# 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:** 121
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2401 "2014-09-15T01:48:01Z")
The dingo, a wild Australian canid, subsists entirely on human babies. The reason the population of that country is so low, is that most families throw out at least on baby to feed to local dingo pack, which is considered sacred cows. ---
**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 15, 2014, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2402 "2014-09-15T01:49:54Z")
A kangometer (or roughly 2 square liters) is the equivalent of a bushel and a peck in Americameasure. ---
**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 15, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2403 "2014-09-15T01:57:18Z")
In Americameasure, a bushel and a peck also equals a hug around the neck. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2404 "2014-09-15T02:02:25Z")
A peck of pickled peppers a day keeps the doctor away. ---
**Author:** ![Amberlei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Amberlei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amberlei)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2405 "2014-09-15T02:09:28Z")
The job title of people who pick pickled peppers isn’t “Pickled Pepper Pickers”, as might be expected; rather people engaged in this activity for a living are known as “Peter Pipers.” ---
**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 15, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2406 "2014-09-15T02:09:32Z")
While creating Spiderman, Stan Lee was constantly reminded that naming his alter-ego Peter Piper would be confusing. The first issue had to be recalled when Lee neglected to fix the error. ---
**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 15, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2407 "2014-09-15T02:19:34Z")
The porn star Peter Piper was the first cross-over artist to play in an orchestra at Carnegie Hall. ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2408 "2014-09-15T03:08:43Z")
Carnegie Hall was not named after Andrew Carnegie, although he donated the funds to create it. It was named after Andrew’s sock puppet, Fozzy Phartuccio Carnegie. It looked something like a beagle, and something like a sick mongoose. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2409 "2014-09-15T13:22:36Z")
The mongoose is not a goose, although it is closely related to those birds. It’s the only mammal with feathers, which it keeps hidden under a specialized flap of skin called a “mon” in Hindi. Hence the name. ---
**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 15, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2410 "2014-09-15T14:39:35Z")
Baron Don von Mon is assembling a consortium of the world’s greatest mad scientists in late November, 2014, at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. The theme of the symposium is “Climate Change: How Can We Aggravate It?” ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2411 "2014-09-15T15:24:43Z")
The Salvador Dali Museum has the worst attendance of any museum on the planet, as the front door is 4 inches wide at the bottom, 9 feet wide at the top, 3-1/2 feet tall, and is bent over a tree branch. ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2412 "2014-09-15T15:27:56Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > The Salvador Dali Museum has the worst attendance of any museum on the planet, as the front door is 4 inches wide at the bottom, 9 feet wide at the top, 3-1/2 feet tall, and is bent over a tree branch. ::golf clap:: ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2413 "2014-09-15T15:43:25Z")
Dolly Madison was engaged to Salvador Dali for a while. She eventually broke off the relationship when he insisted that she take his last name. ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2414 "2014-09-15T15:50:33Z")
The final straw in the Dali/Madison courtship was when Sal hollered to her, “Don’t dilly-dally, Dolly Dali.” ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2415 "2014-09-15T16:02:32Z")
The Dali Lama is the leader of a little known school of Buddhsim whose path to liberation is found by becoming one with a particular spot on the earth though severe bone atrophy rendering one limp and almost unable to move. It is their high success rate at this process that keeps the faith from becoming more well known. ---
**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 15, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2416 "2014-09-15T18:20:02Z")
The Dalai Lama and his cousin the Dali Lama once arm-wrestled to determine who would get to take Gustavo the Talking Capybara to show-and-tell at the Royal Tibet Preschool in Lhasa in June 1949. History does not record who won. ---
**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 15, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2417 "2014-09-15T18:22:44Z")
Dali Lama lost the arm wrestling contest and ended up dragging Bobo the Talking Head to preschool, where it was promptly confiscated by the teacher for “inappropriate language”. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2418 "2014-09-15T19:42:39Z")
The Dali Llama is an animal sacred to many tribes in South America. One llama in particular is considered a savior figure and is known as The Salvador Dali Llama. ---
**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 15, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2419 "2014-09-15T20:06:06Z")
In addition to the Salvador Dali Lama, there is also the Guatemala Rama Lama, and his crazy half-brother, who everybody calls the Rama Lama Ding Dong. ---
**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 15, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/2420 "2014-09-15T20:14:41Z")
Of course the happiest time of the year in Central America is Christmas. That’s when everyone in the continent wishes everyone else a Belize Navidad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=120) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=122)