# Trivia Dominoes: Play Off the Last Bit of Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 4, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657 "2010-02-04T08:12:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1531
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30607 "2016-07-12T18:31:25Z")
The Grumman Goose was one of the most versatile amphibious aircraft ever produced. It was used in both wartime and peace time, and had multiple iterations of style and construction, including an experimental VTOL model and a turbo-prop model. The plane was originally designed for use in the Long Island area, but rapidly became the commuter plane of choice in places like Southeast Alaska and in the Caribbean, where ground landings were not always available. I have fond memories of them parked at the docks in Juneau when I was a child. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30608 "2016-07-12T18:37:19Z")
The China Clipper, a Martin M-130, never flew to China. It was the first commercial flight across the Pacific, to Manila, and had to be amphibious because in 1935, there were no terrestrial landing stips that could accommodat the plane on fuel stops. At the time, it was a domestic flight, because the Philippines were then US territory. ---
**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 12, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30609 "2016-07-12T19:20:40Z")
Only 3 Martin M-130s were ever built, the _China Clipper_, the _Philippine Clipper_, and the _Hawaii Clipper_. Martin built a fourth flying boat, the M-156 _Russian Clipper_, that was similar to but larger than the M-130. The _Hawaii Clipper_ disappeared over the Pacific in 1938. The _Philippine Clipper_ survived the Japanese attack on Wake Island after their attack on Pearl Harbor, but crashed in 1943 in California on a return from Hawaii. The last, the _China Clipper_, broke up and sank on landing at Trinidad and Tobago in 1945. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30610 "2016-07-12T22:37:18Z")
The Monkees vocal-only rap-style song “Zilch” includes the line “China Clipper calling Alameda” - a radio call included in a dramatic scene in the film “China Clipper”, starring Humphrey Bogart. Pan Am’s transpacific services left from the Naval Air Station at Alameda, across the bay from San Francisco, and later the site of some of the Mythbusters’ best experiments. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30611 "2016-07-12T23:31:29Z")
Pan American World Airways, known from its founding until 1950 as Pan American Airways and commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal and largest international air carrier in the United States from 1927 until its collapse on December 4, 1991. ---
**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 13, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30612 "2016-07-13T03:09:13Z")
During Pan Am’s heyday in the 1960s, there were strict requirements for stewardesses: They had to be at least 5-foot-2, weigh no more than 130 pounds, and retire by age 32. They couldn’t be married or have children, either. As a result, most women averaged just 18 months on the job. ---
**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 13, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30613 "2016-07-13T03:20:06Z")
Pan Am announced on Christmas Eve 1968 that the airline intended to offer commercial flights to the Moon. A waiting list for the First Moon Flights Club grew to 93,000 members over the next twenty years. Even now, however, no such flights have yet been offered. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30614 "2016-07-13T03:35:55Z")
Scottish auth0or J.M. Barrie created the Peter Pan character based on his older brother, David, who died in an ice-skating accident the day before his 14th birthday. His mother and brother thought of him as forever a boy. Barrie first used Peter Pan as a character in a section of The Little White Bird (1902), an adult novel where he appears as a seven-day-old baby. ---
**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 13, 2016, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30615 "2016-07-13T05:34:36Z")
Barrie, Ontario, around 50 miles north of Toronto, was the final destination for one branch of the Underground Railroad in the 1850s. ---
**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 13, 2016, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30616 "2016-07-13T11:48:51Z")
By average discharge, the largest river in North America is the St. Lawrence, which runs from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30617 "2016-07-13T11:52:56Z")
The longest mountain range in the world is under water. Called the Mid-Oceanic Ridge, this chain of mountains runs through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and into the Indian and Pacific oceans. It runs more than 35,000 miles long, has peaks higher than those in the Alps and it comprises 23 percent of the Earth’s total surface. ---
**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 13, 2016, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30618 "2016-07-13T12:14:09Z")
The ‘opposite’, in one sense of the word, of an **oceanic ridge** is an **oceanic trench**. Oceanic **ridges** and **trenches** are found at the edges of continental plates (of plate tectonics). As an underwater plate drifts, its trailing edge forms a **ridge** as new magma rises and fills the gap formed along the edge of the departing plate. This new magma creates the newest part of that continental plate. The leading edge of an underwater plate forms a **trench** by the subduction of that plate edge. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30619 "2016-07-13T15:31:26Z")
The Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980 is a result of the tectonic action in the Cascadia subduction zone. That fault in that zone stretches for over 1000 km. ---
**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 13, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30620 "2016-07-13T15:51:46Z")
A lahar is a volcanic mudflow. On 18 May 1980, lahars from the Mt. St. Helens eruption filled rivers with rocks, sand, and mud, damaged 27 bridges and 200 homes and forced 31 ships to remain in ports upstream. After the eruption, among the first animals to return to the Mt. St. Helens area were in late May 1980 when wind-dispersed spiders and scavenging beetles returned. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30621 "2016-07-13T17:33:36Z")
Some think that an Indonesian volcano super-eruption in 535 A.D., possibly of Krakatoa, set in motion a series of events, beginning with a worldwide outbreak of bubonic plague, which provoked several migrations and invasions and increased the Darkness of the Dark Ages. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30622 "2016-07-13T17:53:03Z")
The digital dark age is a possible future situation where it will be difficult or impossible to read historical electronic documents and multimedia, because they have been recorded in an obsolete and obscure file format. The name derives from the term Dark Ages in the sense that there would be a relative lack of written record, as documents are transferred to digital formats and original copies lost. ---
**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 13, 2016, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30623 "2016-07-13T18:34:07Z")
The Targaryen kings of Westeros recorded in the _Game of Thrones_ books of George R.R. Martin tended to marry their relatives and were sometimes polygamous, following the example of the first of their line, Aegon the Conqueror, who married his two sisters. ---
**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 13, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30624 "2016-07-13T19:08:59Z")
In ancient Hawaii, the practice of marriage between siblings in the royal family was considered a way of keeping the bloodlines pure. ---
**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 13, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30625 "2016-07-13T19:14:52Z")
Hawaii is the most isolated population center on earth: 2,390 miles from California, 3,850 miles from Japan, 4,900 miles from China, and 5,280 miles from the Philippines. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/30626 "2016-07-13T19:54:17Z")
The isolated population center of Honolulu is closer to Alaska than to California. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1530) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1532)