# Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 4, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657 "2010-02-04T08:12:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 103
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2041 "2010-03-17T16:12:06Z")
The makers of HeadOn, the “Apply directly to the forehead” roll-on, briefly came out with a hemorrhoid cream called “FREEdHem” which was soon withdrawn from the market. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2042 "2010-03-17T16:35:51Z")
In 2005, [GoldenPalace.com](http://GoldenPalace.com) exercised E-Bay’s “buy it now” option and paid $10,000 to have its name tattooed on the forehead of Karolyne Smith, of Salt Lake City. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2043 "2010-03-17T17:32:00Z")
“The Golden Palace” was the sequel to “The Golden Girls” TV series, featuring the same cast members running a resort hotel and without the humor. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2044 "2010-03-17T19:14:31Z")
David Lee Roth’s \*\*\*Crazy From the Heat \*\*\*EP featured cover versions of the Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Coconut Grove” and the Beach Boys’ “California Girls.” ---
**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:** [March 17, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2045 "2010-03-17T19:28:08Z")
David Lee Roth was among the “replacements” for Howard Stern which CBS Radio began running in early 2006, after Stern jumped to Sirius satellite radio. Roth’s show lasted less than 4 months. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2046 "2010-03-17T19:30:48Z")
[del]The band name “Lovin’ Spoonful” has been claimed to be inspired by the fact that an average male ejaculation contains about a spoonful of sperm. This amount, 10 cubic centimeters, may also have led to the naming of the group known as 10cc.[/del] A legend which has largely been debunked holds that the Dogon people of Mali knew, years before astronomers confirmed the existence of the star system, that Sirius had two companion stars. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2047 "2010-03-17T19:33:06Z")
oops ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2048 "2010-03-17T19:34:21Z")
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky; its name comes from the word “scorcher” in Greek. Although it is now a bright bluish-white hue, it was for reasons not now known described as reddish by Ptolemy, Seneca and other ancients. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2049 "2010-03-17T19:40:09Z")
[del]While every western teenager now knows that conception occurs when an egg is fertilized by a sperm cell, this knowledge has only been conclusive since the 19th century (1875 being when the first proof a spermatozoa penetrates the ovum was discovered). One of the many theories of conception before that time was the homunculus, a fully formed microscopic human deposited into a woman by a man through his semen; [this is a theoretical picture](http://www.sullydog.com/sullysites/qm/classicmeat/10-01/homunculus.gif)of what one looked like drawn by a scientist who observed sperm cells under a microscope in the 17th century.[/del] Ptolemy was a Macedonian general (and by some accounts illegitimate half-brother) of Alexander the Great who after his emperor’s death seized Egypt and hijacked Alexander’s funeral procession and mummy to his capital city at Alexandria. Though Macedonian-Greek in culture Ptolemy did in his old age encourage the marriage of his son to his daughter and created an incestuous dynasty that ruled Egypt for centuries and continued practicing incestuous marriages until the death of his descendants Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, both of whom married and were survived by their sister Cleopatra VII. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2050 "2010-03-17T19:41:53Z")
I’m totally confused now. Any way to tie up Muhhamad Ali, Sirius, and spermatazoa? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2051 "2010-03-17T19:58:35Z")
Ptolemy grouped the stars into 48 constellations, including Gemini, which was a representation of the twins Castor and Pollux; Pollux was the son of Zeus (who impregnated Leda, probably with divine spermatazoa), and like Muhammad Ali, was a boxer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2052 "2010-03-17T19:59:28Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Ptolemy was a Macedonian general (and by some accounts illegitimate half-brother) of Alexander the Great who after his emperor’s death seized Egypt and hijacked Alexander’s funeral procession and mummy to his capital city at Alexandria. Though Macedonian-Greek in culture Ptolemy did in his old age encourage the marriage of his son to his daughter and created an incestuous dynasty that ruled Egypt for centuries and continued practicing incestuous marriages until the death of his descendants Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, both of whom married and were survived by their sister Cleopatra VII. The astronomer Ptolemy (who lived from approximately 90 to 168 A.D., centuries after the Macedonian general and dynasty founder mentioned above) invented an astronomical instrument known as the Ptolemy Stone. Each of the two campuses of St. John’s College (a liberal arts school which bases its curriculum on the Great Books canon) features a Ptolemy Stone, which is used by math students to calculate the apparent movement of the sun. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2053 "2010-03-17T20:36:23Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > I’m totally confused now. Any way to tie up Muhhamad Ali, Sirius, and spermatazoa? 😃 Took a bit of googling, but- On a recent Sirius XM broadcast Joe Madison discussed the almost boxing match from 1971 twixt Muhammad Ali (the boxer, not the Muslim warlord who once ruled the Egypt much as Cleopatra and her ancestor Ptolemy had) and Wilt Chamberlain, the latter of whom claimed to have shagged 20,000 women but through using birth control never let his spermatazoa create a pregnancy. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2054 "2010-03-17T20:39:26Z")
Back on track now and playing off Sternvogel: St. John is often pronounced to rhyme with engine; other names that are often pronounced misleadingly to how they appear include Beauchamp (Bee-cham), LaFayette (sometimes pronounced ‘lah-fet’ when used as a place name or given name), Strahan (pronounced ‘strawn’), and of course Wednesday (wins-day instead of wed-nes-day). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2055 "2010-03-17T21:21:31Z")
Michael Strahan (pronounced STRAY-hann) of the New York Giants set the record for quarterback sacks in a season, but the record was tainted, since quarterback Brett Favre (an old friend of Strahan’s) seemed to go out of his way to let Strahan make the record-breaking sack, in the last game of the season. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2056 "2010-03-18T00:55:37Z")
Michael Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic nominee for President and a longtime governor of Massachusetts, attended Swarthmore College outside Philadelphia. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, but did not see combat. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2057 "2010-03-18T00:59:50Z")
Blues legend Howlin’ Wolf was named after President Chester Alan Arthur; Wolf’s given name was Chester Arthur Burnett ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2058 "2010-03-18T01:07:15Z")
_Howl and Other Poems_ is the best known book of poetry by Allen Ginsberg who was the best known of the Beat Poets and is portrayed by _Spiderman_ star James Franco in a new movie also entitled _Howl_. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2059 "2010-03-18T01:26:05Z")
_Howl’s Moving Castle_ is a Miyazaki film about wizard’s and true love, with Billy Crystal providing the voice in the English dubbed version of Calcifer. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/2060 "2010-03-18T01:26:33Z")
Ruth Bader Ginsberg, appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by Bill Clinton, was the second female justice on the Court after Sandra Day O’Connor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=102) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=104)