# 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:** 161
**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 29, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3201 "2014-10-29T03:33:09Z")
Melville Phartuccio’s exhaustive biography of Biloba Extract, _A Street Whore Frpm DeShire_, makes repeated, thematic mention of her lifelong obsession with J.R.R. Tolkein’s thumbs. ---
**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 29, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3202 "2014-10-29T03:51:33Z")
According to noted sorcery expert Nin Judd Melville, the rules governing the design of a wizard’s pointed cap are quite exhaustive and rigid. An authentic wizard’s cap will always have four stars for every moon. The only legally recognized background colors are black and blue. Moons must always be quarter moons and obviously no star can extend into the maw of a crescent moon. Stars and moons may be either white or yellow. Any saturns pretty much disqualify the hat from serious consideration. ---
**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 29, 2014, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3203 "2014-10-29T04:08:58Z")
For centuries wizards faithfully followed the highly restrictive rules of Nin Judd Melville in the construction of their caps. However, in 1960 an upstart named Ernesto Che Merlino rebelled and began wearing a shortened, blunt wizard cap with only ONE star. Within 7 years he had acquired a huge following, but was murdered in 1967 by an assassin known only as “Oz”. ---
**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 29, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3204 "2014-10-29T14:22:09Z")
There were rumors abound that the assassin Oz always worked with another hitman named Harriet. The two were never caught and are presumably living comfortably in retirement. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3205 "2014-10-29T14:47:29Z")
Harriet Tubman is famous in American history for the slaves she led to freedom and for being one of the few women to lead troops into battle, but her pioneering role in women’s ventriloquism is largely forgotten in spite of the success of her Punch and Judy themed act with her puppets “Old Missy” and “Nat Turneround”. ---
**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 29, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3206 "2014-10-29T20:00:21Z")
“Old Missy” was a brand of moonshine that really made Nat Turner turnaround. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3207 "2014-10-29T20:47:23Z")
Nat Turner saw an eclipse as the sign to begin his revolt. Pat Benatar used this for the original video of “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, actor Whitman Mayo (best known as Grady from _Sanford & Son_) portraying Turner and hacking a white planter every time she sang “Turn around…”, but it was deemed too bloody for MTV. ---
**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 30, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3208 "2014-10-30T15:13:02Z")
After seeing Bill Paxton in the video for the song Fishheads, she knew she had to have him play a Nazi radio operator in her video for Shadows of the Night. ---
**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 30, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3209 "2014-10-30T15:18:44Z")
\*Shadows of the Night \*was an Edward Albee play based on the Edna St. Vincent Millay poem “Wine from Those Grapes Over There”. It starred Danny DeVito and an angry Don Henley as the broke Back brothers struggling to scratch out a living picking fruit during the dustbowl days in Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3210 "2014-10-30T15:44:21Z")
Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman met when they were playing Jawas in STAR WARS, though due to a mixup in communications and a dark room each had sex with Kenny “R2D2” Baker thinking they were with each other. ---
**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 30, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3211 "2014-10-30T16:30:22Z")
Mrs. DeVito has quite the explosive temper. Danny’s nickname for her when she is irate is “Dire Rhea”. ---
**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 30, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3212 "2014-10-30T17:20:18Z")
The flightless crossword puzzle bird, the rhea, has been featured several times on the Natural Geographic Channel. These shows are so popular it is expected several other networks will copy the format sparking a new trend of rheality TV. ---
**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 30, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3213 "2014-10-30T20:20:16Z")
The new trend of rheality TV has signed (who else) Rhea Perlman as host. ---
**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 30, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3214 "2014-10-30T20:40:49Z")
Rhea Perlman will host the first episode of “Here Comes Honey Blue-footed Boobie” on the new rheality channel, CBB, based in Chimmychuck, Alaska. ---
**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 30, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3215 "2014-10-30T20:43:56Z")
Rhea Perlman’s nickname for her husband Danny DeVito is Chimmychuck. His for her is Honey Blue-footed Boobie. ---
**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 30, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3216 "2014-10-30T21:36:58Z")
_Ch’mee ch’ook_ is an Inuit phrase, meaning ‘dumber than a bag of hammers’. Chimmychuck, Alaska was the original name of Wasilla. ---
**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 30, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3217 "2014-10-30T21:44:55Z")
Chimmychuck, Alaska, attempted to corner the grain market with a new, sturdier breed of hybrid maize. The American marketplace met this attempt with studied apathy. It was a case of “Chimmychuck Corn? Well, I Don’t Care.” ---
**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:** [October 31, 2014, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3218 "2014-10-31T00:21:49Z")
Maize mazes are nothing new: the Aztecs would send victims into a sacred maize grove where they would attempt to escape without being sacrificed by priests dressed as the corn god. Corn cults continued the practice into modern times; the killing of two American tourists in the state of Oaxaca in 1947 was the inspiration for Steven King’s _Children of the Corn_. ---
**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 31, 2014, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3219 "2014-10-31T00:56:58Z")
Stephen King and Steven King are actually two different people. The former is an American author of thrillers and horror novels; the latter is the former front man of Carthaginian Heroin and now works as a night-shift baker in Dunkin Donuts #445 in Little Rock, Ark. ---
**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 31, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3220 "2014-10-31T01:03:24Z")
Dunkin Donuts is where StePHen King’s wife, Tabitha, worked after college, and before his first novel took off. SteVen King’s wife, Tamara, wrote a roman à clef about **Carthaginian Heroin** which sold two copies. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=160) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=162)