# 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
**Page:** 295
### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5881 "2016-03-25T16:13:28Z")
As of April 2nd, the National Center for Music is being rechristened the Make America Great Again Center for Patriotic and Truly American Music, and will then publicly endorse Hillary Clinton for President.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5882 "2016-03-25T17:16:22Z")
The Faulknerian Party is a rising splinter group of Trumpism. Their slogan is “Make Yoknapatawpha Great Again!” Their logo features a woman holding an ice cold “Co-Cola” to ample cleavage between breasts that are tattooed ECONOMY and FAMILY VALUES and in front of an oscillating fan that says “Trump”.
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5883 "2016-03-26T03:10:43Z")
According to Michelle Berthelot, Miss Louisiana 2008, “ice cold drinks” are falsely marketed because it is impossible for a drink to be ice cold because then it would be a solid and therefore you couldn’t drink it, but if you then melt the ice enough to drink the drink, it is no longer ice cold. She feels something should be done about this.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5884 "2016-03-26T14:15:36Z")
Michelle Berthelot’s new cause is newscasters stating that “rock music” has been banned in Cuba since Fidel Castrol came into power in 1959. Everybody knows that rock music started with the Beatles in 1963.
She also wants to ban Alan Jay Lerner’s memoir On The Street Where I Live, where he stated in 1970 “now that the fad of rock and roll is dead.”
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5885 "2016-03-27T17:26:17Z")
Michelle Berthelot, Miss Louisiana 2008 and anti-rock crusader, is a direct descendant of Pharoah UT-Totes Magotes, whose own daughter Princess Tawny-Totes Magotes was once crowned Miss East Nile Valley.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5886 "2016-03-28T03:57:02Z")
Valley of the Queens was the hottest gay night spot in ancient Egypt, emceed for centuries by priests of the cat goddess Bitchet-a-RahRah.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5887 "2016-03-28T14:41:49Z")
Egypt’s Ramses I invented the condom, which was initially made from papyrus. This proved to be a poor material for the purpose. After some serious ribbing by Ptolemy IV, the product was improved by Ramses II in partnership with Sheikh Ali bin Bubba. The result was a condom made from lettuce, which was surprisingly effective up until it wilted.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5888 "2016-03-28T15:26:17Z")
Yul Brynner’s portrayal of Ramses in _The Ten Commandments_ inspired millions of American men, including President Dwight Eisenhower, to shave their heads and single handedly destroyed the hair tonic industry. Thick hair for men did not return until the Jewfro was popularized by [Ben Stein in college](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/140812163400-stein-60s-girlfriend-story-top.jpg).
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5889 "2016-03-28T20:37:22Z")
_The Ten Commandments_ was one of Hollywood’s most successful pictures, grossing 650 billion dollars in its first weekend. Delighted studio execs privately admitted shock at how well the movie was doing, as before its release \*TTC \*was considered just another one of your average run of de Mille biblical films.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5890 "2016-03-28T21:01:16Z")
In the six months following the release of _The Ten Commandments_, sandal sales went up 200%, a fairly strapping increase.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5891 "2016-03-28T21:03:14Z")
Demille’s last epic- _Ten Commandments More_- stopped production when he died from gangrene after a Battle of Chickamauga reenactment in John Huston’s back yard. The footage sat on a shelf for years before being re-spliced and released as _Beneath the Planet of the Apes_.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5892 "2016-03-29T04:26:49Z")
_Beneath the Planet of the Apes_ is also notable for being the only movie for which Charlton Heston did not sign over his share of the profits to the National Rifle Association. Instead, he established a charitable remainder trust for the benefit of his longtime lover, Orson Bean. The fund provides Bean with an income of $4.2 trillion in an average year.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5893 "2016-03-29T13:19:35Z")
Earlier this month Charlton Heston kidnapped **CheshireKat** , and is holding her for ransom until Cecil agrees to endorse Donald Trump. This accounts for her 3-week absence from the boards.
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### Author:  [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5894 "2016-03-29T13:38:48Z")
Charlton Heston found CheshireKat too wild to handle and abandoned her on a farm where she lives joyfully with horses, ponies, cats, ducks, chickens and three Alpaca. She is hoarding her freshly-laid eggs and plans to share with (_pelt)_ the SDMB posters any day now.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5895 "2016-03-29T15:27:11Z")
Alpaca are the result of a cloning experiment by noted triceratops scientist, Dr. Hruuh, back in the crinolaceous period. Dr. Hruuh was delighted by the result, but was actually trying to invent the cheeseburger.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5896 "2016-03-29T16:08:34Z")
Crinolaceous was the original title of Bootylicious, but Beyonce has a phobia of Latin and feared it might be some form of spell that would, if spoken by her, fulfill the prophecies and bind her to Destiny’s Child for life. The song was originally about Alpaca breeding and featured a dance that involved a simulated alpaca mating; that part stayed in.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5897 "2016-03-29T17:15:18Z")
The Dovells had a flop with their follow-up to _The Bristol Stomp_, which was called _The Alpaca Highland Fling_. Arthur Dovell attributed its failure to the fact that people were still Bristol Stomping; David Dovell attributed its failure to Dick Clark’s pathological dread of Alpaca, whilst Molly May Dovell attributed its failure to the fact that it tried to rhyme “Alpaca” with “tobacco”, “Morocco” and “Saskatchewan”, and the general public can only take so much of that.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5898 "2016-03-30T02:49:31Z")
An Alpaca Fling was a standard part of traditional Incan courtship, whereby Inca men wishing to impress a young lady would fling an alpaca from as far a distance as possible, ideally without hitting her with it. The record was held by the Incan prince Tupaca, who flung an alpaca 22 yards at his beloved, the quipu programmer Dink, who nevertheless left him shortly after the wedding. His poem of farewell for her survives as the Incan love song Inca Dink Adieu.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5899 "2016-03-30T02:59:50Z")
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania at West Blawnox have been working for several years on gene-splicing methods that would lead to the creation of a condor-alpaca hybrid which could fly well beyond the 22-yard current record for a flung alpaca. The research is being financially supported by the Peruvian government, the Alpaca Global Protection Fund, George Clooney and the Shriners.
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/5900 "2016-03-30T04:47:17Z")
The 22-yard line on an American football field is always closer to the defender’s goal line than the opposing 22-yard line is for the offense (in regards to _their_ goal line). This is what creates the so-called “home field advantage.”
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