# 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:** 327
**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:** [August 4, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6521 "2016-08-04T19:04:40Z")
_The Harvard Law Review_ in June 1977 identified four other unusual Blawnox town ordinances: 1. The mayor is required to keep a live chicken in his or her office at all times. 2. The chief of police may strip-search pretty girls passing through town for “any quasi-law-enforcement-related purpose.” 3. The town sewage works may not be used as a disco without the approval of two-thirds of the town council. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6522 "2016-08-04T20:30:26Z")
The sewers of Paris figure heavily in the musicals _Phantom of the Opera_ and _Les Miserables_, but the sewer chase scene from _You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown_ is hardly ever performed, in part because of the difficulty in cleaning up all the pudding for the fight sequence. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6523 "2016-08-04T23:53:57Z")
The sewer chase scene from _You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown_, was the inspiration for the climactic sequence of Stephen King’s _It_, with Snoopy becoming Pennywise. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6524 "2016-08-05T01:10:43Z")
When Snoopy portrayed Pennywise he went by his stage name, Hound Foolish. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6525 "2016-08-05T02:56:05Z")
Shortly before his death, Charles Schultz drew the strips for a 6-week (30 strip) story arc in which it was revealed that Snoopy is in fact Charlie Brown’s grotesquely deformed younger brother, whom the Browns decided to pass off to the world as a dog\*. The story arc revisited several pivotal episodes in Snoopy’s life viewed through the lens of this revelation. The only rough draft was burned by the Schultz estate agents as soon as they saw it, and they have gone to great efforts to label its existence as an urban legend. \*Snoopy’s “siblings” were other children born with the same deformity, caused by the off-label use of an unapproved antacid medication. “The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm” was a cover name for the institution run by Johnson and Johnson where they were housed as infants. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6526 "2016-08-05T13:23:53Z")
Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, is actually the son of Charles Schultz, a fact he has referred to in many of the strip crossovers with Peanuts: 1. Snoopy is a dog that seems real. Hobbes is a stuffed tiger that seems real. 2. Linus has a security blanket he carries everywhere. Calvin has a stuffed tiger he carries everywhere. 3. Linus has a little brother named Rerun. Calvin’s father has a little brother named Max 4. Linus makes weird snowmen. Calvin makes weird snowman. 5. Charlie Brown’s teacher is Miss Othma. Calvin’s teacher is Miss Wormwood. 6. Snoopy reads the Bunny Wunny series. Calvin reads Hamster Huey. 7. Snoopy’s doghouse can become anything. Calvin’s cardboard box can become anything. 8. Snoopy went up into space. Calvin and Hobbes went to Mars. 9. Charlie Brown has a dark haired girl named Marcie in it. Calvin and Hobbes has a dark haired girl named Susie Derkins in it. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6527 "2016-08-05T13:49:24Z")
Bill Watterson has a closet full of misshapen _Peanuts_ character dolls in a basement closet in his home. At night, he sits in his damp, dripping cellar in his underwear, sticking voodoo pins into his “dollies” and incessantly muttering “The frequency is wrong.” ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6528 "2016-08-05T13:53:20Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, is actually the son of Charles Schultz, a fact he has referred to in many of the strip crossovers with Peanuts: > > 1. Snoopy is a dog that seems real. Hobbes is a stuffed tiger that seems real. > 2. Linus has a security blanket he carries everywhere. Calvin has a stuffed tiger he carries everywhere. > 3. Linus has a little brother named Rerun. Calvin’s father has a little brother named Max > 4. Linus makes weird snowmen. Calvin makes weird snowman. > 5. Charlie Brown’s teacher is Miss Othma. Calvin’s teacher is Miss Wormwood. > 6. Snoopy reads the Bunny Wunny series. Calvin reads Hamster Huey. > 7. Snoopy’s doghouse can become anything. Calvin’s cardboard box can become anything. > 8. Snoopy went up into space. Calvin and Hobbes went to Mars. > 9. Charlie Brown has a dark haired girl named Marcie in it. Calvin and Hobbes has a dark haired girl named Susie Derkins in it. 1. Charles Schultz’s original title for Peanuts was “Little Folks.” Bill Watterson’s original title for Calvin & Hobbes was “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6529 "2016-08-05T17:27:03Z")
Prince Charles’ favorite party game, The Minister’s Catheter, is not popular with much anyone else. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6530 "2016-08-06T02:50:48Z")
_The Minister’s Catheter_, the P.G. Wodehouse novel which inspired the game, was first published in 1947. It is one of the few Wodehouse tragedies, and tells the tale of the Rev. U.R. Enn and his recurring urinary tract infections, which interfere badly with the ambitious clergyman’s rise through the Church of England hierarchy and (spoiler alert) ultimately prevent him from becoming Bishop of East Anglia. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6531 "2016-08-06T03:09:01Z")
Catheter was the 17th most popular name for boys enrolled in boys schools in 2015, sandwiched between Nooky and Downton. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6532 "2016-08-06T16:28:39Z")
Nooky Downton was a try-sexual (“I’ll try anything sexual”)rock groupie who had flings with all the members of ABBA, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Dead Kennedys, Electric Light Orchestra, Fleetwood Mac, Goldfinger, Heart, INXS, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Nirvana, Oysterhead, Paul McCartney and Wings, Queen, Rush, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Dukes, Toto, U2, Vanilla Fudge, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, XTC, Y0-Yo Ma, and Zager and Evans. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6533 "2016-08-06T19:20:38Z")
Other reported sexual conquests of Nooky Downton included three of the four Beatles, all but one of the Alan Parsons Project and all of Grand Funk Railroad, but, despite repeated importunings and begging, neither Bruce Springsteen nor a single one of the E Street Band. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6534 "2016-08-07T17:15:45Z")
The Alan Parsons Project is in competition with Elon Musk to construct a colony on Mars; the music is for seed money–they’re almost there. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6535 "2016-08-08T13:07:28Z")
David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was actually a warning: YOU DO NOT WANT TO GO THERE!!! ---
**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:** [August 8, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6536 "2016-08-08T15:14:32Z")
Zippy Stardust was first created as Ziggy Starpucker and the Uranusian Noodle Bowls. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6537 "2016-08-08T17:42:58Z")
Uranusian Noodle Bowls are far less expensive and more nutritious than ramen noodle bowls, but are not available anywhere in the Solar System, according to a 1977 NASA study. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6538 "2016-08-08T21:42:20Z")
A 1977 NASA (Nocturnal Annual Sleep Association) study showed that people who sleep have better minds, jobs, and social lives than those that do not. However, the latter group eats more ramen noodle bowls, watches more spiders spinning webs and listens to more David Bowie songs. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6539 "2016-08-09T06:27:55Z")
The health benefits from ramen noodle bowls are from the bowl itself, which contains iron and magnesium and unobtainium. The noodles themselves should be discarded as ramen is chemically unstable and deadlier than arsenic and Robert Blake combined. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2016, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6540 "2016-08-09T13:14:26Z")
Robert Blake is set to star in Andrew Lloyd Webber And Tim Rice’s _Arsenic!!_, a musical based on _Arsenic And Old Lace_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=326) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=328)