# 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:** 1734
**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:** [April 28, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34667 "2017-04-28T11:45:46Z")
The _Constitution Act, 1940_ is a statute passed by the British Parliament to amend the Constitution of Canada by adding “Unemployment Insurance” to the list of exclusive federal powers. The amendment was requested by the federal Parliament, under the _Statute of Westminster, 1931_, with the support of the provinces. It was in reaction to the employment crisis of the Great Depression and expanded the scope of federal powers to respond to unemployment as a social and economic concern. The first federal _Unemployment Insurance Act_ mainly addressed the traditional situation of hourly workers who had lost their jobs, but it has been expanded since then to reflect unemployment issues which occur in a modern economy. For instance, maternity and paternity leave are now provided for in the Act. (I took advantage of the paternity leave provisions when the Cub came along. 🙂 ) ---
**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:** [April 28, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34668 "2017-04-28T11:51:04Z")
Out of 193 countries in the United Nations, only a small handful do not have a national paid parental leave law (maternity and/or paternity): New Guinea, Suriname, a few South Pacific island nations and the United States. ---
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As of today there are 196 Independent ISO 3166 Countries in the world, when using the ISO 3166 database at [iso.org](http://iso.org), accessible from [ISO - ISO 3166 — Country Codes](https://www.iso.org/iso-3166-country-codes.html) (find the OBP, Online Browsing Platform). Wikipedia has a handy table; look for the independent countries here: [ISO 3166-1 - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Officially_assigned_code_elements). The 196 countries are… **Current Countries [notes in square parens, with “note:”]; Sorted by English Short Name, and Preceded by their ISO 3166 Alpha-3 Code** AFG: Afghanistan ALB: Albania DZA: Algeria [note: Dzayer (Berber)] AND: Andorra AGO: Angola ATG: Antigua and Barbuda ARG: Argentina ARM: Armenia AUS: Australia AUT: Austria AZE: Azerbaijan BHS: Bahamas BHR: Bahrain BGD: Bangladesh BRB: Barbados BLR: Belarus BEL: Belgium BLZ: Belize BEN: Benin BTN: Bhutan BOL: Bolivia (Plurinational State of) BIH: Bosnia and Herzegovina [note: Bȍsna i Hèrcegovina (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian)] BWA: Botswana BRA: Brazil BRN: Brunei Darussalam BGR: Bulgaria BFA: Burkina Faso BDI: Burundi CPV: Cabo Verde KHM: Cambodia [note: Khmer] CMR: Cameroon CAN: Canada CYM: Cayman Islands CAF: Central African Republic TCD: Chad [note: République du Tchad (French)] CHL: Chile CHN: China COL: Colombia COM: Comoros COG: Congo COD: Congo (Democratic Republic of the) CRI: Costa Rica CIV: Côte d’Ivoire HRV: Croatia [note: Republika Hrvatska (Croatian)] CUB: Cuba CYP: Cyprus CZE: Czechia DNK: Denmark DJI: Djibouti DMA: Dominica DOM: Dominican Republic ECU: Ecuador EGY: Egypt SLV: El Salvador GNQ: Equatorial Guinea ERI: Eritrea EST: Estonia ETH: Ethiopia FJI: Fiji FIN: Finland FRA: France GAB: Gabon GMB: Gambia GEO: Georgia DEU: Germany [note: Deutschland (German)] GHA: Ghana GIB: Gibraltar GRC: Greece GRD: Grenada GTM: Guatemala GIN: Guinea GNB: Guinea-Bissau GUY: Guyana HTI: Haiti VAT: Holy See [note: Vatican City State] HND: Honduras HUN: Hungary ISL: Iceland [note: Ísland (Icelandic)] IND: India IDN: Indonesia IRN: Iran (Islamic Republic of) IRQ: Iraq IRL: Ireland ISR: Israel ITA: Italy JAM: Jamaica JPN: Japan JOR: Jordan KAZ: Kazakhstan KEN: Kenya KIR: Kiribati PRK: Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of) KOR: Korea (Republic of) KWT: Kuwait KGZ: Kyrgyzstan LAO: Lao People’s Democratic Republic LVA: Latvia LBN: Lebanon LSO: Lesotho LBR: Liberia LBY: Libya LIE: Liechtenstein LTU: Lithuania LUX: Luxembourg MKD: Macedonia (the former Yugoslav Republic of) [note: Makedonija (Macedonian)] MDG: Madagascar MWI: Malawi MYS: Malaysia MDV: Maldives MLI: Mali MLT: Malta MHL: Marshall Islands MRT: Mauritania MUS: Mauritius MEX: Mexico FSM: Micronesia (Federated States of) MDA: Moldova (Republic of) MCO: Monaco MNG: Mongolia MNE: Montenegro MAR: Morocco [note: Maroc (French)] MOZ: Mozambique MMR: Myanmar NAM: Namibia NRU: Nauru NPL: Nepal NLD: Netherlands NZL: New Zealand NIC: Nicaragua NER: Niger NGA: Nigeria NOR: Norway OMN: Oman PAK: Pakistan PLW: Palau PAN: Panama PNG: Papua New Guinea PRY: Paraguay PER: Peru PHL: Philippines POL: Poland PRT: Portugal QAT: Qatar ROU: Romania RUS: Russian Federation RWA: Rwanda KNA: Saint Kitts and Nevis [note: Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla] LCA: Saint Lucia VCT: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines WSM: Samoa [note: known as Western Samoa until 1997] SMR: San Marino STP: Sao Tome and Principe SAU: Saudi Arabia SEN: Senegal SRB: Serbia SYC: Seychelles SLE: Sierra Leone SGP: Singapore SVK: Slovakia SVN: Slovenia SLB: Solomon Islands [note: B for Bellona?] SOM: Somalia ZAF: South Africa [note: Zuid-Afrika (Dutch)] SSD: South Sudan ESP: Spain [note: España (Spanish)] LKA: Sri Lanka SDN: Sudan SUR: Suriname SWZ: Swaziland SWE: Sweden CHE: Switzerland [note: Confoederatio Helvetica (Latin)] SYR: Syrian Arab Republic TJK: Tajikistan TZA: Tanzania, United Republic of THA: Thailand TLS: Timor-Leste TGO: Togo TON: Tonga TTO: Trinidad and Tobago TUN: Tunisia TUR: Turkey TKM: Turkmenistan TUV: Tuvalu UGA: Uganda UKR: Ukraine ARE: United Arab Emirates GBR: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland USA: United States of America URY: Uruguay UZB: Uzbekistan VUT: Vanuatu VEN: Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) VNM: Viet Nam YEM: Yemen ZMB: Zambia ZWE: Zimbabwe ---
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ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, formed in 1947 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, is an independent, non-governmental organization. Its members are the standards organizations of 162 member countries. It is the world’s largest developer of voluntary international standards and facilitates world trade by providing common standards between nations. Over twenty thousand standards have been set covering everything from manufactured products and technology to food safety, agriculture and healthcare. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34671 "2017-04-28T19:31:46Z")
For the solar eclipse this August, everyone in North America, given clear morning skies, can see at least a partial eclipse. But people should make sure to have eye protection that meets the new ISO standard published in June 2015, **ISO 12312-2:2015 Eye and face protection – Sunglasses and related eyewear – Part 2: Filters for direct observation of the sun**. > **[ISO 12312-2:2015](https://www.iso.org/standard/59289.html)** > > Eye and face protection — Sunglasses and related eyewear — Part 2: Filters for direct observation of the sun ISO 12312-2:2015 applies to all afocal (plano power) products intended for direct observation of the sun, such as solar eclipse viewing. ISO 12312-2:2015 does not apply to the following: a) afocal (plano power) sunglasses and clip-ons for general use intended for protection against solar radiation; b) eyewear for protection against radiation from artificial light sources, such as those used in solaria; c) eye protectors specifically intended for sports (e.g. ski goggles or other types); d) sunglasses that have been medically prescribed for attenuating solar radiation; e) prescription sunglass lenses. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2017, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34672 "2017-04-28T19:52:08Z")
Sales of Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses spiked after Tom Cruise appeared wearing a black pair in the 1983 sex comedy _Risky Business_. ---
**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:** [April 28, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34673 "2017-04-28T21:15:43Z")
Ray-Bans were founded in 1937. They’ve been worn by Peter Fonda in _Easy Rider_ (1969), Robert de Niro in _Taxi Driver_ (1976), General Douglas MacArthur in WWII (1941-1945 :)), and Arnold Schwarzenegger in _Terminator_ (1984). ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34674 "2017-04-29T01:10:14Z")
Terminator Stout is one of the flagship ales brewed by McMenamins, one of the earliest makers and purveyors of craft beers in the US Pacific Northwest. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34675 "2017-04-29T01:55:12Z")
HP Foods Ltd (now owned by Heinz) are purveyors of HP Sauce to Her Majesty under a Royal Warrant. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34676 "2017-04-29T02:51:11Z")
“Heinz 57” got its name from the 57 products the Heinz company produced at the time. These are the products they sold: Heinz Oven-Baked Beans - Pork and Tomato Sauce Heinz Oven-Baked Beans - Pork no Tomato Sauce Heinz Oven-Baked Beans - Tomato Sauce no Pork Heinz Oven-Baked Red Kidney Beans Heinz Cream of Asparagus Soup Heinz Cream of Celery Soup Heinz Cream of Green Pea Soup Heinz Cream of Mushroom Heinz Cream of Oyster Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup Heinz Bean Soup Heinz Beef Broth Heinz Clam Chowder Heinz Gumbo Creole Heinz Mock Turtle Soup Heinz Scotch Broth Heinz Noodle Soup Heinz Pepper Pot Soup Heinz Vegetable Soup Heinz Consommé Heinz Onion Soup Heinz Mince Meat Heinz Puddings—Date, Fig, and Plum Heinz Peanut Butter Heinz Cooked Spaghetti Heinz Cooked Macaroni Heinz Pure Jellies Heinz Apple Butter Heinz Gherkins—Sweet or Sour Heinz Mixed Pickles—Sweet or Sour Heinz Chow Chow Pickle Heinz Sweet Mustard Pickle Heinz Dill Pickles Heinz Fresh Cucumber Pickle Heinz Strained Foods Heinz India Relish Heinz Sandwich Spread Heinz Pickled Onions—Sweet and Sour Heinz Spanish Queen Olives Heinz Stuffed Spanish Olives Heinz Ripe Olives Heinz Pure Spanish Olive Oil Heinz Tomato Ketchup Heinz Chili Sauce Heinz Beefsteak Sauce Heinz Pepper Sauce—Red or Green Heinz Worcestershire Sauce Heinz Prepared Mustard—Brown or Yellow Heinz Evaporated Horseradish Heinz Mayonnaise Heinz Pure Malt Vinegar Heinz Pure Cider Vinegar Heinz Distilled White Vinegar Heinz Tarragon Vinegar Heinz Rice Flakes Heinz Breakfast Wheat Heinz Tomato Juice ---
**Author:** ![ozziemaland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f07891/32.png) [@ozziemaland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ozziemaland)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34677 "2017-04-29T03:27:24Z")
Teresa Heinz Kerry cashed out her stock in H.J. Heinz Company when Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital acquired the company in 2013. Three years later Kraft Foods Group, Inc. acquired the company and became Kraft Heinz Company. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2017, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34678 "2017-04-29T04:32:35Z")
Henry John Heinz, founder of the Heinz company, was a second cousin to Frederick Trump, the paternal grandfather of Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34679 "2017-04-29T13:37:24Z")
[An episode](http://www.snopes.com/trackdown-trump-character-wall/) of the 1950s western TV series ‘Trackdown’ featured a character named Trump who claimed he would build a wall in order to protect a town from the end of the world. A synopsis of the episode from the Classic TV Archive reads as follows: > [@](#): > > Walter Trump, a confidence man, puts on a long robe and holds a tent meeting in the town of Talpa. He tells the townspeople that a cosmic explosion will rain fire on the town and that he is the only one that can save them from death. Ranger Hoby Gilman attempts to prove Trump is a fraud. > … > \*Narrator: The people were ready to believe. Like sheep they ran to the slaughterhouse. And waiting for them was the high priest of fraud. > > Trump: I am the only one. Trust me. I can build a wall around your homes that nothing will penetrate. > > Townperson: What do we do? How can we save ourselves? > > Trump: You ask how do you build that wall. You ask, and I’m here to tell you.\* ---
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[Bart to the Future](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_to_the_Future#Depiction_of_Donald_Trump), a Simpsons episode that aired March 19, 2ooo, predicted Trump’s presidency. Writer Dan Greaney told The Hollywood Reporter in a 2016 interview that the thought of a Trump presidency at the time “just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom. It was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane.” ---
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Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. But a growing group of psychiatrists claim the cause is some **insanity** virus that lives within every person’s DNA, but most often is not genetically activated. Identical twins Steven and David Elmore were studied, as later into their teens Steven developed schizophrenia while David did not. Schizophrenia, one of the most common of mental diseases, affects about 1% of the population. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34682 "2017-04-29T20:47:15Z")
One example of the similarity of identical twins reared apart is the so-called “Jim twins”. These twins were adopted at the age of four weeks. Both of the adopting couples, unknown to each other, named their son James. Upon reunion of the twins in 1979, when they were 39 years old, Jim and Jim learned that: Both twins are married to women named Betty and divorced from women named Linda. One has named his first son James Alan while the other named his first son James Allan. Both twins have an adopted brother whose name is Larry. Both named their pet dog “Toy.” Both had some law-enforcement training and had been a part-time deputy sheriff in Ohio. Each did poorly in spelling and well in math. Each did carpentry, mechanical drawing, and block lettering. Each vacation in Florida in the same three-block-long beach area. Both twins began suffering from tension headaches at eighteen, gained ten pounds at the same time, and are six feet tall and 180 pounds. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34683 "2017-04-29T22:48:44Z")
_Meet Cathy, who’s lived most everywhere, From Zanzibar to Barclay Square. But Patty’s only seen the sight. A girl can see from Brooklyn Heights – What a crazy pair! But they’re cousins, Identical cousins all the way. One pair of matching bookends, Different as night and day._ ---
**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:** [April 29, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34684 "2017-04-29T23:30:13Z")
The Stone Town of Zanzibar is a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its reflection of Swahili culture and for the old part of Zanzibar that brings together and homogenizes disparate elements of the cultures of Africa, the Arab region, India, and Europe for more than a millennium. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34685 "2017-04-30T00:41:38Z")
_Stand on Zanzibar_ is a dystopian science fiction novel, written in the 60’s. The title refers to the idea that by 2010, the world’s population would be large enough to occupy the island of Zanzibar, if everyone was standing upright. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657/34686 "2017-04-30T02:17:44Z")
Unguja Island off of Tanzania’s east coast, at 608 mi², is the world’s 247th largest island by area, per [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_by_area). The Hawaiian island of Oahu is the next largest island, at 611 mi². Unguja Island is informally called Zanzibar Island, since Zanzibar Town is located there on its west coast. From image searches it looks like it would be a lovely place to visit. [https://www.google.com/search?q=zanzibar&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=minv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiv7vj\_jcvTAhVK\_WMKHTS\_AwoQ\_AUICigC&biw=768&bih=928#hl=en-us&tbm=isch&q=zanzibar,+tanzania](https://www.google.com/search?q=zanzibar&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=minv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiv7vj_jcvTAhVK_WMKHTS_AwoQ_AUICigC&biw=768&bih=928#hl=en-us&tbm=isch&q=zanzibar,+tanzania) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1733) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-dominoes-play-off-the-last-bit-of-trivia/527657.md?page=1735)