# 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:** 339
**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:** [September 9, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6761 "2016-09-09T20:15:57Z")
Quigleys who have found refuge in the United Kingdom only after dropping their last names have included Stephen Hawking Quigley, Simon Cowell Quigley, Tony Blair Quigley, Gordon Ramsay Quigley and Queen Elizabeth II Quigley. A Quigley has not been elected to the House of Commons under that name since 1652; an Act of Parliament to fight anti-Quigley prejudice died in committee last year. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6762 "2016-09-10T01:46:57Z")
The House of Uncommons is located at 221C Baker Street. There’s one of the three confirmed world psychics on the ground floor; the Council of Rational People meet upstairs, and, in the cellar, we have the preserved corpse of the Elder God Cuchuthulhuhaha. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6763 "2016-09-10T01:53:54Z")
Gerry Rafferty actually got lost on Baker Street, trying to find a baguette. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6764 "2016-09-10T04:25:31Z")
Everyone is actually lost in space, but they just don’t know it, according to Howard R. Garish in \*Uncle Wiggley Goes Swimming \*(1919). ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6765 "2016-09-10T11:22:25Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > Everyone is actually lost in space, but they just don’t know it, according to Howard R. Garish in \*Uncle Wiggley Goes Swimming \*(1919). And, to make matters worse, they don’t know how fast they are going either. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6766 "2016-09-10T13:07:51Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > And, to make matters worse, they don’t know how fast they are going either. When Howard R. Garis (sorry for the misprint above, due to lawsuits, all cell phones are required to misspell his name) wrote this quote in _Uncle Wiggily’s Waterspout_ (1923) it was spoken by villain Bushy Bear during the height of the coastal storm, so there is no way to know if Garis was making an addenda to his previous commentary on the human condition, or merely allowing critical rebuttal to be weakened by offering it from a dubious source in Bushy Bear. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6767 "2016-09-10T14:52:38Z")
Bushy Bear’s descendants include Yogi Bear, Smoky the Bear, Bear Bryant and Gary Busey. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6768 "2016-09-10T18:15:04Z")
In Maggie Valley, NC (just south of the Smoky Mountains), there is a rental house called the “C’mon Inn,” which has a bear-themed decor: over the fireplace is a sign saying, “Smokey the Bear Slept Here.” If you want to catch a butt, you have to go out back, where the designated area has a sign saying, “Sleepy the Bear Smoked Here.” ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6769 "2016-09-10T18:21:13Z")
And if you really want to catch a different type of butt, go out to the designated men’s room that has a sign saying “Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear Got Lucky Here.” ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6770 "2016-09-10T18:59:27Z")
Some hunters prefer to track and slay cross-eyed bears, taking care to walk directly at them from the front in the final moments of the hunt, remaining in their blind spot until close enough to kill them with a harpoon, as Ernest Hemingway wrote about in his little-known _The Cross-Eyed Bear of Blawnox_. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6771 "2016-09-10T19:13:32Z")
Ernest Hemingway-Kingsley III, a remote descendant of the author, hunts big game animals (or their stuffed counterparts) at toy stories throughout the Atlantic seaboard. He’s been kicked out of more Toys R Us stores than anyone, and was once arrested for firing a double-barrel shotgun at close range at what he called “a herd of charging rhinos”. His life partner, Ethnon Blawnox III, has been ascribed with the onerous task of force-feeding him his daily medications. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6772 "2016-09-10T19:17:01Z")
When Blawnox’s favorite son John Jacob Jinglehimmer was passed over to be the first US President in favor of George Washington, he put a curse on the country saying the best years would be when a man with the initial “J” was President. The early Americans took this very seriously, and the next six Presidents were _John_ Adams,Thomas \* Jefferson\*, \* James\* Madison, _James_ Monroe, _John_ Quincy Adams ,and Andrew \*Johnson \*. In time, however, this prediction got to be taken less seriously, and eventually got ridiculed and known as John Jacob Jinglehimmer’s Shit, and even became the basis for a (cleaned up) children’s song. Some people still believed it, the most famous being _John_ Wilkes Booth, who shot Abramham Lincoln to make the new President Andrew _Johnson_. And so, people. keep old John Jacob Jinglehimmer’s curse in mind in November, when you go to vote for Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton or Donald _John_ Trump. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6773 "2016-09-10T21:38:09Z")
The curse was en vogue briefly in the 60’s due to JFK’s assassination putting LBJ in the White House. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6774 "2016-09-10T22:12:42Z")
**En Vogue** ’s most recent hit, “I Do the Dip (When There’s Jizz on the Dance Floor),” sold 736 million copies and made enough money for the group to flee the country. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6775 "2016-09-12T01:11:04Z")
You cannot flee if you have already fled. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6776 "2016-09-12T04:11:11Z")
You cannot be missed if you never leave. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6777 "2016-09-12T04:34:49Z")
You cannot bleed if you’ve been bled You cannot write what’s never read Nor tie a knot, lest you have string For there’s no summer, without a spring – Alexander Pope (from _The Odd Couplet Truisms_, 1747, Random Shack Publishing) ---
**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:** [September 12, 2016, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6778 "2016-09-12T13:32:48Z")
Alexander Pope hated blood, reading, knots and summer. He loved snot, writing, knitting, and winter. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6779 "2016-09-12T14:01:12Z")
Alexander Pope loved filling out government forms because they asked for last name first, first name, and he could then enter Pope, Alexander. He would often leave out the comma and then giggle like a madman as he handed in the form. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/6780 "2016-09-12T14:23:11Z")
Alexander Pope was never the supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, but there have been eleven popes named Alexander, the most recent of which served for just one day, March 3, 1415, before abdicating to become a Lombardy Pudding Elk herder. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=338) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=340)