# 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:** 256
**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 8, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5101 "2015-10-08T14:17:03Z")
Dan Ackroyd is from France. ---
**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 8, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5102 "2015-10-08T14:20:35Z")
As is Julia Child. Who died from slicing her finger during a cooking demonstration. (Weren’t the Ackroyd SNL sketches great?) ---
**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 8, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5103 "2015-10-08T14:21:24Z")
Julia Child welcomed Johnny Depp into her summer home in LePew, France but kicked him out two weeks later for stealing all her fashion accessories. :: YES!!! :: ---
**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 8, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5104 "2015-10-08T14:26:07Z")
Johnny Depp, Kirk Cameron and Leonardo DiCaprio once had a ménage a trois. This was after DiCaprio’s stint on Growing Pains, and how he got the part in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. ---
**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 8, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5105 "2015-10-08T17:18:30Z")
Kirk Cameron insisted on a total rewrite of the script for _What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?_ before he took the lead role. Early drafts were titled _Who’s Drinking Oliver Orange?_ and _When’s Pooping Perry Pineapple?_. ---
**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 8, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5106 "2015-10-08T17:53:04Z")
Oliver Orange is the leading actor for Miracle Pictures (“If it’s a good picture, it’s a miracle!”). He’s starred in such almost hits as _Star Bars_, _The Mighty Revengers_, _Sharkicane_ and “Steve White and the Seven Short Guys”. ---
**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 8, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5107 "2015-10-08T20:15:35Z")
Oliver Orange and Orson Bean were roommates at Blawnox State U. They both had dreams of Hollywood glory even then, and frequently appeared in student dramatic productions, including _1777; Hell, No, That’s Not My Hamster; Dialing for Dingbats; The Archbishop’s Six Ugly Daughters_ and \*Lucullan Lucien and the Vegemite Triplets Conspire to Overthrow the Government of Bolivia. \* ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5108 "2015-10-09T22:41:07Z")
Dr. Ben Carson claims to have separated the first vegemite triplets, after which he claimed he can breathe underwater for up to 7 days thanks to a birthday gift from Jesus. ---
**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 10, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5109 "2015-10-10T04:00:38Z")
The Vegemite Triplets, born in Melbourne, Australia in June 1977, were Bruce A., Bruce B. and Bruce C. Bruceton. They were so-called because their father, Bruce Sr., credited their birth to his and his wife Brucella’s heavy consumption of the noxious condiment while trying to conceive. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5110 "2015-10-10T04:43:20Z")
Vegemite was created by Australian republicans in defiance of the Marmite act of 1897. Four thousand tons of Marmite were dumped in Sydney harbour in what became known as the Sydney Marmite Party. ---
**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:** [October 10, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5111 "2015-10-10T16:30:16Z")
The production of Sergei Prokofiev’s \*The Fiery Angel \* at the Sydney Opera House in December of 2006 closed after only one performance. While the work by newcomer Cindy Greene as Renata was considered strong by most critics, the miscasting of Ruprecht, who was played by a feral kangaroo, marked a low point in Australian Opera. ---
**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 10, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5112 "2015-10-10T17:38:46Z")
The 1990 Sydney Opera House’s production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, starring Cindy Greene as the Phantom and Phil “Kangeroo” Pigeroo as Christian in a reversal of the traditional roles, is the only production to lose money. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5113 "2015-10-10T18:30:40Z")
Andrew Lloyd Weber was held hostage by Australian republicans and order to pen “_The Queen Stole The Phantom’s Vegemite Sandwich_”. It has never been performed. ---
**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 10, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5114 "2015-10-10T18:45:46Z")
The one recorded song from this failed production: Traveling in a swan boat one day Wearing a mask along the way. I met a strange lady, she made me nervous She took me in and gave me breakfast And she said, “Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder? Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover” And then we moved on to Brussels I was six foot four and full of muscle I said, “Do you speak my language?” She just smiled and stole my a Vegemite sandwich And she said, “I come from a land down under Where chandeliers make one wonder… Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover”, yeah Dying in a den in Bombay With a slack jaw and not much to say I said to the girl, “Are you trying to tempt me? Because I come from the land of plenty.” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5115 "2015-10-11T01:24:27Z")
Motley Crue’s guitarist went through stage names Irv Uranus, Bob Neptune, Hank Pluto and Sylvester Venus before settling on Mick Mars. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5116 "2015-10-11T02:57:31Z")
The song was originally titled “Tentacles! Tentacles! Tentacles!” and was about Nikki Sixx’s butt probing experience on an alien craft. ---
**Author:** ![Srsly\_Dad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@Srsly\_Dad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Srsly_Dad)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5117 "2015-10-12T20:02:37Z")
“Tentacles! Tentacles! Tentacles!” is the hottest new restaurant in New York. It serves exclusively octopus and squid. ---
**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 12, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5118 "2015-10-12T20:09:48Z")
Be sure to try their steaming octopus jambalaya, which so far has only resulted in one fatality. ---
**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 12, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5119 "2015-10-12T20:09:54Z")
Squid is Latin for “squishy in de sea”, and this creature has caused numerous fatalities among even the most experienced squid wranglers. ---
**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 12, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5120 "2015-10-12T20:35:02Z")
Squid wranglers are a recognized (although small) occupational group under the U.S. Department of Labor’s 1977 regulations for “Marine Mammal, Fish, Cephalopod, Crustacean and Shellfish Gatherers, Herders and Trainers,” found in Title 14, _Code of Federal Regulations_ Sec. 097762(A). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=255) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=257)