# Stupid Question(s) about Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 31, 2019, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-s-about-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/845657 "2019-12-31T05:26:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-s-about-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/845657/41 "2020-01-03T17:04:39Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > I always wondered how nobody at the museum noticed how Jones was supplying them with looted artifacts, “no questions asked”. Sure, Brody was facilitating it, but nobody in the administration noticed anything? Nor anybody at the college wonder how he could afford that house? I mean, Malraux was totally busted. Didn’t notice, or didn’t care? Indie was most active when I think the latter was still most common. See: every ancient history exhibit in a major western museum (outside of maybe Italy) ever. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-s-about-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/845657/42 "2020-01-03T19:05:08Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 1. The U-boat never submerged. 2. Pop-Rivets. Ah! But they gave the order to clear the bridge, were sealing the hatch and it looked like it was going down as the crew from the freighter cheered him on. And I think Duct Tape is a more cromulent hypothesis. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-s-about-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/845657/43 "2020-01-03T19:24:15Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Ah! But they gave the order to clear the bridge, were sealing the hatch and it looked like it was going down as the crew from the freighter cheered him on. > > And I think Duct Tape is a more cromulent hypothesis. There’s a snippet of film made whebn they were shooting _Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade_ that shows Harrison Ford using a stapler to staple his hat to his head (“There! That’ll keep it on!”) The stapler was really empty, of course. I hope. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-s-about-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/845657/44 "2020-01-03T23:56:39Z")
> [@TheCuse](#): > > I may be wrong here (probably) but I thought the knight told Indy that he was the first to find him. If so, then I think the other cups were collected by the three brothers when they searched for the grail and finally found it). Then the knight who was left set them all up like that. So, while they were searching for the cup that gave eternal life, they just happened to find another cup (or cups?) that instantly killed the drinker? Perhaps they found it by following the clues on a necklace that said “Don’t **DRINK** water **FROM** this **CUP** , please. **NEVER** , or you’ll **DIE!** ” in a toroidal spiral but they could only decipher the bolded words from one side. 😉 > [@Calmeacham](#): > > Me, I’ve always wondered about the nature of those stone-age-level-of-technology light-activated sliding spear-doors worked. Obviously, they’re silly, but you could plausibly make a sunlight-activated death trap with a lens carefully focused on a thin line holding just enough weight to unbalance a giant potential-energy storage device with a lot of potential energy to loose. Not sure how you could make a dark-activated one that wouldn’t just go off at night, though. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-s-about-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/845657/45 "2020-01-04T00:28:50Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Me, I’ve always wondered about the nature of those stone-age-level-of-technology light-activated sliding spear-doors worked. Magic. It exists in Indy’s world. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2020, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-s-about-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/845657/46 "2020-01-05T00:52:13Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Magic. It exists in Indy’s world. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” The Incas were instructed by space aliens, of course. The Ark is also an example of alien tech. Don’t release jailed Rigelians! As for lack of provenance of Indy’s artifacts: How important were niceties in 1930s academia? Until non-invasive imaging, wasn’t human archaeology glorified tomb-raiding? I don’t see Indy returning with soil samples. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-s-about-indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade/845657.md?page=2)