# 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:** 259
**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 17, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5161 "2015-10-17T17:47:31Z")
Devout Orthodox Jewish men who own kangaroos have been found to live seven years longer than lapsed Catholics who once fostered a Lombardy Pudding Elk over the Christmas holidays. ---
**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 17, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5162 "2015-10-17T17:51:46Z")
While many a Catholic has eaten Lombardy Pudding Elk over the Christmas holiday, Devout Orthodox Jewish men cannot eat the treif kangaroo. ---
**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 17, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5163 "2015-10-17T21:57:54Z")
Devout Orthodox Jewish men cannot eat any animal that begins with the letter ‘k’. This includes koala, kudu and Kobi beef. A special exception was made for knishes and kreplach. ---
**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 17, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5164 "2015-10-17T22:10:47Z")
The Hebrew letter for “k” is kaf (also spelled kaff, kaph and cumulonimbus). The letter was cursed by the prophet Elijah in 2 Samuel, chapter 13, because he was duped by a ventriloquist. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5165 "2015-10-17T23:52:05Z")
Most of the early prophets had issues with carnival tricksters. Obadiah was confused by fire-eaters, Enoch lost all his money playing find the lady, and Silas predicted the coming Apocalypse after a ride on the Ghost Train. ---
**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 18, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5166 "2015-10-18T16:44:46Z")
The Beatles song _Obla Di, Obla Da_ was a mockery of Obadiah’s fire-eater confusion, tell him to ‘get over it’ (“life goes on, Bra”). ---
**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 18, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5167 "2015-10-18T16:48:01Z")
Ringo is still alive, but Paul died back in the 1970’s when the rumors abounded, and a double has been performing in his stead ever since. Paul, due to some unfortunate errors in his finances, is now a tax accountant in Worcestershire. John is still dead, but George faked his death in order to live a life of peace and solitude in Bangladesh. He died three years later of dysentery. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5168 "2015-10-18T23:14:31Z")
Worcestershire Sauce is the favorite food of kiwis, who have been known to kill mates for more of it. ---
**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5169 "2015-10-18T23:23:51Z")
The Maori have a sauce identical in every way but for the inclusion of fermented seal liver. As well as being a valued condiment it serves to season and preserve the wood in seagoing craft. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5170 "2015-10-19T04:56:39Z")
This provided the vital proof for Thor Heyerdahl’s first Kon-Tiki expedition to demonstrate that Worcestershire was originally settled by Pacific Islanders. ---
**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 19, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5171 "2015-10-19T13:21:33Z")
Dan Ackroyd totally ripped off the Maori’s commercial “It’s a Worcestershire sauce! It’s a wood preservation” for his SNL commercial “It’s a floor wax. It’s a dessert topping.” This led to SNL being banned in all of the Pacific Islands. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5172 "2015-10-19T15:05:37Z")
One of the greatest inventions in the world, as indicated by an old adage, is sliced bread. One of Dan Ackroyd’s Irish ancestors developed a way of slicing a number of loafs of bread at the same time, an invention that came to be known as the “four loaf cleaver.” ---
**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 19, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5173 "2015-10-19T16:04:01Z")
The original name of the show about Ward Cleaver’s lazy brother Homer, his lazy wife Marge, and their two lazy daughters Lisa and Maggie, was “Four Loafing Cleavers.” ---
**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 19, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5174 "2015-10-19T16:52:28Z")
The urban legend is correct and Ward Cleaver actually did refer to his penis in three different episodes of _Leave It To Beaver_ as a “Beaver cleaver,” but the episodes have since been withdrawn from syndication due to modern sensibilities over pedophilia. ---
**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 19, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5175 "2015-10-19T16:56:39Z")
Roseanne Barr wanted to have her sitcom family named Ward, June, Wally (daughter), and Theodora (Beaver), and Eddie, but the censors wouldn’t allow it. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5176 "2015-10-19T21:19:55Z")
In addition to dams and lodges, beavers have been known to build suspension bridges, tennis courts, and an occasional rec room. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5177 "2015-10-19T21:48:09Z")
Next to industriousness, beavers are best known for their naivete. Every week, they innocently get into trouble at the urging of their older brothers’ friends. ---
**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 20, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5178 "2015-10-20T00:15:03Z")
According to a ten-year study by the University of West Blawnox, beavers, wombats, muskrats and echidnas are the five animal species most likely to be simultaneously left-handed _and_ Donny Osmond fans. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5179 "2015-10-20T12:55:28Z")
The Great Blawnox Riot of 1973 occurred at a Donny Osmond concert when the fifth unnamed animal species discovered that they had been blacklisted from attending. ---
**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 20, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5180 "2015-10-20T14:18:42Z")
Donny Osmond refused to perform the title role in the musical “Joseph and the Fabulously Gay Rainbow Colored Dreamcoat” until the title was changed. He would later turn down a role in The Book of Mormon, for obvious reasons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=258) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=260)