# 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:** 95
**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 30, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1881 "2025-04-30T04:03:23Z")
In 1921, Henry Ford built an auto assembly plant in Perth, Australia, and hired an all-kangaroo workforce for it. He had to shut the place down after only six months because it turned out the kangaroos were notoriously unreliable about showing up for work. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1882 "2025-04-30T04:11:10Z")
In 1922, Davis Laden-Hargreaves III, who headed the disastrous Perth Operations, chose to relocate to Oahu to try again establishing an assembly plant. It closed six months later. Turns out, Hawaiians are equally unreliable about showing up for work. ---
**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:** [April 30, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1883 "2025-04-30T15:01:00Z")
In 1923, Davis Laden-Hargreaves III learned that Hawaiians actually are quite reliable about showing up for work. They did not show up in 1922 because no one could understand a word he was saying, and thought he was just handing them money out of the goodness of his heart. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1884 "2025-05-19T18:29:34Z")
In 1993 Hawaii stopped entering the “USA’s Most Landlocked State” competition after having come in the last 5 for the previous 60 years. ---
**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:** [May 19, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1885 "2025-05-19T21:12:58Z")
Hawai’i has spent at least $150 trying to get Rhode Island to abandon its nickname of “The Ocean State” especially since Rhode Island is of course not an island. The Hawai’ians have been unable to raise more money for their efforts because nobody in either state gives a damn. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1886 "2025-05-30T20:55:27Z")
Cedric T Rhode, after whom Rhode Island was named, was killed in the 1855 partial eclipse of the moon by the sun when he went out without his parasol. ---
**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 9, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1887 "2025-07-09T13:09:31Z")
The Hitsong Lay Trivia Mine in Lesotho was sold in June 2025 to a private buyer from Iceland who relocated it to Grímsstaðir, a settlement in north-east Iceland where there is known to be a rich deposit of Sodium bi-Triviate. This is converted to Trivia using the Obblie process which involves boiling it with a mixture if Copper Sulphate and Potassium Triumvirate, and leaving the resultant purple sludge to dry in a “Troast House” for a minimum of six minutes. The hole in Lesotho where the original mine was has been converted into an active volcano. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1888 "2025-07-09T15:19:47Z")
Lesotho was named for French explorer Robert La Salle and Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. ---
**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 9, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1889 "2025-07-09T17:04:37Z")
Lesotho is the Castilian pronunciation. In the Americas, it’s pronounced “Le-sox-o.” ---
**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 12, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1890 "2025-07-12T03:21:46Z")
The Gulf of America was so named by the sitting president after voters in New Mexico agreed to change their state’s name to New America. ---
**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 12, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1891 "2025-07-12T03:24:44Z")
It is _spelled_ “Gulf of America” on maps, but it’s _pronounced_ “Throat-Wobbler Mangrove.” ---
**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 12, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1892 "2025-07-12T05:00:11Z")
I worked on the movie _Marathon Man_ as the assistant gopher for the secretary to the assistant to the backup makeup artist. During some downtime while shooting the dental scene, Laurence Olivier filled a cavity for me. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1893 "2025-07-12T13:35:03Z")
In 1991 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences considered giving an Oscar to _Gremlins 2_ for using the line “Is it safe?” during the dental torture scenes. [i][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbv\_jheeMTY[/i]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbv_jheeMTY%5B/i%5D) ---
**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 12, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1894 "2025-07-12T13:57:41Z")
Sorry about my last post. I see now that I was answering Lie About Yourself in the wrong thread. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1895 "2025-07-12T14:13:47Z")
I thought it fit into the thread, but maybe we can incorporate it. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1896 "2025-07-13T18:34:19Z")
Corporate America has discovered a gulf between domesticated gophers and the subterranean denizens of Florida mangrove forests. Studies to improve their relations have been halted by local folk who oppose to snooty academics traipsing around their everglades. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1897 "2025-08-08T17:07:06Z")
Governor DiSantis is promoting a bill outlawing the domestication of gophers. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1898 "2025-08-08T19:32:04Z")
We now have learned the reason Trump’s caddies move his ball is to stop gophers from snatching them, according to reports from the president’s head groundskeeper, Carl “Willie” Spackler. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1899 "2025-08-08T19:42:54Z")
Trump has announced that with all the time he has spent playing golf, he’s so good now that he doesn’t have to cheat any more! _(… although he also announced that he’s also not going to cheat any less… )_ _ **-”BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [August 15, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1900 "2025-08-15T04:32:01Z")
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