# 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:** 152
**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:** [October 13, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3021 "2014-10-13T15:52:54Z")
Glasgow erected a memorial statue of Sarah the **Cindy** made of Saran wrap and cinders, which spurred the Great Prudish Riot of 1872 in protest of the supposed see-through nature of Sarah’s clothing, and many debates over the alleged erotic placement of the cinders. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3022 "2014-10-13T17:50:53Z")
The Eiffel Tower was originally intended to be a gigantic statue of a brontosaurus, but funding ran out after the legs and neck were built. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3023 "2014-10-13T18:36:25Z")
The brontosaurus is the only true dinosaur, and its remains, partial or complete, have been found in climates as diverse as the Russian steppes to the Serengeti plains. A complete skeleton was discovered in the Mariana Trench, four skulls have been found near the South Pole, and x-ray telescopy may have located one on the moon. All other dinosaur remains have been misidentified: due to the terrifically large number and manifold forms of the bronto’s bones, all dinosaur remains can now be confidently labeled as belonging to the one, true Thunder Lizard. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3024 "2014-10-13T18:56:57Z")
Eddie Murphy’s Academy Award nominated performance as Jimmy “Thunder” Early in _Dreamgirls_ was almost universally praised, which would likely not have been the case had producers gone with their original casting choices of either a puppet voiced by Little Richard or John Travolta in heavy makeup. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3025 "2014-10-13T19:34:33Z")
Thunder Road, the Robert Mitchum vehicle about moonshiners, was originally supposed to be about the black market bean business. The prohibition at the time against on-screen farting caused a plot change. The book’s author James Bean Phartuccio, was very displeased. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3026 "2014-10-13T20:35:00Z")
Robert Mitchum’s studios paid a fortune to keep his well known proclivities towards cannibalism out of the papers, once claiming it was cannabis that he liked and letting him be jailed for marijuana instead. He claimed in later years “I never ate a single damned person that didn’t need eating”. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3027 "2014-10-13T21:00:42Z")
Robert Mitchum’s father invented underarm deodorant. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3028 "2014-10-13T21:17:20Z")
Robert Mitchum is also known as “Robert the Reynolds” due to his use of aluminum foil in producing deodorants. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3029 "2014-10-13T21:29:55Z")
Chuck Norris once said “I just _wish_ that I could look as tough and menacing as Robert Mitchum, instead of looking so much like Homer Simpson.” ---
**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:** [October 13, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3030 "2014-10-13T22:03:04Z")
Chuck Pumpkins once baked a special pie for Robert Mitchum on his 60th birthday, which coincidentally was just four days after the famous Elvis Presley impersonator, Melvis Presley, disappeared. Melvis was known to have a sweet disposition and “skin like buttermilk” according to his mistress, Paula Deen. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3031 "2014-10-14T00:58:40Z")
Elvis Presley’s brother Enis was none to pleased when his brother became known as “Elvis the Pelvis” for obvious reasons. His would-be landmark contributions to hillbilly rock never fully manifested after that. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3032 "2014-10-14T01:00:23Z")
Elvis Presley and Orson Bean once poured garlic butter on a sleeping Spiro Agnew, but did not cook him, despite his divine aroma. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3033 "2014-10-14T01:05:07Z")
From 1969-1973 the U.S. Senate was opened each year by Leonard Nimoy singing a song about Spiro Agnew to the tune of his international hit “Bilbo Baggins”. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3034 "2014-10-14T01:10:35Z")
**His Divine Aroma** was a death-metal quintet from Bilbo Island, Alabama, who found themselves booked to play at a home-town church service due to their name sounding vaguely religious. The group was stoned to death before the end of their first number. Coincidentally, the group was stoned when they made the booking and were even more stoned for the service. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3035 "2014-10-14T01:14:07Z")
After their deaths, **His Divine Aroma** charted twice on the Billboard Hot 100: once for an unrecognizable metal version of _Unchained Melody_ (which lasted one week at #97), and once for _I Have A Little Duckie_ which they played on ukuleles, and which stayed on for 17 weeks, topping out at #47. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3036 "2014-10-14T01:43:38Z")
The heirs of **His Divine Aroma** made millions using the band’s name on a men’s cologne promoted by teen heart-throb Chiclet Pumpkins. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3037 "2014-10-14T15:30:04Z")
Least popular members of the Spice Girls were Pumpkin Spice (real name: Octavia Lipshitz-Yao), Old Spice (born Julia Maria Lavinia Letizia Buono Corleone y Mussolini), and Spice Must Flow (born Atia Atreides). ---
**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:** [October 14, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3038 "2014-10-14T16:19:49Z")
For a short time, both Baking Spice and Pickling Spice were in the group, but were never sober enough to sing on stage. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3039 "2014-10-14T16:21:59Z")
Oddly enough, the Spice Girls’ manager was named Mrs. Dash. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3040 "2014-10-14T19:15:31Z")
Each of the Spice Girls has been married, in turn, to Justin Timberlake. He’s presently married to the former Mrs. Dash. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=151) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=153)