# Trivia Dominoes II — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia — continued! (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 25, 2020, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950 "2020-01-25T08:18:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 306
**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:** [October 27, 2022, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6108 "2022-10-27T00:16:32Z")
The World Series walk-off home run by Bill Mazeroski was a leadoff hit in the bottom of the ninth in Game 7. The Pirates had scored 5 in the 8th to take a 9-7 lead, but the Yankees scored 2 in the top of the ninth to tie the game. Ralph Terry, the Yankees pitcher, had come into the game an inning earlier and retired the only batter he faced to shut down the Pirates rally. Harvey Haddix, who had replaced Bob Friend in the top of the ninth, was the winning pitcher. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6109 "2022-10-27T03:51:27Z")
The only team to have never gone to the World Series is the Seattle Mariners. The only team to have played in a World Series and have never won any games is the Colorado Rockies. They went in 2007 and were swept by the Boston Red Sox. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6110 "2022-10-27T13:56:56Z")
As of the 2020 U.S. Census, 64% of the entire population of Massachusetts lived in Greater Boston. Boston is the state capital and by far the largest city in the Commonwealth. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6111 "2022-10-27T15:20:30Z")
What distinguishes Boston baked beans from other baked beans is the use of molasses instead of brown sugar. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6112 "2022-10-27T15:31:53Z")
Heinz Baked Beans were first introduced in the United Kingdom in 1886, and quickly became a staple of the British diet. From 1941 through 1948, the Ministry of Food declared Heinz Baked Beans to be an “essential food,” as part of the Ministry’s war rationing system. Unlike most American baked beans, which are made with a sweet sauce (typically using brown sugar or molasses), the style of Heinz Baked Beans sold in the U.K. are made with tomato sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6113 "2022-10-28T00:54:24Z")
The last known California grizzly (a subspecies of the North American brown bear)–the magnificent bear on the state flag, a bear killed for trophies and for amusement, pitted in staged fights with bulls, slaughtered because they were “dangerous”–was killed in Fresno County in 1922 and were extinct 75 years after the Gold Rush. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6114 "2022-10-28T06:10:45Z")
_Grizzly Man_ is a documentary (1h 44m, free, on YouTube) of Timothy Treadwell who spent the last 13 years of his life living among and studying grizzly bears in Alaska. He was mauled and eaten alive, aged 46, along with his girlfriend Amie Huguenard (aged 37) in Katmai National Park, by one of the grizzly bears he has been observing, at this location according to wiki: Grid (lat/long) 58.247397, -154.256856 Map — [https://maps.app.goo.gl/oDmxrE2zxNvdzMv17](https://maps.app.goo.gl/oDmxrE2zxNvdzMv17) Perhaps due to climate change the water level has risen in the last almost 20 years and now covers his camp site. Documentary — [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VBGFONxNpVQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Grizzly Man") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBGFONxNpVQ) In the 85-year history of Katmai National Park, this was the first known incident of a person being killed by a bear. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2022, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6115 "2022-10-28T06:33:02Z")
Missed the edit window… This is the last photo of Treadwell, with Huguenard, taken at the beginning of Treadwell‘s 13th and final summer in Alaska. The photo was taken by Treadwell‘s friend, bush pilot Willie Fulton. Fulton was the last person to see Treadwell and Huguenard alive. [![](https://i.imgur.com/queuayp.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/queuayp.jpg) ---
**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:** [October 28, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6116 "2022-10-28T08:49:36Z")
One of the more famous “lost media” is an audio recording of the Tim Treadwell attack. It was due to Amie turning on the video camera but the cap was still on hence no video. Werner Herzog is shown listening to it in _Grizzly Man_ and is horrified by it. Apparently in it, Amie hits the bear in the head with a cast-iron skillet which had absolutely no effect. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6117 "2022-10-28T13:11:47Z")
Timothy Treadwell’s last camp site was about 75 miles west northwest of the city of Kodiak AK, and 90 miles east southeast of the town of King Salmon AK. With a population of about 5,500, Kodiak is the tenth largest city in Alaska ---
**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:** [October 28, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6118 "2022-10-28T16:19:41Z")
WED “Treadwell” repair droids are a class of droids in the Star Wars universe. Their nickname comes from the fact that their propulsion is provided by a set of treaded wheels. In the original _Star Wars_ film, a Treadwell droid (to the left, in the picture below) is among the droids which the Jawas are offering for sale to Owen Lars and Luke Skywalker. [![](https://www.banthaskull.com/images/sceneit/reference/jawa_sale_screenshot_02.jpg) ](https://www.banthaskull.com/images/sceneit/reference/jawa_sale_screenshot_02.jpg) ---
**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:** [October 28, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6119 "2022-10-28T16:31:44Z")
The initial design for _Star Wars_ droid **BB-8** came from director JJ Adams. His name, **BB-8** , was, according to Adams, “was almost onomatopoeia. It was sort of how he looked to me, with the 8, obviously, and then the two B’s.” [![](https://i.imgur.com/ho6iIzf.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/ho6iIzf.jpg) ---
**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:** [October 28, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6120 "2022-10-28T20:25:23Z")
BB-8’s eyepiece is reminiscent of that of HAL 9000, the deeply disturbed and homicidal supercomputer of Stanley Kubrick’s sf movie _2001: A Space Odyssey_ (1968), installed aboard the United States Spacecraft _Discovery One_. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6121 "2022-10-28T20:30:02Z")
Canadian actor Douglas Rain provided the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in the films _2001: A Space Odyssey_, and _2010: The Year We Make Contact_. Rain parodied the character, and its voice, in the 1973 Woody Allen film _Sleeper_, as well as in an episode of the sketch comedy TV series _SCTV_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kJel7QwXm2k/maxresdefault.jpg "SCTV - The Merv Griffin Show - The Special Edition") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJel7QwXm2k) ---
**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:** [October 28, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6122 "2022-10-28T22:32:46Z")
Apparently, the only town or unincorporated community in the US is in Kentucky. It is the small town of Rain, KY ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2022, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6123 "2022-10-30T01:45:07Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Apparently, the only town or unincorporated community in the US is in Kentucky. It is the small town of Rain, KY. That must depend on how you (or the state) defines ‘unincorporated’. I can show you any number of communities in Wisconsin alone that can be found on the official highway map and have signs, erected by the state or county, that identify them – but where most signs indicate the population, these have just the word ‘unincorporated’. [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3f/5b/3a/3f5b3ac4cd803efbec87267a9666e23d--town-names-bobber.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3f/5b/3a/3f5b3ac4cd803efbec87267a9666e23d--town-names-bobber.jpg) (Bosstown is located in south-central Wisconsin along Highway 14 in Richland County, between Readstown and Richland Center) _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [October 30, 2022, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6124 "2022-10-30T07:37:41Z")
My bad. I missed a couple of key words. I meant to say — Apparently, the only town or unincorporated community in the US _ **named Rain** _ is in Kentucky. It is the small town of Rain, KY ---
**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:** [October 30, 2022, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6125 "2022-10-30T10:58:47Z")
K-Y (there is a hyphen) Jelly was invented in 1904 as a surgical lubricant. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6126 "2022-10-30T12:33:44Z")
Jelly, jam and preserves are all made from fruit mixed with sugar and pectin. Pectin is found in the cell walls of most fruit and gives jam, jelly and preserves their thickness. The difference between the three spreads lies in the fruit with which each are made. Jelly is made with fruit juice; jam is made with crushed fruit or fruit pulp; preserves are made with fruit chunks in a gel or syrup. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/6127 "2022-10-30T15:33:35Z")
The J.M. Smucker Company (often known as “Smucker’s”) is an independent food company, and is still based in Orrville, Ohio, where it was founded in 1897. The company is known for its jams, jellies, and preserves, though it now makes a number of other food products, thanks to acquisitions, including Jif peanut butter, Folgers coffee, and 9Lives cat food. Smucker’s jams and jellies had a long-running advertising campaign, which acknowledged the brand’s unusual (and funny-sounding name), with the tagline, “With a name like Smucker’s, it’s got to be good.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=305) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=307)