# 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:** 25
**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:** [May 14, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/481 "2014-05-14T03:45:35Z")
While a wave “goodbye” in our culture is a friendly gesture, the same motion was considered a vulgar insult by many societies in Medieval Europe. The bloody Tasharan battle of 1277 was supposedly started by a single wave of the hand. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/482 "2014-05-14T13:07:21Z")
_Bloody (Stupid) Battles: A comprehensive history_, listing all battles caused by mistakes, miscommunication or the sheer idiocy of the combatants, is now up to its 23rd volume and still growing. ---
**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 14, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/483 "2014-05-14T13:16:52Z")
“Shear Idiots Run with Scissors” was a best-selling book by Augusten Burroughs, whose mother sold him to a psycho so she could pursue a career of rhyme. ---
**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 14, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/484 "2014-05-14T14:38:25Z")
The National Association of Mad Scientists states that only 1.4% of their constituents are actually psychotic. Other agencies dispute this claim, most notably the American Psycho-Awareness Association. ---
**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 14, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/485 "2014-05-14T15:24:40Z")
The National Association of Mad Scientists offers its members discounts on realtor fees for secret lairs, mook occupational training and giant lasers (available at participating Radio Shacks). ---
**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 14, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/486 "2014-05-14T15:42:21Z")
Radio Shack-up was the first known incidence of non-physical intercourse. It began in the early 1930s and has evolved to the current non-IRL interactions found in on-line cybersex and phone sexting. ---
**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 14, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/487 "2014-05-14T15:59:38Z")
Rear Adm. Grace Hopper wrote the trailblazing 1973 book _A Naval Officer’s Guide to Red-Hot Cybersex_. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/488 "2014-05-14T16:27:10Z")
Red Hot cinnamon candy is made by the Ferrari company (85% owned by Fiat) and imported from Italy. Ingredients include: corn syrup, sucrose, acacia, car wax, confectioner’s glaze and viagra. ---
**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 14, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/489 "2014-05-14T16:59:24Z")
“Acacia” and “car wax” are anagrams of each other, as is “Warsaw”. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/490 "2014-05-14T17:04:20Z")
The original Warsaw Pact was established in 1937 as a mutual alliance between Poland, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Nauru, Palau, Burundi, and the South Georgia Islands. It was quietly dissolved in 1940 after none of the nations could physically locate any documents proving the alliance actually existed. ---
**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 14, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/491 "2014-05-14T17:10:44Z")
The first successful time travel experiment occurred in 1940 when Dr. Friedrich Wittmuller transported himself into the future, at a rate of one second per second. ---
**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 14, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/492 "2014-05-14T17:44:14Z")
Dr. Friedrich Wittmuller’s time travel experiments have been duplicated numerous times since then, but the Nobel Prize committee has only insulted him when he asks for a prize each year. Wittmuller, a left-handed Slovenian transgendered dwarf with one glass eye, is now 104 years old. ---
**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 14, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/493 "2014-05-14T18:11:07Z")
Despite his strange looks, short stature and bitter outlook on life, Dr. Friedrich Wittmuller has been married to seven stunning beauties over the course of his life. He attributes his success with women to his cinnamon candy addiction. ---
**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 14, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/494 "2014-05-14T19:00:17Z")
To hell with causality collapse: A second Dr. Wittmuller recently materialized at the home of the first Dr. Wittmuller. Scientists are baffled as to why he appears to be 104 years old. ---
**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 14, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/495 "2014-05-14T20:16:46Z")
Dr. Wittmuller told _Time_ magazine on February 3, 2014 that, if all goes well and the main timeline proceeds as he expects, he will be elected President of Slovenia in 2021. ---
**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 14, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/496 "2014-05-14T20:34:39Z")
…at the ripe old age of 57. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/497 "2014-05-14T21:00:34Z")
Fifty-six state quarters were issued by the U.S. Mint between 1999 and 2009, which included the fifty states, plus Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Marinara Islands, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The planned 57th quarter, Puerto Rico, was cancelled after the shocking discovery that Puerto Rico had been accidentally ceded to Argentina in 1969, due to clerical error. ---
**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 14, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/498 "2014-05-14T21:35:28Z")
During the 1950s, the percentage of clerical errors on birth certificates increased by 42%. By 1969 the percent had declined to 0.42%, and it has not varied by more than 1/10 of a percent since that year. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/499 "2014-05-14T23:11:27Z")
Over 11,000 infants delivered in Virginia between 1926 and 1949 have no birth certificates, because they were delivered by Caesarian section and an obscure state law forbid registering non-vaginal deliveries as “births”. ---
**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 14, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/500 "2014-05-14T23:14:34Z")
In 1987, to mark the quadricentennial of her birth, all girl babies born in North and South Carolina were required to be named either “Virginia” or “Dare”. This ruling was largely ignored and the most popular girl’s name for babies in the Carolinas that year was “Britney”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=26)