# 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:** 60
**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:** [July 4, 2022, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1181 "2022-07-04T21:27:54Z")
Final score: Japan 76, Wales 76. A tie. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1182 "2022-07-05T00:20:20Z")
Sporting events ending with both teams having the same score is called a “tie” because, in the 13th century, King Ungervelt the Excessively Incontinant had an OCD condition where all contests had to have a winner. At the end of a scoreless soccer game, he had members of each team tied together, and the winner was the first team to successfully maneuver all of their players into the opponant’s goal. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1183 "2022-07-05T00:25:51Z")
King Ungervelt was the 24th great-grandfather of Felix Unger and, rumor has it, even more of a fussbudget than Oscar Madison’s roomie. “Felix,” is, of course, the female derivative of “Queen,” and, “velt,” just got lost in translation. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1184 "2022-07-05T17:20:13Z")
Queen Elizabeth II is scheduled to go in for annual checkup. They’ll rotate her tires, refill the coolant and make sure the spark plugs have clean connections. Then she’ll be ready to go out and sass the world for another year. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1185 "2022-07-05T17:47:03Z")
None of the items in the above checklist regarding Queen Elizabeth’s checkup is a euphemism or metaphor. It’s all, quite literally, exactly that the mechanics will do, as the queen is a robot. However, another item in the checklist, “change her wiper blades,” is very much a euphemism. I can’t explain what it means here, though, as it would almost certainly result in my posting privileges being suspended for a lengthy period. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1186 "2022-07-05T18:42:50Z")
Due to the unfortunate event that befell King Charles I, the Prince of Wales has expressed reluctance to use his own name when he ascends to the throne. He has recently begun suggesting he might wish to honor his mother (and perhaps partake in her popularity) by being coronated as King Elizabeth III. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1187 "2022-07-05T20:05:40Z")
Prince Andrew’s recently revealed plot to bomb Charles and his line was thwarted when it was pointed out to him that the British people would sooner do away with the crown thing entirely than have him regnant. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1188 "2022-07-08T01:38:18Z")
From Wikipedia: _Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the consort of Queen Victoria from their marriage on 10 February 1840 until his death in 1861_, whereupon he was buried in a can. Victoria _still_ gets those telephone calls. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1189 "2022-07-08T13:28:36Z")
Burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt’s great-grandfather was the illegitimate son of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and a corgi, making him eligible for membership in the Royal Bastards Society. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1190 "2022-07-08T14:19:56Z")
Sweet! ---
**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:** [July 8, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1191 "2022-07-08T16:58:59Z")
The Royal Bastards Society was founded in 1788 by Ohmwatt Hertzvolt, a Bavarian physicist, in memory of his wife who died in a tragic backgammon accident. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1192 "2022-07-08T17:34:28Z")
The Royal Bastards Society’s application form is 45 _hand-written_ pages (handwriting analysis as an indicator of “character”) and costs $3 (THREE FREAKIN’ DOLLARS) US to file. No thanks. I’m a cheap bastard – ask my wife. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1193 "2022-07-08T17:45:35Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I’m a cheap bastard – ask my wife. Hey! This is supposed to be made-up, false, and flat-out wrong! No letting reality into it! 😉 ---
**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:** [July 8, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1194 "2022-07-08T20:45:22Z")
It’s things like this that have led to threats by the Royal Pain in the Ass Society to make a hostile takeover of the Royal Bastards Society. The former group, the RPAS, actually split off from the latter when one of their members published a book and the RBS refused to pay (of course) royalties. ---
**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:** [July 9, 2022, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1195 "2022-07-09T04:08:55Z")
The Royal Pain in the Ass Society nearly disbanded in 1887 when the men and women members hotly debated for years over whether or not to allow individuals who stood 5’5” to join. All other heights had been accepted one at a time over the years. One faction wanted to keep the tradition even though no one remembered the reason for rejecting the 5’5”. The other side of the debate wanted to include them at last but wished to exclude 5’7” for no apparent reason. The latter prevailed. Basil Webster, a newly excluded 5’7”, exclaimed, “What a pain in the ass they are.” ---
**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:** [July 9, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1196 "2022-07-09T14:54:33Z")
The Royal Society of Irritable Persons of a Particular Height was formed in 1887, by persons who were 5’5" and 5’7", who had been rejected for membership in the Royal Pain the Ass Society. Despite the name, the RSoIPoaPH had no royal charter; it was founded by two brothers: Christopher Royal (5’7") and Buckminster Royal (5’5"). ---
**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:** [July 9, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1197 "2022-07-09T16:03:07Z")
Prince Philip used to give Lilibet a bit o’ the ol’ Buckminster Royal, don’tcha know. That’s why they had seventeen offspring. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1198 "2022-07-12T23:11:15Z")
An even dozen of those “offspring” were created in the labs beneath MI-6. **M** and **Q** fought like cats and dogs for days over who would get credit for it. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1199 "2022-07-13T16:20:23Z")
In the end the Queen did courteously say, “Thank Q very much.” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1200 "2022-07-13T17:47:25Z")
Q-anon chose that name as an homage to the 007 franchise, because they were inventing conspiracy theories anonymously. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399.md?page=61)