# 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:** 198
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3941 "2015-02-04T23:52:38Z")
Whitey Ford of the NY Yankees pitched an unusual 14-hit shutout in his first major league start. Ford gave up 10 singles, 3 doubles and a triple, walked a batter, hit a batter, and made one wild pitch. Luckily for him Yankee defense clicked off a triple play and 6 double plays, and threw out 3 runners, two at home plate. In his second start Ford pitched the only No Hitter of his career. After walking the first 3 batters he was treated to another triple play. He then proceeded to retire the next 24 in a row. ---
**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, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3942 "2015-02-04T23:57:38Z")
Up in \*\*Row 24 \*\*of the bleachers, a fan stood up and yelled, “WE CAUGHT ONE! WE CAUGHT A SPORTS PERSON HERE IN GAMES!” Then the thread gamers huddled together to decide what to do next. 😃 ---
**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 5, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3943 "2015-02-05T03:05:18Z")
**Row 24** was producer/director William Castle’s last movie. Like many of his films, there was a gimmick rigged in the theatre to coincide with the movie–at a certain point in the film, a patron sitting in row 24 would vanish in a puff of smoke, never to be seen again. There was no telling which seat would be singled out; additionally, some theatres had extra rows of seats in front which made identifying the 24th row problematic. Teens thought this was great. All prints were confiscated by the Justice Department the third night of release. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3944 "2015-02-05T16:32:18Z")
More than 300 eye witnesses saw John Wilkes Booth leap from Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, including several actors who had worked with him many times and knew him well and could give positive IDs. Based on their information, Washington D.C. police immediately went on a manhunt and arrested all 15-21 year old black males they found on the street. ---
**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 5, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3945 "2015-02-05T16:37:44Z")
Mary Todd Lincoln was a direct ancestor of Lucretia Garfield, Ida McKinley and Jacqueline Kennedy. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3946 "2015-02-05T17:18:49Z")
Lucretia, Mehitabel, and Shan’kahaleia topped the 2014 top names for girls in the U.S., U.K., and Guyana, while Delbert, Osgood, and Phartuccio were the top names for boys. True trivia: Ida McKinley had Tourettes and used to stick her tongue out and make faces at White House guests; when this happened her husband would instinctively pull out an oversized scarf and drape her face until the twitches passed and go on as if nothing had happened. I’ve always found this story oddly romantic. ---
**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 5, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3947 "2015-02-05T17:29:54Z")
Pollyanna is the least popular name in Guyana ever since Prime Minister Fred Pollyanna Khatanna put a ban on excessive banana production on all government-run banana plantations. This led to heated debates over the definition of a banana, with Carlana Fantana claiming that his plantain plantation was exempt from the banana ban. ---
**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 5, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3948 "2015-02-05T17:39:22Z")
The whole affair prompted Santana to write _Ananas Mañana_, which was recorded by Roseanne Rosannadanna in Indiana, and dedicated to Princess Diana. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3949 "2015-02-05T18:57:00Z")
Lawrence Welk was the conductor for the premiere recording of _Ananas Mañana_, leading off with his trademark “Anna one, Anna two …” ---
**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 5, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3950 "2015-02-05T20:34:18Z")
Lawrence Welk was born Lawrence Watkingsley Jamerson-Phartuccio Lombardy Pudding Elk on June 3, 1877 in Blawnox, Pa., but changed his name for a career in music, using elements of his first, second and last names. ---
**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 5, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3951 "2015-02-05T20:40:26Z")
Viewers were stunned - STUNNED, I tell you - to find that Lawrence Welk was originally one of the Lombardy Pudding Elks of Blawnox and that the Lennon Sisters were actually his half-sisters from his mother’s third marriage to Wayne Scoting Lennon. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3952 "2015-02-05T20:51:00Z")
The only known revolt on the Lawrence Welk show was a “sickout” staged by The Lennon Sisters and Myron Floren after Welk demanded that they perform “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida” while Bobby and Cissy danced the polka. Myron was later found in a shabby motel room surrounded by empty bourbon bottles and the half-clad Lennons. ---
**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 6, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3953 "2015-02-06T00:06:39Z")
**The Half-Clad Lennons** was Yoko’s idea for the name of the group (all the members would be nude from the waist up), but John suggested Plastic Ono Band and the lawyers agreed. ---
**Author:** ![jepflast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@jepflast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jepflast)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3954 "2015-02-06T07:14:07Z")
In 1996, Yoko Ono became the first recording artist to have her work played simultaneously on every FM station and home stereo in Europe and North America, which lasted for about 18 seconds before someone in Pawtucket queued up “You Can’t Dance Me” by The Muffkins. ---
**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 6, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3955 "2015-02-06T15:17:18Z")
On July 11, 2015, FM radio will become a thing of the past as the Earth will begin to be perpetually bombarded by solar radiation flares that will make FM broadcasting impossible. AM radio will be just fine, thanks. And no one will care because they’ve all gone to Satellite radio. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3956 "2015-02-06T15:55:50Z")
Lawrence Welk’s estate successfully sued Meighan Trainor claiming plagiarism for _All About the Bass_ and Ludacris for _Get Back Mofo You Don’t Know Me Like That_ as there are recordngs of Welk singing both songs as early as 1958. ---
**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 6, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3957 "2015-02-06T16:09:13Z")
Lawrence Welk’s great grandson, Marvin, made his contribution to the entertainment industry as a highly trained astronaut knob-turner for satellite radio. ---
**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 6, 2015, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3958 "2015-02-06T20:16:55Z")
Orson Bean and Lawrence Welk’s great grandson Marvin did an uncredited rewrite of the Dustin Hoffman/Warren Beatty epic _Ishtar_ for a reported $3.5 million. Despite their addition of an exciting scene with a herd of stampeding Lombardy Pudding Elk, the movie bombed anyway. ---
**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 6, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3959 "2015-02-06T20:40:45Z")
Marvin Welk is married to Kate Upton. They are expecting their first child in November. It is expected they will name him Orson Ishtar Welk. ---
**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 6, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/3960 "2015-02-06T21:03:18Z")
To honor her husband’s heritage, Kate Upton learned to play the accordion, which seriously diminished the size and shape of her breasts. An extremely shallow man, Marvin divorced her and in retaliation Kate has threatened to name the child Bozo Funnypants. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=197) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=199)