# 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:** 79
**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:** [March 21, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1561 "2023-03-21T20:33:11Z")
1790 is the only year to have had a month of Sundays. This “Mois de Dimanche” was introduced by Louis XVI of France in an attempt to reduce inflation, but was an unmitigated failure and was never repeated - until 1803, when it was never repeated again. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1562 "2023-03-23T01:15:28Z")
King Louis LXXXVI of France was the first king to successfully reduce inflation, but he was struck a fatal blow by a small band of time-traveling Welsh assassins, and it was all for nought. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1563 "2023-03-23T01:50:51Z")
Welsh assassins are known amongst the darker corners of society as “good for a lark” and “time and money well wasted.” This reputation of criminal incompetence goes back to Thomas H. Ellis-Damithall, a 15th century highwayman who never got away with his loot. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1564 "2023-03-23T12:56:06Z")
Thomas H. Ellis-Damithall, Jr., bastard son of Thomas H. Ellis-Damithall, Sr., highwayman, moved to Keystone, California, and organized a corps of police officers much along the lines of his father’s level of incompetence. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1565 "2023-03-23T13:36:42Z")
A distant cousin, Ioan Fugoff, remained in Wales and co-founded, with Dylan Dye, the law firm of Fugoff and Dye. Unsurprisingly, the sign outside their offices drew more laughs than clients. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1566 "2023-03-23T13:59:50Z")
Sir Winston Thuringer-Sharpe hired the law firm of Fugoff and Dye to represent him against charges of “committing lewd and lascivious behavior” while visiting the Royals at Kensington Palace. Apparently, Sir Winston farted in the presence of Diana, Princess of Wales. (Unconfirmed reports state Lady Di giggled, then caught a whiff and ran screaming from the room.) ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1567 "2023-03-24T10:47:39Z")
Sir Winston was made aware of his _faux pas_ when his companion, Lady Penelope Thistlebustle, remonstrated him for passing wind before Lady Diana. Sir Winston immediately offered his apologies, stating that he hadn’t realised it was the princess’s turn. _ **-“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:** [March 24, 2023, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1568 "2023-03-24T11:24:15Z")
Lady Penelope Thistlebustle was the inventor of the piercing gaze. She lost more suitors that way. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1569 "2023-03-24T13:34:01Z")
The Piercing Gays were a homosexual S&M rock band from Blawnox, PA. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1570 "2023-03-24T15:13:40Z")
Blawnox, PA, is the home of the Withering Wallflowers of the National Spotlight League. ---
**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:** [March 24, 2023, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1571 "2023-03-24T16:56:49Z")
The National Spotlight League started out as a local group called the Erie Penlight Squad. It was an AA team. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1572 "2023-03-25T15:35:02Z")
AA teams used batteries to better their performances. Oswald (“Oz”, to his colleagues) Holt was credited with aligning batteries in order of strength and durability. The first battery would be the strongest, receiving energy boosts from the next in line, which received boosts from the next, and so on, down to the final battery (usually the weakest). That last battery was often referred to as the Oz Holt End Battery. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1573 "2023-03-25T22:58:19Z")
All of the tremendous efforts that Orson Bean spend during his lifetime to have Austria re-nicknamed “Oz” have gone for nought. Why, most people in Vienna have never even heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2023, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1574 "2023-03-26T02:00:02Z")
The city of Vienna was named after a place of special meaning, in a poem written by Billicus Jovelius in 99CE. The part of the poem is as follows: - Wherefore thouest hither, thou impetuous youth? Thou be ambitious for thy years Who dost perceive thyself well-read, pray tell thee Dost thou fear thine shadow? Pray, Thou shalt forsee, Vienna dost await thee ---
**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:** [March 26, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1575 "2023-03-26T04:02:22Z")
It is commonly believed that the “Wiener dog” nickname is derived from the Viennese sausage (“Wienerwurst,” in German.) Actually, the city was overrun by hydrophobic dachshunds in the late 14th century, and the city got its name from the dogs. ---
**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:** [March 26, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1576 "2023-03-26T12:30:40Z")
Luckily, the Viennese were able to round up all the dachshunds and they were all ground to sausages in [Johnny Rebeck’s Machine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y9LNpcVTqw&ab_channel=JohnBuchanan). ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1577 "2023-03-29T18:22:16Z")
In an unsanctioned Pew Poll, 89% of school children preferred Johnny Rebeck’s Machine over playing _The Oregon Trail_ on their school computers. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1578 "2023-03-31T18:38:23Z")
It’s estimated that 89% of those who attempted to cross the continent on the Oregon Trail died of dysentery. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1579 "2023-04-01T18:23:49Z")
A sequel to _The Oregon Trail_ called “Donner’s Quest” was pulled from shelves after some players tried to eat the others. ---
**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 3, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1580 "2023-04-03T14:49:45Z")
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