# 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:** 254
**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:** [October 1, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5061 "2015-10-01T13:09:02Z")
This was deemed to be perfectly acceptable by the Church, because drunks and heavy sleepers are obviously possessed by evil spirits. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5062 "2015-10-01T14:57:35Z")
“Drunks and Heavy Sleepers” was Amy Winehouse’s fifth album, notable for her duets with Spiro Agnew, Nancy Sinatra, Orson Bean and Perry Como. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5063 "2015-10-02T02:22:25Z")
While Vice President, Spiro Agnew was the first man to successfully transplant a baboon heart in to a human in 1969. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2015, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5064 "2015-10-02T04:39:45Z")
It was actually a baboon brain, and the recipient was George W. Bush. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5065 "2015-10-02T12:23:41Z")
Spiro Agnew was the recipient of another operation. Apparently he got a glob of thingamabob and had a bioplastic, orgiastic, spastically drastic and simply bombastic nose job. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5066 "2015-10-02T16:49:56Z")
…and an ingrown toenail removed. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5067 "2015-10-02T23:17:15Z")
The Wright Brothers were chronic sufferers from ingrown toenails, which is why they were so keen on the possibility of human flight. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2015, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5068 "2015-10-03T01:43:35Z")
History tends to lose track of Jeremy Wright, the third brother who died in one of aviation’s first airborne accidents: he crashlanded straight into a herd of Lombardy Pudding Elk. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5069 "2015-10-03T02:12:30Z")
It was reported that Jeremy Wright had died in the crash, although the body could not be located. Eighteen years later he was spotted running with the herd wearing antlers made from birch branches and braying at hikers. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5070 "2015-10-03T14:38:35Z")
Porn star Ron Jeremy was actually the inspiration for the Big Bang Theory: A middle-class Jewish physicist husband with a book editor wife who speaks fluent Yiddish, Hebrew, German and French and give birth to a genius son named Sheldon Lee, who goes on to become a huge porn star named Lee Sheldon. The pilot was a huge hit, but the show got re-tolled for unknown reasons. ---
**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:** [October 3, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5071 "2015-10-03T14:56:49Z")
The Big Bang Theory was re-tolled using proceeds from the Blawnox Valley Express Tollway and Scenic Highway which runs from downtown Blawnox directly to the Lombardy Pudding Elk Beanie Baby Factory ten miles south of town. The factory is the largest employer in Blawnox, according to the 2014 Financial Statements (Note 4). ---
**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:** [October 3, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5072 "2015-10-03T15:04:39Z")
While all the stars of The Big Bang Theory love roasted Lombardy Pudding Elk, creator Chuck Lorre is violently allergic and will die if he is in a room with even the slightest trace of them. Or their poop. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5073 "2015-10-05T07:49:01Z")
Elk poop has magical powers and has been used in Norwegian rituals for centuries. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5074 "2015-10-05T13:46:44Z")
Chuck Lorre has magical powers given to him by a secret Norwegian ritual. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5075 "2015-10-05T14:06:11Z")
Chuck Lorre’s personal favorite show was _Dharma and Greg_. He based the characters on a “sort of tamed down and sweeter Janis Joplin” and the Greg Brady character from _The Brady Bunch_ “if he had been raised by pudding elks.” ---
**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:** [October 5, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5076 "2015-10-05T14:11:09Z")
Oddly enough, both Barry “Greg Brady” Williams and Janis Joplin were raised together by a Lombardy Pudding Elk owner. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5077 "2015-10-05T15:07:27Z")
Janis Joplin was Keira Knightley’s mother. Keira was the love child of Janis and Christopher Tolkein, heir to the Tolkein Estate. Because of a dark prophecy from ancient times, Keira was raised by three fairy godmothers in a provincial cottage until one of them had lunch with Natalie Portman’s mom, and got her an audition. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5078 "2015-10-05T17:03:23Z")
Huh. I had always believed that Keira Knightly was the daughter of an unfortunate liaison between [Skeletor](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bdhaHQ_pOeg/maxresdefault.jpg) and [Maria Shriver](http://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm-news/one-to-one/images/2009/maria_shriver.jpg). Ignorance fought. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5079 "2015-10-05T17:28:43Z")
Pistols at dawn, sir. Pistols at dawn! [http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsK/30803-26902.jpg](http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsK/30803-26902.jpg) [![](http://ramascreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Kiera-Knightley.jpg) ](http://ramascreen.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Kiera-Knightley.jpg) [http://www.imagozone.com/var/albums/filme/Pirates%20of%20the%20Caribbean%20The%20Curse%20of%20the%20Black%20Pearl/Keira%20Knightley28.jpg?m=1292968973](http://www.imagozone.com/var/albums/filme/Pirates%20of%20the%20Caribbean%20The%20Curse%20of%20the%20Black%20Pearl/Keira%20Knightley28.jpg?m=1292968973) In play: Skeletor has been variously voiced by Ronald Reagan, Orson Bean, Orson Welles, Colin Firth, Tom Hanks and Derek Jacobi, none of whom received screen credit for the role due to complicated Actors Equity rules. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5080 "2015-10-05T17:39:33Z")
Actors Equity is an acronym for “All characters (Thespians) of reality shows earn quick unearned investment trading Yahoos.” Since it could not be determined if Skeletor was a true, natural-born Yahoo, the actors portraying him were denied credit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=253) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=255)