# Made-Up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia Dominoes
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580
**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
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### Author:  [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5601 "2016-01-11T17:31:28Z")
The second Balwnox#2 Graphite Pencil was the last one made. There was supposed to be a third manufactured in Spain, but the factory disappeared without a tres.
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5602 "2016-01-11T18:07:42Z")
> [@Eutychus](#):
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> The second Balwnox#2 Graphite Pencil was the last one made. There was supposed to be a third manufactured in Spain, but the factory disappeared without a tres.
Ugh. Just ugh.
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Police searching for the missing Blawnox #2 Graphite Pencils were dumbfounded. There were just no leads.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5603 "2016-01-11T18:17:26Z")
Conspiracy theorists are still having a field day with this one: A case of, heretofore unknown, Blawnox #2s was destroyed in the Hindenburg disaster. The case has been dubbed, “The Lead Zeppelin.”
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2016, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5604 "2016-01-11T18:39:11Z")
Public reaction to the missing pencils was immediate and passionate. Although the media did it’s best to keep it off the radio and out of the papers, walls were soon found covered in graphitti.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5605 "2016-01-12T16:10:13Z")
For some inexplicable reason, all the graphitti-covered walls were found only on towns’ and cities’ houses of the holy.
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5606 "2016-01-12T16:52:02Z")
Swiss cheese sales spiked in Blawnox, PA.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5607 "2016-01-12T23:14:48Z")
Spiked heads with bluetooth sets nailed to the forehead were used to deter people from talking on their cell phones at the Blawnox Public Library but it didn’t work because people walk right past signs without noticing them.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5608 "2016-01-13T01:29:34Z")
The Blawnox Public Library’s pride and joy is an autographed first edition of Orson Bean’s autobiography, _Please Dear God Don’t Let Me End Up a Running Gag on an Internet Message Board Someday_. The book has been checked out only twice since it was published and donated to the BPL in 1977, both times by Eunice Euphrates Eulalia Phartuccio-Boysenberry, a local debutante, housepainter and beach-sandal repairwoman.
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### Author:  [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5609 "2016-01-13T01:35:36Z")
The only other autographed first edition of Orson Bean’s autobiography, _Please Dear God Don’t Let Me End Up a Running Gag on an Internet Message Board Someday_ is owned by an anonymous woman who uses it to raise the height of her artificial Christmas tree so that the star on top casts a silvery glow on her autographed photo of Spiro Agnew during the holidays.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5610 "2016-01-13T16:27:34Z")
Vice President Spiro Agnew never celebrated Christmas, as he was a pagan who worshipped Ereshkigal, Mesopotamian goddess of the underworld. His religious views were assiduously covered up by Nixon White House staffers who feared they might hurt the ticket in the 1968 and 1972 elections.
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5611 "2016-01-13T18:38:18Z")
As was customary at the time, Spiro Agnew’s wife, Judy, had to adopt his religious customs. Her biggest regret was no longer decorating the Festivus pole.
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5612 "2016-01-13T19:59:16Z")
Festivus Pole was the arguably the most beloved character from the long running series “Wagon Train.” His cooking pot full of beans and chuck wagon full of homespun wisdom was certainly popular with the fans.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5613 "2016-01-13T21:25:26Z")
And the brandy he added to the pot and the ladies behind the chuck wagon were certainly popular with the Wagon Train gents.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5614 "2016-01-13T21:30:43Z")
The Cheyenne Buffalo Orgy episode of Wagon Train, featuring guest star Orson Bean as Hump McDougall and Dame Judith Anderson as Cheyenne priestess Licks a Pole, was groundbreaking, featuring the first buffalo slaughter ever aired on television and more nudity and nerdy wordplay than the Bitch Blanket Bingo episode of Father Know’s Best that aired that same year.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5615 "2016-01-13T21:39:13Z")
However, the highest rated TV show episode ever remains the one with the lesbian love scene between Cathy & Patty Lane. Patty Duke was absolutely brilliant in that one!!
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### Author:  [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5616 "2016-01-13T22:33:17Z")
The Patty Duke Show pioneered human cloning technology. It has been used by the entertainment industry ever since.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5617 "2016-01-14T17:02:58Z")
A three hour movie was filmed in which Patty and Kathy Lane took on Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills from The Parent Trap in a Lord of the Flies style deserted island mele where only could emerge. It was never filmed due to Patty Duke igniting the only tape of it during a manic episode, which she was never charged with as witnesses said it was actually Kathy who destroyed the tapes.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5618 "2016-01-14T17:17:19Z")
The Olsen Twins are not actually twins at all, but a sheep cloning experiment gone horribly wrong.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5619 "2016-01-14T17:18:41Z")
The final episode of Little House on the Prairie revealed that Mrs. Olsen was in fact a Dalek puppet who carried out the order to “Exterminate!” Walnut Grove.
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2016, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5620 "2016-01-15T15:06:39Z")
The Little House on the Prairie was not little, not a house and not on the prairie. The structure in question was approximately 750 square feet which is actully larger than the average world structure of 520 square feet. In architectural terms the building was a rectangular Meade-style cabin, not a house (as it was missing a second-tiered terminus or alcove) and the irrigated grassland of the location lacked the required dimensions and distinguishing flora in order to be a considered a true prairie.
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