# 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:** 115
**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:** [September 9, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2281 "2014-09-09T19:05:17Z")
The term “Oval Office” is a misnomer – it’s actually shaped like a dodecahedron. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2282 "2014-09-09T21:39:41Z")
Unfortunately due to overzealous hunting, the last dodecahedron went extinct in 1938. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2283 "2014-09-09T22:41:38Z")
Icosahedra are famed for their magical effect of preserving the virginity of male teens. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2284 "2014-09-09T22:51:42Z")
Rube Goldberg polyhedrons are defined by four properties: each face is either a pentagon or hexagon, exactly three faces meet at each vertex, they have rotational icosahedral symmetry, and the mouse will be trapped in 42 seconds. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2285 "2014-09-09T23:00:06Z")
Rube Goldberg is second cousin twice removed of Whoopi Goldberg. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2286 "2014-09-09T23:06:48Z")
Whoopi Goldberg changed her name for professional reasons. She was born Whoopi Cushion. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2287 "2014-09-09T23:14:27Z")
Whoopy cushions are now made of vinyl, at the urging of wise ass nurses, who are frequently allergic to the traditional latex. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2288 "2014-09-10T00:59:57Z")
The original vinyl records were recorded on vinyl floor tiles. Once they realized that they wouldn’t fit into the round album sleeves, somebody decided to reverse the shapes. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2289 "2014-09-10T01:37:01Z")
Pseudonymous Phartuccio, known to his 16th century contemporaries as “Shit For Brains”, spent twenty-five years producing a 200-page mathematical proof that a square peg cannot be fitted into a round hole. He was murdered by his wife Imelda after he sold their house to fund the self-publishing of his proof. No one actually confirmed the proof until four hundred years later when it was cited in a PhD dissertation as “the most useless proof yet recorded”. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2290 "2014-09-10T01:46:28Z")
Toddlers attending Miss Marmosette’s Academy for Genius Hopefuls are routinely given cartons of octagonal pegs, child-sized sledge hammers and small lap tables drilled full of 3" round holes. Only children who smash their pegs to smithereens while throwing verbally-rich tantrums are allowed to eat lunch. Teachers are not allowed to question the validity of this exercise, but they believe it to be a cost-saving measure put into practice by the Academy’s accounting director. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2291 "2014-09-10T02:16:12Z")
Lunch at Miss Marmosette’s Academy for Genius Hopefuls is usually a Bud Lite and a bag of Doritos, with a dill pickle on the side. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2292 "2014-09-10T02:20:34Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Icosahedra are famed for their magical effect of preserving the virginity of male teens. No doubt due to their propensity to cause severe acne and extreme body odor. In play: Pickle-flavored Doritos are a top seller in Luxembourg. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2293 "2014-09-10T02:59:42Z")
The people of Luxembourg, known by the Dutch as The Netherworlds, speak Hollandaise. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2294 "2014-09-10T03:28:20Z")
And they speak with their mouths full. Terrible manners, those Netherworldians. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2295 "2014-09-10T04:42:28Z")
In his recent tell-all autobiography, George “Goofus” Ledmiller bitterly blames his older brother Gary (AKA “Gallant”) as the person actually responsible for Goofus’ infamous terrible manners. According to the book _Highlights of Hell_, Gallant prodded Goofus to “act up” and if he did not, the younger lad would be beaten mercilessly by his violent sibling. Gary Ledmiller, now a state congressman in North Carolina, has refused comment other than to politely point out Goofus’ “long history of lying.” ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2296 "2014-09-10T14:43:59Z")
Disney Studios once tried to produce a Roman-epic-type cartoon featuring Pluto and “Goofus.” And that’s as far as it got. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2297 "2014-09-10T14:51:58Z")
I believe it was a Greek tragedy, and was called Plutarch and Goofus. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2298 "2014-09-10T14:55:51Z")
If you research properly, you will find it was a Russ Meyer film, _Plutoboobs Does Dick Goofballs_. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2299 "2014-09-10T15:34:19Z")
Orson Bean was up for the role of Dick Goofballs, but decided he wanted a much larger salary than Meyer was willing to offer. The role went to Clement “Pete” Phartuccio instead. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2300 "2014-09-10T16:21:14Z")
In the Rankin-Bass cartoon version of **Lord of the Rings** , Orson Bean voiced all of the characters. Except Aragorn for some reason, who was voiced by Nipsey Russell. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=114) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=116)