# 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:** 2104
**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:** [January 27, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42069 "2019-01-27T02:38:56Z")
dammit, missed a page ---
**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:** [January 27, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42070 "2019-01-27T02:44:14Z")
The basis of the prayer ‘Hail Mary’ is two greetings to Mary in Saint Luke’s Gospel: “Hail, the Lord is with thee” and “Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.” To the greeting and praise of Mary of which the prayer thus consisted, a petition “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.” was added later. The petition first appeared in print in 1495 in Girolamo Savonarola’s “Esposizione sopra l’Ave Maria”. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2019, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42071 "2019-01-27T03:05:59Z")
There have been two Queens régnant of Scotland named Mary, and two Queens régnant of England named Mary, but only three individual Queen Marys. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2019, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42072 "2019-01-27T04:32:15Z")
Queen was an automobile manufactured in the USA (Detroit) in the early 1900s, from 1904 to 1907. Queens were chain-driven cars. gImage: [https://goo.gl/74sTSF](https://goo.gl/74sTSF) ---
**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:** [January 27, 2019, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42073 "2019-01-27T04:44:24Z")
Only one British queen regnant ever held the title “Empress of India,” and she was also the first person to hold it at all: Queen Victoria. By the time the next queen regnant came along, Queen Elizabeth II, India had won its independence and the title had become obsolete. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > … the current heir presumptive to the barony is Christopher’s younger brother, actor Nicholas Guest. Who had a bit part in _Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan_: [Nicholas Guest | Memory Alpha | Fandom](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nicholas_Guest) ---
**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:** [January 27, 2019, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42074 "2019-01-27T06:57:14Z")
In play: The United Kingdom (and its predecessor kingdoms) has had only a small number of queens regnant, but three of the ten longest reigns in the kingdom’s history have been by queens regnant: Elizabeth II (#1, currently at 66+ years), Victoria (#2, 63+ years), and Elizabeth I (#9, 44+ years). > [@Elendil's Heir](#): > > Who had a bit part in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: [Nicholas Guest | Memory Alpha | Fandom](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nicholas_Guest) I discovered that when I made the previous post, and went to look up a picture of him. Cool! > [@Bullitt](#): > > Preston Pearson was an NFL football player for the Dallas Cowboys from 1975-1980 as a running back. > > Drew Pearson was an NFL football player for the Dallas Cowboys from 1973-1983 as a wide receiver. And young football fan me, at that time, incorrectly assumed that the two of them were brothers (they’re unrelated). I had the same misconception about Jack and Jim Youngblood of the Rams, and Greg and Mike Pruitt of the Browns. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42075 "2019-01-27T13:33:13Z")
The Cunard ocean liner RMS Queen Elizabeth (not to be confused with the currently operating MS Queen Elizabeth or the now-retired Queen Elizabeth 2 or any of the 3 ships named HMS Queen Elizabeth, 1 battleship and 2 aircraft carriers), first entered service as a WW2 troop transport, and ended it in 1972 when she caught on fire in Hong Kong Harbor while being refitted as a college campus. Oddly, several fires started there simultaneously :dubious:. In _The Man With The Golden Gun_, the branch headquarters of MI6 were located aboard the wreck. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42076 "2019-01-27T14:26:34Z")
MI5 is the name used for Britain’s domestic security agency, while MI6 is Britain’s foreign security agency. The names are unofficial, and supposedly come from the terms “Military Intelligence 5” and “Military Intelligence 6”, dating back to World War I. But why would the numbers start at 5 and 6? There has long been speculation that there were other Military Intelligence units. There has been unconfirmed speculation that the remits were as follows: MI1: Director of Military Intelligence, also Cryptography MI2: Responsible for Russia and Scandinavia MI3: Responsible for Germany and Eastern Europe MI4: Aerial Reconnaissance MI5: Domestic Intelligence and Security MI6: Foreign Intelligence and Security MI8: Interception and Interpretation of Communications MI9: Clandestine Operations, Escape and Evasion MI10: Weapons and Technical Analysis MI11: Field Security and Police MI14: German Specialists MI17: Secretariat for MI departments MI19: Prisoner of War Even if this list is accurate, it is still incomplete, if all numbers had been used sequentially. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42077 "2019-01-27T14:32:12Z")
The first use of Aerial reconnaissance came after the French Revolution, when the new rulers became interested in using the balloon to observe enemy manoeuvres and appointed scientist Charles Coutelle to conduct studies using the balloon _L’Entreprenant_, the first military reconnaissance aircraft. The balloon found its first use in the 1794 conflict with Austria, in the Battle of Fleurus. ---
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Mail service, and in some cases passenger service, continued in and out of Paris despite its siege in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War, thanks to [balloons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Paris_(1870%E2%80%9371)#Air_mail). The first balloon launch was carried out on 23 September, using the Neptune, and carried 125 kg (276 lb) of mail in addition to the pilot. After a three-hour flight it landed at Craconville 83 km (52 mi) from Paris. Following this success a regular mail service was established, with a rate of 20 centimes per letter. Two workshops to manufacture balloons were set up, one under the direction of Nadar in the Elysềe-Montmartre dance-hall (later moved to the Gare du Nord), and the other under the direction of Godard in the Gare d’Orleans. Around 66 balloon flights were made, including one that accidentally set a world distance record by ending up in Norway. The vast majority of these succeeded: only five were captured by the Prussians, and three went missing, presumably coming down in the Atlantic or Irish Sea. The number of letters carried has been estimated at around 2.5 million. Some balloons also carried passengers in addition to the cargo of mail, most notably Léon Gambetta, the minister for War in the new government, who was flown out of Paris on 7 October. The balloons also carried homing pigeons out of Paris to be used for a pigeon post. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42079 "2019-01-27T16:39:47Z")
The world’s longest road tunnel is the Lærdalstunnelen (Lærdal Tunnel) and it is 15 miles long. It is between Lærdal and Aurland in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. The design of the tunnel takes into consideration the mental strain on drivers, so the tunnel is divided into four sections, separated by three large mountain caves at 3.7 mile intervals. While the main tunnel has white lights, the caves have blue lighting with yellow lights at the fringes to give an impression of sunrise. The caves are meant to break the routine, providing a refreshing view and allowing drivers to take a short rest. To keep drivers from being inattentive or falling asleep, each lane is supplied with a loud rumble strip towards the center. gMap — [Google Maps](http://bit.ly/2G56jzc) ---
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The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel is part of the highway system that connects the Alaskan cities of Anchorage and Whittier. The tunnel is one lane that is shared by cars and trains. Cars traveling to Whittier leave on the half-hour, while cars traveling from Whittier leave on the hour. As motor vehicle speed in the tunnel is limited to 25 miles per hour, it takes about ten minutes to travel from end to end. Trains, of course, take precedence over automobile traffic. ---
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In Colorado if you are on I **25** and you are at the intersection of State **Highway** 7, then you are directly west of the Nebraska/Kansas border. ---
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> [@Railer13](#): > > The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel is part of the highway system that connects the Alaskan cities of Anchorage and Whittier. The tunnel is one lane that is shared by cars and trains. Cars traveling to Whittier leave on the half-hour, while cars traveling from Whittier leave on the hour. As motor vehicle speed in the tunnel is limited to 25 miles per hour, it takes about ten minutes to travel from end to end. Trains, of course, take precedence over automobile traffic. Off thread: The start of the tunnel is at Portage Glacier, about 60 miles south of Anchorage. Once you get to Whittier, you can connect with the Alaska Ferry System, which is good because there’s really nothing in Whittier. ---
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Still in play In Colorado if you are on I25 and you are at the intersection of State Highway 7, then you are directly west of the Nebraska/Kansas border. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42084 "2019-01-27T23:56:41Z")
The state of Kansas is named after the Kaw Nation, a Native American tribe, which are also sometimes known as the Kansa or Kanza. The Kaw Nation are also known as “the people of the south wind.” In 1979, the American rock band Kansas had a top-40 hit song entitled “[People of the South Wind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtXwopQ0GYo).” ---
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Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. The conflict was characterized by years of electoral fraud, raids, assaults, and retributive murders carried out by pro-slavery “Border Ruffians” and anti-slavery “Free-Staters” in Kansas and neighboring Missouri. ---
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Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson’s book _Freedom, Volume One, or Freedom in the Making of Western Culture_ (1991), won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction. He had intended to write a study of slavery but found that he needed to shift his focus: “I had gone in search of a man-killing wolf called slavery; to my dismay I kept finding the tracks of a lamb called freedom.” ---
**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:** [January 28, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42087 "2019-01-28T02:38:55Z")
While the Orlando International Airport in Florida has Disney, Universal, SeaWorld, and Kennedy Space Center gift stores on its’ premises, you cannot buy chewing gum at any location in the airport complex, due to contracts between the airport and the stores. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/42088 "2019-01-28T04:09:32Z")
In the Watergate movie _All the President’s Men_, you can see a small picture of John F. Kennedy on a bookshelf in the office of Ben Bradlee (Jason Robards), _The Washington Post_’s curmudgeonly top editor. Bradlee and JFK were close friends. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2103) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2105)