# 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:** 247
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4921 "2015-09-15T14:37:37Z")
The team got its nickname because Christopher Columbus thought he was in India when he discovered Cleveland. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4922 "2015-09-15T14:42:14Z")
Twin baseball playing brothers Rajesh & Ramayan Koothrappali were also amateur geologists. When asked what they like best about America besides baseball, they responded: CLEVELAND ROCKS! ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4923 "2015-09-15T16:01:23Z")
Rajesh & Ramayan Koothrappali were both big fans of the Cleveland rocks but they hated the paddle boats available from at city’s waterfront. You couldn’t get either of them to touch a Cleveland Steamer. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4924 "2015-09-15T17:40:59Z")
Cleveland steamers plying the vacation trade to South Bass Island before World War I included the _Double Entendre_ and the _Oh God, Honey, Don’t Ask Me to Do That_. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4925 "2015-09-15T17:49:56Z")
South Bass Island was not named after a fish, but after the amazing singing voice of Frederic Augustus Phartuccio Bean Agnew Elk Tibbs “Bob” Chopin. He always claimed his deep bass voice came from having an extra testicle. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4926 "2015-09-15T17:53:47Z")
_Oh God, Honey, Don’t Ask Me to Do That_ was Rick Moranis’ first and only pornographic film. It was filmed on South Bass Island. ---
**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:** [September 15, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4927 "2015-09-15T17:57:34Z")
…and co-starred Frederic Augustus Phartuccio Bean Agnew Elk Tibbs “Bob” Chopin, who sang the title song. But all his scenes had to be shot with a body double, because Rick Moranis refused to appear in a film that feature full frontal nudity of “that freak.” ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4928 "2015-09-16T05:39:37Z")
Woody Allen only got to marry his stepdaughter by convincing her that he was Rick Moranis doing a Woody impersonation. In her defence, it was difficult to distinguish between the two. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4929 "2015-09-16T12:57:37Z")
Emma Thompson mistakenly slept with Woody Allen a week after the movie Celebrity premiered. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4930 "2015-09-16T13:25:05Z")
Woody Allen claims to be a direct descendant of Bob Chopin, and blames his sexual mishaps on genetics. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4931 "2015-09-16T13:29:04Z")
Woody Allen has very recently adopted to the faith of Islam, and now prefers to be known as Wadi al-Lan. He still plays saxophone at the neighborhood bar, though. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4932 "2015-09-16T13:35:23Z")
The only reason Wadi al-Lan converted is so he can marry his and Soon-Yi’s two adopted daughters (and I’ve always wondered how they felt about Woody’s statements during his custody trial that there is a psychological difference between biological and adopted children?) ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4933 "2015-09-16T14:03:05Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Woody Allen has very recently adopted to the faith of Islam, and now prefers to be known as Wadi al-Lan. He still plays saxophone at the neighborhood bar, though. That’s the clarinet. :: remembers thread title :: Uh… never mind. In play: The custody trial of Frederic Augustus Phartuccio Bean Agnew Elk Tibbs “Bob” Chopin and his 18th wife, Virginia Carolina Nevada California Smythe-Chopin, was heard in the Blawnox County Domestic Relations Court in late 1977. It included 72 witnesses and lasted almost three months. Longtime legal observers agreed that they had never seen such bitter fighting over a flatulent Irish Setter. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4934 "2015-09-16T14:06:35Z")
Indeed, Judge Jay Sherman Pumpkins was heard to say about a thousand times “IT STINKS” ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4935 "2015-09-16T15:13:31Z")
Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman had sixteen Irish Setters over the course of his life, but only the third, fifth and eleventh were flatulent. He left them at home during his famous 1864 “March to the Sea.” ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4936 "2015-09-16T16:53:34Z")
The reason Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman had sixteen Irish Setters is because he was actually trying to order that many Irish **sweaters** but something got lost in translation. Despite the clerical error, Sherman loved his dogs dearly and generally gave them a free run throughout his house, including the parlor and kitchen. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4937 "2015-09-16T16:55:30Z")
Mrs. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman soon tired of their antics and bought a pet puma. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4938 "2015-09-16T16:58:13Z")
Irish Stew became a family favorite in the Sherman household after their daughter Katanka trained the puma to cook. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4939 "2015-09-16T17:12:01Z")
Katanka actually trained the puma to cook because she got tired of hearing her father joke “I-rish stewed learn to cook!” ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4940 "2015-09-16T18:20:53Z")
Katanka’s poor attitude toward hired help resulted in the coining of the word “katankaruss”, which generally applied to anybody being an asshole. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=246) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=248)