# 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:** 39
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/761 "2020-03-28T12:31:33Z")
Old Jake Beam Sour Mash was first distilled in Kentucky when George Washington was president, by descendants of the Böhm family, who immigrated from Germany. After seven generations, the family stall has their hands in the bourbon whisky business, which is now a Japanese holdng company. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/762 "2020-03-28T14:52:29Z")
Sour mash whiskey differs from bourbon in that all the ingredients in bourbon are ‘from scratch’. Sour mash uses leftovers from a previous batch, much like the starter in sourdough bread. > **[The Difference Between Bourbon Whiskey & Sour Mash](https://www.leaf.tv/articles/the-difference-between-bourbon-whiskey-sour-mash/)** > > As any whiskey maker will tell you, all bourbon is whiskey but not all whiskey is bourbon. And all sour mash is bourbon whiskey but not all bourbon is sour mash. Both bourbon and sour mash whiskeys are uniquely American spirits, descended from... ---
**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:** [March 28, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/763 "2020-03-28T15:13:47Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Ted Danson starred as Sam Malone, one of the leading characters in the television comedy _Cheers_. _Cheers_ ran for eleven seasons and aired 275 episodes. > > The show ranked 74th out of 77 in its premier season. Eventually _Cheers_ would earn a top-ten rating during eight of its eleven seasons, including one season at number one. > [@jtur88](#): > > Collimation is the alignment of the two barrrels of a pair of binoculars. If thr two are not perfectly aligned, eye fatigue can occur in a short time of use, as the eye-brain try to superimpose the two images. Cheap binoculars often show poor colllimation, or careless use can knock the barrels out oo collimation. I guess I don’t see the connection. In play: Whiskey is still being distilled at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s longtime Virginia home, using methods appropriate to his era. > **[Distilled Spirits at Mount Vernon](https://www.mountvernon.org/the-estate-gardens/distillery/distilled-spirits-at-mount-vernon/)** > > George Washington was one of the largest whiskey producers in America. Today, at Historic Mount Vernon's Distillery, we continue the tradition of producing whiskey as well as other small batch distilled spirits. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/764 "2020-03-28T16:15:35Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > The movie aligned well with the book, and the book aligned well with the facts of the case. > [@Railer13](#): > > Ted Danson starred as Sam Malone, one of the leading characters in the television comedy _Cheers_. _Cheers_ ran for eleven seasons and aired 275 episodes. > > The show ranked 74th out of 77 in its premier season. Eventually _Cheers_ would earn a top-ten rating during eight of its eleven seasons, including one season at number one. > [@jtur88](#): > > Collimation is the alignment of the two barrrels of a pair of binoculars. If thr two are not perfectly aligned, eye fatigue can occur in a short time of use, as the eye-brain try to superimpose the two images. Cheap binoculars often show poor colllimation, or careless use can knock the barrels out oo collimation. > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I guess I don’t see the connection. I THINK that **jtur88** missed my post about Ted Danson, and instead replied to the post by **Bullitt**. ‘Alignment’ was the connection. Still in play, post by **Elendil’s Heir** : Whiskey is still being distilled at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s longtime Virginia home, using methods appropriate to his era. [https://www.mountvernon.org/the-esta](https://www.mountvernon.org/the-esta)…-mount-vernon/ ---
**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:** [March 28, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/765 "2020-03-28T17:01:57Z")
((OOP: I spent about an hour last night unsuccesfuly trying to come up with a post that would link Ted Danson and binoculars. :p)) In play: English writer Virginia Woolf is considered to be among the most important novelists of the 20th century. She was a key figure in the modernism movement, and a pioneer in the use of stream-of-consciousness in writing; decades after her death, her works were seen as influential in the feminism movement. Woolf was plagued by emotional issues, depression, and poor health throughout her life. She committed suicide on this date in 1941, by filling her overcoat pockets with stones, and walking into a river near her home. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/766 "2020-03-28T20:53:13Z")
Much attention has been focused on Virginia Woolf’s emotional issues, but she had a lighthearted side. At age 28 she was part of a group of friends who played a practical joke on the officers of _HMS Dreadnought_, disguising themselves as members of the Abyssinian royal family for a supposed ceremonial visit. [Dreadnought hoax - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_hoax) She also wrote a humorous ‘biography’ of Flush, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s spaniel, inspired by a new edition, in 1930, of the Brownings’ love letters; she said that ‘the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn’t resist making him a Life.’ Her novel\* Orlando: A Biography \* (1928) can be summed up as "a high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf’s lover and close friend, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf’s most popular novels: a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. " [Orlando: A Biography - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando:_A_Biography) ---
**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:** [March 28, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/767 "2020-03-28T22:10:14Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I THINK that **jtur88** missed my post about Ted Danson, and instead replied to the post by **Bullitt**. ‘Alignment’ was the connection. > > Still in play, post by **Elendil’s Heir** : > > Whiskey is still being distilled at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s longtime Virginia home, using methods appropriate to his era. > > [https://www.mountvernon.org/the-esta](https://www.mountvernon.org/the-esta)…-mount-vernon/ Broken link. Here is one: [Distillery · George Washington's Mount Vernon](https://www.mountvernon.org/the-estate-gardens/distillery/) I wish I’d have known about the distillery. I was at Mount Vernon 2-3 years ago and would have bought some. They only sell it in person, not by mail. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/768 "2020-03-28T22:58:08Z")
Contrary to popular legend, English businessman Thomas Crapper (1836-1910) did not invent the flush toilet. Crapper did, however, improve on the design of the water closet, including inventing the floating ballcock. The flushing toilet is believed to have been invented in the 1590s by John Harington, godson to Queen Elizabeth I. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/769 "2020-03-29T00:02:20Z")
Plumber Thomas Crapper founded the sanitary equipment company, Thomas Crapper & Co., in London. The high quality of Crapper’s products became widely-known. Manhole covers in Westminster Abbey with Crapper’s company name on them have become one of London’s minor tourist attractions. Image, Thomas Crapper manhole cover: [https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/357230/view/thomas-crapper-manhole-cover](https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/357230/view/thomas-crapper-manhole-cover) ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/770 "2020-03-29T00:23:55Z")
[According to urban legend](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhole_cover#Propelled_into_space), during an underground nuclear blast test in the 1950s, a manhole cover was accidentally launched from its shaft at a sufficient speed to reach escape velocity. There is a grain of truth to the legend, as, during a blast conducted during Operation Plumbob at the Nevada Test Site in 1957, a steel cap, weighing close to a ton, was blasted free from a shaft. The cap appeared as a blur on a single frame of the film taken during the blast. The cap was never recovered, and scientists hypothesized that it burned up as it fell back through Earth’s atmosphere. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/771 "2020-03-29T00:48:34Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I THINK that **jtur88** missed my post about Ted Danson, and instead replied to the post by **Bullitt**. ‘Alignment’ was the connection. : Alignment was the original, but when I saw that I was ninjaed, I rewrote a line to add the word “show”. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/772 "2020-03-29T03:03:48Z")
Escape velocity is mass-independent. Regardless of an object’s mass, if it achieves escape velocity, then it will be launched into space. From the surface of the Earth, escape velocity is a little under 7 miles per second. At that speed, you could drive from San Francisco CA to New York City NY in under 8 minutes. Those 8 minutes, remarkably and coincidentally, is about the amount of time it takes the light from the Sun to travel the 93,000,000 miles to Earth. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/773 "2020-03-29T04:13:11Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > : > Alignment was the original, but when I saw that I was ninjaed, I rewrote a line to add the word “show”. Ah, okay. Completely missed that. > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > ((OOP: I spent about an hour last night unsuccesfuly trying to come up with a post that would link Ted Danson and binoculars. :p)) [Here](https://www.parkcircus.com/film/101901-Loch-Ness) is a link between Ted Danson and binoculars. In play: The 1963 movie _The Great Escape_ was based on a 1950 book of the same name. The book was an insider’s account of a mass escape by British and Commonwealth airmen from a German POW camp. 76 men escaped. 73 men were recaptured. 50 of these 73 were shot by the Gestapo. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/774 "2020-03-29T04:56:13Z")
Per Wiki, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is monarch of sixteen Commonwealth realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and the United Kingdom. She is and will be played by Olivia Colman in the most recent and the next season of the award-winning Netflix series _The Crown_. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/775 "2020-03-29T05:34:57Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > [Here](https://www.parkcircus.com/film/101901-Loch-Ness) is a link between Ted Danson and binoculars. For the win! ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/776 "2020-03-29T06:10:58Z")
The first European explorer to visit the Solomon Islands archipelago was Spanish navigator Álvaro de Mendaña. He named the islands “Islas Salomón”, naming them after the wealthy King of Israel in the Old Testament. Mendaña apparently believed that the islands were the location of the legendary, wealthy port of Ophir, mentioned in several places in the Old Testament; Solomon was said to have regularly received shipments of riches from Ophir. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/777 "2020-03-29T16:49:09Z")
Wise King Solomon of the Bible’s Old Testament, was also called Jedidiah. His father was King David. The conventional dates of his reign are about 970 to 931 BCE, normally given in alignment with the dates of David’s reign. The Hebrew Bible credits him as the builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem, beginning in the fourth year of his reign. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/778 "2020-03-29T16:53:07Z")
In 1946 an inscribed pottery shard was found in Tel Aviv dating to the eighth century BC. On it is written the text “gold of Ophir to/for Beth-Horon”. Ophir has been conjectured to be in The Philippines, India, Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and the aforementioned Solomon Islands. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/779 "2020-03-29T17:29:07Z")
Ophir is a port or region mentioned in the Bible and famous for its wealth. Ophir is mentioned in the books of Genesis (a person), in 1 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Job, Psalms, and Isaiah. It is not mentioned in the New Testament, except for the apocrypha book Cave of Treasures. Variants of Ophir include Ofir, ʼÔp̄îr, Ōpheír, Sōphír, Sōpheír and Souphír. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/780 "2020-03-29T20:43:47Z")
At the end of episodes of the NPR show “Ask Me Another”, one of the show’s “puzzle gurus” recites the names of some of their staff members as anagrams. The host, **Ophira** Eisenberg, is “Her ripe begonias.” In-House Musician Jonathan Coulton is “Thou jolt a cannon.” Puzzle Guru John Chaneski is “Oh heck, ninjas” and Puzzle Guru Art Chung is “Narc thug.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=40)