Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia

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33707

The Apollo Command Modules, the only part of the launch assembly to return from the moon, are located at:

Apollo 7 Command Module–Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas, TX

Apollo 8 Command Module–Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL

Apollo 9 Command Module–San Diego Air & Space Museum, San Diego, CA

Apollo 10 Command Module–Science Museum, London, England

Apollo 11 Command Module–National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC (first moon landing)

Apollo 12 Command Module–Virginia Air & Space Center, Hampton, VA

Apollo 13 Command Module–Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS

Apollo 14 Command Module–NASA Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, FL

Apollo 15 Command Module–National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH

Apollo 16 Command Module–US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville , AL

Apollo 17 Command Module–Space Center Houston, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

33708

After winning Best Actor Oscars for Philadelphia in 1993 and Forrest Gump in 1994, many people felt Tom HAnks wasn’t even nominated for Apollo 13 in 1995 because the Academy did not want a three time, back to back winner.

33709

There have been two King Oscars of Sweden and Norway: Oscar I (reigned in both kingdoms from 1844 to 1859) and Oscar II (reigned in Sweden from 1872 to 1907; Norway from 1872 to 1905)

33710

On July 30, 1656, the armies of Sweden and Brandenburg defeated the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth near Warsaw. The combined Swedes and Brandenburgers numbered 18,000, while the Polish-Lithuanian army had 40,000. However, the Polish-Lithuanian forces withdrew without large losses.

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The Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721 (although probably composed earlier). The full score was left unused and unperformed in the Margrave’s library until his death in 1734, when it was sold for 24 *groschen *(about US$24) of silver. Rediscovered in 1849 and published the next year, they are now widely regarded as some of the best orchestral compositions of the Baroque era. The original manuscript was nearly lost in World War II, when being transported for safekeeping to Prussia by train in the care of a librarian. The train came under bombardment, and the librarian escaped the train to the nearby forest, with the scores hidden under his coat.

33712

Bach’s submission of the Brandenburg Concertos to the Margrave of Brandenburg was in the hope of gaining employment; his application was unsuccessful.

33713

The Brandenburg Gate is one of the best-known landmarks of Germany. It is built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg. It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built by architect Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791.

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The Brandenburg Gate is the entry to another well-known Berlin landmark, Unter den Linden, the boulevard of linden trees, which led directly to the Stadtschloss, the royal City Palace of the kings of Prussia. Johann Strauss III wrote the waltz „Unter den Linden“ in 1900. During the construction of the Nord-Süd-Tunnel for the Berlin S-Bahn in 1934–35, most of the linden trees were cut down and during the last days of World War II the remaining trees were destroyed or cut down for firewood. The present-day linden trees were replanted in the 1950s.

33715

On November 8, 1989, East Germany announced the opening of the inner German border and the Berlin Wall, marking the symbolic end of the Cold War, the impending collapse of the Warsaw Pact, and the beginning of the end of Soviet communism. The fall of the wall continued over days and weeks, with people nicknamed Mauerspechte (wall woodpeckers) using various tools to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts in the process, and creating several unofficial border crossings.

33716

In 1942, in a speech to the Commons after the victory of El Alamein, Prime Minister Churchill said: “Now this is not the end; it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

33717

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who was something of a mentor to a young Winston Churchill as the latter was making his way in the House of Commons, once ruefully said, “Churchill would skin his mother to make a drum with which to beat his own praises.”

33718

Lloyd George had a reputation as having an eye for the ladies. Lord Kitchener is said to have remarked that he tried not to tell military secrets to the Cabinet, because all the Cabinet ministers would them to their wives, except for Lloyd George, “who would tell someone else’s wife.”

33719

Much of the human eye is filled with the vitreous humor, a clear jelly-like liquid consisting of approximately 99% water and 1% proteins, electrolytes, and other solutes. The latter, by and large, equilibrate with blood plasma, but lag in doing so by 1-2 hours.

33720

Lloyd George was born in Manchester, to Welsh parents, and was brought up as a Welsh speaker; when he was a year old, his father died and his mother returned to Wales to live with her brother. He is so far the only British Prime Minister to have been Welsh and to have spoken English as a second language.

33721

Four Canadian Prime Ministers have spoken English as a second language.

33722

John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first Prime Minister, served just under 19 years. But unlike his American counterpart, George Washington, no cities or political subdivisions are named for Macdonald, with the exception of a small village in Manitoba.

33723

The earliest printed version of the children’s song Old MacDonald Had A Farm is considered to be in the 1917 book Tommy’s Tunes, a collection of World War I era songs by F. T. Nettleingha. The song “Ohio” has quite similar lyrics—though with a slightly different farmer’s name and refrain:

Old Macdougal had a farm in Ohio-i-o,
And on that farm he had some dogs in Ohio-i-o,
With a bow-wow here, and a bow-wow there,
Here a bow, there a wow, everywhere a bow-wow.

This version lists seven species of animal: some dogs (bow-wow), some hens (cluck cluck), some ducks (quack quack), some cows (moo moo), some pigs (grunt grunt), some cats (meow meow), and a donkey (hee-haw)

33724

“19” is a song released in 1985 by British musician Paul Hardcastle that relied heavily on samples of nonmusical spoken word content, frequently augmented by sound-altering techniques, such as a stutter effect, best exemplified by the word “n-n-n-n-n-n-nineteen”, repeated through out the song.

33725

James Earl Jones was a stutterer and functionally mute for eight years as a child, and was pre-med in college and almost become a doctor.

33726

Since oly’s post #33708 seems to have been missed (if I am wrong, apologies to gkster), I will work it and Annie’s into my response.

In play:

My Name Is Earl is an American television humor series created by Greg Garcia that aired on the NBC television network from 2005, to 2009, in the United States. It is based on the title character trying to correct all the mistakes he’s made in his life.