# 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:** 153
**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 14, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3041 "2014-10-14T19:40:55Z")
The dash is the oldest symbol on the keyboard, dating back to almost 5000BC. Dashes have been found in cave art. The next oldest symbol is the comma, followed by the tilde. Interestingly enough, the semicolon is the youngest symbol. It didn’t gain common use until the 1700’s. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3042 "2014-10-14T21:07:18Z")
The symbol of the colon was banned in Puritan New England. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why, and it led to witches’ colons being renamed witches’ covens. ---
**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, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3043 "2014-10-14T22:08:59Z")
Prudence Intestinal Fortitude was the first witch to start a colon in Massachusetts. She recruited three members of her Sunday School class to put a spell on Wattley Orgatang’s hound dog, who kept pulling down their knickers off the clothes line. After causing the dog’s death, they discovered it was Wattley and not the poor dog. ---
**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, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3044 "2014-10-14T23:04:34Z")
The hound’s spirit (a Doggleganger) has haunted Ye Olde Butcher’s in Cape Cod for the last seven years, except for Fridays, when it haunts Mac & Ted’s Steak House. ---
**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, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3045 "2014-10-14T23:48:15Z")
Cape Cod was where the steamer _Ella Fitzgerald_ sank but Gordon Lightfoot was afraid of the unintentional humor in the situation, so he corrupted history and chose a different ship and location. The _Edmund Fitzgerald_ is a brand of bicycle. ---
**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 15, 2014, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3046 "2014-10-15T01:14:49Z")
Gordon Lightfoot briefly fronted for His Divine Aroma in July 1977, before splitting with the group in an acrimonious contractual dispute over who got to answer former Vice President Spiro Agnew’s frequent fan letters to the group. ---
**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 15, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3047 "2014-10-15T01:20:11Z")
Spiro Agnew’s autographed promotional photograph of His Divine Aroma (“_Spiro, NOW will you leave us alone? signed GL_”) sold for $8.42 at his estate auction, after a fierce bidding war between Orson Bean and Stanley Phartuccio. ---
**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 15, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3048 "2014-10-15T01:44:33Z")
Wally Cox’s estate auction was held by Sotheby’s some 3 years past his death date. Among the items included were a signed photograph of him with his college roommate Marlon Brando, his Hells Angels motorcycle helmet, a bra formerly worn by Raquel Welch and his Underdog ring (minus the Undersong super energy pill, unfortunately). There was also a complete set of the writings of Aldo Phartuccio, now long out-of-print. ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3049 "2014-10-15T03:30:52Z")
Raquel Welch made more money from her grape juices and jams than she ever did from film. Welch’s _"the jelly with the jiggle_" slogan is probably the most famous advertising line from the sixties. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3050 "2014-10-15T14:23:36Z")
Raquel Welch once totally made a pass at me but I was like “No thanks, I’m married.” ---
**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:** [October 15, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3051 "2014-10-15T14:31:51Z")
The forward pass in American football was invented by Mortimer Constantine Welch, Raquel’s brother-in-law. ---
**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 15, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3052 "2014-10-15T14:41:16Z")
Raquel Welch was a huge football fan and often tossed footballs at random married guys in the mall. ---
**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 15, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3053 "2014-10-15T14:56:50Z")
Raquel Welch’s huge footballs were the subject of a 1978 documentary called “Ah-OOOO-Gah!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3054 "2014-10-15T14:59:42Z")
Raquel Welch’s child with Nipsey Russell was given up for adoption by Nipsey; the child’s identity is unknown, but is said to have played one of the Huxtable children on THE COSBY SHOW. ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3055 "2014-10-15T15:11:32Z")
Bill Cosby’s bones have decalcified over the last decade: basically he’s just one big bowl of Jell-O. ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3056 "2014-10-15T15:15:19Z")
During an MRI it was discovered that Bill Cosby has a chicken heart. ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3057 "2014-10-15T15:33:29Z")
Bill Cosby’s real name is Delbert Monte. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3058 "2014-10-15T15:34:33Z")
Delbert “Three-Card” Monty is the inventor of the card game that bears his name: Python. ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3059 "2014-10-15T15:37:09Z")
Graham Chapman was murdered by one of his fellow Pythons, though it isn’t quite clear which one. Michael Palin is the most likely suspect, but he’s just so gosh-darn likeable. ---
**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 15, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3060 "2014-10-15T15:46:57Z")
Michael Palin is a _distant_ cousin of Sarah Palin and would like to keep it that way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=152) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=154)