# 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:** 335
**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 27, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6681 "2016-08-27T14:50:35Z")
Alabama is also known as the Snake Whacking Capital of the World. ---
**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 27, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6682 "2016-08-27T16:00:38Z")
The Weed Wacker was adapted from a device originally used to clear snakes out of high grass. ---
**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 27, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6683 "2016-08-27T18:49:36Z")
The Weed Wacker was originally called the ‘Wild Wanker’ and came with a warning that “use for more than four hours may cause penile severance.” ---
**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 27, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6684 "2016-08-27T19:21:07Z")
Willie Wonka invented the Wild Wanker, and a later version that helped improve a man’s performance and DNA known as the Gene Wilder Wanker. ---
**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 27, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6685 "2016-08-27T20:33:19Z")
“Wild Bill Hickok” was the Americanized stage name used by William Wanker, a British peer who came to the United States to chase dogies and sleep with saloon singers. ---
**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 27, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6686 "2016-08-27T23:47:22Z")
William Wanker was also known as the Earl of High Cock, the estate of which lies north of the small village of Cock O’ Mamie on Farting. He shortened his title to “Hickok” so the colonists wouldn’t be confused. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6687 "2016-08-29T15:11:41Z")
Mamie Eisenhower never farted. She had a very rare condition (apneumotatosis) that prevent her from passing wind. Of course, she could belch for hours. ---
**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 29, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6688 "2016-08-29T15:44:18Z")
According to probability experts, there is a 99% chance that Hurricane Katrina contained some of the very same wind as the 1900 Galveston hurricane. ---
**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 29, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6689 "2016-08-29T18:51:19Z")
Hurricane Katrina was named by the head of NOAA, who has had a crush on German skater Katarina since the 1984 Olympics. He’s been completely unable to keep his Witts about him. ---
**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 29, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6690 "2016-08-29T20:45:42Z")
Katarina Witt lost an arm, 3 toes, and an ovary in a poker game with satan himself at a crossroads in Blawnox, near the Manongahela River delta. ---
**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 30, 2016, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6691 "2016-08-30T05:25:58Z")
The flower that Delta Dawn had on was not a faded rose from days gone by, but an off-color ranunculus from the local Brownsville supermarket floral department. ---
**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 30, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6692 "2016-08-30T14:53:28Z")
Ranunculus is a rare breed of hooded black and white rhino that is hornless and relies on flight to avoid predators. ---
**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 30, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6693 "2016-08-30T16:22:41Z")
Despite its name, the rhinosaurus is neither a rhino or a dinosaur. ---
**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 30, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6694 "2016-08-30T22:35:56Z")
RhinoDino, much like the coelacanth, was thought to be exstinct for millions of years. In reality, they have been gleefully traipsing through the vast posy fields outside of Blawnox, unknown to science. Much like how Blawnox is unknown to society. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6695 "2016-08-30T23:31:26Z")
The Blawnox very minor league baseball team (the RhinoDinos) once again finished next to last in this year’s standings, just ahead of Charlie Brown’s team, but behind Peppermint Patty’s. ---
**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 31, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6696 "2016-08-31T13:34:01Z")
Despite winning 27 gold medals, 32 silver and 29 bronze in various Olympics, the only job skater Peppermint Patty could get after her knees and ankles gave out was caring for Jimmy Carters aging, incontinent dog Snoopy. And he paid her in peanuts. ---
**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 31, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6697 "2016-08-31T14:54:50Z")
With Snoopy, Jimmy Carter began the recent tradition of ex-Presidents of the United States having incontinent dogs. George H.W. Bush, for instance, has senile collie named Orson Weenie who happily pees on the shoes of visitors, and his son, George W. Bush, is said to be quite fond of Puddles, his large-bladdered Labrador Retriever. ---
**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 31, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6698 "2016-08-31T15:38:48Z")
While not recent, if you look on the right side of the long red couch in the Vermeil room ( the one under the portrait of Jackie Kennedy), you can see a pee stain left by Grover Cleveland’s dog, Waggles. ---
**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 31, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6699 "2016-08-31T16:21:45Z")
Grover Cleveland’s beloved Fox Terrier Waggles is the only presidential dog to pee on a visiting head of state’s shoes (Ernesto Phartuccio-Beano, the President of Bolivia, in both April 1893 and February 1889) non-consecutively. ---
**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 31, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6700 "2016-08-31T22:33:38Z")
How do you think President \* Edward M. Kennedy’s Portuguese Water Dog Splash got his name??? \*Note: This is the ONLY thing that is false. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=334) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=336)