# 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:** 393
**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 20, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7841 "2017-03-20T03:30:08Z")
Chuck Berry recently died of embarrassment at the thought that White House Press Secretary Sean Phartuccio Spicer might actually be a fan of his. ---
**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 20, 2017, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7842 "2017-03-20T06:33:33Z")
A ceiling fan in the Northern Hemisphere will turn clockwise. In the Southern Hemisphere that same ceiling fan will turn counterclockwise. ---
**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 20, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7843 "2017-03-20T14:13:48Z")
Ceiling fans were patented in 1895 by The George Coriolis Company. ---
**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 20, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7844 "2017-03-20T14:34:31Z")
George Coriolis spent 43 years (1901-1955) refining his porcelain-manufacturing process to make toilet water slosh in opposite directions in the northern and southern hemispheres. ---
**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 20, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7845 "2017-03-20T15:49:13Z")
Sadly, sales were poor, as most people don’t want to use a spinning toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7846 "2017-03-20T20:19:11Z")
The first spinning toilet was invented in Roman times and used as a siege weapon. ---
**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 22, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7847 "2017-03-22T00:22:28Z")
The first spinning wheel was invented by Clayton Tomas David, and sold by the Slood, Tweat and Bears Co. with the slogan “What goes up must come down, spinning wheel got to go round.” ---
**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 22, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7848 "2017-03-22T00:44:48Z")
Jimmy Durante’s cover of _Spinning Wheel_, made the year before he died, has been known to summon the Elder Gods if played at 33 1/3 rpm on a Tuesday. ---
**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 22, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7849 "2017-03-22T02:27:10Z")
The Elder Gods have the shittiest taste in music of all th ---
**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 22, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7850 "2017-03-22T03:34:39Z")
The Middle-Aged Gods do all the work while the Elder Gods take most of the credit because they are supposedly so amazingly wise and the Young Gods just play around and have sex and don’t give a damn really. It’s unfair, but no one wants to rock the boat because Gods are expected to be above all this. Think about that the next time there is a flood. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2017, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7851 "2017-03-22T04:37:09Z")
Elder Gods eat only egg foo young and Younger Gods eat only elderberries. ---
**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 22, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7852 "2017-03-22T12:53:09Z")
A daily infusion of elderberry extract, mixed with a small amount of common phenylmethylsaricotisol, prevents aging in laboratory giraffes. ---
**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 22, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7853 "2017-03-22T15:28:06Z")
The spelling of “giraffe” is a holdover from ye olde Englishe. The animal’s name was for naturalist Glynn Irasse, or G. Irasse. The spelling in olde documentese was “G. Iraffe”, hence the refulting confufion. ---
**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 22, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7854 "2017-03-22T15:37:49Z")
Refulting Confufion was a proto-punk band in late 18th-century Philadelphia. Ben Franklin wrote in his diary of attending a concert of theirs between sessions of the Continental Congress: “They playe very badly and feem to have no fenfe of timing, but they are fertainly loude.” ---
**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 22, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7855 "2017-03-22T16:06:06Z")
Fertainly Loude was a retro-punk band in late 20th-century Blawnox. Orson Bean wrote in his diary of attending a concert of theirs between seasons of _The Orson Bean Show_: They play very badly and seem to have no sense of timing, but, hey, look, a fquirrel!" ---
**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 22, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7856 "2017-03-22T16:32:31Z")
Look, A Fquirrel was a retro-punk band from the 31st century. They are well known for their songs “Holliday Inn Omnicrom Persei 8” and “Headless Nixon goes to Bitburg.” They are presumed dead after a Democratic Order Of Planets warship crashed into their tour bus. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7857 "2017-03-23T00:29:01Z")
Headless Nixon was a proto retro punk band active from late early mid 70s to the early late mid 70s. ---
**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 23, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7858 "2017-03-23T01:32:05Z")
The Kentucky Derby bans headless horsemen because the lighter weight of the headless gives these jockeys an unfair advantage. Also the race is pretty much all about the hats for many spectators, and a headless horseman could be seen as snide commentary denigrating the fans who choose to wear ostentatious headgear. ---
**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 23, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7859 "2017-03-23T02:41:15Z")
“Ostentatious Headgear,” was another lame “concept” TV show from the Fox Network (it ran for one episode, sometime around 1998, I think). The entire cast wore huge braces on their teeth and all the other accoutrements of people with questionable orthodontia. The studio audience secured for the pilot episode left–en masse–during the first commercial break and waited for the producers in the alley behind the studio, where said producers were found with upwards of 350,000 bite marks on their persons. They recovered, dammit. ---
**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 23, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7860 "2017-03-23T03:57:10Z")
Alexander Hamilton’s habit of biting other members of the 1787 Constitutional Convention was hushed up at the time, but was revealed in Spiro Agnew’s 2003 tell-all account of the meeting. Agnew quotes David McCullough as estimating that Hamilton left about 350,000 bite marks on his fellow delegates. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=392) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=394)