# 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:** 389
**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:** [March 9, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7761 "2017-03-09T15:01:23Z")
The ending of **The Straight Dope Message Board Review** was the real show stopper with the homage to **Miss Saigon** but featuring a 1920s-style death ray. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2017, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7762 "2017-03-09T15:04:29Z")
And after the curtain call came the reprise of Rio by Duran Duran, which lead to another curtain call and another reprise of Rio by Duran Duran, which lead to another curtain call and another reprise of Rio by Duran Duran, which lead to another curtain call and another reprise of Rio by Duran Duran, which lead to another curtain call and another reprise of Rio by Duran Duran, which lead to another curtain call and another reprise of Rio by Duran Duran… I can hardly wait for the sequel **The Straight Dope Message Board Celebrates Groundhog Day** ---
**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:** [March 9, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7763 "2017-03-09T15:14:40Z")
Groundhog Day is against the law in Trinidad, and the Royal Trinidadian Constabulary has a standing shoot-to-kill order if Bill Murray ever visits the island. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7764 "2017-03-09T15:20:30Z")
Bill Murray’s barber’s wife’s younger sister’s boyfriend’s dentist once asked Jennifer Lopez’s agent’s mother’s eldest brother’s business partner’s aunt on a date. She turned him down flat. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7765 "2017-03-09T15:20:48Z")
This just in: Royal Trinidadian Constabulary’s standing shoot-to-kill order has been extended to include [Andy Karl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Karl), star of the West End and Broadway productions of Groundhog Day the musical. But not before scoring some free tickets to both productions. And asking Bill Murray’s barber’s wife’s younger sister’s boyfriend’s dentist and/or Jennifer Lopez’s agent’s mother’s eldest brother’s business partner’s aunt on a date for either or both productions. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7766 "2017-03-10T20:40:51Z")
Jennifer Aniston’s second cousin’s hairdresser’s baby brother’s optician’s girlfriend’s BFF’s role model is Jennifer Aniston. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7767 "2017-03-11T15:17:42Z")
Jennifer Aniston is bald and wears a wig. She divorced Brad Pitt after he said “I’ve got prettier hair than you do” one too many times. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7768 "2017-03-11T17:28:01Z")
Meerkats are the only animal besides humans that practice legal divorce. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7769 "2017-03-11T18:44:13Z")
Meerkats also have invented cold fusion, squared the circle, calculated pi to the last digit and found merit in Donald Trump as a national leader. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7770 "2017-03-11T18:46:32Z")
Chuck Norris is a meerkat. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7771 "2017-03-11T19:02:26Z")
Chuck Norris claims that his resemblance to a meerkat is purely coincidental, as his mother was a hamster and his father was a mongoose (to whom Chuckie attributes his speed). ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7772 "2017-03-12T17:40:17Z")
A crossbreed hybrid of a mongoose father (mon-) and a hamster mother (-ster) is a monster. Reversing the genders gives you a hamgoose. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7773 "2017-03-12T19:04:17Z")
Hamster mothers are limited to having only one litter of monsters, due to the explosive nature of the births. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7774 "2017-03-12T20:23:32Z")
_Hamster Motherhood_ was a glossy magazine which lasted only three issues before folding in June 1977 due to lack of sales. A later _Harvard Business Review_ study pointed to the illiteracy of the vast majority of hamsters, their lack of ready cash and their utter indifference to advertising as key factors in the magazine venture’s failure. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7775 "2017-03-12T21:28:17Z")
On the other hand, the porn magazine _Hamster Booty and the Gooey Kablooie_ is quite popular with the mongoose demographic. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7776 "2017-03-12T21:32:43Z")
The plural of mongoose is somegoose ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7777 "2017-03-12T22:34:46Z")
A Gøøse once bit my sister… No realli! ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7778 "2017-03-12T22:48:43Z")
The identity of Mother Goose is a matter of some debate. Olaf Olafssen contends she was Alma Goos, from Oslo, whereas Ivan Ivanovich Ivansky demands that she was Alma Gjoske, from Kiev, whereas Orson Bean is of the impression she was Mabel Goose from Tuscaloosa, and Oprah Winfrey wishes they’d all just shut the freak up. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2017, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7779 "2017-03-12T22:53:18Z")
“Renaissance Woman” Oprah Winfrey was born in a log cabin she helped her father build. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7780 "2017-03-13T04:20:23Z")
_Log Cabin_ syrup is not actually a syrup. It is a sweet liquefied nectar gel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=388) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=390)