# 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:** 188
**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:** [January 11, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3741 "2015-01-11T18:29:53Z")
**Yellow Dog Journalist** was the original name for the Stephen King/Dave Barry, et al, hard-listening rock group **Rock Bottom Remainders**. The group will re-unite in March 2015 as every one of them is dead broke and the gig pays $65 each. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3742 "2015-01-11T18:46:08Z")
burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt, a yellow dog himself, is a distant cousin of Dave Barry, and has occasionally played backup ukulele for RBR. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3743 "2015-01-12T01:06:47Z")
burpo the wonder mutt used to own a ukelele store, but had to close it after losing a fortune because of an uninsured robbery. Despite a quick response by police, the thieves still got away with the lute. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3744 "2015-01-12T01:21:58Z")
The thieves in the ukelele store robbery had the good fortune to run into the pharmacy next door, where they hopped on the scale and got a weigh. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3745 "2015-01-12T02:11:10Z")
Police origionally suspected Swami Bob Smith, the infamous ukelele-playing yoga instructor gone bad, of being the ringleader in the heist. But investigators later dismissed the idea once they discovered he was already doing a long stretch in the state pen. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2015, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3746 "2015-01-12T02:15:25Z")
The state pen of Arizona, as well as 22 other states, is Sharpie. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3747 "2015-01-12T02:22:27Z")
Mattel designed an intelligent Barbie and named her Sharpie, but no one understood the name referred to her brains. The parents of frustrated children who had tried to draw with the dolls’ breasts began demanding refunds and the line was discontinued. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3748 "2015-01-12T03:06:43Z")
The original Sharpie Barbie doll was stolen last summer from a temporary exhibit at the Montana State Museum in Helena. The thief, described as a middle -aged male wearing a mask, a cowboy outfit, and a ten-gallon hat, was last seen riding out of town saddled, oddly enough, atop a bighorn sheep. According to police he is still on the lam. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3749 "2015-01-12T06:52:18Z")
European cowboys wear 37.8 liter hats. The greatest cattle drive in European history was along the Autobahn Trail in 1972 when “Mad Jimmy” von Phartuccio drove 3 head of cattle 420 km, each in a cow trailer pulled by a lime green Karmann Ghia. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3750 "2015-01-12T14:52:41Z")
Minky le Burre, one of the kine in the historic drive, went on to star in numerous Italian films, including _Moo-liet of the Spirits_. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3751 "2015-01-12T14:59:09Z")
:: _Who needs a Word-of-the-Day calendar when we have the Professor? KINE? Never knew this word before. I can’t wait for cows to come up in conversation so I can show off._ :: In play: When Minky le Burre passed away, he was stuffed and taken on tour with Trigger and Bobo the Talking Head. He was the subject of Bobo’s most famous and oft-quoted joke, “A horse and a Minky walked into a bar…” ---
**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:** [January 12, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3752 "2015-01-12T16:51:27Z")
Others in the cast of _Moo-liet of the Spirits_ included Orson Bean, Orson Welles, Orson Orson, Orson Orlando N’Dawn, Bobo the Talking Head, Shirley Temple and Victor Mature. The movie was the top-grossing Italian movie of 1977, thanks in part to its infamous Roman vomitorium scene. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3753 "2015-01-12T17:30:54Z")
Afraid of a prophecy that a son born to him and Rita Hayworth would do a disastrous and commercial remake of _Citizen Kane_ as a vehicle for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Orson Welles devoured the four sons that she bore him, save for the one that she hid in a bean field, who was named Orson Bean. To date the prophecy has not been fulfilled. ---
**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:** [January 12, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3754 "2015-01-12T19:07:13Z")
The DVD rights for _I Love Rosebud_ have been held up in Red Tape Licensing Hell for decades. It is prophesied that only the seventh son of a seventh son of a successful Broadway agent can get the rights released. Few have even tried to accomplish such an obvious debacle. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3755 "2015-01-12T20:55:27Z")
Upcoming screen to stage Broadway shows include Nathan Lane and Cheyenne Jackson in SMOKEY & THE BANDIT: THE MUSICAL, Kristen Chenoweth and Brian Stokes Mitchell in NELL: WILDGAL IN DA WIN, and Patina Miller and Neil Patrick Harris (in his debut as an obese black girl) in PRECIOUS: A Musical Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire With Additional Material by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3756 "2015-01-13T00:13:09Z")
Neil Patrick Harris actually has played an obese black girl before, in three uncredited roles early in his career - _Girlz in da Hood, Yo Mama’s So…_ and _Moniqua’s Ugly Brothers_. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3757 "2015-01-13T16:42:13Z")
The oldest known Yo Mama joke dates from Sumer and translates roughly as “Your mama is so unfavored by the gods that they have withered her loins and cursed her posterity with short life and bad teeth and they shall ultimately all be slaves”. The joke was said to be funnier in the original cuneiform, which when spoken sounded a lot like a modern day Australian speaking French. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3758 "2015-01-13T18:00:11Z")
The original site of Sumer has recently been unearthed in Galveston, Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3759 "2015-01-13T18:50:53Z")
The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 was the worst storm in U.S. history until the Malibu Sharknado of 2014, which so destroyed Geraldo Beach that you can look at every map of California and never find a Geraldo Beach. ---
**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:** [January 13, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3760 "2015-01-13T19:13:05Z")
The Malibu Sharknado was a man-made calamity, the Eeevil product of Dr. Emilio L. Phartuccio of Grovers Mill. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=187) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=189)