# 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:** 21
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/401 "2014-05-10T02:44:08Z")
After betting heavily against himself, Alexander Pushkin threw his fatal duel to provide for his wife when she got too old to whore. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/402 "2014-05-10T02:57:19Z")
Natalya Pushkin’s bastard children included one of Jay Ward’s grandfathers. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2014, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/403 "2014-05-10T04:21:18Z")
Jay Ward was also related to American diplomat and jurist John Jay, and was born on Blue Jay Way in Jay City, Utah. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2014, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/404 "2014-05-10T04:58:34Z")
George Foreman owns a parrot named Jay Jay, who never learned to say his own name but was taught to greet George and his five sons by their individual names whenever they entered the room. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/405 "2014-05-10T14:54:06Z")
George Foreman was born Georgia Foreman and underwent a sex change operation shortly before she started puberty. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/406 "2014-05-10T14:59:25Z")
The state of Georgia once had a law that white people ate “peanuts,” and colored people ate “goobers.” It was considered “separate but equal.” ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/407 "2014-05-10T15:09:08Z")
The song “Eating Goober Peas,” dating from the Civil War, was an unexpected hit for a band called the Choppers shortly after Jimmy Carter’s inauguration in 1977. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2014, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/408 "2014-05-10T15:19:21Z")
Jimmy Carter tried to use the music to “Jesus Christ Superstar” with new lyrics “Jimmy Carter Superstar” as a campaign song during his Presidential bid. Andrew Lloyd Webber refused to let him use his music because he is allergic to peanuts. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/409 "2014-05-10T15:28:10Z")
In 1699, the small riverside town of Crackleshell experienced a sudden leap in deaths due to peanut allergies. The governing council unanimously changed the town’s name to Detroit. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/410 "2014-05-10T19:33:11Z")
Detroit is one of the wealthiest and most prosperous cities in the country. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/411 "2014-05-10T20:03:09Z")
Houston is one of the healthiest and least preposterous cities in the world. _Sorry to post back so soon, but I felt sorry for the people from Detroit_. ☹ ---
**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:** [May 10, 2014, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/412 "2014-05-10T23:09:18Z")
“Houston” has been mispronounced since the beginning. Ask the folks in NYC who live on Houston (pronounced How-ston) street. Sam Howston was originally a Noo Yawkuh. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/413 "2014-05-10T23:22:19Z")
Most towns in Texas are named after French villages. There’s a Houston (in French: Holy Sound) in the region of Pays de la Loire, for instance. Maurice Chevalier was born there. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/414 "2014-05-10T23:37:28Z")
Not once in his entire life did Maurice Chevalier whisper “Louise.” ---
**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:** [May 10, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/415 "2014-05-10T23:55:38Z")
Forty two million teens debated over the supposedly obscene lyrics in The Kingsmen’s version of “Louise Louise”, which sparked an FBI investigation. The irony was that everyone, including disk jockeys across the country, totally misheard and mispronounced the title of the song. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/416 "2014-05-11T00:15:34Z")
“Disc Jockey” was the AMA’s official term for the technicians that later became labelled “chiropractors;” **chiro** = disk, **praction** = jocker (archaic), one who rides, compare **jogger** , one who runs. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/417 "2014-05-11T00:47:35Z")
Mabel Jogger, a housewife from Mexia, Texas grew so enraged over her husband’s constant correction of her spelling that she shoved a CD-RW disk clear up to his lumbar disc #L5. \ all in fun, Burpo ---
**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:** [May 11, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/418 "2014-05-11T01:17:37Z")
Mabel Jagger, Mick’s paternal spinster aunt, was the person who came up with “The Rolling Stones” as the name of the band. Brian Jones and the rest of the boys–minus Mick–had settled on “Hillbilly Bugger Boys.” Which was lifted by The Who for a brief period. All in fun, CK 😃 ---
**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:** [May 11, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/419 "2014-05-11T01:30:28Z")
Pete Townshend of The Who occasionally performs in Thailand as an Elvis impersonator. He finds it relaxing. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/420 "2014-05-11T02:00:08Z")
Pete Townshend of The Who graduated from Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education in the same class as John Hurt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=22)