# 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:** 269
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5361 "2015-11-16T19:47:03Z")
Both the X-Chromosome Deficiency Center and the Y-Chromosome Deficiency Center are located in the same campus area as the Geneva, New Jersey YMCA. A recent flier was handed out to both groups inviting members to come over and do some laps at the Y. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5362 "2015-11-16T19:51:14Z")
Have you seen the building between the X-Chromosome Deficiency Center and the Y-Chromosome Deficiency Center? Planned Parenthood. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5363 "2015-11-16T22:56:22Z")
The Z-Chromosome Deficiency Center has yet to be built, due to lack of funds and popular understanding of its importance in today’s society. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2015, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5364 "2015-11-17T05:43:26Z")
Orson Bean hosted a telethon to raise funds for the Z-Chromosome Deficiency Center on June 3, 1977, raising $143.88 for the cause. Early projections were that he might raise up to $5 billion, but unfortunately Jerry Lewis insisted on appearing on the show. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5365 "2015-11-17T16:22:52Z")
Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley have agreed to be the spokesmen for the X Chromosome Deficiency Family Center. They claim their genetic deficiency is cause by cousin interbreeding. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5366 "2015-11-17T23:41:15Z")
Cousin interbreeding was a central tenet of the Nazi program to breed Aryan supermen. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5367 "2015-11-18T15:26:25Z")
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were not the creators of Superman. Aryan Twins Clark & Kent Lane were, but you know how those Jews still everything. Note: This is a false trivia, and in no way reflects the poster’s personal beliefs. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5368 "2015-11-18T17:20:45Z")
Aryan Brotherhood applicants are required by club bylaws to have half of their brains surgically removed by a surgeon (non-Jewish, naturally) before being inducted as full members. ---
**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:** [November 18, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5369 "2015-11-18T18:08:03Z")
That’s the LEFT side of the brain. They are so right minded. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5370 "2015-11-18T22:27:25Z")
Things controlled by the left side of the brain including the right side of the body and weather patterns at the latitude and longitude exactly opposite your own. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5371 "2015-11-19T12:39:08Z")
In the last heated exchange prior to their fateful duel, Alexander Hamilton was heard to challenge Raymond Burr with the words, “Well, Sir, if you had but half a brain, your buttocks would be asymmetrical, that is, lopsided, if you would have it so!” ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5372 "2015-11-19T14:19:54Z")
Raymond Burr lost a buttock via shooting between the shooting of Perry Mason and Ironside. Hence the wheelchair. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5373 "2015-11-19T15:17:41Z")
Buttock is the only word describing a body part that can be shortened without losing its meaning according to the Oxford Dictionaries. It is also the most-nominated Word of the Year since 1942. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5374 "2015-11-19T15:20:05Z")
Raymond Burr has been nominated 14 times for an Oscar, 17 times for an Emmy, 23 times for a Tony, and 134 times for a Grammy since 1942. He has never won any award. ---
**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:** [November 19, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5375 "2015-11-19T16:27:54Z")
Raymond Burr’s buttocks were, in the 1972 edition of _Menzies’ Field Guide to Hollywood Hotties and Their Venereal Diseases_, described as “firm, rotund and inviting.” Burr had a page and a half in the book; Orson Bean had an entire chapter. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5376 "2015-11-19T22:52:52Z")
After his glutectomy in a desperate attempt to lose weight Raymond Burr was unable to balance and got a prosthetic, which he marketed under the name “Ironside’s Can’t Believe It’s Not Buttocks”. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5377 "2015-11-20T00:23:19Z")
Meanwhile, Aaron Burr–or what’s left of him–is still standing in that field waiting for that schmuck Murray Hamilton to finish his last term as mayor of Amity and commence dueling. For the hand of the widow Brody. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5378 "2015-11-20T04:07:47Z")
In his early draft of ‘Jaws’ Peter Benchley surmised the shark was attracted to Amity by the availability of the Seafood Basket on Half-Price Tuesdays. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5379 "2015-11-20T13:46:17Z")
Merchants eventually settled on “Half-Price Tuesday” and similar promotions only after much experimentation in the latter decades of the 19th century: “Half-Baked Tuesday” and “Half-Assed Tuesday” were dismal failures. ---
**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:** [November 20, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5380 "2015-11-20T14:05:51Z")
Economists are still wondering about the possible efficacy of “Full-Price Wednesday” and “Double-Dollar Thursday”, based on the First Barnum Principle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=268) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=270)