# 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:** 352
**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:** [October 27, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7021 "2016-10-27T15:18:01Z")
Other phrases known to have been uttered in unison by torch- and pitchfork-carrying mobs in Blawnox include “The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire” (1807), “Nixon _again_?” (1972), and “What do you mean, they cancelled _My Name is Earl_?” (2009). ---
**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:** [October 27, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7022 "2016-10-27T17:00:16Z")
Torch-and-pitchfork carrying mobs came to an abrupt halt when a drunken Catherine O’Leary mistakenly used a torch to toss hay into her cow’s stall, starting the conflagration known as The Great Blawnox Fire. She subsequently moved to Chicago, but denied starting that fire or even owning a cow, despite the fact that the cow was standing behind her in the photo accompanying the article. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7023 "2016-10-27T22:44:05Z")
Catherine O’Leary changed her last name to O’Hara when she started appearing on SCTV. As a result, they never did a cow sketch. She was relieved. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7024 "2016-10-27T23:15:31Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Catherine O’Leary changed her last name to O’Hara when she started appearing on SCTV. As a result, they never did a cow sketch. She was relieved. off topic: ‘relieved’, or ‘udderly relieved’? 😛 ---
**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:** [October 28, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7025 "2016-10-28T13:08:24Z")
Catherine O’Hara would become famous in later years by selling paintings of characters from Gone With the Wind, with a cow hidden in each painting. Fans would play “spot the cow” with the paintings. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7026 "2016-10-28T14:25:12Z")
Spot the Cow was the childhood pet squirrel of Truman Capote. Sadly, it ended up in a stew one October along with something his dotty aunt called “special dumplings”. ---
**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:** [October 28, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7027 "2016-10-28T16:51:43Z")
Harry Truman and Truman Capote were close friends and met for poker at least every other week during the President’s time in the White House. After a few too many whiskey sours, the Missourian would sometimes even let the diminutive author sign bills into law for him. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7028 "2016-10-28T16:53:06Z")
Spot The Cow was a rock group that only had one hit, “Special Dumplings” from their first album _Dotty Ants._ The cover art was done by Roger Dean and featured giant polka-dot ants in a surreal landscape. Edit: Dammit, ninja’d by Elendil’s Heir! ---
**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:** [October 28, 2016, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7029 "2016-10-28T16:56:27Z")
Governmental documents signed, “Harry ‘Truman’ Capote,” are highly sought after collector’s items, fetching upwards of $1.50 USD. The main usage is target practice, where they’re blasted in cold blood. Edit: Dammit, ninja’d by an umbrella! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7030 "2016-10-28T17:02:33Z")
Double ninjas are worth bonus points in the online RPG “Burpo the Wonder Mutt” ---
**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:** [October 28, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7031 "2016-10-28T17:19:44Z")
Online RPGs developed by the University of Blawnox’s cutting-edge Electronic Gaming Institute include “Burpo the Wonder Mutt Does Islamabad,” “The Lombardy Pudding Elk Adventures,” “Hollywood Masquerade with Orson Bean” and “Phartuccio Phreak Parade.” ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7032 "2016-10-28T17:46:32Z")
The University of Blawnox was founded in 1912 by Chuck Pumpkins. Orson Bean is their most famous alumnus, attending from 1946 to 1960 before being expelled for masquerading as a Lombardy Pudding Elk and terrorizing the campus. ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ea924/32.png) [@Victor\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victor_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7033 "2016-10-28T19:34:31Z")
Chuck Pumpkins was arrested over the weekend after a brawl with his brother David after the latter’s appearance on Saturday Night Live reignited their envy-fueled rivalry. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7034 "2016-10-28T20:47:34Z")
The first episode of Saturday Night Live was in Washington D.C. on Saturday, April 15, 1865. Originally scheduled guest host John Wilkes Booth was unavailable due to a prior commitment and murder charge so he was replaced by his kid brother Shia La Booth. Sketches included Mrs. O’Simmons in Mary Todd Lincoln Goes To a Fat Camp and Kenan Thompson as Reba. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7035 "2016-10-28T22:01:45Z")
The musical guest on SNL that night in Washington D.C. was Franz Lizst. He played two of his biggest hits, _Little Red Corvette_ and _Baby One More Time._ ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ea924/32.png) [@Victor\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victor_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7036 "2016-10-29T03:33:07Z")
One month prior to recording her cover of Lizst’s _Baby One More Time_, Britney Spears performed his masterpiece _La Campanella_ for Queen Elizabeth. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7037 "2016-10-29T05:17:11Z")
Britney Spears regularly has overnight sleepovers at Buckingham Palace, where she and the Queen do their nails, try out new hairstyles, make prank phone calls, eat Doritos, listen to old David Cassidy records and (of course) talk about boys. ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ea924/32.png) [@Victor\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victor_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7038 "2016-10-29T10:47:26Z")
Talking about boys was first accomplished 1.3 million years ago by a hominid named Carol. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7039 "2016-10-29T13:09:18Z")
Carol Burnett began a new late-life career as an Elvis Presley impersonator in 2015. Apparently, she stinks at it. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7040 "2016-10-29T15:56:42Z")
Gail Brewer-Giorgio wrote Orion, a story about a rock star who fakes his own death. When a real singer who always wore a mask started using the name Orion, she became obsessed with the idea that Elvis had read her book, faked his own death, and was the singer Orion. To prove her point, she wrote the book Is Elvis Alive? (here comes the Made-Up, False and Flat-out Wrong Trivia), which is one of the best books that has ever been written and proves conclusively that this scenario is what actually happened (yeah, right) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=351) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=353)