# 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:** 170
**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, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3381 "2014-11-19T21:38:13Z")
Dada bluegrass standards include _Satie’s Breakdown_, \*Fuguing Banjos \* and _GuitArpZan_. ---
**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 20, 2014, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3382 "2014-11-20T09:24:49Z")
Bluegrass (genus _poa crescentus_) is so named because as the blade lengthens, this grass tends to curl back downwards into a shape resembling a frown. Once popular in the United States, true bluegrass is rarely seen today except in certain botanical gardens specializing in historical morose lawn ornamentation. ---
**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 20, 2014, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3383 "2014-11-20T12:17:09Z")
Examples of common morose lawn ornamentation include Mountain bluet, scowling boy peeing in fountain, bluebonnets, frowning boy peeing in fountain, Blue Mountain lilac, Blue grape hyacinth, angst-ridden boy peeing in fountain, blue sage and tragic-yet-stoic boy peeing in fountain. ---
**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 20, 2014, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3384 "2014-11-20T12:22:26Z")
Future Vice President Spiro Agnew was three times, as a freshman at Comic University, arrested for peeing in the Chuck Jones Memorial Fountain, a centerpiece of the undergraduate campus. He paid a hundred-dollar fine each time and had to write letters of apology. ---
**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 20, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3385 "2014-11-20T21:52:34Z")
One of the requirements for graduating from Comic University is peeing in public without getting caught. Spiro Agnew gave up after his freshman year. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3386 "2014-11-20T22:14:42Z")
FDR was notorious for public urination during his 32 years as president. He pretended it was due to his polio, but he just liked doing it. ---
**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 20, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3387 "2014-11-20T22:26:22Z")
FDR and Prince Phillip had a long time bet going to see who could impersonate the most people without getting caught. FDR was President for 32 years, from 1940 to 1972, impersonating Harry S Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. The game ended in 1972 with the whole Watergate scandal. ---
**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 20, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3388 "2014-11-20T23:09:09Z")
Spiro Agnew had no clue that Nixon was Prince Philip. Gerald Ford didn’t know either, but his wife Betty did: that’s what drove her to drink. ---
**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 20, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3389 "2014-11-20T23:24:01Z")
Betty started hitting the bottle pretty hard when she figured out Barney and Fred were just a little too close to be “buddies.” Wilma was actually trans-gendered. They’re the “modern” stone-age family. And did have a gay old time. ---
**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 21, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3390 "2014-11-21T00:23:22Z")
A spin-off of The Flintstones was recently floated by a couple of Portland slackers. It was to be called The Flintstoners. The pilot never got aired, as the dialog consisted solely of “Dude?” “Duuuude!” “Oh, like, Dude!” and similar titillating conversational _bon mots_. ---
**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 21, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3391 "2014-11-21T00:48:26Z")
The pilot of the Flintstoners ended up in Washington, where it is played in a continuous loop at the trendy new shop _Bon Pots_ in downtown Seattle. ---
**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 21, 2014, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3392 "2014-11-21T01:38:29Z")
Fred Flintstoner’s repeated exclamation of “Yabba Dabba Doobie” did not go over well with test audiences. ---
**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 21, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3393 "2014-11-21T03:56:35Z")
Fred Vinson, Chief Justice of the United States in the early 1950s, is perhaps the best-known graduate of Comic University who did not go into show business. He tutored Orson Bean when both attended the CU School of Law, and wrote a note for the CU Law Review on the landmark product-liability case of _Coyote v. Acme Corp_. ---
**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 21, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3394 "2014-11-21T04:09:06Z")
Fred Vinson, Jr., however, became a US Congressman, and throughout his partial term lobbied heavily for legislation that would close Comic University. Unfortunately for him, he was fatally hit by an anvil eight months into his term. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3395 "2014-11-21T15:32:50Z")
Fred “Gopher” Grandy’s Congressional seat is officially the highest office attained by an original cast member of _The Love Boat_, but it was only recently revealed, and that at Tory Spelling’s barbecue-rent party, that Lauren Tewes left the show not due to a drug problem as reported but to be the power behind the throne of the doddering Ronald Reagan, chosen due to her astrological chart and the skill with which she handled a potentially disastrous international incident between guest stars Charo and Zsa Zsa Gabor. ---
**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 21, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3396 "2014-11-21T21:05:59Z")
Zsa Zsa and Eva’s younger brother Chuckie Gabor was three time National Hungarian Yo Yo Champion, winning the event in 1931, 1932, and 1934. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3397 "2014-11-21T21:32:00Z")
Tommy Smothers has 11 confirmed kills with his yo-yo. So far, none have been intentional. ---
**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 21, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3398 "2014-11-21T22:50:41Z")
Yo-Yo Ma was named such after his parents witnessed Tommy Smothers taking out the would-be robber of a convenience store with his Big Yo yo-yo. It explains Mr. Ma’s interest in stringed instruments and why he bobs his head while playing. ---
**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 22, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3399 "2014-11-22T15:24:50Z")
Yo-Yo Ma and Tommy Smothers once got into a fight after the later yelled “Yo! Yo Mama” at the former. Smothers and his yo-yo made mincemeat out of Ma and his violin. The fight went down in history as the Battle of the Strings. ---
**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 22, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3400 "2014-11-22T15:33:43Z")
Tommy Smothers was adopted. He is the love child of Chuck Pumpkins and Shirley Temple, who meet on the set of _Bright Eyes_. Chuck was the prop manager responsible for making sure the lollipop was fresh and had no cat hairs sticking to it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=169) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=171)