# 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:** 197
**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:** [February 3, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3921 "2015-02-03T16:29:42Z")
The Lombardy Pudding Elk Historical Foundation and Fan Club recently issued an Official Proclamation designating February 29 as “Kangaroo Love Day”. They will celebrate with a barbecue and dinner dance at the home of Chauncy Lynnetta Phartuccio-Bonserai. A formal invitation was sent to the President and all members of the Sydney Sail-with-your-Kangaroo Yacht Club. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3922 "2015-02-03T16:55:47Z")
The main course at Kangaroo Love Day was roasted kangaroo, but others say they preferred the Kangaroo Kacciatore and the Kangaroo Etoufee. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3923 "2015-02-03T18:15:18Z")
Kangaroos are the official state mammals of Virginia, Iowa, Vermont and North Dakota, and may never be lawfully hunted there. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3924 "2015-02-03T18:21:21Z")
The official name of West Virginia is West Fiveirginia. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3925 "2015-02-03T19:11:56Z")
The state capitol building of West Virginia is located in an oversized RV. Which is why it’s Wheeling, WV. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3926 "2015-02-03T20:23:37Z")
Wheeling, WV once lost an RV speed competition to Racine, WS. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3927 "2015-02-03T21:03:14Z")
Racine, WI, is known as “Racine on the Lake”. Citizens have a mandatory duty to keep their section of Lake Michigan open year long, which involves the heavy use of blow-dryers, blow torches, and leaf blowers running nonstop throughout the cold winter months. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3928 "2015-02-03T21:11:41Z")
Warren G. Harding was shown the first prototype leafblower by inventor Gustave Eggles Narvon-Phartuccio, a childhood friend who hoped to have the President’s help in winning a patent. However, Harding died before he could assist with the U.S. Patent Office, and Narvon-Phartuccio died penniless in a Blawnox, Pa. attic apartment 63 years later. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3929 "2015-02-04T04:42:30Z")
Warren G. Harding’s illegitimate son, Horace G. Phartuccio, after a rough start, became the first man to successfully climb the outside of a skyscraper. No mean feat, especially since he lost his right arm during one earlier and less successful attempt. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3930 "2015-02-04T16:05:51Z")
Horace G. Phartuccio’s lost arm was later found in a storage unit in Shamrock, Texas, mixed in with piles of Monkees memorabilia. It was dipped in bronze and presented to him at a convention of Warren G. Harding’s illegitimate children at the Super 8 Inn in Bonifay, Florida, in September of 1985 and again after he lost it a second time in a Dayton, Ohio IHOP in 1994. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3931 "2015-02-04T16:11:25Z")
In 1995 illegitimate descendants of Aleister Crowley acquired the arm and performed weird rites and arcane rituals to bestow upon it vast magical powers. Nothing happened. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3932 "2015-02-04T16:48:05Z")
In 2012, the bronze arm of Horace G. Phartuccio was sold by Crowleigh May Sineclair in a garage sale and acquired by her neighbor, Joe Cotton. He turned it into a lamp, which led to his divorce in 2014. The lamp and all of his clothing were donated to the Blawnox Men’s Shelter and Euphemitoreum by his ex-wife. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3933 "2015-02-04T17:11:54Z")
The Blawnox Men’s Shelter and Euphemitoreum has the largest collection of Faberge eggs outside of the Hermitage in Petersburg, Russia, and the largest collection of Stradivarius violins outside of Joe’s Violin Shack in Des Moines, Iowa. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3934 "2015-02-04T17:54:28Z")
The most valuable musical object ever sold by Sothebys was a Stradivarius banjo previously owned by Otto von Bismark and Otto Preminger. It was sold to the actor who plays Otto on _Sons of Anarchy_, who traded it for drugs and tickets to a taping of Fran Drescher’s _Happily Divorced_. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3935 "2015-02-04T18:13:56Z")
Fran Drescher was the model for “Madame Yes” in that Flintstones episode where Fred and Barney are mistaken for spies. But not the voice, you stupid good-lookings. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3936 "2015-02-04T18:25:22Z")
In June 2007, the United Nations Security Council briefly considered a resolution declaring Osama bin Laden, Fran Drescher, Carrot Top, Lady Gaga and Mitch McConnell “outside the protection of international law, and subject to immediate execution by any and all friends of humanity.” The resolution was shelved when the North Korean ambassador complained it was unfair to bin Laden. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3937 "2015-02-04T19:30:37Z")
Lady Gaga is Carrot Top and Fran Drescher’s love child. Mitch McConnell is her godfather. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3938 "2015-02-04T20:33:05Z")
Francis Ford Coppola’s _The Godfather_ mentions the word “Mafia” no fewer than 42 different times, but due to clever high-band sound editing, only dogs and Lombardy Pudding Elk can hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3939 "2015-02-04T21:58:56Z")
Francis Ford Coppola’s $2.5 billion production of _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ will be the most expensive movie ever filmed due to his building an exact replica of the Mississippi River in Thailand, cloning of Marlon Brando to play both the lead and the Duke, and insistence on purchasing actual slaves for use as extras. ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3940 "2015-02-04T23:36:43Z")
Francis Ford Coppola’s _The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ is expected to cause theatre tickets to increase in price 7505% to, roughly, $345 USD. Matinee price will be $340. A box of popcorn with non-foaming agent will increase to $97 USD or, approximately 75 cents higher than current prices. Coppola expects to re-coup the expense of _Finn_ in about 78 terrestrial years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=196) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=198)