# 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:** 38
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/741 "2025-09-09T23:53:29Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > The Indianapolis Colts have appeared in one Super Bowl match, defeating the Chicago Bears in 2006. Correction: The Indianapolis Colts also appeared in the Super Bowl concluding the 2009 season, losing to the New Orleans Saints. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/742 "2025-09-10T02:34:55Z")
The New Orleans Saints are one of four NFL teams who are undefeated in the Super Bowl. As mentioned, the Saints defeated the Colts in their only appearance. The Jets also won their only appearance, while both the Ravens and Buccaneers are 2-0. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/743 "2025-09-10T03:37:54Z")
Preservation Hall, the legendary jazz venue in New Orleans’s French Quarter, is the home of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The performance space is relatively small and was, when I was last there a few summers ago, un-air conditioned and absolutely stifling. Great music, though! ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/744 "2025-09-10T17:46:56Z")
Preservation Aux is a scientific research organization in the Murderbot science fiction series by Martha Wells. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/745 "2025-09-10T23:18:36Z")
Aux, or auxes or auxins, are hormones instrumental for plants in their growth and development. As phytohormones they are compounds having an aromatic ring and a carboxylic acid group. Their name, auxins, are derived from the Greek to grow or increase. Auxins cause plant cells to elongate and they are involved in regulating the growth of plants. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/746 "2025-09-11T02:16:23Z")
The suggestion “Try SCE to AUX” saved the Apollo 12 lunar mission, after a lightning strike on lift-off. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2025, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/747 "2025-09-11T02:59:38Z")
Lunar soil is technically known as regolith. It is fragmented and rocky, yet very fine and powdery in some places, and covers the Moon’s entire surface, as far as is known. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/748 "2025-09-11T03:00:05Z")
I’m calling [Trivia Dominoes foul](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/304) on this last one > [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > When Apollo 12 was struck by lightning, data returning to Mission Control was corrupted. Coincidentally, the person sitting at EECOM, John Aaron, was one of the few people at NASA that recognized the corruption and he saved the mission by telling the Flight Controller “Try SCE to Aux.” which was so obscure pretty much no one knew what he was talking about. > > And that’s where most people end the story. > > The call of changing the Signal Control Module to auxillary was so obscure that quite literally **no one** in either Mission Control or on Apollo 12 knew what he was talking about … except Alan Bean who just happened to be the astronaut in the seat responsible for that switch. So while everyone else was going back and forth on the radio trying to figure out what to do, Bean calmly flipped the switch and thus Apollo 12 was saved. ETA: Foul called on Northern Piper. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/749 "2025-09-11T03:22:18Z")
Warren Moon was a star college and professional football quarterback. As a senior at the University of Washington in 1977, Moon led the Huskies to the Pac-8 title, and an upset win in the Rose Bowl. At that time, there had been few black quarterbacks in the NFL, and the prejudicial belief that black athletes weren’t well-suited to the position was still widespread. Believing that he was unlikely to be drafted highly in the 1978 draft, and that his NFL prospects were limited, Moon instead signed with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League. Moon played for the Eskimos for six seasons, during which the team won five Grey Cups, and Moon himself won an MVP award. Having proven his abilities in the CFL, Moon signed with the NFL’s Houston Oilers; he was the Oilers’ starting quarterback for the next ten seasons, and played a total of 17 seasons in the NFL, going to the Pro Bowl eight times, winning the Offensive Player of the Year Award in 1990, and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/750 "2025-09-11T03:41:37Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > ETA: Foul called on Northern Piper As you wish. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/751 "2025-09-11T03:52:35Z")
Warren Moon is tied for second with Matt Schaub for the most passing yards in an NFL game, with 527. Moon had his big game against the Chiefs in Arrowhead on December 16, 1990. Moon completed 27 of 45 passes, throwing for 3 touchdowns with no interceptions in a 27-10 Oilers victory. (As a Chiefs fan, I watched this game, dammit.) Norm Van Brocklin, quarterback of the Rams at the time, holds the record for passing yards in a game, throwing for 554 yards in a game on September 28, 1951, against the New York Yankees. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/752 "2025-09-11T03:54:40Z")
In August of this year (2025), Rolls Royce marked the 100 year anniversary of its Phantom model by parking in a swimming pool. This is a nod to the urban legend of rock drummer Keith Moon driving a Rolls into a hotel swimming pool during one of The Who’s US tours. [![](https://robbreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/P90614908_lowRes_rolls-royce-phantom--e1756130135454.jpg?w=660) ](https://robbreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/P90614908_lowRes_rolls-royce-phantom--e1756130135454.jpg?w=660) ---
**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:** [September 11, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/753 "2025-09-11T04:31:41Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > ETA: Foul called on Northern Piper. Maybe we start a Kangaroo Court jar for this? @Northern_Piper puts in a crisp $1 bill, and as the fines and cash build, when we have enough for a case of beer we can hold a small party? I kid, of course. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/754 "2025-09-11T04:35:41Z")
If it is a kangaroo court, is that one Australian dollar? ---
**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:** [September 11, 2025, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/755 "2025-09-11T04:36:54Z")
Sure, why not? In play — The legend of Keith Moon driving a Rolls-Royce into a swimming pool is a rock and roll myth (as intimated by @knoodler ’s post). Moon actually drove a Lincoln Continental belonging to another hotel guest into the pool at a Holiday Inn in Flint, Michigan on his 21st birthday in 1967. Moon himself later claimed he simply released the handbrake on the car, which was parked on a hill, and it rolled into the pool. The incident earned The Who a lifetime ban from the Holiday Inn chain. So Rolls-Royce, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Phantom model, placed a Phantom into the Tinside Lido swimming pool in Plymouth, England, as a visual link to the Moon folklore. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/756 "2025-09-11T04:58:19Z")
_The Phantom_ is a newspaper comic strip, which has been in publication since 1936. The main character, the Phantom, is a costumed crimefighter, who is based in the fictional African nation of Bangalla. Though the original development of the character drew heavily on pulp magazine and jungle adventure heroes, his costume – a skintight suit and a pupil-less mask – made him a transitional figure in heroic comics, and was soon reflected in the visual appearance of later comic superheroes such as Superman and Batman. [![](https://www.comicbookreligion.com/img/p/h/Phantom_Walker.jpg) ](https://www.comicbookreligion.com/img/p/h/Phantom_Walker.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/757 "2025-09-11T14:24:52Z")
_@Bullitt Thanks for that factual account._ The fictional country of Bangalla was, until the 1960s, situated in Asia. Earliest accounts place it as an island off the coast of Java (present-day Indonesia), and part of the British Protectorate of the Dutch East Indies. Later, the setting shifted to the mainland region of Bengali, a fictional country located near India, evoking the culture and geography of the Indian subcontinent. In recent stories, Bangalla is located in East Africa, near present-day Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/758 "2025-09-11T14:37:33Z")
Although coffee is sometimes referred to as ‘java’, coffee was not native to the island of Java. In the 1600s, the Dutch introduced the coffee plant to their Southeast Asia colonies, including Java. ‘Java coffee’ originally referred to coffee grown on the island, but over time the term was shortened to java and became synonymous with the drink itself. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/759 "2025-09-11T14:58:00Z")
“A cup of joe” is synonymous with coffee, but it’s origin is unclear. Many consider it to be a favored drink of the common man, or “joe.” Others trace its origin back to an article written in 1927 in the Princeton Alumni Weekly: - Speaking of Restaurateur Joe, that gentleman recently advertised that he had a brand of coffee, one cup of which would keep an exam-harrassed student awake all night. Dean Gauss commented on this with characteristic wit in the next day’s Princetonian. He suggested that each morning throughout the academic year “a full cup of Joe’s waking potion” be administered “to every undergraduate in good standing.” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952/760 "2025-09-11T19:16:01Z")
Coffee was the preferred drink of Chief Miles O’Brien on _Star Trek: Deep Space Nine_ (who preferred the Jamaican blend, double strong, double sweet) and Captain Kathryn Janeway on _Star Trek: Voyager._ During one episode in which _Voyager_ was running low on resources, and had to conserve replicator power or something like that (I’m not a _Voyager_ fan), the ship came across a nebula that they could use to refuel with the Bussard collectors, or so they thought. Janeway famously said, “There’s coffee in that nebula.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-iii-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/1016952.md?page=39)