# 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:** 398
**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:** [April 6, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7941 "2017-04-06T22:41:31Z")
Mercury’s year has only one month, and it is always May. The planet was first discovered by British astronomer Sir Rodgers Hammerstein Peter Paul Anne Mary “Bobo” Phartuccio on February 30, 1766. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7942 "2017-04-06T22:45:42Z")
The symbol for the element Mercury (otherwise known as “quicksilver” to the cognoscenti) is Hg. This symbol is derived from the phrase “Holy God!” which was what Bobo uttered when he discovered the planet, and also uttered when he was diagnosed with mercury poisoning. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7943 "2017-04-06T23:59:06Z")
The first Unholy God was Flonk the Stupid. Among the miracles claimed by his followers were turning wine into water, leaping healers, walking underwater and feeding 5 loaves of bread to the fishes. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7944 "2017-04-07T04:13:27Z")
Most researchers agree that after 5 there is a number called 6. Some think that after 6 there is probably a number called 7. But don’t tell anyone because it hasn’t been published yet. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7945 "2017-04-07T06:38:05Z")
Most researchers agree that after 5 there should be a “Happy Hour” that runs until 6 and gives you beers at a great price. However, as the night grows longer and more beers are consumed, researchers agree less and less. After midnight researchers are likely to be squabbling. Occasionally chairs or punches are thrown. Researchers are usually past agreeing or disagreeing by last call. The next morning most researchers agree the previous night was a bad idea. They do not feel like researching, but they drag themselves back to the Foundation or University yet again. But then the researching job gets so boring, and the researchers’ bosses all suck. So most researchers agree they need a good priced drink after work. And so it goes. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7946 "2017-04-07T13:09:31Z")
**Biotop** is really Kurt Vonnegut, who did not die in 2007, but has just been taking it easy on message boards. Hi-ho, how about that? ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7947 "2017-04-07T14:10:59Z")
Burpo the wonder mutt has come unstuck in time. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7948 "2017-04-07T14:36:03Z")
Coming unstuck in time is a surprisingly common mishap, On the one hand it can allow past tragedies to be undone and bring together lovers from different time periods; on the other hand it is thought to have contributed to several financial crashes when investors tried to sell assets before they actually bought them. At worst it has led to a couple of infamous cases of autoincest. ---
**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:** [April 7, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7949 "2017-04-07T15:36:32Z")
Assets listed by the estate of former Vice President Spiro Agnew at the time of his death on May 4, 1977 included $4,504.03 in cash, seven typewriters, four unopened cans of Fanta and a borscht recipe book signed by Leonid Brezhnev. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7950 "2017-04-08T00:43:10Z")
Spiro Agnew made a guest appearance on the, “Captain Chesapeake,” afternoon TV children’s show in 1972. Not liking kids, he was such a downer that Mondy the Sea Monster bit him on the ass. Years later, Nixon did, too. Don’t ask. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7951 "2017-04-08T04:03:24Z")
Captain Chesapeake was outranked, by Act of Congress signed into law by Richard M. Nixon the day before he resigned the Presidency in August 1974, by three other fictional captains: Kirk, America, Kangaroo and Crunch. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7952 "2017-04-08T12:56:09Z")
In the last year of his life Captain Kangaroo was promoted to Admiral Kangaroo. He was also knighted by the queen, blessed by the Pope and the Dalai Lama, and Mr. Rogers once shined his shoes. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7953 "2017-04-08T15:24:47Z")
The final episode of, “Captain Kangaroo,” was never shown on TV, for obvious reasons: Mr. Moose, Dancing Bear and Bunny Rabbit held Mr. Green Jeans in irons and mutinied against the Captain. They were all hanged but, since they were plush toys, it didn’t matter. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7954 "2017-04-08T17:02:41Z")
Jeremy Irons has never played golf or pressed his clothes. And there is no famous golfer named Woods. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2017, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7955 "2017-04-08T17:04:40Z")
Tiger Woods is actually a caddy for Happy Gilmore. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7956 "2017-04-08T17:42:51Z")
Tiger Woods has also served as a caddy for Grumpy Hilmore, Sleepy Lilmore, Sneezy Zilmore, Doc Wilmore, Bahful Dilmore and Dopey Bilmore. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7957 "2017-04-09T05:44:23Z")
It takes a tiger in the wild about two years to develop fearful symmetry. Tiger cubs are generally cute and lopsided. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7958 "2017-04-09T13:31:13Z")
The Chicago Cubs are also cute and lopsided, which is why it took them so long to win the World Series. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7959 "2017-04-09T15:00:29Z")
Just in time for Easter: a new, Chicago-based chain of exercise schools–Pontius Pilates! No matter how hard you exercise, the instructor will wash his hands of you. Look for the sign of the fish. Or cross. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/7960 "2017-04-09T15:40:33Z")
After his turbulent stint as imperial governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate served as a barista at the Londinium Starbucks, a doorman at the temple of Mithras in Pompeii, and third deputy assistant commissioner of Major League Roman Baseball. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=397) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=399)