# 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:** 261
**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 23, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5201 "2015-10-23T16:42:49Z")
During a career lag in the early 1980s, actress Jessica Tandy began work on the brand of personal computers that bears her name, selling the company just after completing the prototype Tandy 1000. “I have no faith in the longevity of computers,” she said, “Acting is eternal.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5202 "2015-10-23T16:55:21Z")
Jessica Tandy’s coach for the fight scenes in Driving Miss Daisy was a then unknown Vin Diesel. Unfortunately the fight scenes were cut as the movie went from an erotic steampunk vampire dirigible fantasy to something about a mean old woman and her chauffeur. ---
**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 23, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5203 "2015-10-23T20:22:59Z")
The next eight big-budget movies from Sony Pictures are erotic steampunk vampire dirigible fantasies, according to a recent _Wall Street Journal_ article. Entertainment-biz analysts caution that the studio may be focusing a bit too much on a niche market. Sony is pinning its hopes on the first, due for release on Halloween: _Fifty Shades of Victorian Bloodsucking Lighter-Than-Air Dreams._ ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5204 "2015-10-23T21:11:00Z")
_Fifty Shades of Victorian Bloodsucking Lighter-Than-Air Dreams_ is based on the erotic letters and Transatlantic love of Queen Victoria, Benjamin Disraeli, and Iowa potato farmer Horace Norbert. In the upcoming Sony film Victoria is to be played by Renee Zellweger, Disraeli by Sasha Baron Cohen, and Norbert by Tim Blake Nelson. ---
**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 24, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5205 "2015-10-24T00:54:10Z")
Sasha Baron Cohen escaped from Communist Lebanon in the late 1980’s. He dressed up as a pantomime horse, joined the Soviet State Lebanese Rodeo Circuit, and defected as soon as he arrived in Amsterdam. He nearly didn’t defect, though, as he was getting great reviews. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5206 "2015-10-24T06:26:03Z")
The last time pantomime horses were used in the British Cavalry was at the Charge of the Light Brigade. ---
**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 24, 2015, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5207 "2015-10-24T13:43:50Z")
Pantomime horses have been known to mate with Lombardy Pudding elks, creating a Pantomime Pudding Helk. ---
**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 24, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5208 "2015-10-24T18:09:08Z")
Pantomime horses are employed fulltime by only six of the one hundred largest British corporations, including Harrod’s and British Rail. Over the past 40 years most have been sacked as a cost-savings measure. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QqkvuVIIQso/hqdefault.jpg "Pantomime horses") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqkvuVIIQso) ---
**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 24, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5209 "2015-10-24T18:14:40Z")
Eva Durante did work at Harrod’s, and co-worker Tim Rice penned this line about her: Such a shame she wandered into our enclosure How unfortunate this person has forced us to be blunt No we wouldn’t mind seeing her at Harrod’s But behind the jewelry counter, not in front ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5210 "2015-10-24T20:54:03Z")
Ironically, Jimmy Durante suffered from anosmia. He himself said, “I don’t smell so good.” ---
**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 25, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5211 "2015-10-25T01:36:10Z")
Wherever Mrs. Calabash was, she was a randy little minx, giving birth to a large number of children by a slightly smaller number of large-nosed actors; in addition to Jimmy Durante, there was Karl Malden, Leslie Nielsen and Alex Karras, to name a few. The number of off-spring was estimated at nearly 22. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5212 "2015-10-25T17:09:39Z")
The ancient “hobbit” people of Flores, Indonesia are believed to have traveled across the ocean in enormous rafts made of hundreds of calabashes and other gourds. ---
**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 25, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5213 "2015-10-25T17:37:04Z")
Flores, Indonesia; Kagoshima, Japan; Amman, Jordan; Moscow, Russia and Blawnox, Pa. are sister cities. ---
**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 25, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5214 "2015-10-25T18:29:59Z")
Blawnox, PA, is, technically, not a city: it is a copyright trap inserted into most road maps. The area of “Blawnox” is actually George Romero’s farm’s barn. Romero gets a small percentage of map profits, which he uses to document the coming zombie apocalypse. ---
**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 25, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5215 "2015-10-25T19:20:41Z")
The urban legend that Blawnox, PA is just a copyright trap is debunked on [snopes.com](http://snopes.com) and was the feature story in the original Mythbusters pilot. Mythbusters proved that George Romero started the rumor in an effort to conceal his favorite fishing spot at the Blawnox Sewer Treatment Plant and Lakeside Trout Park from tourists. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5216 "2015-10-25T19:49:22Z")
All fishing near wastewater treatment plants is strictly prohibited due a very small, but non-zero, chance of spreading “infectious zombification” to humans from infected fish. ---
**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 25, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5217 "2015-10-25T23:17:59Z")
Infectious zombification hit the SDMB in 2013, but was eventually cured through Cecil himself descending among us and use the Royal Touch to heal us all. ---
**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 26, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5218 "2015-10-26T01:52:03Z")
King Edward the Natty, who reigned from 102-107 A.D., was a known pedophile. He denied the accusations and claimed that he was only bestowing the “Royal Touch” to children with whom he interacted. He was hanged with his own entrails from the top of a bouncy castle. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5219 "2015-10-26T03:42:33Z")
Despite the claims of marketers, bouncy castles are really not that fun. ---
**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 26, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5220 "2015-10-26T03:44:24Z")
“Bouncy Castles” is the Secret Service codename for Hillary Clinton. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=260) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=262)