# Trivia thread! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 4, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-thread/527628 "2010-02-04T02:44:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-thread/527628/61 "2010-03-11T05:55:48Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Melville Dewey, the creator of the Dewey decimal system for cataloguing libraries, also invented the vertical file folder cabinet. He was also an advocate for spelling reform who changed his name to Melvil Dui and was a major promoter for getting the 1932 Winter Olympics awarded to his hometown of Lake Placid, NY. He took up residence in Lake Placid, to be sure, but his hometown was Adams Center, NY. (My first summer job was at the Melville Dewey Library at Jefferson Community College, eight miles north of his birthplace.) ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-thread/527628/62 "2010-03-11T07:30:43Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I was waiting for someone to catch that. 😃 Still don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-thread/527628/63 "2010-03-11T07:47:46Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Still don’t get it. [spoiler]See the little blue arrow next to the quote you tagged? Click it, and it will bring you to the post, which has a little blue arrow next to **Carl Corey** ’s name. Click on that, and you will see the text of **Malleus, Incus, Stapes!**'s post. Read the text. Then read the poster’s name.[/spoiler]In my defense, it’s late, and **PlainJain** probably needs her sleep. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-thread/527628/64 "2010-03-11T08:58:00Z")
The bones of the inner ear are called\* malleus, incus, and stapes. They sound like made up words and I had to google to find out what they are. \*I’m not putting on spoiler tags because it took way too long to find. ---
**Author:** ![Walpurgis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Walpurgis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walpurgis)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-thread/527628/65 "2010-03-11T09:10:52Z")
The okapi has a [tongue](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Okapitongue.jpg) that’s blue and 14 inches long. It can lick its own leyelids. And frequently does. ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-thread/527628/66 "2010-03-11T10:45:22Z")
> [@uncle\_squeegee](#): > > Nokia’s first product was paper. Nintendo’s first product was playing cards. Nokia also used to make tires, and [this](http://www.nokiantyres.com/) company is its former tire division. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-thread/527628/67 "2010-03-11T19:28:25Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > After one season, Star Trek’s Nichele Nichols was at a party. She was complaining about her role on the show and said she was going to quit. A man behind her got her attention and begged her not to quit, because she was such a positive role model for black Americans. That man happened to be Martin Luther King. She stayed on the show until its cancellation. > > Nichols later went on to have a very successful career hawking psychic services on late night TV. Another bit of Nichelle Nichols trivia: Her brother was one of the 39 Heaven’s Gate cult members that committed suicide in 1997. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-thread/527628/68 "2010-03-11T21:56:55Z")
> [@Walpurgis](#): > > The okapi has a [tongue](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Okapitongue.jpg) that’s blue and 14 inches long. It can lick its own leyelids. And frequently does. Holy shit! That zebra is wearing a fur coat! I’d never heard of an Okapi before today. Cool. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-thread/527628.md?page=3)