# Trivia Dominoes III — Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 12, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952 "2025-04-12T05:32:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 110
**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:** [August 13, 2026, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2181 "2026-08-13T10:19:35Z")
(I kept getting the bug about embedding media items in a post) The link above shows the Ames Window optical illusion. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2026, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2182 "2026-08-13T16:33:27Z")
I see the linked video. I remember learning about that in high school. It still blows my mind. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2183 "2026-08-13T17:09:57Z")
The first glass windows were used around 100AD in Alexandria. They were thick, cloudy and rare luxury items. With the invention of Crown Glass, we get those windows consisting of many small panes, still seen in England. Glass windows became so common that In 1696, they passed a law called “Act of Making Good the Deficiency of the Clipped Money” where houses were taxed based on the number of windows they contained. Thus, many folks bricked up their windows, which is also still seen on old houses, etc. ---
**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:** [August 14, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2184 "2026-08-14T15:55:21Z")
Glass breaks at a crack propagation speed of about 3,000 mph. (Added — that’s about 4,400 feet per second) ---
**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:** [August 14, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2185 "2026-08-14T20:48:46Z")
Glass is still, by some, considered to be an extremely slow-moving liquid. That is not the scientific consensus today, however: [Glass - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Microscopic_structure) ---
**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:** [August 14, 2026, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2186 "2026-08-14T21:37:24Z")
Most lava flows quite slowly, usually moving at less than ¼ to 1 mph. However, fluid basalt lava on steep slopes can reach 6 mph, and rare, extreme channelized surges or steep collapses can see lava briefly sprint at speeds up to 35–60 mph — this fastest lava flow speed was recorded on 10 Jan 1977 during the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2187 "2026-08-15T00:36:51Z")
On October 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali defeated undisputed heavyweight champion George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), in what was dubbed “The Rumble in the Jungle.” Foreman had previously beaten both Joe Frazier and Ken Norton, the only sanctioned boxers to have defeated Ali, so Foreman did not expect the 32-yr old Ali to put up much of a fight. Ali outlasted Foreman, tiring him out after six rounds, leading up to a KO in the eighth round. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2026, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2188 "2026-08-15T09:48:02Z")
The name “Zaire” came from a Portuguese corruption of the local Kongo word _nzare_, which means “river”. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2189 "2026-08-15T16:51:07Z")
The Congo River is second to the Nile in length (in Africa), but it has more depth and carries twice the volume of water. It is second to the Amazon River in South America for most volume of water in a river in the world. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2026, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2190 "2026-08-15T19:39:07Z")
The Nile got its English and Arabic names from the Greek word “_neilos_,” which means “valley.” The ancient Egyptians named the river “_Ar_” (“black”) because the annual floods would deposit dark mud in the fields, which meant every year the famers got fresh soil for growing. The Nile and its tributaries pass through ten countries in Central, Eastern and Northern Africa. The Nile is considered to be the longest river in the world, although some (mostly in Brazil) dispute that. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2191 "2026-08-17T14:12:42Z")
Determining the length of a river or a coastline is a surprisingly inexact science. That’s because, for example, a river may move laterally 100 kilometers, but in those 100 kilometers it zigs and zags, and so we must ask ourselves, “how precisely do we want to measure it?” The lengths of those zigs and zags, combined, could lengthen the river by another couple hundred. The matter is amplified when it comes to measuring coastlines – do we measure every zig and zag as a part of the coastline, or just the general drift? This is called the Coastline Paradox. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2026, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2192 "2026-08-17T17:53:45Z")
Hilary Hinton “Zig” Ziglar was an American motivational speaker. Originally a salesman, Ziglar spent most of his career focusing on providing training seminars and motivational speeches for his fellow salespeople. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2193 "2026-08-17T18:40:11Z")
Zig-Zag rolling paper was moderately successful until the 1960s then took off due to the use to roll marijuana. Founded in France in 1855, the papers use the well known “Le Zouave” soldier logo. The name “Zig-Zag” came from the pattern of the papers. The original papers were made from a linen and wood blend. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2026, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2194 "2026-08-18T00:58:04Z")
Zigzag is an unincorporated community in Oregon, at the foot of Mt Hood in the Cascade Range. It was named for the Zigzag River, which got its name from Joel Palmer, an early pioneer, who traversed the river in 1845 through what became Zigzag Canyon, after its many switchbacks and steep drop at Zigzag Falls. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2195 "2026-08-20T16:16:43Z")
Mt. Hood was named by British naval officer Lieutenant William Edward Broughton, who spotted the peak on October 29, 1792. He named it after his boss (kind of); Mount Hood is named after Lord Samuel Hood, the British Royal Navy Admiral who had signed the orders for the expedition in which Broughton spotted the mountain. Admiral Hood never saw the mountain with his own eyes, and indeed, he’d fought against the colonies in the Revolutionary War. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2026, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2196 "2026-08-20T17:23:20Z")
Mt. Hood is part of the Cascade Range, a mountain range which extends from British Columbia in Canada to northern California in the United States. The length is approximately 700 miles. The highest peak in the range is Mount Rainier in Washington, at 14,411 feet. The Columbia River is the only major break in the range in the United States. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2026, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2197 "2026-08-20T17:32:52Z")
_The Sentinel_ was an action crime drama series, which aired on the UPN network in the U.S. from 1996 to 1999. It starred Richard Burgi as Jim Ellison, a former U.S. Army Ranger who had become a police detective in the fictional city of **Cascade** , Washington. During his time as a Ranger, Ellison had spent an extended period in the jungles of Peru, where he developed enhanced senses, similar to those of “Sentinels” in South American tribes. Ellison gained a partner in Blair Sandburg (played by Garett Maggart), an anthropologist who studied the tribes, and the Sentinels, and who helped Ellison understand how to use his abilities to solve crimes. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2198 "2026-08-20T18:08:03Z")
In 1951 Arthur C. Clarke’s story- _the Sentinel_- was published. The short story concerns a lunar exploration team which finds a strange obelisk on the Moon. That short story was adapted into _2001: A Space Odyssey_ in 1968. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2199 "2026-08-22T15:48:00Z")
_2001: A Space Odyssey_ is largely considered director Stanley Kubrick’s pinnacle achievement. The movie wasn’t “based on” the book in the way that, say, _The Fellowship of the Ring_ was based on the book. Rather, the book and the movie were produced as a dual collaborative project, and in fact, the film came first. The movie is deliberately ambiguous, whereas the book (apparently, I haven’t read it) spells things out quite clearly for the reader. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2026, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/2200 "2026-08-22T15:54:34Z")
One major difference between Arthur C. Clarke’s novel _2001: A Space Odyssey_ and Stanley Kubrick’s film was the destination planet for the _Discovery One_ spacecraft. In the novel, the ship went to Saturn, but when Kubrick and special-effects coordinator Douglas Trumbull could not settle on a satisfactory method for depicting Saturn’s rings, the film sent the ship to Jupiter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=111)