# Made-Up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia Dominoes **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [April 21, 2014, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580 "2014-04-21T03:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 103
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2041 "2014-08-22T13:36:47Z")
One out of ten doctors keep a mummy dressed as Cher in their closet. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2042 "2014-08-22T14:07:24Z")
An industrial remix of Cher’s “Believe” was featured in all the fight scenes of _The Mummy Returns._ Though never officially released as a single, the remix did reach #1 on the Sri Lankan charts, where it remained for 76 weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2043 "2014-08-22T14:20:21Z")
A recent study by led by Dr. Cher Remieux was conducted at Boston University to determine why women are so sexually attracted to mummies. After months of work, these researchers believe they have the answer: **pharoahmones**. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2044 "2014-08-22T14:47:53Z")
{ouch, that one’s so good it hurts} The Pharaoh Ut-Totes-Magotes had 27 wives, 133 concubines, and a blonde girlfriend named Sheila he kept on the side. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2045 "2014-08-22T15:11:49Z")
Steve Martin is actually King Tutankhamun, who faked his own death after getting an immortality serum from a blonde girlfriend named Shelia he kept on the side. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2046 "2014-08-22T15:25:19Z")
Dr. Steven A. Martinssen, reader at the Chair of Lectors at the University of Leicestersquared, has recently released his study indicating that the Lord of the Rings trilogy was actually J.R.R. Tolkein’s allegory of the formation of the United States and the Revolutionary War. In this hypothesis, Bilbo is Sam Adams and Frodo is John Adams; the elves are the French, the dwarfs are the Prussians, the goblins are the Hessians. Furthermore, Gandalf is Benjamin Franklin and Aragorn is (obviously) George Washington. Martinssen’s study bogs down considerably, however, as he tries for three chapters to maintain that Arwen is the Marquis de Lafayette. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2047 "2014-08-22T15:28:49Z")
Sam Adams, John Adams, the French, the Prussians, the Hessians, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette and Dr. Steven A. Martinssen all had a woman on the side named Sheila. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2048 "2014-08-22T15:41:37Z")
When a girlfriend remarked to Shelia that she was getting too much action on the side, she replied “Shirley, you can’t be serious.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2049 "2014-08-22T20:01:14Z")
George Washington had to let servant Shirley Phartuccio go from his Mount Vernon estate in July 1774 when she couldn’t refrain from giggling while ladling soup during a family dinner (she just couldn’t be serious). ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2050 "2014-08-22T20:21:29Z")
What George or any of the other diners didn’t realize was that Shirley kept her pet toad in the soup tureen. She called it his “hot tub time”. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2051 "2014-08-22T21:27:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > …In this hypothesis …Aragorn is (obviously) George Washington… “…Greets the antique the hero new? 'tis but the same–the heir legitimate, continued ever, The indomitable heart and arm–proofs of the never-broken line, Courage, alertness, patience, faith, the same–e’en in defeat defeated not, the same…” From here: [Classic Poems About America for the 4th of July](http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/wwhitman/bl-ww-washington.htm) In play: Shirley Phartuccio is generally credited with inventing the Jell-O mold when, late in life, she was a cook at Al’s Roadside Tavern, Bar & Grille in Camden, N.J. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2052 "2014-08-22T21:32:24Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > George Washington had to let servant Shirley Phartuccio go from his Mount Vernon estate in July 1774 when she couldn’t refrain from giggling while ladling soup during a family dinner (she just couldn’t be serious). I’m gonna send over a comfortbot to make sure you’re taking your meds. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2053 "2014-08-22T22:41:17Z")
The Al of Al’s Roadside Tavern was none other than Francis Albert Sinatra. He inherited the diner from his father and kept it going in case the whole singing/acting thing didn’t work out. Today, under new management, they still offer an Old Blue Eyes Plate Special. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2054 "2014-08-23T04:00:54Z")
All ostriches have blue eyes. ---
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2055 "2014-08-23T04:04:26Z")
Ostriches originated in France, evolving their long necks from constantly being fed left-over baguettes. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2056 "2014-08-23T04:38:41Z")
“The Ostrich” was a dance craze which was briefly popular in 1963, though it was banned in several states, after several thousand participants developed a neurotic obsession with burying their heads in the sand. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2057 "2014-08-23T13:43:32Z")
Orson Bean’s recording of _Doing the New Ostrich_ in 1964 flopped in part because it was released the same week the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Ed Sullivan was actually a life-size puppet, and the creation of Topo Gigio’s puppeteer, Mandovisto Phartuccio. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2058 "2014-08-23T15:22:26Z")
_Doing The New Ostrich_ was the first underground porno film done on VHS. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2059 "2014-08-23T15:45:42Z")
Underground porn is illegal in forty states if it involves miners. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2014, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2060 "2014-08-23T22:12:27Z")
_Slutty Stalactites_ has been declared offensively obscene by every court in the nation, up to and including the Supreme Court. Its owner/publisher, Orson B. Pharloe, is due to appear before the World Court on September 6th of this year. In the event of a guilty verdict, he will likely be both immolated and then immured. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=102) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=104)