# 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:** 85
**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:** [October 12, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1681 "2023-10-12T17:25:43Z")
The late Orson Bean was inspired by Gaffer Gamgee. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1682 "2023-10-12T17:53:12Z")
The punctual Orson Bean was given a 43 year prison sentence in 1924 for tacks evasion. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1683 "2023-10-12T18:01:18Z")
Orson Bean had a waxy complexion and he hated being buttered up. One time a guy was stalking him so Bean gave that man a black eye. Also, Orson Bean owned a Pinto. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1684 "2023-10-13T00:49:01Z")
Lee Iacocca designed the Pinto to explode. His original intention was to give it to his ex for her birthday. She never drove it. Because he didn’t think the public would buy it, he assumed no one else would get hurt. He hurriedly took a job with Chrysler when Nader wrote about it. He eventually had to push his ex in front of a moving Pinto. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1685 "2023-10-13T01:07:43Z")
Ralph Nader wrote an exposé on the inner workings of Las Vegas in 1970 while attending an auto manufacturers convention. His editor decided the copy was “too dry” and assigned free-lance writer Hunter S Thompson to “spice it up.” Hunter locked himself in his woodshed and changed Nader’s story into “Doing Las Vegas on $100 a Day and Lots of Acid.” The editor loved the rewrite but changed the title to “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Nader threatened to sue his publishers for misappropriation; he changed his mind after Thompson visited him and they dropped 250mg of Owsley’s Purple Haze. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1686 "2023-10-18T02:37:16Z")
Nader’s candidacy for president in 1996 came after his first acid trip. He decided not to run again but after a mescaline trip he decided to run again in 2000. His runs in 2004 and 2008 were sober decisions. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2023, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1687 "2023-11-03T03:10:20Z")
The US National Archives has released a statement declaring the years from 2016 to 2020 never happened. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1688 "2023-11-03T12:09:55Z")
The US National Archives website receives 80 percent of its traffic from stoned people mistakenly going there in attempts to find the Live Music Archive to download jam band shows. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1689 "2023-11-03T12:30:51Z")
Jam bands from the past include Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Grapeful Dead. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2023, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1690 "2023-11-04T05:03:39Z")
The State of Oregon has mandated that any musical combo declaring itself to be a jam band must be organic. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1691 "2023-11-04T18:25:58Z")
Oregon initially applied to join The United States as The Kingdom of Oregon, but was denied because they weren’t a “state”. When they argued that The Commonwealth of Indiana was admitted, the reply was “Who cares about Indiana?” ---
**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:** [November 4, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1692 "2023-11-04T18:45:51Z")
“Who Cares About Indiana” is Ohio’s official state song. Indiana’s official state song is “Go Fuck Yourselves, You Cornfed Ohio Assholes”. It’s not what you would call a friendly rivalry. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1693 "2023-11-04T20:53:45Z")
During Labor Day weekend 1973, some city council members from Dayton, Ohio, sneaked over to Indianapolis, took the Indiana governor’s car apart, and reassembled it in his office. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1694 "2023-11-05T19:51:54Z")
The Indiana governor’s car is still in the office… the governor hammered the roof down and put a piece of wood on the top and used it as a desk. The lights and horn still work. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1695 "2023-11-06T13:24:17Z")
Lawyers are still working out the issues raised by the governor’s will, which stipulates that he be interred in the trunk of the car. He is nearly 100 years old now, having installed the desktop on the car 50 years ago, so the question has some urgency. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1696 "2023-11-06T13:29:31Z")
One of the biggest issues with the governor’s will is that it doesn’t stipulate what to do with all the camping equipment and fireworks stored in the trunk of the car, which will, of course, have to be emptied out before the eventual interment. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1697 "2023-11-06T13:56:10Z")
In a rare display of bi-partisanship, the Ohio legislature has drafted and approved a joint resolution calling for the governor – who is one of the last remaining Whigs in the United States – to be cremated and the cremains be placed in the vehicle by drilling a hole into the passenger compartment and pouring them in through a funnel. An amendment to insert the phrase _‘upon his death’_ into the resolution never made it out of the rules committee. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1698 "2023-11-06T15:52:33Z")
Whig politicians were looked down upon as frumpy and “old hat” to the upstart political parties, such as the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties. Whigs were known to erupt in shouts and spewing obscenities in Congress, which led to the phrase, “Whigging out”, used to describe such public outbursts. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2023, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1699 "2023-11-08T20:08:46Z")
The Whig Party died out after they whigged-out too often. The Democratic-Republican Party members became intolerant of the Whigs and one by one burned them at the stake until the rest of the Whigs changed parties. Following a congressional investigation, the Democratic-Republican split as each pointed fingers at the other concerning the burnings. True story. ; ) ---
**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:** [November 8, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1700 "2023-11-08T23:00:39Z")
The herb Basminyolka, which grows in the tropical rainforests of northern Siberia, is known to be an effective cure for Whig intolerance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399.md?page=84) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399.md?page=86)