself.

Spencer pled guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. She has been denied bail six times, most recently in 2025. She remains imprisoned at the California Institution for Women in Chino.

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(Not in play: parole, not bail, but the point stands. :slight_smile: )

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Duh, of course. Thanks for the clarification!

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Wow. Incredible.

Correction: semi-automatic. The rifle was a Ruger 10/22 chambered in .22 Long Rifle. It had been a Christmas present from her father, that, and 500 rounds of ammo (as @Railer13 said). These were given to a daughter who, according to the wiki article, had already been exhibiting serious behavior issues.

In play — the school, Cleveland Elementary School, is no longer there. At the DD coordinates ▲ 32.7957, -117.012 there is a memorial for the two people killed: Burton Wragg, Principal, and Mike Suchar, Custodian. May they Rest in Peace.

➜ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting\_(San_Diego)#Perpetrator ■