# 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:** 921
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18403 "2014-01-07T07:29:22Z")
Rosa Parks grew up in the home of her maternal grandfather, Sylvester Edwards, a red haired and blue eyed farmer in Pine Level, Alabama who was the son of an enslaved mulatto seamstress and her master. Because of all the death threats during the bus boycott she moved to Detroit to live with her younger brother, also named Sylvester, in Detroit, where for a time his 4br/1 ba home housed himself, his wife, 11 of their children, Rosa, her husband, and Sylvester and Rosa’s mother Leona. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2014, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18405 "2014-01-07T16:33:54Z")
James Gandolfini was good friends with John Travolta. Travolta’s father sold tires to Gandolfini’s father. ---
**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 7, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18406 "2014-01-07T16:57:59Z")
GPS users can thank Ronald Reagan for his Presidential Directive to make the technology available for common civilian use at no charge (other than, of course, the costs to the US taxpayers for the NAVSTAR-GPS constellation). The fathers of GPS include American physicists William Guier and George Weiffenbach at Johns Hopkins’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) who determined the position of Sputnik by the Doppler Shift of its signal, then later calculated the inverse of the problem to locate one’s position on earth given the satellite’s position. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18407 "2014-01-07T17:45:27Z")
GPS calculations have to take into account relativistic effects to be accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18408 "2014-01-07T20:30:10Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > France has won the most Nobel Prizes for Literature than any other country in the world and the second most in mathematics. Really? How many Nobel Prizes in Mathematics have been awarded to the French? In play: GPS is the abbreviation for the airport serving Baltra in the Galapagos. Not to be confused with GPS Airport in South Carolina. ---
**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 7, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18409 "2014-01-07T23:14:19Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Really? How many Nobel Prizes in Mathematics have been awarded to the French?.. None. I don’t think there is such a thing: [Nobel Prize - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize) In play: The South Carolina National Guard provided armed soldiers to assist with security at the Charleston Airport in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks (I was there, and saw them). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18410 "2014-01-07T23:44:50Z")
Rhett Butler was from Charleston, SC, and his name was probably inspired by a prominent family that owned what is now known as the Rhett-Aiken house museum there. The Ashley River that empties into Charleston Harbor share’s a name with Rhett’s rival for Scarlett’s heart, Ashley Wilkes. ---
**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 8, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18411 "2014-01-08T01:53:39Z")
SC is an abbreviation for “Senior Counsel”, an honorific for lawyers used in some Commonwealth jurisdictions instead of QC, “Queen’s Counsel.” ---
**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:** [January 8, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18412 "2014-01-08T03:08:22Z")
As for the Nobel Prize in Math, my source apparently got carried away and worded it in that manner, but I now see they really meant the [Fields Medal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_medal), which is often described as the “mathematicians’ Nobel Prize.” I should have caught that. [Here is an article detailing math and the French](http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/31/europa-french-maths-ecoles-normales-superieures). France is second only to the US in medals received. Sorry about that. Should have caught it. :o In play: Queen Latifah was the first hip-hop artist honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, on January 4, 2006. ---
**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 8, 2014, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18413 "2014-01-08T05:19:37Z")
Cersei Lannister serves variously as either Queen Consort or Queen Regent of Westeros in George R.R. Martin’s books, which gave rise to the HBO series _Game of Thrones_. ---
**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:** [January 8, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18414 "2014-01-08T05:23:14Z")
The R.R. in George R.R. Martin stands for Raymond Richard. ---
**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 8, 2014, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18415 "2014-01-08T06:58:09Z")
Glenn L. Martin was an aviation pioneer who founded the Glenn L. Martin Company in 1912. In 1916 he merged with Wright to form the Wright-Martin Aircraft Company. In 1917 Glenn Martin left that company to form a second Glenn L. Martin Company, and in 1961 that company merged with the American-Marietta Corporation to become Martin Marietta. In 1995 they merged with Lockheed to form Lockheed Martin. ---
**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 8, 2014, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18416 "2014-01-08T10:38:04Z")
Martin is the most common surname in France. ---
**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 8, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18417 "2014-01-08T13:27:00Z")
Suriname is a country on South America’s northern (Atlantic Ocean) coast. It sits north of Brazil and also lies just north of the equator. From west to east, the six countries on the north side of South America, on the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, are Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Brazil. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18418 "2014-01-08T14:31:09Z")
One of the proposed names for the film “Brazil” when Sidney Sheinberg took over the marketing of it was “Gnu Yak Gnu Yak and Other Bestial Places.” ---
**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:** [January 8, 2014, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18419 "2014-01-08T16:37:17Z")
Three of Sidney Lumet’s films are listed on the American Film Institute’s 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time – _Serpico_ (1973) at #84, _The Verdict_ (1982) at #75 and _12 Angry Men_ (1957) at #42. ---
**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 8, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18420 "2014-01-08T17:48:13Z")
_The Verdict_ and _12 Angry Men_ are both on the recommended list of law-related movies for students in the Trial Advocacy course at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18421 "2014-01-08T18:31:56Z")
_12 Angry Men_ is now sometimes performed as _12 Angry Jurors_, in order to diversify the casting. ---
**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 8, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18422 "2014-01-08T19:50:17Z")
In Canada, jurors are prohibited by federal law from disclosing the jury deliberations. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2014, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/18423 "2014-01-09T04:49:47Z")
The 21st Amendment of the US Constitution was and is the only Amendment that repeals a previous Amendment – the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=920) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=922)