# 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:** 74
**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:** [February 26, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1461 "2010-02-26T16:23:17Z")
The Horsehead Nebula is located in the constellation Orion, near Alnitak, the leftmost star on Orion’s “belt”. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1462 "2010-02-26T16:29:35Z")
The Nebula awards are given out yearly by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for the best SF stories of the previous year (though “year” has not always meant “calendar 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:** [February 26, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1463 "2010-02-26T16:40:32Z")
Starfleet’s _Nebula_-class cruisers were slightly smaller than its _Galaxy_-class ships like the USS _Enterprise_, NCC-1701-D, and first appeared in the _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ episode “The Wounded,” with the USS _Phoenix_. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1464 "2010-02-26T16:48:25Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Starfleet’s _Nebula_-class cruisers were slightly smaller than its _Galaxy_-class ships like the USS _Enterprise_, NCC-1701-D, and first appeared in the _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ episode “The Wounded,” with the USS _Phoenix_. A pair of hippies named John and Arlyn Bottom gave their oldest son the unfortunate name of “River Bottom.” They later changed their family’s last name to Phoenix. (You may have seen the kid in a movie or two.) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1465 "2010-02-26T16:49:49Z")
The city of Phoenix, Arizona was so named because it was built on the site of an abandoned Ho-Ho-Kam Indian village. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1466 "2010-02-26T16:52:52Z")
Dick Celeste, after serving as governor of Ohio in the 1980s, was named U.S. ambassador to India by President Bill Clinton. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1467 "2010-02-26T17:00:03Z")
“Mama Celeste”, of Celeste brand frozen pizzas, was a real person: Celeste Lizio, who founded the company with her husband, Anthony, in Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1468 "2010-02-26T17:00:49Z")
[del](not seeing the link there, but wha’evs …) The brigantine _Mary Celeste_ was found drifting in the Atlantic in 1872, in good weather, with no crew aboard and all their personal effects apparently present.[/del] Chef Boy-Ar-Dee was also a real person, a cook from Cleveland named Hector Boiardi. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1469 "2010-02-26T17:06:11Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Chef Boy-Ar-Dee was also a real person, a cook from Cleveland named Hector Boiardi. Director Garry Marshall considers Hector Elizondo his “good luck charm,” and he has appeared in 12 of Garry’s movies, including _Pretty Woman_ and _Runaway Bride_. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1470 "2010-02-26T17:14:50Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Director Garry Marshall considers Hector Elizondo his “good luck charm,” and he has appeared in 12 of Garry’s movies, including _Pretty Woman_ and _Runaway Bride_. Similarly, actor Earl Billings has a cameo in all the Aflac commercials. He’s the only one who notices the duck. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1471 "2010-02-26T17:20:59Z")
Alfred Hitchcock made cameo appearances in each film he directed, usually in crowd scenes. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1472 "2010-02-26T17:31:56Z")
Anthony Newley co-wrote and co-starred in the 1965 Broadway musical, _ **The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1473 "2010-02-26T17:47:29Z")
Anthony Newley was married to Joan Collins who was recently in the news due to a feud with, of all people, Charlotte Rae, the star of _Diff’rent Strokes_ and _Facts of Life_. ---
**Author:** ![Redwing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@Redwing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redwing)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1474 "2010-02-26T17:52:52Z")
Strokes can be caused by thrombosis or embolism or due to a hemorrhage. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1475 "2010-02-26T18:16:01Z")
The first studio album released by the Strokes is 2001’s Is This It. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1476 "2010-02-26T18:17:49Z")
“2001: A Space Odyssey” was loosely based on Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel”. Clarke also wrote the novelization of the movie and its sequels. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1477 "2010-02-26T18:20:55Z")
There is no dialog in the first 25 minutes of “2001: A Space Odyssey”, nor is there any dialog in the final 23 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1478 "2010-02-26T18:32:38Z")
In _The Illuminatus Trilogy_ there is occult numerological significance attached to the number 23, something the writer Robert Anton Wilson borrowed from William S. Burroughs. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1479 "2010-02-26T18:37:23Z")
The number 42 has major significance in the plot of Douglas Adams’ _The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/1480 "2010-02-26T18:57:31Z")
Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln both courted pretty young Mary Todd. She married Lincoln, whom Douglas later defeated in a race for the U.S. Senate in 1858. Lincoln beat Davis for the Presidency two years later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=73) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=75)