# 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:** 1778
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35547 "2017-07-20T13:09:05Z")
In the classic Star Trek episode The City on the Edge of Forever, the role of Captain Kirk’s love interest Edith Keeler was played by Joan Collins, who agreed to appear on the show because her daughter loved it. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35548 "2017-07-20T13:23:03Z")
The classic movie scene where the stage show producer tells the understudy “You’re going out there just a chorus girl, but you’ve got to come back a star!” is from the original _42nd Street_, starring Ruby Keeler. ---
**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 20, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35549 "2017-07-20T15:52:15Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > … in fact, the \*Merrimack \*was officially known as the CSS (Confederate States Ship) _Virginia_… > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > …Only by the CSS. You probably mean by the CSA or CSN. But many contemporary U.S. sources referred to the warship largely interchangeably as either the _Merrimack_ or the _Virginia_. In play: Joan Collins, in her autobiography, mistakenly recalled her _Star Trek_ role of Edith Keeler as having been that of a Nazi sympathizer. Keeler was, rather, a prominent pacifist and social reformer whose ill-timed opposition to war led to Hitler’s Germany winning World War II. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35550 "2017-07-21T00:39:33Z")
The writer of the Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever”, Harlan Ellison, has said that Edith Keeler was based on Aimee Semple McPherson, an evangelist of the 1930s. However, McPherson renounced her pacifism during World War II, and fans have noted many similarities between Keeler and the pacifist social activist Dorothy Day. ---
**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 21, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35551 "2017-07-21T00:56:54Z")
Nurse Edith Cavell was a British nurse in German-occupied Belgium who helped over a hundred British, French an Belgians escape to the Netherlands and ultimately Britain. When caught by the German military authorities, the case against her was clear, aided by her own admissions. She was convicted of treason under German military law and executed by firing squad. The night before her death she stated to an Anglican chaplain: “Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred in my heart.” Her execution served as the basis for major British propaganda efforts, in Britain and North America. There is a statue of Nurse Cavell close to Trafalgar Square. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35552 "2017-07-21T14:53:13Z")
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ seminal magical realist novel _One Hundred Years of Solitude_ begins: “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” ---
**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:** [July 21, 2017, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35553 "2017-07-21T15:44:26Z")
Gabriel Garcia Marquez must be the only Nobel Literature laureate to be given a black eye by another Nobel Literature prizewinner, Mario Vargas Llosa. Garcia Marquez had himself photographed 2 days later: [VIEWS AND REVIEWS: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Llosa Vargas (Translated by Helen Lane from the Spanish original “La tia Julia y el escribidor”)](http://kayviewbar-bar.blogspot.com/2012/05/aunt-julia-and-scriptwriter-by-mario_24.html) The two were longtime friends, and the reasons for the 1976 fight were supposedly connected to Vargas Llosa’s wife Patricia and advice that Garcia Marquez gave her when she discovered that Vargas Llosa had been unfaithful. When Garcia Marquez died in 2014, Vargas Llosa was questioned about the fight and stated that the two of them had made a pact never to reveal the reasons, and that he would take the secret to the grave. ---
**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 22, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35554 "2017-07-22T02:11:53Z")
In the Disney series, Zorro would frequently use his sword to slice a “z” on the rear of Sergeant Garcia’s pants. In one episode when he was particularly angry at Sergeant Garcia’s apparent betrayal, Zorro threatened to do so on Garcia’s front. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35555 "2017-07-22T02:34:58Z")
The first appearance of Zorro was in a 1919 magazine series, “The Curse of Capistrano”, in the pulp “All Story Weekly”. It was then published as a single unit. Following the 1920 film adaptation, called **The Mark of Zorro** , the book was retitled for its next publication. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35556 "2017-07-22T14:44:36Z")
Antonio Banderas, who starred in the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro, played Guido in the 2003 Broadway revival of Maury Yeston’s musical Nine, based on the film 8. Banderas won both the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards, and was nominated for the Tony Award for best actor in a musical. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35557 "2017-07-22T14:57:49Z")
Slim Whitman recorded “Bandera Waltz” in 1952, the same year he recorded “Indian Love Call”, the sound of which was fatal to the Martians in the film _Mars Attacks_! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35558 "2017-07-22T18:37:26Z")
In the early 20th century, Pickaninny Peppermints were a popular Whitman’s Chocolate confection. However, NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall (later a Supreme Court Justice) took issue with the name. In a 1941 article directed at Whitman’s published in the Afro-American , Marshall urged Whitman’s Candies to realize its racial insensitivity. Whitman’s denied that the term “pickaninny” was racist and responded to Marshall by saying that it meant “cute colored kid”. The product was soon dropped. ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35559 "2017-07-22T22:52:46Z")
On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court of the US. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court including the case of _Brown v. Board of Education_—the 1954 decision that desegregated public schools ---
**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:** [July 23, 2017, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35560 "2017-07-23T08:01:18Z")
In England, the term “public school” emerged in the 18th century when the reputation of certain grammar schools spread beyond their immediate vicinity. They began taking students whose parents could afford residential fees and thus became known as public, in contrast to local, schools. By the late 20th century the term “independent school” was increasingly preferred by the institutions themselves. The first of the public schools was Winchester, founded in 1394; Eton was second, in 1440. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35561 "2017-07-23T16:20:31Z")
In juvenile terminology in England, farting is “trumpeting” and a fart is a “trump”. ---
**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 24, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35562 "2017-07-24T03:18:16Z")
7 No Trump is considered the hardest contract to make in Bridge: the bidder is contract to take all thirteen tricks, without the benefit of trump cards. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2017, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35563 "2017-07-24T04:26:52Z")
The Kosciuszko Bridge, connecting Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, is named for Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish volunteer who was a General in the American Revolutionary War. The old truss bridge, built in the late 1930s, was meant to serve only 10,000 vehicles per day, but ended up serving 18 times that amount of traffic when it became part of the Interstate Highway System. It is in the process of being replaced by a new cable-stayed bridge. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35564 "2017-07-24T12:39:27Z")
The world’s widest cable-stayed bridge is the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge in Boston, built as part of the “Big Dig” project. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35565 "2017-07-24T13:38:50Z")
The eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, with a width of 258 feet, is currently considered the world’s widest bridge. It opened in 2013 as a replacement for part of the bridge that was deemed structurally unsound. ---
**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 24, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/35566 "2017-07-24T15:02:28Z")
The bridge or command center is on Deck 1 of both Capt. James T. Kirk’s _Constitution_-class USS _Enterprise_, NCC-1701, and Capt. Jean-Luc Picard’s _Galaxy_-class USS _Enterprise_, NCC-1701-D, in _Star Trek_ and _Star Trek: The Next Generation_, respectively. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1777) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1779)