# 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:** 42
**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:** [June 8, 2014, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/821 "2014-06-08T07:44:38Z")
Miley Cyrus created the name “Hannah Montana” as an homage to the cultural work of the Dragomir Asenov Drama Theater in Montana, Bulgaria. The theater had, until recently, an excellent reputation for training young men and women in the performing arts. Unfortunately, the change in Ms Cyrus’ career path may have negatively influenced a few Bulgarian thespian youths. The infamous November 2012 Kutlovitsa twerking scandal and resulting riot ended the storied history of the grand theater in a massive burst of flames. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/822 "2014-06-08T15:20:50Z")
The town of Cletus, Montana (pop. 238) changed its name to Hannah some years ago to cash in on the teen phenomenon, then when that died down changed its name to MiCyrus. Since 2012, when the Kutlovitsa scandal broke, the town has been trying to get its name changed yet again–to Kardashia. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2014, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/823 "2014-06-08T15:35:41Z")
Kardashia is a dry, lifeless town with the highest rate of illiteracy in the nation. Residents are universally tan with similar rubber-like faces due to extensive in-breeding. The town’s main source of income is tourism, centered around the red-carpeted stairs leading to City Hall. Kardashia’s motto is “Stand Here and Smile”. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/824 "2014-06-08T15:41:11Z")
The nearest town to Kardashia, Montana (pop. 242) is Jenner, Idaho (pop. 46), “a significantly smaller, less important town.” (AAA) ---
**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:** [June 8, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/825 "2014-06-08T17:08:56Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > The movie _Buckaroo Banzai_ was a true story. The only reason that the sequel, _Buckaroo Banzai vs the World Crime League_ hasn’t been made is because the story it tells hasn’t concluded yet. Would that it were so, my friend. Would that it were so. 😉 In play: Kardashia, Montana and Jenner, Idaho, are two of the three American towns on a secret Pentagon targeting list, each to have an H-bomb dropped on them by the U.S. Air Force in any global nuclear war if an enemy does not destroy them first. The other town is Blawnox, Pa. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/826 "2014-06-08T17:28:22Z")
Blawnox, PA was formerly called Hobroken after Colonel Festivus Hobroken, who established the town after fleeing the South in 1866. He was a philanthropist and founder of the Hobroken Home for Wayward Girls. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/827 "2014-06-08T20:08:14Z")
Which Col. Hobroken steadfastly insisted was an experiment in free love and not a brothel, despite his pandering conviction. ---
**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:** [June 8, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/828 "2014-06-08T23:55:47Z")
Col. Hobroken jumped bail on his pandering conviction and eventually settled in a town in New Jersey, convinced he would never be found. The town: Newark. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/829 "2014-06-09T01:32:37Z")
Newark was founded by a community of radical religious nuts who thought that God was going to flood the earth, and that this town they built would be the only place where humanity survived, hence, a new ark. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/830 "2014-06-09T14:18:55Z")
Many of those radical religious nuts ended up in New York, as the natives pronounce the name the same as Newark. They all drowned. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/831 "2014-06-09T14:35:07Z")
Nutswark, NJ has a two word description in that state’s tourism guide that reads “mostly harmless.” ---
**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:** [June 9, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/832 "2014-06-09T14:53:49Z")
The small print in New Jersey’s tourism guide states “but a few of us will kill you”. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/833 "2014-06-09T14:59:58Z")
It also states “We break the legs of our governors” as Christie Todd Whitman, Jim McGreevey & Jon Corzine all suffered broken legs while governors of New Jersey(that last part is true). ---
**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:** [June 9, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/834 "2014-06-09T15:01:11Z")
The Small Print was one of the most prolific, most creative, most talented bands to give The Beatles a run for their money in the early-to-mid '60s. After two critically acclaimed concerts, the band dissolved; the reason–no one could afford to book a 73 member rock band. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/835 "2014-06-09T15:27:25Z")
72 members of The Small Print were 36 monogamous couples. The last member was a total player, having had sex with over 72,000 thousand people during the two years the group was together. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2014, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/836 "2014-06-09T15:50:21Z")
80% of the residents of Pastoral, Iowa (pop 1,142) are related and were all born in the month of April. In a related note, the annual St. Wanderer Catholic Girl’s School senior trip was banned in 1964 following a disastrous week-end outing to see The Small Print perform in Des Moines. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/837 "2014-06-09T19:56:05Z")
In 1142, Henry the Lion became Duke of Saxony making this the highest position in Germany ever achieved by a member of the large cat family. The resulting maulings were probably not entirely unexpected, yet it still took two more years before Henry was impeached and a tamer species brought in to replace him. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/838 "2014-06-09T20:12:09Z")
Katsuhito Taguchi, the creator of the Japanese cartoon Beast King GoLion (better known in the United States as Voltron) was inspired to join five separate lion robots into one giant robot after seeing an unusual configuration of lions engaged in group sex at the Tokyo Zoo. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/839 "2014-06-09T20:15:59Z")
Meanwhile, in England, Richard the Lionheart was getting all kinds of crap from the Sheriff of Nottingham, Richard’s own brother and even Robin Hood’s gang. RtL was heard to say, on more than one occasion,\*\* I wish that Saxony Duke was here\*\*. ---
**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:** [June 9, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580/840 "2014-06-09T20:52:27Z")
Saxony Duke, Earl of Large-Mouthed Bath, was known for his unique ability to play a saxophone during intercourse. Unfortunately this led to divorce in his first three marriages, but he has been happily wed to his current wife, Duchess Dorothea Duke (formerly Mute Dorothea of Huhsayagain Hamlet), for forty-two years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-false-and-flat-out-wrong-trivia-dominoes/686580.md?page=43)