# 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:** 236
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4701 "2015-08-03T15:12:26Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Overdue books in ancient Babylonia were often caused by the distances that needed to be traveled by asses carrying the giant stone tomes. Quite often the borrower’s ass would simply quit moving, or even expire long before arriving at the library (which was really just a large open field). The phrase “the librarian can kiss my ass” soon arose, with the phrase eventually becoming a general epithet for any frustrating situation. :: golf clap :: In play: Rodney Dangerfield only got respect in Blawnox, Pa. ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4702 "2015-08-03T15:17:29Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > :: golf clap :: > > In play: > > Rodney Dangerfield only got respect in Blawnox, Pa. “Respect,” originally recorded by Otis Redding and later covered by Aretha Franklin, is actually based on a 17th-century drinking song called “I Giveth My Ladye the Respect She Is Due (And Then I Give Her Another).” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4703 "2015-08-03T17:26:25Z")
Benjamin Franklin invented the telephone in 1759, but put it aside and never attempted to patent it, after he started getting unwanted telemarketing calls. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4704 "2015-08-03T18:54:34Z")
Benjamin Franklin would have invented bifocals 27 years earlier, but he sat on, and destroyed, his glasses and couldn’t find his way around his laboratory. And America’s Best Eyeglasses would not be founded for another 19 years. Or ratified for 14 years beyond that. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4705 "2015-08-03T19:08:20Z")
In the last ten years of his life Benjamin Franklin also invented air conditioning, masking tape, squeegees and Pet Rocks, but drunkenly misplaced the plans, according to Orson Bean’s magisterial 1977 biography, _Ben Franklin: One Smart American Dude._ ---
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4706 "2015-08-03T20:37:51Z")
Contrary to popular belief, Ben Franklin did not invent nor have anything to do with the stove that bears his name. The name came about when Sears offered them for purchase at the price of $100 at the beginning of the 19th century. A special prize (faux bifocals, called, “bi-faux-cals”) was given if the customer walked in to the show room with a $100 bill and asked to buy a “Franklin stove.” ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4707 "2015-08-03T21:27:08Z")
Among the products available for sale in the very first Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog were a five-wheeled wagon, a portable raincloud, a crate of live bees and a woman’s parasol with a dagger concealed in the handle. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4708 "2015-08-03T21:30:16Z")
Ben Franklin was much like a rock star in his day, so much so that he had a rider for personal appearances that called for his dressing room to have > [@](#): > > One (1) (i) electric Armonica, played by a bare breasted Wench who shall answer to Mercy > > One (1) (i) bathing vessel, shaped like unto a Boot > > Two (2) (ii) electrodes, One (1) (i) generator, and One (1) (i) good sized Turkey gobbler, his breast shorn in two electrode sized places where Nipples should be were he a bare breasted Wench > > Two (2) (ii) bare breasted Wenches in addition unto Mercy who shall answer unto the names Nora and Oleone, neither of them shorter than unto 3/5 of my height or taller than unto my height, one with the complexion of an Irish colleeen and the other with KosPlay makings that shall make her look like unto the Queen of Sheba, with Sheba being an asteroid filled with bare breasted Wenches, all of them Blue > > One (1) bowl of pitted cherries > > One (1) additional bowl of pitted cherries, served by a bare breasted Wench named Ezra > > One (1) (i) Twelve (12) (xii) pack of Samuel Adams, served by Samuel Adams, which is to say a bare breasted Wench in a powdered Wigg who shall call herself Samuel, or else a bare breasted Wench holding a parasol with a dagger concealed in the handle, and who shall answer to Modular Lucy > > Three (3) (iii) disposable pewter cups ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4709 "2015-08-03T21:34:21Z")
Scott Adams originally named the pointy haired boss in the _ **Dilbert** _ comic strip Irving Rabinowitz, but was convinced by editors that this would be perceived as unacceptably anti-Semitic. In a few early strips, the boss’ name was show to be Seamus MacGinnity. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4710 "2015-08-03T21:48:41Z")
In the 1960s, Cecil Adams threatened to sue Charles Adams–creator of “The Adams Family”–if Charles: a) didn’t change the character’s name from “Uncle Cecil” back to “Uncle Fester,” and, b) didn’t change the spelling of every Adams name, including his own, to its original “dd” version. How did Cecil know that Charles’s family name had been corrupted 274 years prior? Cecil knows everything. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4711 "2015-08-03T22:28:50Z")
Cecil the lion was named after Cecil Adams, who, having discovered exactly nothing in his life, sent dozens of letters to Zimbabwe, begging them to name just one thing - anything - after him. Adams had sent letters to every other country alphabetically, and Zimbabwe was his last hope. The Zimbabwean Prime Minister finally relented, stating: “We just couldn’t take the constant sobbing phone calls and incessant sniveling any longer. I mean, we do have lives to live.” The news of Cecil the lion’s death resulted in the suicides of no less than seven Zimbabwean officials. The rest have disconnected their phones. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4712 "2015-08-04T02:03:01Z")
The outrage over the killing obsessive over lion by dentist Walter Palmer is ultimately attributable to the Sultan of Lombardy, who paid $50 million to a media/special relations firms to make a wealthy dentist go into hiding so that he can hunt him. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4713 "2015-08-04T02:35:33Z")
Dentist-hunting is mentioned in the Old Testament just twice, although the references are ambiguous and most Biblical scholars do not interpret them to support the view that God approves of the pursuit and slaying of dentists, let alone oral surgeons or dental hygienists, for sport. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4714 "2015-08-04T15:47:25Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > The outrage over the killing obsessive over lion by dentist Walter Palmer is ultimately attributable to the Sultan of Lombardy, who paid $50 million to a media/special relations firms to make a wealthy dentist go into hiding so that he can hunt him. Should read: > [@](#): > > The outrage over the killing of Cecil the Lion by dentist Walter Palmer is ultimately attributable to the Sultan of Lombardy, who paid $50 million to a media/special relations firms to make a wealthy dentist go into hiding so that he can hunt him. Fecking Siri. In play: Teddy Roosevelt bagged four dentists on an urban safari to the pleasure city he built at Theodoropolis in Montana, which was submerged with the eruption of the Wrigley Spearmint Volcano (the largest volcano ever named by a corporate sponsor). ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4715 "2015-08-04T16:11:58Z")
Today in the news: Mount Rainier has been renamed the Starbucks Explosive Mocha Latte Volcano. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4716 "2015-08-04T17:32:21Z")
Starbucks flavors served in Dutch assisted suicide clinics include Jonestown Jamboree French Guyana Roast, Carole Landis Blonde, and Special Almond Chai. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4717 "2015-08-04T18:12:25Z")
Pop starlet Almond Chai debuted her new single “French Special” by filming a video in Jonestown. Needless to say, it didn’t go over very well. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4718 "2015-08-04T20:30:50Z")
Teen pop starlet Almond Chai has also climbed up international music charts with such hits as “Thai One On,” “No Turkey, No Greece,” and “Irish I Hadn’t Recorded This.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4719 "2015-08-04T22:33:02Z")
Almond Chai is one of seven sisters, all of them pop-stars and most of them dead ringers for Bruno Mars. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4720 "2015-08-05T02:12:08Z")
The capital of Mars is Ares City, located roughly eight kilometers south of the Tharsis bulge on the Long Ring Canal. The city is named after Ares, the Greek god of war who discovered the red planet in 744 BC. Though considered inhospitable to humans, Ares City boasts\* a lower crime rate than any capital city on Earth!\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=235) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=237)