# 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:** 2302
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Saleen is an American car manufacturer based in Southern California. It was founded in 1983 by Steve Saleen and makes specialty high-performance sports cars and high-performance automotive parts. The Saleen S7 is its flagship car. [Saleen S7 - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saleen_S7) ---
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The constellation Crux, commonly known as the Southern Cross, consists of four primary stars (Acrux, Mimosa, Gacrux, and Imai) which appear in a cross-shaped formation to observers on Earth. The constellation is prominently visible at southern latitutdes (but is never seen above the horizon of the night sky in many northerly latitudes); as such, it appears on the flags of a number of countries in the Southern Hemisphere, including Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa. ---
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Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest country by area and is the sixth most populous country. The largest country in South America, it covers over 47% of the continent’s land area. Brazil borders all other countries in South America except Chile and Ecuador. ---
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_Star Trek: The Next Generation_ lead character Capt. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) commanded the _Constellation_-class starship USS \*Stargazer \*before assuming command of the USS _Enterprise_, NCC-1701-D. ETA: Picard is from France, but Brazil. ---
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MusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform music tagger written in Python. ---
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Founding _Monty Python_ member Eric Idle once sang his song “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” for a Royal Command Performance before Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/46038 "2020-01-14T00:52:14Z")
Pythons are nonvenomous snakes which are native to Asia, Africa and Australia. Because they are not native to North or South America, they are considered Old World snakes. There are 41 species of pythons. Most species are large snakes; the largest, the reticulated python, can grow over 30 feet in length. The smallest python species is the anthill python, which only grows up to 24 inches in length. ---
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Look Magazine was a competitor to Life Magazine, that catered to a photo-journalim market wider (= lower) in class. Look was first published be the Des Moines Register in 1939, about the same time as Life’s familiar modern format, and they also closed the same year. ---
**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 14, 2020, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/46040 "2020-01-14T04:56:50Z")
In January 1962, _Look_ magazine put President John F. Kennedy and a golf cart full of adorable kids on its cover: [http://www.pophistorydig.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/JFK-golf-cart-Look-2-320.jpg](http://www.pophistorydig.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/JFK-golf-cart-Look-2-320.jpg) ---
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Speaking of imitators, Mad Magazine had imitators such as Sick, Twisted, and Cracked, which now has a strong online presence. ---
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Julia Roberts, now 52 years old, has been chosen as People Magazine’s Most Beautiful Woman for a record five times. ---
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Like Brett Butler upyhread, Robin Roberts is also a pair of different gendered celebrities with the same name – the Philllies HOF pitcher and the CNN newscastere. ---
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Brett Butler played center field for the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1988 - 1994. He was born on the same month and day (although different years), as another San Francisco Giant and Los Angeles Dodger, Dusty Baker — June 15. ---
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In the book Gone With the Wind, when Scarlett asks “Where should I go? What should I do?” Rhett Butler gives her a long explanation about why he doesn’t want to stay with her before saying “My dear, I don’t give a damn.” The movie cut out the explanation and expanded the line to “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” ---
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Clark Gable, who played Rhett Butler in the movie _Gone With the Wind_, was married five times and had several affairs with famous actresses. His relationship with Loretta Young produced a daughter named Judy, who was born in 1935. Gable’s last marriage was to Kay Spreckels in 1955. She was pregnant with their child when Gable died in 1960; their son, John, was born four months after Gable’s death. ---
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Clark Gable was born in Cadiz, Ohio (pronounced CAD-iss, not ca-DIZ) a small town about 20 miles northwest of Wheeling WV. George Armstrong Custer was born just up the road in New Rumley, Ohio and taught school in Cadiz as a young man. (Both of my parents were from Cadiz). ---
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The house in which Gen. George Armstrong Custer was born is long gone, but a roadside memorial in New Rumley, Ohio includes a statue of Custer and the flags of the United States, Ohio and the Seventh Cavalry, which Custer commanded at the time of his death at the Battle of Little Bighorn in June 1876. [https://civilwartalk.com/attachments/custer-state-memorial-new-rumley-001-jpg.25207/](https://civilwartalk.com/attachments/custer-state-memorial-new-rumley-001-jpg.25207/) ---
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The Armstrongs are a Border Scots “reiving” (raiding) clan; the clan motto is _Invictus maneo_, Latin for “I remain unvanquished”. Many of them moved to Northern Ireland. Neil Armstrong, the most famous modern member of the clan, was described in the _Belfast Times_ as "an archetypical Ulster Scot — not publicity seeking but very hard-working and always seeking to improve mankind’s understanding of things around them.” ---
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During the Victorian Era, the city of Belfast, in the northern Irish province of Ulster, produced most of the world’s supply of linen. Linen production in Belfast boomed during the 1860s, due to disruptions in the supply of cotton as a result of the American Civil War. During this time, Belfast was nicknamed “Linenopolis,” due to its prominence in the linen industry. ---
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HMS \*Belfast \*is a _Town_-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy, commissioned less than a month before the outbreak of World War II and now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London. She is operated by the Imperial War Museum. > **[HMS Belfast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Belfast)** > > HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London and is operated by the Imperial War Museum. > Construction of Belfast, the first ship in the Royal Navy to be named after the capital city of Northern Ireland and one of ten Town-class cruisers, began in December 1936. She was launched on St Patrick's Day 1938. Commissioned in early August 1939 shortly before the outbreak of the Second World ... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2301) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=2303)