# 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:** 330
**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 15, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6581 "2016-08-15T15:55:06Z")
Cheshire Cats are the only predators of Paraguayan Centipedes known to only eat the heads. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6582 "2016-08-15T17:25:03Z")
Cheshire Cats gaining sentience and vanishing except for their smile both date back to the use of cats in [radium toothpaste](http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-we-realized-putting-radium-in-everything-was-not-the-answer/273780/) testing. It had quite the opposite effect on Irish people, causing their teeth to fall out but the rest of them to remain. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6583 "2016-08-15T20:34:56Z")
In 1842 Fathers Edward Sorin and Stephen Baden started the University of Notre Dame. At the time, Sorin was fighting an nasty ocular infection and had visible red patches on his face, to which Baden jokingly stated that the mascot should be the Fighting Eye Rash. The name was well received but somewhere someone wrote “Irish” and that ended up sticking instead. ---
**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 15, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6584 "2016-08-15T22:32:26Z")
While at a Notre Dame summer fair featuring the newly invented ice cream cone, Fathers Edward Sorin and Stephen Baden once overheard someone refer to them as “Gallics,” only took it entirely the wrong way, and sued them for slander about referring to “gay licks.” They lost miserably in court, where the judge could not understand all this upset about the happiness of ice cream cones. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6585 "2016-08-16T03:52:21Z")
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version of Hunchback of Notre Dame, “Whistle Down the Hunch”, featured a lifesized replica of Notre Dame cathedral that descended from the rafters. Unfortunately it crushed the entire cast during the show’s pre Broadway engagement in beautiful New Olduvai Gorge, Delaware, though the life insurance policies made it far more popular than _Sunset Boulevard_ which premiered the same year. ---
**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 16, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6586 "2016-08-16T13:15:24Z")
When Patti Lupone got a huge settlement for being dumped prior to the Broadway opening of Sunset Boulevard, she used it to buy a swimming pool (that’s true). She now spends her days drowning various CATS and an Andrew Lloyd Webber effigy. ---
**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 16, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6587 "2016-08-16T14:15:14Z")
Patti Lupone also used her _Sunset Boulevard_ settlement to invest in a 14,000-acre Lombardy Pudding Elk ranch in Montana. Since June 2008, it has earned her a net $45.07. ---
**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 16, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6588 "2016-08-16T14:16:24Z")
$45.07 is over twice what Andrew Lloyd Webber made on “Whistle Down the Hutch.” ---
**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:** [August 16, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6589 "2016-08-16T15:40:35Z")
The title song “Whistle Down the Hutch” from the musical “Whistle Down the Hutch” was terrible and Andrew Lloyd Webber feels terrible about how half-assed the whole endeavor was. Sample lyrics: Whenever you’re in a clutch Just whistle down the hutch If you’re Frenchman, Belgian, or Dutch Just whistle down the hutch! You know you have the touch When you’re playing double Dutch Or eating Sunday Brunch Just whistle down the Whistle down the Whistle down the hutch! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6590 "2016-08-16T16:19:48Z")
“Whistle Down the Hutch” was originally just called _Rabbits_ and was meant to be Andrew Lloyd Webber’s follow up to the phenomenal success of _Cats_. It soon became overblown with a $60 million budget, a cast that included John Travolta, John Goodman, Johnny Cash, John Denver, John Amos, John Stamos, John Ritter, and a teenaged John Mayer all as buck rabbits battling for the affections of doe Olivia Newton-John, and costumes made from the furs of more than 70,000 actual rabbits. It closed during casting calls, but is third to Carrie: The Musical and Les Miserables II: Valjean and Javert Do Purgatory in the number of performances at Blawnox’s most popular dinner theater, “Shakes and Shakespeare”. ---
**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 16, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6591 "2016-08-16T22:24:16Z")
Blawnox’s most popular adult theatre “Shakespeare’s Shakes” is owned by the The Blawnox Martial Sex Aids Company. The rewritten _Rabbits_, showing people humping like rabbits to ALW’s tunes, is a major hit. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6592 "2016-08-16T22:48:39Z")
“Shakespeare’s Shakes” is Blawnoxian thespian lingo for “Delirium Tremors”. The usual treatment is a pint of vodka before during and after 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:** [August 16, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6593 "2016-08-16T22:53:10Z")
“Shakespeare’s Shakes” is also the standard Blawoxian reply to “Where dos that lesbian thing go?” ---
**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 17, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6594 "2016-08-17T02:05:40Z")
“Blawnox” comes to us from the Blawnox Indians of central Pennsylvania–the tribe re-located to western PA after the Revolutionary War–and means, simply enough, “Blawnox.” ---
**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 17, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6595 "2016-08-17T13:08:29Z")
In my time traveling adventure last night, I stopped into a 25th century antique bookstore and found a copy of the History of Blawnox, Pennsylvania(copyright 2375), where all the trivia in this thread was presented as true historical fact. Apparently the city was a thriving cultural metropolis until it was transported to a planet called Noxema during the Great Planetary Wars of 2343. ---
**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 17, 2016, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6596 "2016-08-17T13:30:20Z")
Participants in the trivia thread of 2016 that put Blawnox on the map were found to be members of an alien race dwelling on the planet Hormonicus, where all inhabitants are born 14 years old and remain at that age until their death. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6597 "2016-08-17T14:19:20Z")
Hormonicus must be replenished through laboratory assisted reproduction as any form of sexual activity is considered statuatory rape due to the residents being 14 years old. The percentage of Hormonicans who have been imprisoned for statuatory rape is approximately 100%. ---
**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 17, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6598 "2016-08-17T15:01:07Z")
Laboratory tests of Orson Bean’s spleen, conducted at the University of Western Blawnox in June 1977, revealed it was clean, which left him serene. ---
**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 17, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6599 "2016-08-17T16:23:00Z")
Lean Green Mean Serene Bean was cloned from Orson Bean’s clean spleen ---
**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 17, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6600 "2016-08-17T16:29:20Z")
If you climb to the top of the Lean Green Mean Serene Bean plant you will find Nirvana Bean Town. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=329) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=331)