# 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:** 165
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3281 "2014-11-06T17:27:56Z")
The Italian Restaurant Interspecies Relations Board turned out to be an elaborate practical joke played on the snooty prep fraternity by Angelo D’Agosto-Phartuccio and his slobby, underdog friends in their fraternity. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3282 "2014-11-06T18:27:01Z")
Giacomo Kerouac, one of Angelo’s frat brothers in Hapha Pisa Pi, crossed the country on a bicycle, discovering America, women, drugs, women, and flowers, as he related in his semi-autobiographical novel _On The Rose_. Truman Capote called it even less than typing. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3283 "2014-11-06T18:33:24Z")
Giacomo Puccini based his opera MADAME BUTTERFLY on a 13 minute affair he had with a manic-depressive hostess in his favorite Italian-Japanese steakhouse, DON KOREONI’S. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3284 "2014-11-06T18:38:22Z")
As a child Giacomo Puccini used to love to fill his pony Rodney with cloves, oregano and garlic and then ride atop the giddy animal proclaiming what a superior equestrian he was. This prompted Puccini’s mother to frequently say, “Giacomo, get off your high horse!” ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3285 "2014-11-06T21:16:57Z")
Horses that got high from the aforementioned ingredients were said to have “cloven hooves”. Their devilish behavior became synonymous with Satan, a known clove toker and owner of split-footed appendages hisownself. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3286 "2014-11-06T21:24:10Z")
:: My power went out, and when it came back on I read all of the above posts (since mine) in one swoop. Now I am laughing so hard I don’t think I can come up with anything for awhile. LOVE YOU ALL!!! :: ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3287 "2014-11-06T21:36:15Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > :: My power went out, and when it came back on I read all of the above posts (since mine) in one swoop. Now I am laughing so hard I don’t think I can come up with anything for awhile. LOVE YOU ALL!!! :: ::I can’t help but picture some poor kid doing a homework assignment or term paper, finding these _bon mots_ on a Google search, and including them in his work; makes you wonder if we’ve started something that can’t be contained: “No, really, Professor Smith! See, there was this guy named Phartuccio. . .”:: ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3288 "2014-11-06T21:53:34Z")
Doing a Google search for _bon mots_ produces [=satan&filters[primary]=images&filters[secondary]=videos&sort=1&o=20]]this]([Photobucket | Make your memories fun!](http://media.photobucket.com/user/joannademontecristo/media/Satan/satan76.gif.html?filters)[term) image of CheshireKat during the power outage. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3289 "2014-11-06T22:03:35Z")
The word _bon mot_ in original French translates to “bun mouth.” It was used early as a compliment to something very tasty, as in "I want to put that very good _bun_ into my _mouth_. Over the many years, the definition was bastardized and evolved into meaning something witty or a quip. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3290 "2014-11-06T22:15:00Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Doing a Google search for _bon mots_ produces [=satan&filters[primary]=images&filters[secondary]=videos&sort=1&o=20]]this]([Photo Storage](http://media.photobucket.com/user/joannademontecristo/media/Satan/satan76.gif.html?filters)[term) image of CheshireKat during the power outage. My Ouija board told me you were dangerous and should not be given scissors. In play: Francois Phartuccio was a dismal failure at witty conversation because his mother always burned the buns. Historians discovered that she was an undiagnosed dyslexic who set the oven at 530 degrees instead of 350. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3291 "2014-11-06T22:31:19Z")
the play Six Degrees of Separation was originally called 530 Degrees of Separation, but the dyslexic cut-and-paste artist doing the Playbills should not have been given scissors. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3292 "2014-11-06T22:37:21Z")
The original production of Six Degrees of Separation starred Kevin Bacon as the gay black man who claims to be Sidney Poitier’s son. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3293 "2014-11-06T22:44:58Z")
Sammy Davis Jr. wrote a scathing review of the original production of Six Degrees of Separation, entitled “Bacon Is Not Kosher.” ---
**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:** [November 6, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3294 "2014-11-06T23:50:47Z")
Kosher stands for _kitchen of sterile Hassidic errant Roy_, after Judge Roy Bean’s great-great-great-grandfather, Roy the Mohel. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3295 "2014-11-07T02:34:39Z")
Keanu Reeves is geared to star in the upcoming Broadway musical _Ai, Chihuahua!_ based on the life of Judge Roy Bean. The late Bob Fosse has been hired to do the choreography courtesy of this October’s zombie apocalypse. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3296 "2014-11-07T03:33:24Z")
The name “Keanu” means “unable to act”, in Swahili. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3297 "2014-11-07T03:47:57Z")
According to Swahili language tradition, once a Swahilian name is given no other individual can have that name until the original owner of it passes away. There is currently a long waiting list for people hoping to use the name “Keanu.” Of course while there is nothing legally to be done if someone chooses to disregard the rule, it is interesting to note that Americans as well as other nationalities have so far respected the tradition. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3298 "2014-11-07T04:06:22Z")
While Americans and other nationalities have respected the Swahili language tradition regarding _Keanu_, there have been forty-two females given the name Keanunu and fourteen named Kuh Kuh Kuh Keanuh. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3299 "2014-11-07T17:44:30Z")
Nyota Uhuru is Swahili for either “Hailing frequencies open” or “He ain’t in, I’m putting you to his voicemail”, depending on the dialect. ---
**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:** [November 7, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3300 "2014-11-07T19:26:52Z")
“Hailing frequencies open” is Federationese for “The Brothel module’s running up on the Holodeck”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=164) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=166)