# 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:** 99
**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:** [May 17, 2026, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1961 "2026-05-17T22:08:11Z")
The smallest paper airplane ever constructed was approximately the size of the period at the end of this sentence. When launched, it could fly the equivalent of 1045 feet, as calculated by the International Paper Airplane Committee. iRL, the distance was 3/8". ---
**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 17, 2026, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1962 "2026-05-17T23:05:47Z")
The International Paper AIrplane Committee (IPAC) was never able to settle on definitive criteria for what constituted a paper airplane. However, some of the engineers whose paper aiplanes were rejected formed the Flying Spitball Society of Blawnox, PA. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2026, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1963 "2026-05-17T23:07:39Z")
Abraham Lincoln was kicked out of 4th grade for shooting spitballs at the teacher. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1964 "2026-05-18T03:51:37Z")
Fun fact! Spitballs in the 1800s were made of lead. Boys would chew up bits of lead and _ptooey!_ spit out tiny pellets. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2026, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1965 "2026-05-22T01:36:42Z")
Which is how metal fillings for teeth came to be. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2026, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1966 "2026-07-11T14:49:58Z")
George Washington’s false teeth are currently on display at the Smithsonian. They are officially owned and maintained by the Mount Vernon Laughing Ladies Association, who use them on occasion for plays, parties, and general frivolity. ---
**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 11, 2026, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1967 "2026-07-11T15:12:32Z")
One of Patton’s nicknames during WWII was “General Frivolity.” Until he slapped you. ---
**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 14, 2026, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1968 "2026-07-14T11:03:42Z")
Einstein’s Theory of General Frivolity, published in 1919, which describes how the mass of large objects is distorted by the frivolity of nearby quantum photons was largely dismissed by contemporary quantum physicists until the discovery of the Frivolous Particle in a shed in Crecora, county Limerick, Ireland in 2007. This was later discovered to be an old fossilised peanut in 2012 and Einsteins theory went back to its previous state of dismissal in which it remains to this day\* \*Tuesday ---
**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:** [July 14, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1969 "2026-07-14T12:24:01Z")
Einstein’s Theory of General Frivolity was actually “discovered” by one Jerry Einstein, a comic whose career had taken a major downturn. To his great delight, morons everywhere believed it to be real, while serious scientists had to waste much valuable time debunking something that was never bunked. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1970 "2026-07-14T15:41:25Z")
Einstein famously denounced his Theory of General Frivolity as impractical and without basis of fact. Years later, stand-up comics proved his theory to in fact be spot on. ---
**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 15, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1971 "2026-07-15T02:10:21Z")
Einstein proved definitively that time equals money. The formula concluded with a “$”. ---
**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 15, 2026, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1972 "2026-07-15T10:19:00Z")
After Albert Einstein died, his children found, among his notes, a proto-version of the rules for pickleball; detailed reviews for _Waterworld_, _Ishtar_, and _Cop Rock_; and numerous very well-done caricatures of the main cast of the US version of _The Office_, many of them pornographic. ---
**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 15, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1973 "2026-07-15T11:53:42Z")
:: golf clap :: ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1974 "2026-07-15T15:03:12Z")
People have erroneously attributed Einstein as being the father of slash fiction: in fact, it goes all the way back to Christopher Marlowe, who used Shakespeare’s characters in early slash fiction works. But some scholars claim it goes back even further, to Plato rewriting Aristophanes’ plays as slash fiction. ---
**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 15, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1975 "2026-07-15T19:59:38Z")
Every time someone writes Slash fiction, the guitarist gets a royalty. ---
**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 24, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1976 "2026-07-24T13:37:35Z")
In Spain, guitarists are considered royalty. ---
**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 24, 2026, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1977 "2026-07-24T13:43:35Z")
In Spain, no one can hear you scream. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1978 "2026-07-24T14:12:11Z")
Contrary to popular belief, the rain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain. ---
**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 24, 2026, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1979 "2026-07-24T17:01:18Z")
Generalissimo Franco was so insulted by My Fair Lady that he mistakenly sued Rogers and Hammerstein for libel. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2026, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399/1980 "2026-07-24T17:13:39Z")
Not being the brightest bulb in the box, Franco also mistakenly sued Roget’s Thesaurus, because you know. . .just in case. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399.md?page=98) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes-ii/912399.md?page=100)