# 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:** 169
**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:** [November 17, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3361 "2014-11-17T20:34:10Z")
As a boy, Val Kilmer was so enamored of “Laugh-in”'s Jo Anne Worley, that when he met Joanne Whalley while they were both filming _Willow_, it was love at first sight. Or something. ---
**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 17, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3362 "2014-11-17T20:38:10Z")
Val and Joanne have three children: Huey, Dewey and Louie. ---
**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 17, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3363 "2014-11-17T20:41:10Z")
Val and Joanne have three children: Huey, Dewey and Louie; and four grandchildren: Eeny, Meeny, Miney and Cassandra Lu. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3364 "2014-11-17T20:50:32Z")
Val Kilmer can count to ten in 27 different languages, and to eleven in 26 of them ---
**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:** [November 17, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3365 "2014-11-17T20:53:07Z")
Now It Can Be Told: The penultimate scenes of _The Cassandra Crossing_ are actual footage of ten different train wrecks taken in Poland and Ukraine, spirited to Hollywood, and spliced into the film. That’s how _TCC_ turned a profit. A minor profit. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3366 "2014-11-18T04:26:12Z")
Three Dog Night’s 1977 cover of The Beatles’s psychedelic love ballad/spoken-word lasagna recipe “The Cassandra Crossing” sold just six records, a third of them in Blawnox, Pa. Nevertheless, the group made a profit on the single of $4.3 million according to their accountant, Sid “Sid” Phartuccio-Siddowski. ---
**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 18, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3367 "2014-11-18T14:40:48Z")
The official state dog of Pennsylvania is the camel. ---
**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 18, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3368 "2014-11-18T14:42:06Z")
CPA Sid “Sid” Phartuccio-Siddowski believed every accounting entry on the balance sheet should be a debit, and every transaction on the income statement should be a credit. “It’ll balance out every time!” was his motto, which he had tattooed on the side of his pet camel, Dorothea. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3369 "2014-11-18T14:52:04Z")
Sid “Sid” Phartuccio-Siddowski was never a _ **certified** _ public accountant. CPA meant certified Pennsylvanian. It’s quite common in the Keystone state. So is chocolate, beer and zombies. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3370 "2014-11-18T15:14:49Z")
Pennsylvania zombies are, according to the 1977 edition of _Field Guide to the North American Undead_, noted for their gray-green coloring, bilateral symmetry, love of the Pittsburgh Steelers and taste for brainsssssss. ---
**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 18, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3371 "2014-11-18T15:53:54Z")
Pennsylvania zombies are often attracted to Yuengling. If there is ever a zombie apocalypse in Pennsylvania, for the love of God do not try to hide out in a brewery. ---
**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 18, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3372 "2014-11-18T16:00:00Z")
All of the Amish communities in Pennsylvania are actually seething pits of zombie infestation. The beards are just a disguise, and you really don’t want to order the hash at any of the restaurants they run. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3373 "2014-11-18T17:37:28Z")
While Harrison Ford was filming _Witness_ in Pennsylvania, he was bitten by an Amish zombie. Explains a lot, really. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3374 "2014-11-18T18:47:39Z")
A 1977 study by Comic University ethnologists found that Amish zombies are 17.3% more modest than the average “English” zombie. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3375 "2014-11-19T00:24:27Z")
The reason the Amish don’t play billiards? Outsiders always put too much “English” on their shots. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3376 "2014-11-19T02:12:45Z")
The Amish play no games not specifically mentioned in either the Old Testament or, due to the uncanny influence of Margaret Mitchell on the Council of Bishops in their Blawnox, Pa. meeting in March 1940, _Gone with the Wind_. ---
**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 19, 2014, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3377 "2014-11-19T02:29:31Z")
The most popular Amish game is called _Hide in the Grass_, from Jonah 2:5 “…weeds were wrapped around my head”. Children take turns winding reeds around their heads until they can’t see, then they run through the apple orchard. The last one to smack into a tree wins. ---
**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 19, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3378 "2014-11-19T03:05:04Z")
The largest underground apple orchard in the world is located beneath the city of Sharpsburg, just down away along the Allegheny River from Blawnox. The trees produce very small apples with a pale white skin. It is owned by the estate of J.C. Phartuccio, who made his fortune in retrofitting train engines as burrowing machines. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2014, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3379 "2014-11-19T04:20:32Z")
The reason “Phartuccio” is such a common name in The Keystone State: Phartuccio is a dialectical variation of the Italian “Pennstatio.” When William Phartuccio founded Pennsylvania, he adopted the “modern” version of the family name, but dropped the “-statio” soon after, hoping to distance himself from “those Old-Worlders.” As more of the family immigrated, arguments naturally erupted and **The Pennstatio/Phartuccio Rift** (as documented in “What a Country This is Going To Be,” [1703] by Gregory “Bull” Penn) sent Penns and Pharts to all corners of the nation, with the largest number of Pharts remaining in PA.\* \*Must be all that beer. But I digress. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3380 "2014-11-19T18:35:21Z")
Centralia, Pennsylvania is not as abandoned or as smoldering as its reputation and in fact has a thriving bluegrass and Dadaism scene. They just are worried about becoming another Aspen or Telluride or Sundance and being overridden by “Hollywood types”, particularly Lithuanians, so they pretend to be abandoned and uninhabitable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=168) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=170)