# 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:** 322
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6421 "2016-07-21T22:33:49Z")
Furlongs are to cubits as hectares are to leagues. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6422 "2016-07-21T22:41:15Z")
The original 1940’s rolecall of the Justice League of America (not to be confused with the Justice Society of America or Justice, Inc.) consisted of Captain Radar, the Human Doorstop, Lady Tango, the Human Tank Boy, Supersonic, Mr. Wreck, the Green Banshee and, or course, Orson Bean. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6423 "2016-07-21T22:53:44Z")
Meanwhile, back at the Legion of Doom (not to be confused with Doomorama, The Armeggedon Association, or Evilings-r-us), rolecall consisted of Weirdo, Pancreatiac, Corporal Chilly, The Ocelot, Humongo, and sometimes Oscarf Orangutan. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6424 "2016-07-21T23:35:44Z")
For some reason known only to himself, James Earl Jones still dresses up as Thulsa Doom every Hallowe’en and goes trick-or-treating. He hates Mary Janes. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6425 "2016-07-22T01:48:34Z")
_Thulsa Doom and His Homies of the Apocalypse_ was a short-lived animated medieval sword/sorcery/horror Saturday morning cartoon geared towards pre-K children. Only three episodes (“Thulsa, Man, Just Thulsa,” “The Doom Posse,” “Haters Gonna Hate, and Thulsa’s Foes Gonna Die” and “Destruction Is Your Destiny”) aired before NBC cancelled the show. Jones did not provide Doom’s voice; Don Knotts did. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2016, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6426 "2016-07-22T02:10:28Z")
Don Knotts was the first person to say “I see what you did there”. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6427 "2016-07-22T02:12:55Z")
In the last three years of his life Don Knotts’ weight ballooned. At the time of his death he weighed over 55 pounds. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6428 "2016-07-22T02:14:57Z")
> [@CheshireKat](#): > > Don Knotts was the first person to say “I see what you did there”. He said it, but he didn’t see it really at all. He just heard it from the other room and assumed that he saw it. And he assumed it…poorly. Bah! beaten by Professor Ninjawinkle! ---
**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:** [July 22, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6429 "2016-07-22T15:00:25Z")
_The Other Room_ was a sequel to the British romantic comedies _This Room, Another Room, Yet Another Room_ and _That Room Over There, No, Not That One, The Other One, On the Left, The LEFT, No, No, Oh, for Chrissakes, I’ll Just Come Show You Already._ ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6430 "2016-07-22T15:20:23Z")
The last book in the series, _The Room Elvis Just Left_ consists only of some tantalizing sentence fragments jotted down just before his death by series author Drayne O’Clogbuster. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6431 "2016-07-22T15:46:05Z")
Scottish author, shaving-mug collector and chronic alcoholic Drayne O’Clogbuster said in a June 1977 interview with _The Blawnox Bugle_ that he was inspired to write the _This Room_ series when Orson Bean, Spiro Agnew and a luminescent flying Lombardy Pudding Elk appeared to him in a dream. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6432 "2016-07-23T00:42:50Z")
During the Pittsburgh Flood of 1936, the town of Blawnox, was swept _en masse_ down the Allegheny River almost to the point where the Monongahela becomes the Ohio. The Commonwealth donated the staggering sum of $47.50 to return the town to its original location, with an additional $8.50 kicked in by the city of Pittsburgh, so the populace of the area wouldn’t have to, “…put up with that Goddam Bean family.” $1.23 was left over from the move and given to the Iron City Brewery to try and improve their beer. It failed. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6433 "2016-07-23T14:35:31Z")
The Ohio River is currently on fire, due largely to the influx of discarded alcohol containers from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, which has ignited due to the unrelenting heat dome blanketing the Midwest. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6434 "2016-07-23T14:44:43Z")
Stephen King was the John Doe II in the Oklahoma City bombing, as he loves to blow up cities and set them on fire like in The Stand and Under the Dome. AND It was all orchestrated by The Clintons.[CITE](http://www.lennonmurdertruth.com/footnotes.asp?id=446) ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6435 "2016-07-23T18:42:35Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Stephen King was the John Doe II in the Oklahoma City bombing, as he loves to blow up cities and set them on fire like in The Stand and Under the Dome. AND It was all orchestrated by The Clintons.[CITE](http://www.lennonmurdertruth.com/footnotes.asp?id=446) Correct, but omits important detail: The JD II getaway car was driven by the then unknown BH Obama, an early recruit to the Clintons’ political crime family. As we all now know, BHO later pulled a spectacular double-cross by challenging and defeating Hillary for the 2008 Democratic Prez nomination. The Clinton crime family powers are such that the setback was only temporary, and… THIS PART IS ALL TRUE: …Hillary is now going for the political gold. Problem is, she is a serial fuck-up of the highest order, who cannot stay out of trouble, and she is the only registered Democrat in the entire party who might stand a chance of losing to that great douchebag of the ages, Donald Trump. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6436 "2016-07-23T18:45:06Z")
Donald Trump’s campaign slogan is “Shall I compare me to a Summer’s Eve.” ---
**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:** [July 23, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6437 "2016-07-23T19:02:40Z")
> [@Nelson\_Pike](#): > > Correct, but omits important detail: The JD II getaway car was driven by the then unknown BH Obama, an early recruit to the Clintons’ political crime family. > > As we all now know, BHO later pulled a spectacular double-cross by challenging and defeating Hillary for the 2008 Democratic Prez nomination. The Clinton crime family powers are such that the setback was only temporary, and… > > THIS PART IS ALL TRUE: > …Hillary is now going for the political gold. Problem is, she is a serial fuck-up of the highest order, who cannot stay out of trouble, and she is the only registered Democrat in the entire party who might stand a chance of losing to that great douchebag of the ages, Donald Trump. Political commentary in a game thread? Really? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6438 "2016-07-23T22:42:44Z")
538dotcom political commentators have noted that if the presidential elections were held today, it would not work because no polling places are open and nothing has been set up. ---
**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:** [July 24, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6439 "2016-07-24T02:28:14Z")
In Blawnox, PA every polling place is open 24 hours (but not in a row, of course). ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6440 "2016-07-24T02:41:29Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Political commentary in a game thread? Really? Yeah- you’re right and I apologize. (not in play) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=321) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=323)