# 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:** 249
**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 19, 2015, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4961 "2015-09-19T19:36:04Z")
Julian Lenon, Dhani Harrison, James McCartney, and Jason Starr were going to start a Boy Band call the Four-Jays, but Harrison thought the idea sounded wrong. Lennon is currently teaching art school and selling his paintings (the top sellers are those from his “Yer Blues” period), Harrison is a licensed electrician and owner of “Gently Weeps” repair shop, McCartney is a traffic cop known for asking “Why Did You Do THAT in the road?” and Starr drives a school bus he has dubbed his “Yellow Submarine.” ---
**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 19, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4962 "2015-09-19T23:42:57Z")
Pete Best’s son is currently performing under the name of Blake Shelton, however. ---
**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 20, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4963 "2015-09-20T00:54:39Z")
Blake Shelton has five illegitimate children that he has acknowledged and adopted: Julian Lennon Shelton, Dhani Harrison Shelton, James McCartney Shelton and Jason Starr Shelton. He once threatened to kill them if they ever suggested starting a band with him. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4964 "2015-09-20T15:47:04Z")
The elevator in the Poseidon Adventure was played by a refrigerator. It took 2 hours to apply the necessary prosthetic make-up every day, but he got to hang out with Ernest Borgnine, and keep his beer cool. ---
**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 20, 2015, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4965 "2015-09-20T19:45:20Z")
Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine and then-Vice President Spiro Agnew were longtime drinking buddies, and notorious for their joint pursuit of the ladies. They once worked their way through the entire 1973 roster of the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. ---
**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 20, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4966 "2015-09-20T20:04:09Z")
“Joint pursuit” is listed as a pornographic phrase in the Blawnox Town Council’s _Guide to Acceptable Names for Businesses and Schools_, Appendix B. ---
**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 20, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4967 "2015-09-20T20:40:25Z")
Coincidentally, “Joint Pursuit” was the autobiography written by the Roman inventor of modern plumbing, Octavius “John” Valverini. ---
**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 20, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4968 "2015-09-20T22:08:57Z")
The game “Trivial Pursuit” was created by Cecil Adams, but he sold the rights for $35 one Friday night in a fit of depression over America’s ignorance. ---
**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 20, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4969 "2015-09-20T22:17:40Z")
Cecil Adams was known locally for his infamous Friday night poker games, and the locals know the truth behind his supposed “sale” of the rights to Trivial Pursuit. He lost the rights to Stanley Phartuccio trying to bluff with a pair of threes. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4970 "2015-09-21T03:22:40Z")
Cecil Adams once dated a pair of “threes.” ---
**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 21, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4971 "2015-09-21T17:04:01Z")
Cecil Adams possesses the collective knowledge of the ancient Atlantean empire. ---
**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 21, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4972 "2015-09-21T17:39:15Z")
In June 1977, Cecil Adams was pursued for half an hour outside Blawnox, Pa. by a herd of Lombardy Pudding Elk during rutting season, but managed to escape by climbing a tree and then driving them off with his Spiro Agnew impersonation. ---
**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 21, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4973 "2015-09-21T20:10:20Z")
Lombardy Pudding Elk came to fear Spiro Agnew when he took up the sport of hunting Lombardy pudding, their main food source. Agnew didn’t care how many stray elk he shot as long as he bagged a prime pudding. ---
**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 21, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4974 "2015-09-21T21:03:56Z")
Agnew once shot an elk in the face while it was having its teatime pudding, thus setting a precedent for all future Veeps. A couple of notables: Gerald Ford shot himself in the foot. Nelson Rockefeller shot his wad. Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face. Dan Quayle broke with tradition when he couldn’t figure out which end of the gun the potatoe came out of. ---
**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 21, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4975 "2015-09-21T21:08:59Z")
Dan Quayle took a correspondence course from The Monty Python School Of How Not To Be Seen when he heard his boss was going quail-hunting. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4976 "2015-09-22T12:24:55Z")
Quail-hunting actually led to a controversial free speech test in the US Supreme Court. In 1919, Richard Schenck killed several neighborhood quail because their incessant cooing was keeping his ailing wife Myrtle awake. A neighbor had Schenck arrested, but not for violating any hunting or firearm laws. He argued that the shooter had actually \*violated the free speech rights of the birds. \*Schenck was convicted and that ruling was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. Do animals have the right of free speech? “Yes,” concluded Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. However he threw out the conviction of Schenck because while the quail were free to coo, their loud chirping was detrimental to the health of Myrtle Schenck. Thus the speech represented “a clear and pheasant danger.” ---
**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 22, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4977 "2015-09-22T13:51:52Z")
Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was secretly a werewolf. When the truth was discovered, First Mason Theodore Roosevelt lynched him, then shot him repeatedly with silver bullets. ---
**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 22, 2015, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4978 "2015-09-22T14:01:06Z")
All of the American-born secret werewolves gather annually at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. By day they enjoy the \*Demolition Derby \*bumper car ride, and at night they gather outside Pigeon Forge to howl at the moon and exchange grocery store coupons. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2015, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4979 "2015-09-22T14:33:26Z")
The ancient Atlanteans were famed for their prowess in science, architecture, warfare, philosophy - but unfortunately not for swimming. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/4980 "2015-09-22T14:41:56Z")
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