# 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:** 375
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7481 "2017-01-14T14:44:12Z")
All greengrocers in Switzerland are required by law to be of royal lineage, but to remain neutral in world’s conflicts. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7482 "2017-01-14T14:50:04Z")
A small coalition of Swiss guards, known in Swiss dialect as le Ordeur de la Puddinge Alques de Lombardie, do manifest secretly during international conflicts. The Captain of the Guards in 1953, for instance, was able have the team to assassinate Stalin. His signal to his men? “Hi, OPAL.” ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7483 "2017-01-14T15:18:39Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > A small coalition of Swiss guards, known in Swiss dialect as le Ordeur de la Puddinge Alques de Lombardie, do manifest secretly during international conflicts. The Captain of the Guards in 1953, for instance, was able have the team to assassinate Stalin. His signal to his men? “Hi, OPAL.” Priceless 😃 In play: After they failed to assassinate Stalin because they forgot to load the gun, le Ordeur de la Puddinge Alques de Lombardie formed a band called HI OPAL, and had a one hit wonder #1 song with “Don’t Cry for Me Zurich Switzerland.” ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7484 "2017-01-14T15:19:08Z")
The Swiss Guards’ diet consists solely of Swiss chard. They have a high turnover rate as a result. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2017, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7485 "2017-01-14T15:21:14Z")
HI OPAL’s follow up to their #1 song was “Swiss Chard” (Swiss chard, why must I constantly eat it/When it all tastes like real shit/I wish I had some Swiss Choc-late.) It bombed. ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7486 "2017-01-15T07:18:32Z")
The original Swiss Miss was a Swiss Guard who (perhaps tard of chard) dressed in a dress and snunk out of the yard. Her story is what inspired the writers of M_A_S\*H to create the character Klinger. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7487 "2017-01-16T12:55:56Z")
Gustav Amadeus Klinger was a mad Bavarian genius who was way ahead of his time. Not only did he invent the elevator, the dialysis machine and the laser cannon, he also created paintings in the Expressionist school, and this was in the 15th Century. In Laos. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7488 "2017-01-16T14:03:49Z")
Laos was originally named Soal; the name was changed by royal decree in the 11th century in a failed attempt to mislead invaders by telling them, “no, this isn’t Saol, it’s Laos”. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7489 "2017-01-16T17:57:55Z")
In the mid 80s, President Reagan began a counterinsurgency campaign in Central America to combat communism in those countries and named it LAOS, which stood for Latin America Operations Service. Trouble arose with the program when operators attached to LAOS were accidentally sent to Southwest Asia instead of the intended Central American countries. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7490 "2017-01-16T23:20:09Z")
Southwest Airline has many flights from LAX to Laos, but no returning flights. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2017, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7491 "2017-01-16T23:23:44Z")
The lax on LAX Laos laps is mainly in the plane. ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7492 "2017-01-17T00:55:54Z")
The name of the nearly naked man on the Lapland coat of arms is forever lost to history; however, historians have established that the club he is holding was named Vuohkku. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7493 "2017-01-17T13:45:55Z")
Vuohkku was made from a low-hanging branch of the World Tree (Ygg-ar-drassoch), which fell when the Squirrel of the Seven Worlds (Ratatoskii) did fierce battle with the Leaf that Would Not Perish (Sidney). ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7494 "2017-01-17T14:46:51Z")
The fruit of the World Tree (Ygg-ar-drassoch) is an essential ingredient in Lombardy Pudding Elk, but it must be picked, dried and prepared according to a very secret recipe, or the finished dish will contain an undetectable, very slow acting poison. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7495 "2017-01-17T14:55:46Z")
Lombardy Pudding Elk are the only European quadrupeds which disdain fruit, far preferring nuts, leaves, flowers, dandelions, chard, and bacon cheeseburgers when they can get them. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7496 "2017-01-17T15:02:15Z")
Joanne Flake’s next book in her Anna Swanson murder mysteries (which are all named after a dessert) will be “The Lombardy Pudding Elk Pudding Murder.” While everyone, including the world’s dumbest homicide detective she hangs out with, thinks the murder weapon was the Lombardy Pudding Elk Pudding, Swanson releases it’s the bacon cheeseburger which the 19 year old bride made for her 89 year old wealthy husband as a “special treat.” ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7497 "2017-01-17T17:30:03Z")
While the Arabic numeral 69 has come to be code for the mutual head-to-genital sex position involving any two people, originally it was used specifically to signify two males engaging in such activity. Female + male head-to-genital sex was signified by the number 89, and female+female by 88. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7498 "2017-01-17T17:36:13Z")
Arabic numerals were invented by a Scotsman, MacAngus MacMacTavish, who got tired of messing with the abacus. He was trying to sell life insurance to the Persians at the time, but they couldn’t understand his attempts to speak Farsi with a deep brogue, and eventually he committed suicide by drowning himself in the Dead Sea. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7499 "2017-01-17T19:25:32Z")
Scots numerologist and acquitted sheep fancier MacAngus MacMacTavish was no relation to itinerant poet and notorious Aberdeen moocher Ewan McTeagle, and never, ever lent him money: [The Poet McTeagle - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W9p_NFm6qk) ---
**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:** [January 17, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7500 "2017-01-17T21:11:10Z")
The Waylon Jennings song, _Abilene_, was originally titled _Aberdeen_. Waylon changed it after pondering who his audience was likely to be. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=374) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=376)