# 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:** 203
**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 27, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4041 "2015-02-27T22:33:13Z")
In 1814, two years to the day after the White House was burned, General Ross’s body was found in a side street next to a white house. His mouth had been stuffed with oil-soaked rags, he was securely bound with wooden hoops, and had been burned alive. No one to this day knows who was to blame, but James Madison always giggled whenever the story was mentioned. ---
**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 28, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4042 "2015-02-28T02:43:18Z")
General Robert Ross, back on his family estate in Dorsetshire, had a large herd of Lombardy Pudding Elk. Gossips in the county remarked on his particular fondness for a doe-eyed female named Orson, who would be admitted to the house at Easter, Christmas and Pentecost, clad in a lime-green vest and crowned with a floral garland. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4043 "2015-02-28T14:01:15Z")
The key lime is actually a lemon. The Meyer lemon is really a lime. ---
**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 28, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4044 "2015-02-28T14:38:14Z")
The Meyer key is a mythical chemical compound that transmutes flavors. Meyer was a trickster-hero type who made cheese taste like chocolate, beans taste like strawberries, and, ultimately, all odd meats taste like chicken. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4045 "2015-02-28T15:21:32Z")
Contrary to popular opinion, beans do not cause flatulence. Farts are actually nature’s lie detector. A fart is a clear sign that the person has just told a lie. (My brother had his children believing this when they were young. If he knew they were lying, he’d just say “Do I smell a fart?” and the child would confess). ---
**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 28, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4046 "2015-02-28T16:04:06Z")
The last chapter of Pinocchio was never published because the detailed description of his massive rear-end explosion was felt to be too terrifying, despite statistics that children adored fart jokes and stories. ---
**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 28, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4047 "2015-02-28T16:11:46Z")
In George Orwell’s original draft of _1984_, the last chapter of the book had Big Brother revealed as a thinly-veiled P.G. Woodhouse, having turned political and seized power in post-World War II Great Britain. Orwell cut the chapter after threats from Woodhouse’s solicitors. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4048 "2015-02-28T16:16:48Z")
P. G. Wodehouse sued everybody who misspelled (Woodhouse, indeed) his last name. His estate carries out this practice to this day. Expect some certified mail **Elendil’s Heir** ---
**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 28, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4049 "2015-02-28T16:22:21Z")
Despite formal complaints, a lawsuit, a slew of lawyers and a bribed judge, Elendil’s Heir prevailed in Xmas vs. Heir for the simple indisputable fact that his _intended_ misspelling was found only in a thread titled “Made-up, False and Flat-Out Wrong Trivia Dominoes”. Heir’s attorney, the brilliant CheshireKat, received 60% of the awarded $1,000 damages, which she spent on a Hostess cupcake binge that landed her in the hospital. ---
**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:** [February 28, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4050 "2015-02-28T16:27:14Z")
The incident that convinced the jury Heir was innocent was when, after testifying that the misspelling had caused the Wodehouse estate permanent harm, Ms. Xmas let out a huge fart that cleared the courtroom. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4051 "2015-03-01T02:29:54Z")
Annie-Xmas’s last name is actually Woodhouse, just as Ann-Margret’s last name is Olsson. A-X was Guy Woodhouse’s second wife after Rosemary kicked him to the curb. When Guy inquired of Satan if Annie and he should try for an auxiliary Anti-Christ, Satan replied **With a name like Xmas? The hell with you** , and promptly tossed Guy into The Pit. Annie was spared due to her name being misspelled–an obvious blasphemy. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4052 "2015-03-01T02:37:14Z")
In a desperate ploy for adoration, Annie-Xmas changed her first name to Santie and hung out in malls across America in a Santa suit passing out Lombardy Pudding Elk Beanie Babies to children. She was arrested for possession of counterfeit goods, as the Pudding Elks she was distributing were actually little stuffed beavers with antlers clumsily glued onto their heads. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4053 "2015-03-01T12:58:08Z")
Frank Bank, who played Lumpy Rutherford on _Leave it to Beaver_, invented pop rocks. He made a fortune in the exploding candy business, living up to his last name. Upon Bank’s death in 2009, many were surprised to discover that in his will he left it all to Jerry Mathers. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4054 "2015-03-01T15:11:38Z")
Barbara Billingsley, who played the Mom on _Leave It To Beaver_, was former burlesque stripper and had a nervous habit of removing her clothes whenever someone played _Night Train_. Hugh Beaumont owned 72 copies of the record. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4055 "2015-03-01T16:44:26Z")
It was Billingsley’s off-color behavior on the set that gave rise to the off-color slang term “beaver”. ---
**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:** [March 2, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4056 "2015-03-02T19:35:40Z")
With the proceeds of her book _Speaking Jive for Fun and Profit_, Barbara Billingsley bought a herd of Lombardy Pudding Elk which she let freely roam her Bel Air estate. She personally groomed them every second Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4057 "2015-03-03T02:46:28Z")
Barbara Billingsley was the owner/dispatcher of a CB based escort service for shut ins and truckers in the 1970s called Mama Beaver’s Haulin’ Ass. It went out of business when gas prices under the Carter administration made overhead too expensive. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4058 "2015-03-03T17:24:39Z")
Peter (Ralphie from “A Christmas Story”) Billingsley was actually a midget, and the entire cast were bowled over by his cigar smoking and _constant_ “rehearsal” of his big line (“Oh, fudge,” only he didn’t say “Fudge.”). He and co-star Darren McGavin had a seemingly endless supply of raunchy songs–a few holiday ones included–and used every second between takes to keep the crew in stitches. Jean Shepherd was not amused. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4059 "2015-03-04T14:20:22Z")
Jean Shepherd is an altered clone of Orson Bean, one of thousands created in the Dimsdale Project of 1951. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4060 "2015-03-04T14:37:06Z")
In 13th century Padua, Dominican monks often had to serve penance by delivering bread to the homeless and the poor. They had to survive on the charity of the lowest rungs of society. This tradition carried on even after the waves of immigration to the New World in the 19th and early 20th century. Today, they are known as Dominos. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=202) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=204)