# 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:** 2069
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41369 "2018-12-10T01:19:08Z")
The 1975 song _Bohemian Rhapsody_ was the first song ever to get to number one in the UK twice with the same version, and is also the only single to have been Christmas number one twice with the same version. The second was upon its re-release (as a double A-side single with “These Are the Days of Our Lives”) in 1991 following Mercury’s death, staying at number one for five weeks. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41370 "2018-12-10T01:31:07Z")
Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people and with few permanent ties. It involves musical, artistic, literary or spiritual pursuits. This use of the word bohemian first appeared in the English language in the Nineteenth Century. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41371 "2018-12-10T01:38:56Z")
The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex. It was adopted on August 18, 1920. It states, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” ---
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41372 "2018-12-10T01:47:12Z")
The French novel _Scènes de La Vie de Bohème_ is a popular nineteenth century work by Henri Murger, published in 1851. This collection of loosely related stories, all set in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s, romanticizing bohemian life, was the basis for the famous opera _La bohème_ by Puccini as well as the less successful _La bohème_ by Leoncavallo. It was also adapted for the Broadway musical _Rent_. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41373 "2018-12-10T08:29:29Z")
Paris, Texas, some 100 miles NE of Dallas, is one of at least 21 places in the US named Paris. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41374 "2018-12-10T14:57:13Z")
Wim Wenders’ 1984 road-trip film _Paris, Texas_, starring Harry Dean Stanton, Dean Stockwell, Nastassja Kinski, and Hunter Carson, won the Palme d’Or at that year’s Cannes Film Festival. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41375 "2018-12-10T14:59:49Z")
Star Trek Voyager’s Tom Paris’s full name is Thomas Eugene Paris. His middle name of Eugene is a tribute to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41376 "2018-12-10T15:00:34Z")
Harry Dean Stanton played Brett, one of two engineering personnel aboard the starship USCSS _Nostromo_, in the 1979 Ridley Scott sf horror movie _Alien_. His first name is never given in the film. ETA: Ninja’d! The USS \*Voyager \*is an _Intrepid_-class starship. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41377 "2018-12-10T15:10:45Z")
_Voyager 1_, a deep-space probe, was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977. After over 41 years of service, it is still communicating with the Deep Space Network. _Voyager 2_ was launched 16 days before _Voyager 1_. Its primary mission was to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. That mission is completed, but it continues on its extended mission to study the outer reaches of the Solar System. It, too, is still in communication with the Deep Space Network. There is no evidence that either spacecraft is in communication with the Deep State, however. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41378 "2018-12-10T15:29:42Z")
The third _Star Trek_ series used _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ throughout preproduction as a placeholder name. As the show’s January 1993 premiere neared, the production team was unable to come up with a better name, so they decided to just stick with it. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41379 "2018-12-10T15:43:24Z")
Goldstone, California id a ghost town in the Mojave Desert that was a boom town in the lat 19th century. It is more a site than a ghost town, as [only a few crumbling building foundations remain](https://goo.gl/KvQN7W). It lies about [40 miles NE of Barstow CA](https://goo.gl/GukoWU). The nearby Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC), or Goldstone Observatory, was named after the ghost town and is one of 3 observatories of NASA’s Deep Space Network. The other two are near Madrid, Spain, and near Canberra, Australia, so that the three observatories are spaced about 120 degrees apart. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41380 "2018-12-10T16:03:56Z")
The Real Madrid football club was honored by being given the Spanish word for “royal” in its name by King Alfonso XIII of Spain in 1920, together with a crown in its emblem. > **[Real Madrid CF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Madrid_C.F.#/media/File:Real_Madrid_CF.svg)** > > Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (Spanish pronunciation: \[reˈal maˈðɾið ˈkluβ ðe ˈfuðβol\] (listen), meaning Royal Madrid Football Club), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid. > Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally worn a white home kit since its inception. The honorific title real is Spanish for "royal" and was bestowed to the club by King Alfonso XIII in 1920 together with the royal crown in the emblem. Real Madr... ---
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Real Salt Lake (RSL) is an American professional soccer franchise that competes as a member club of Major League Soccer (MLS). The term is usually used by Spanish clubs who have received royal patronage from a reigning Spanish king, the most famous of which include Real Madrid, Real Betis and Real Sociedad. In choosing the name Real, Salt Lake owner Dave Checketts intended to create a brand name that would become well known for its simplicity, as well as an association with the world-famous club in Madrid that the club had been striving toward. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41382 "2018-12-10T16:17:21Z")
The first Spanish language version of the musical _Evita_ premiered at the Teatro Monumental in Madrid on December 23, 1980, starring with Paloma San Basilio as Eva, Patxi Andión as Che, Julio Catania as Perón, Tony Landa as Magaldi and Montserrat Vega as Perón’s mistress. A double album recorded by the original cast was released and the song “No llores por mí Argentina” became a hit single. This production later played in Barcelona and in other cities in Latin America. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41383 "2018-12-10T16:48:08Z")
Per Wiki, the oldest recorded name for Madrid was “Magerit” (or \*Materit \*or _Mageterit_), from the name of a Muslim fortress built on the Manzanares River in the 9th century AD, meaning “place of abundant water” in Arabic. There are other theories as to possible earlier origins of the name. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41384 "2018-12-10T19:50:56Z")
In Arabic, “al-” is the direct article, essentially equivalent to “the.” (It can become ad- when followed by a D, and there’a few other sounds like that.) One of the reasons so many stars start with A is because they’re from Arabic “The Something” names - Alpheratz is from The Navel, Aldebaran from The Follower, Altair from The Flyer, etc. ---
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The Altair 8800 was a microcomputer from the mid 1970s, and was sold primarily by mail-order, through ads in magazines like _Popular Electronics_. The Altair is generally considered to be the first commercially successful personal computer, and the first programming language created for it, Altair BASIC, was the first product from a fledgling software company, Microsoft. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2018, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41386 "2018-12-11T00:14:59Z")
The famous science fiction movie “_Forbidden Planet_” is set on the planet Altair IV. It was the first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in a faster-than-light starship of their own creation. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/41387 "2018-12-11T01:08:34Z")
The first science fiction novel may be a 2nd century AD work called _A True Story_. It was written by a Syrian author named Lucian, who wrote in ancient Greek. The book contains many themes and ideas that are found in modern science fiction, including travel to other worlds, extraterrestrial lifeforms, interplanetary warfare, and artificial life. ---
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The computer aboard the interplanetary spacecraft USS _Discovery_ in early drafts of the _2001: A Space Odyssey_ screenplay was called Socrates or Athena, before Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke created the troubled HAL 9000 artificial-intelligence computer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2068) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2070)