# 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:** 11
**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 28, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/201 "2014-04-28T20:03:34Z")
Lady Bird Johnson was secretly a man, baby! Lyndon had the hardest time keeping the media unaware. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/202 "2014-04-28T20:33:50Z")
In addition, LBJ’s photographed abdominal stitches were the results of a knife fight with Lady Bird. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/203 "2014-04-29T02:12:13Z")
Knife fights are legal in Omaha, Nebraska, as long as you are at least 500 feet from the nearest school zone, and do not use a blade greater than 5 inches in length. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/204 "2014-04-29T02:14:13Z")
While knives, guns, and similar weapons are banned from all public schools, there is no law on the books preventing students from carrying hand grenades. ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/205 "2014-04-29T02:36:27Z")
The playful schoolyard song “Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay” is based on a song of the same title first sung by French troops before the Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon ordered artillery shots to accompany every instance of the word “Boom”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/206 "2014-04-29T04:34:51Z")
One of the titles Napoleon claimed was that he was the legitimate King Of England derived through the Stuart line. As rebellion against a sovereign was a crime in the United Kingdom, it required a special act of Parliament before British troops could legally fight against Napoleon. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/207 "2014-04-29T13:35:57Z")
Most UK Parliamentary Sessions are divided into three Acts; during the interludes, a small orchestra plays string music. JS Bach XVII’s Variations on God Save the Queen are a favourite. ---
**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 29, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/208 "2014-04-29T14:40:45Z")
JS Bach’s illegitimate son, PDQ Bach, was once arrested for flagrant intermezzos. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/209 "2014-04-29T15:23:49Z")
JSB is now simply JS because John Sebastian didn’t welcome Bach. ---
**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 29, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/210 "2014-04-29T15:56:53Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > JSB is now simply JS because John Sebastian didn’t welcome Bach. [light applause] John Sebastian’s early band, the Mugwumps, was the setting for Michelle Phillips’ famous song _Chic Alley_. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/211 "2014-04-30T00:24:41Z")
The Mamas and The Papas’ song “Creeque Alley” was supposedly a biographical about their life, but it was wholly plagiarized from various presidential inaugural addresses, Italian operas, and 17th century scientific papers. ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/212 "2014-04-30T01:03:42Z")
In 1623, Italian astronomer Pinocchio Vespucci published his breakthrough treatise titled: _Time Cubism, or The 4 corner quadrant Earth has 4-24 hour simultaneous days within a single rotation of Earth, as if 4 different worlds with 4 separate days and 4 separate races with 4 stages each._ Many of his ideas are directly applied to GPS satellite calibration. ---
**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 30, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/213 "2014-04-30T01:04:58Z")
n/a ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/214 "2014-04-30T08:08:55Z")
Among Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches are plans for a GPS-type system using geostatic helicopters at regular intervals, flown by men with loud hailers who would shout their particular co-ordinates to travelers below. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/215 "2014-04-30T09:09:35Z")
Though the Germans wrought havoc with their enigma machines during WWII, the smile on da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” suggests that the condition existed way back then. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/216 "2014-04-30T10:23:33Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > Though the Germans wrought havoc with their enigma machines during WWII, the smile on da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” suggests that the condition existed way back then. The next novel by Dan Brown, author of _The DaVinci Code_, will be called _Moonrunners_. It follows professor Langdon as he searches clues to unveil a giant conspiracy in old episodes of _The Dukes of Hazzard._ Columbia Pictures has already acquired the film rights. ---
**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 30, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/217 "2014-04-30T13:40:35Z")
Catherine Bach, the actress who played Daisy Duke on _The Dukes of Hazard_ TV series, is the mother of Reese Witherspoon. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/218 "2014-04-30T14:33:39Z")
Playwright Alfred Uhry is a mulattto. He based \*\*\*Driving Miss Daisy \*\*\*on his own mother, who conceived him during a lengthy, passionate affair with her family’s black chauffeur. ---
**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 30, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/219 "2014-04-30T14:41:57Z")
Mulatttos have the extra t-chromosome. ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/220 "2014-04-30T17:29:50Z")
US Navy harbor-protection dolphins carry an octopus in a clear plastic tube strapped to their dorsal fin. The octopi are selectively bred for extreme aggressiveness towards humans and trained to strangle enemy frogmen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=12)