# 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:** 86
**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:** [July 20, 2020, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1703 "2020-07-20T21:56:55Z")
According to [jeepBeef.com](http://jeepBeef.com), the first Jeep front grills had nine vertical slots, and these were manufactured by Ford and Willy’s. That design was changed to seven slots by Willy’s-Overland, and Jeep has retained this ever since. Ford copyrighted the nine-slot grill design. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2020, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1704 "2020-07-20T22:18:07Z")
The term “jeep,” for the small transports made for the Allied forces in WWII by Willys and Ford, has an obscure and unclear origin. The term “jeep” appears to date back to at least WWI, where it was variously used by members of the U.S. Army to describe new recruits, or unproven vehicles. Its popularization in describing the WWII vehicles appears to have been, at least in part, inspired by the character Eugene the Jeep (who, among his other amazing powers, could go anywhere and solve impossible problems. Another theory for the term comes from “GP” (for “general purpose”), the designation of Ford’s WWII military transport, but the Ford vehicle was actually designated the GPW, and did not stand for General Purpose. Regardless, by early 1941, the vehicles were being referred to as “jeeps” by both the military, and Willys-Overland, and the name stuck. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1705 "2020-07-20T22:29:07Z")
The Willys MB 1⁄4-ton 4x4 small truck (Jeep) is an historic landmark according to the Society of Mechanical Engineers ([asme.org](http://asme.org)): [https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/resourcefiles/aboutasme/who%20we%20are/engineering%20history/landmarks/152-jeep-model-mb-1947.pdf](https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/resourcefiles/aboutasme/who%20we%20are/engineering%20history/landmarks/152-jeep-model-mb-1947.pdf). ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1706 "2020-07-21T02:26:32Z")
You mat have by now lost your chance to ever see one of the Philippines’ great tourist attractions, the Jeepney. The noisy and colorful vehicles were originally retrofit Jeeps left behind after WWII, or newly-built vehicles in the same traditional style. Now, those over 15 years old have been banned. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1707 "2020-07-21T02:34:18Z")
There are about 7,000 islands in the Philippines. The largest of these is Luzon, which is about the size of the US state of Nevada. With a population of over 48 million, it is the world’s fourth most populated island, behind Java, Honshu and Great Britain. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1708 "2020-07-21T02:49:17Z")
The Philippines, with its 7000 islands, has the 5th longest coastline in the world. Only Russia, Greenland, Indonesia and Canada have longer coastlines. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1709 "2020-07-21T03:33:36Z")
The coastline of any place approaches infinity, as the observed fractal curves get smaller. You need to agree on the fractal units, before you can talk about whether Norway or Australia has the longer coastline, which is apparent by a casual glance at common scale maps. A coastline is the sum of point-to-point line segments, and different results are obtained with shorter segments. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1710 "2020-07-21T04:31:04Z")
The Atlantic Highway in Norway is also called the Atlantic Ocean Road or the Atlantic Road. It is a 5 mile long section of County Road 64 that runs through an archipelago in Hustadvika and Averøy municipalities in Møre og Romsdal county. Images \>\> [https://is.gd/ar664l](https://is.gd/ar664l) Comment: I want to go! Edited to add #2: I first saw it in about 2005 on marketing brochures for BMW motorcycles. Very scenic, very beautiful. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1711 "2020-07-21T15:32:12Z")
The Atlantic Ocean covers approximately 20% of the earth’s surface. Its narrowest point, between Brazil and Liberia, is 1,770 miles. At its widest point, between the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, the distance is almost 4,000 miles. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1712 "2020-07-21T15:42:20Z")
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, commonly referred to as A&P, was the largest grocery retailer in the U.S. from 1915 until 1975 (and the largest U.S. retailer of any kind until 1965). ---
**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:** [July 21, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1713 "2020-07-21T15:54:25Z")
1975 was the first full year of Gerald Ford’s Presidency. Appointed Vice President of the United States by Richard Nixon in the first use of Sec. 2 of the 25th Amendment, Ford succeeded Nixon as President when the latter resigned in August 1974, and in turn nominated Nelson Rockefeller as his Vice President using the same procedure of the 25th Amendment. It has not been used since. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1714 "2020-07-21T17:38:52Z")
Nelson Rockefeller is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, in Sleepy Hollow NY. He died aged 70 in 1979. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1715 "2020-07-21T18:13:42Z")
Michael Rockefeller, the fifth child of Nelson Rockefeller, was 23 when he disappeared during a 1961 expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern New Guinea. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether he drowned or was attacked by a shark or saltwater crocodile. Also, as headhunting and cannibalism were still practiced in some areas of Asmat in 1961, it is possible that Rockefeller was killed and eaten by Asmat tribespeople. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1716 "2020-07-22T03:08:04Z")
On 09 Aug 1974, Nixon resigned the Presidency and Vice President Gerald Ford became President. On 20 Aug 1974, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller to the Vice Presidency. At that time, Ford had two other strong candidates for VP that he seriously considered — Donald Rumsfeld, and George H W Bush. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2020, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1717 "2020-07-22T03:18:16Z")
English singer/songwriter Kate Bush was discovered in the mid-1970s by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, when a mutual friend shared with him a demo tape of 50 compositions which had been written and recorded by Bush (who was, at that time, 16 years old). Gilmour helped Bush develop and record a more professional demo tape – he funded it, and recruited producer Andrew Powell and sound engineer Geoff Emerick, to help produce it; the tape led to Bush being awarded a recording contract by EMI. ---
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Pink Floyd was a rock band formed in London in the 1960s. First performing together as a sextet under the name ‘Sigma 6’ in 1963, they had gone through an assortment of names including the ‘Meggadeaths’, the ‘Abdabs’, the ‘Screaming Abdabs’, ‘Leonard’s Lodgers’ _(a name inspired by their then-landlord, Mike Leonard)_, and the ‘Spectrum Five’, before settling on the ‘Tea Set’. However, they were set to play a gig in 1965 when it came to their attention that another band, _also_ called the ‘Tea Set’, was on the bill. Guitarist Syd Barrett came up with a new name on the spur of the moment, combining the first names of two blues musicians, **Pink** Anderson and **Floyd** Council, whose records Barrett happened to have in his collection. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1719 "2020-07-22T09:03:25Z")
The worst school bus crash in US history took place in Floyd County, Kentucky, in 1956. 26 of the 48 children drowned when the bus went into the Big Sandy River, floated downstream and sank. The Stanley Brothers memorialized the tragedy with "No School Bus in Heaven [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Pl1QUWKsaB0/maxresdefault.jpg "No School Bus In Heaven") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl1QUWKsaB0) ---
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The Big Sandy River, a tributary of the Ohio River, is approximately 29 miles long. Per Wiki, the name of the river comes from the presence of extensive sand bars. The Indian names for the river included Tatteroa, Chatteroi and Chatterwha, which had similar meanings. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950/1721 "2020-07-22T14:30:45Z")
The Allegheny River, which joins with the Monongahela River to form the Ohio River, rises in northern Pennsylvania and flows into western New York before returning to Pennsylvania on its way to Pittsburgh. At one point in New York, the Allegheny flows within 45 miles of Lake Erie. ---
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Three Rivers Stadium was an open-air, multi-purpose sports stadium in Pittsburgh, PA; it was located directly to the north of the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers into the Ohio River. Three Rivers Stadium opened in 1970, and was home to the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers, and MLB’s Pittsburgh Pirates, until its demolishment after those teams’ 2000 seasons. It was replaced by Heinz Field (home to the Steelers, located immediately to the west of Three Rivers’ site) and PNC Field (home to the Pirates, located a few blocks to the east). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=85) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-ii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia-continued-part-1/846950.md?page=87)