# Made-up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia Dominoes II **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 23, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399 "2020-06-23T14:55:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 53
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1041 "2022-04-07T16:35:50Z")
The original super bowl, after which the Super Bowl is named, was designed by Josiah Chippenwedge in Worcestershire (pronounced “worcestershire”) , England in 1765. It was thrown in the LoganFruit factory in Stoke-on-Trent and fired in the great kiln at the Dalewood pottery just along the road in Cheadle. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1042 "2022-04-09T17:15:20Z")
The name “Worcestershire” is pronounced differently in different countries. In England and Ireland, it is usually pronounced “Wooster.” In the United States, it is typically pronounced “Worst-er-sherr.” In Canada, it is, by law, only pronounced “Worster, eh?” ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1043 "2022-04-10T01:29:00Z")
Long-term residents of Worcester, Massachusetts pronounce their city’s name as “Wistah.” (sorry, that’s _not_ made-up, false, or flat-out wrong.) :They also pronounce “Cholmondely” as “Chimney,” and Limburger as “Limbaugh.” They are considered by even most other New Englanders as being hopelessly confused, or as New Englanders pronounce it, “fucked up.” ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1044 "2022-04-10T02:10:06Z")
Rush Limbaugh, who was born Tush Limberger, originally hailed brom Wistah (pronounced wor’chester cher), New York (pronounced nuhyawk). ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1045 "2022-04-10T22:39:03Z")
Rush Limbaugh is unpronounceable. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1046 "2022-04-11T02:21:32Z")
Rush Limbaugh was the pinnacle of patriotism and showed it by carefully and thoughtfully weighing all sides of a story along with proven facts, all prior to espousing his opinions. Therefore, it was a wise person who always agreed with him. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1047 "2022-04-12T15:57:39Z")
The Proven Facts were a 1960’s psychedelic folk trio, famous as a professional support act who refused to be the main act due to the late finishes. They believed that if they were still on stage after midnight, their amplifiers would turn into vegetables. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1048 "2022-04-12T19:42:49Z")
The Proven Facts were initially offered the opportunity to perform the soundtrack music for a psychedelic musical version of “Cinderella,” but the offer was revoked when the trio turned back into mice. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1049 "2022-04-13T02:20:06Z")
It is a proven fact that, despite having sunk almost a hundred years ago, the swimming pool on the ‘F’ deck of _Titanic_ is still filled with water. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1050 "2022-04-13T17:12:48Z")
In 2023 the water from that pool will be distilled and sold to the general public as Trump Water. Not available to immigrants or people standing in line waiting to vote. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1051 "2022-04-14T05:18:54Z")
Trump Water will be available in glass disposable bottles at $5/20oz. Trump Water will not have been subjected to all the unnecessary liberal filtering that we often see these days. The source will be the mighty Mississippi River. And we will be proud to like it, gawdammit. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1052 "2022-04-14T13:36:21Z")
Songs written about the mighty Mississippi River include _Danny Boy_, _Rockin’ Robin_, _Manhattan_ and _Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring_. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1053 "2022-04-14T15:13:27Z")
Professional baseball player Robin Yount played for the Milwaukee Brewers for 20 years, won two MVP awards, and was elected to the Hall of Fame, despite not being a human being – it was later revealed that Yount was a flock of robins, wearing a human suit. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1054 "2022-04-14T15:24:39Z")
Yount was inconsolable for weeks after Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Randy Johnson accidentally hit and killed a dove with a pitch during a spring training game in 2001. Baseball observers were puzzled about Yount’s behavior until it was finally revealed that the dove had been a very close friend of several of Yount’s robins. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1055 "2022-04-14T17:25:17Z")
Robin Yount was eighteen years old when he made his major league debut with the Milwaukee Brewers, but had lied about his age, telling the team that he was only sixteen. They signed him anyway since, according to Wisconsin law, they would only have to pay him the minimum hourly wage for minors. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1056 "2022-04-15T13:31:43Z")
Wisconsin has no laws: only suggestions and rude remarks. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1057 "2022-04-15T13:59:47Z")
Rhodri Marx, Karl’s cousin, founded the Welsh communist party in 1884 after having been kicked in the head by an incongruent zebra in Ozoir-la-Ferrière near Paris, France. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1058 "2022-04-15T14:07:35Z")
**pdf** ’s non-domino reply would be illegal in Wisconsin if Wisconsin had any laws. As is, _pfffffffft!!_ But it does have the virtue of bringing our attention to the endangered species, the incongruent zebras. The last known breeding pair is in captivity in the Blawnox PA Zoological Garden and Beer Museum. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1059 "2022-04-15T14:15:52Z")
The Blawnox PA Zoological Garden and Beer Museum has the distinction of being the only open-to-the-public facility in the contiguous forty-eight states that exists in two separate, independent-of-each-other locations. The first was built in 1938. The second was built a mere three blocks away, in 1951, by developers who were somehow not aware of the already-existing version. I’m still trying to find out which one has the incongruent zebras. I’ll report back on my findings when the domination (the process of domino-like gameplay) leads back to something I can attach the answer to. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1060 "2022-04-16T12:22:02Z")
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